Wozniak To Developers: If You Know You’re Right, Don’t Stop
August 28th, 2008
Probably good advice from a definitely good engineer in his own right.
In an interview in San Francisco at the Intel Developer Forum Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, one of the biggest computing companies in the world, gave engineers one big piece of advice: if you know what you’re working on is right, shut out other people and do it the way you want to. No compromise.
According to an article by Information Week, Wozniak noted that accepting advice from too many sources can muddy an engineer’s vision and possibly ruin the end product. So the best way to keep things stable, he said, is to just shut everybody else out when it comes to a project and work the way you want to work. He also said that being shy helps as it allows the engineer to shut themselves up and avoid outside contact, contact that can taint the creative process.
Good advice, Wozniak. Now the rest of us just need to become engineers and we’ll be set.