Cecil Kleakins

Steve and Steve in 1977

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on how he invented the Apple II computer:

I took a lot of lucky, accidental directions, and they all converged… I stumbled into it so accidentally.

Link to BusinessWeek Interview

I love this idea that great things can come about by accident. Or rather, how seemingly random sets of events can coalesce into ideas that are so powerful that they take on a life of their own and seem to invent themselves.

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