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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago

[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for"

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[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for"

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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago
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On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for'
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You gotta love the Woz.
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  • ExtremeDullard ( ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    I’m a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I’ve aspired to become more like. He’s one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he’s always been.

    • Frezik ( frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      They say not to meet your heros, and it’s usually good advice. Imma go out on a limb and say it doesn’t apply to Woz.

    • jcb201625 ( jcb201625@fedia.io ) 
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      +1

  • ushmel ( ushmel@piefed.world ) 
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    And that’s why he’s 75 and happy and Jobs is dead and no one will know his name in 20 years.

  • floquant ( floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Oh what a world it would be if people like Wozniak and Swartz weren’t fucked over by their original techbro “friends”

  • MrSilkworm ( MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Here’s a guy that actually tried to make something good, even if the other guy didn’t let him. He worked to live and not lived to work. Yet he still has 10 million and a couple of houses, which definetely doesn’t make him a billionaire, but he has enough to put him in the “fuck you” position

  • SabinStargem ( SabinStargem@lemmy.today ) 
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    It was him, not Steve Jobs, who deserved to be Apple’s guiding light.

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    This reads like a shot at Jobs.

  • TigerAce ( TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Wow, some uplifting news which proves there are still some good people on this earth. I needed that, thanks! <3

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    Removed by mod

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