Leaders in Computing
by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Professor Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf, Professor Karen Spärck Jones, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, Dame Stephanie Shirley
4 APPLE TO THE CORE
Steve Wozniak, October 2007
Steve Wozniak is the other Steve who founded Apple Computers in the 1970s. Although he no longer works for the company, he spoke to BCS assistant editor, Henry Tucker, about Apple, professionalism, nerds, geeks and robots making coffee.
What are your thoughts about professionalism in IT?
Well, there’s a lot of cases where lack of professionalism arises and grows and doesn’t get noticed, partly because a lot of the work in IT is strange and foreign. It’s almost like a language of its own and the normal people in the company, the executives and so on, can’t understand the technical aspects. Even if you’re creating a web page, it’s easy to hack around, play around and get a job done, but not really ...
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