Steve Wozniak: All big companies have been founded by young people with no money and guarantees

Steve Wozniak: All big companies have been founded by young people with no money and guarantees


by Liana Yeghiazaryan
Public Radio of Armenia

The Co-Founder of Apple Computers Inc., creator of the first PC Steve Wozniak visits Armenia. This morning he had a short meeting with the students and faulty of the Yerevan State Engineering University. 

“Yesterday, when I met the Catholicos of All Armenians, I remembered that besides the wish to create technologies, I have always been following the Christian commandment,” Steve Wozniak said.

He is confident that progress comes from the wishes and desires of young times. “Everything started from my great desire to have my own computer. A good friend of mine, Steve Jobs, shared my wishes, and we undertook the work together,” he said.

“I had no money in my pockets. My privilege was that I could use a cheap source of micro schemes. In general, all big companies have been founded by young people with no money and guarantees,” Wozniak said.

“When I was at high school I understood that engineers were the best people of the world. My father was a great engineer. He inspired me to create devices that would change the world to the better,” he said.

All technologies come to make life easier, the Apple co-founder said. According to him, we will once work four days a week and will spend the rest of time on leisure. Judging from everything, that day is not very far away, he said.

Later today Steve Wozniak will meet Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and receive a Global IT Award 2011 from President Serzh Sargsyan. In the evening he will attend a concert at the Yerevan State Chamber Theatre.