Woz urges engineers to follow their hearts

SAN FRANCISCO–Steve Wozniak got his start as a down-to-earth engineer, but the Apple co-founder made the case for keeping your head in the clouds sometimes.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Intel Developer Forum.

(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)

In an on-stage interview with Tech Nation’s Moira Gunn here at the Intel Developer Forum, Wozniak talked about a life driven by his

passion for the electronics and computing. And passion can be a more crucial incentive than money, he said.

“The rewards are in your head. The reward is invisible. It’s what you like to do,” said Wozniak, who designed the Apple I computer and its commercially successful successor, the Apple II, largely during his spare instance.

Wozniak was in the right place at the right […]

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