Steve Wozniak speaking at UC Berkeley
The infamous Woz came and spoke at Cal tonight, and what an interesting person he is.
I can't say I like his speaking-style very much, though. He started by walking in, straddling the podium, and leading with a story (always a safe intro), but then the intro never seemed to stop. He just continued into a series of seemingly disconnected stories. After 20 minutes or so I was too absorbed to care.
It's so great to see such passion and devotion to engineering. I truly admire people who fall in love with something and stay fascinated by it for their lifetime.
I won't go into a recap or analysis of the talk, I am sure Jeff will do a much better job.
I can't say I like his speaking-style very much, though. He started by walking in, straddling the podium, and leading with a story (always a safe intro), but then the intro never seemed to stop. He just continued into a series of seemingly disconnected stories. After 20 minutes or so I was too absorbed to care.
It's so great to see such passion and devotion to engineering. I truly admire people who fall in love with something and stay fascinated by it for their lifetime.
I won't go into a recap or analysis of the talk, I am sure Jeff will do a much better job.
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I saw the iWoz when he spoke in Santa Barbara. He delivered his sometimes wandering story for about 45 minutes. His delivery is sort of disconcerting at first but the story is compelling. The thing that really struck me was how hard he shopped around the idea of the first PC to HP, but his managers just couldn't see anything in it.