His fellow classmates would contour
themselves into human bunny ears, think-
ing their position was the key to getting the
signal back. “It was like a study in human
psychology” he chuckled. Another time,
he built a harmless ticking device and hid it
in a locker. “Everything I made, I wanted it
to be the best,” he said, adding that he pro-
gramed the ticking on the device to speed
to double time once the principal got the
locker opened.
“I just wanted to be superior and best
and clever at one thing that no one else in
school was,” said Wozniak. “I was a social
outcast so I wanted to think of myself as
“The most important thing Apple’s ever put out in my life — I used to say
it could be the Macintosh, usually I’d say the iPhone, but no, the third-party
App Store has changed the way I live my life the most.”—Steve Wozniak
Dwight Drummond, CBC News Toronto anchor, Daniel Weissland, President, Audi Canada
and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Photo credit: George Pimentel Photography
JUNE 2017
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