Said Svec » woz http://www.saidsvec.com Firmware and Software and Hardware, oh my! Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:48:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I love embedded, and so does Woz! http://www.saidsvec.com/2010/07/05/i-love-embedded-and-so-does-woz/ http://www.saidsvec.com/2010/07/05/i-love-embedded-and-so-does-woz/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:44:20 +0000 svec http://www.saidsvec.com/?p=273 I love working in the embedded world.  Hardware + software = a great time and a great career.

I came across this fantastic quote by Steve Wozniak in “Making it Big in Software,” by Sam Lightstone.  Woz is talking about designing the Apple II:

“And I did every piece of software from the ground up, through applications that you can’t pin down for any one of them.  The hardware was so interrelated that I can’t really divide it into software and hardware alone.  Those days were that way.  Today, if you work on embedded processors, you put a little microprocessor into a small product.  That’s the job in the world that I would love to this day! That’s what I did back then; it mixed both hardware and software.”

Sounds like Woz wants my job.  :-)

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