Famous quote by Steve Wozniak

"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff"

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This quote by Steve Wozniak speaks with the advanced potential of computers in the 1970s. At the time, computers were costly and mostly unattainable to the general public. Nevertheless, the members of the computer system club saw the capacity for computers to be available to everybody, and to offer people power and freedom. They believed that computer systems could be utilized to challenge the status quo and to empower individuals who had previously been excluded from the world of innovation. This quote talks to the optimism of the early computer pioneers, who saw the potential for computers to transform the world. It also speaks to the power of cumulative action, as the members of the computer system club collaborated to make their vision a truth.

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This quote is written / told by Steve Wozniak somewhere between August 11, 1950 and today. He was a famous Businessman from USA. The author also have 34 other quotes.
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