Non-fiction 09 Feb 2007 03:40 pm
iWoz
iWoz
Steve Wozniak
If there ever was a book you could almost hear being read in the voice of the author, this is it. Reading this book, it almost fells like Wozniak is in the room with you, telling you his stories. And they are great stories.
Steve Wozniak is the “other” founder of Apple, the less famous one. He’s also the one who actually designed the first products Apple ever sold, the personal computers Apple I and Apple II in the mid-70s. The books tells his story, starting as a kid, son of an engineer, up to the recent days, going through his school pranks (which he never really outgrew), phreaking, the “dial-a-joke” days, his years at HP, the founding of Apple, the US festivals, leaving Apple, his marriages and kids… Lots and lots of things are skipped over, but that can’t really be avoided in this kind of book.
It’s a very inspiring story and it shows that you can be a “prodigy” while remaining humble (well, relatively so) and happy. The book is written in a very conversational style, and anyone who’s heard Steve speak will immediately identify his style (and some of the stories). Some long-standing misunderstandings are put to rest, but most of the story is very well known; still very much worth reading in Steve’s “voice”.
