An insight into the Woz

out and be a pimp in New York I would be proudly behind him. But if he wanted to be a network administrator I would kick him out of the house!

Wireless and airplanes: You have a feeling of freedom when you are connected to fewer wires. It's just that mobility. And a lot of us like that feeling of freedom. I always think of myself as having a very left brain before my plane crashed and very right brained since.

Advice on preserving data on your computer: Keep it well backed up. I like to tell people -- if your mother is in the hospital and they say to you 'you better get down here right away', what do you do? You back up your computer and then go to the hospital. That's what I like to teach my students

The Apple iPhone -- likes: I like to be very versatile in trying everything out. I have tried every smart phone in existence. Not one of them made me feel good about accessing the Internet browser-style until the iPhone where it presented things with the real Web page the way it like it looks on my computer. That made me feel like I was being treated more like a human ...

Building technology for humans: When we came out with the Mac in the early days we sat down and made so much effort tailoring the technology to adapt to ways humans already adapt. For example every human already had a desktop so we called the screen a desktop... What should icons look like? We spent so much effort to putting the human over the technology. We built extra code into the technology to make it work the way a human wants to as a human being.

Paying for music: Radiohead had their album [In Rainbows, which the band sold only online and with no minimum price] and I went online and bought it. And sure a lot of people just took it for free. And some people that I know have money will always do that too. And it bothers me because it lets us think whenever you can get away with something for free you should. And that hurts the artists.

Microsoft taking over Yahoo: I actually think it will probably be a good thing. Yahoo's been struggling for a number of years to basically be as exciting, interesting and innovative as Google. And I think that will put it in a better framework... There's a lot of things you can criticize Microsoft for but I don't really see them as being evil. I think they really want to do in a business sense what makes them the most money... and that usually involves efficiencies in business and I think that is what the Yahoo deal will amount to.

The Apple iPhone --dislikes: I was really disappointed when the iPhones were introduced. Half the phones in the ATT store were 3G phones. And I had 3G phones and non 3G phones and I was shocked because Apple's bringing the full Internet and it is not 3G and I knew it would be a speed detriment. I've sufficed with it in a lot of cases and whenever it gets to where things are loading too slowly ...I go to [3G card] laptop...I was surprised because Apple normally is into future technology. It's finding where the world's going to go and trying to be one jump ahead. So I'm disappointed it [3G] wasn't there from day one.