Science & Tech Quote by Steve Jobs

The garage is doing a lot of mythmaking here, and Jobs knows it. He’s not just reminiscing about adolescence; he’s quietly underwriting Silicon Valley’s favorite origin story: genius plus mischief, built in the margins, before anyone had permission to matter. By placing the meeting at 13 and Wozniak at 18, Jobs frames their partnership as both formative and asymmetrical: a young Jobs discovering, with a mix of admiration and competitive itch, that someone finally outclasses him technically. That admission is strategic. It paints Jobs as self-aware enough to credit Woz’s engineering brilliance while still centering his own role as the connector who recognizes talent early.

The casualness of the diction - “like,” “good friends,” “all kinds of pranks” - isn’t accidental. It gives the scene an accessible, teenage texture that softens the later corporate legend. “Sense of humor” and “pranks” function as a moral alibi: these weren’t future titans plotting domination; they were kids playing with systems, learning how rules bend. In the Apple context, that subtext matters. The company’s early identity fused counterculture and circuitry, the hacker ethic dressed up as consumer-friendly rebellion.

There’s also a subtle division of labor embedded in the memory. Woz is the one who “knew more electronics.” Jobs is the one who narrates the bond: shared interests, shared comedy, shared trouble. The story flatters collaboration while quietly defining what Jobs sold best - not components, but narrative, chemistry, and the permission to imagine a garage as the center of the world.