Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Believes Indian Techies Are 'Too Predictable' To Innovate

According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Indians tend to lack a certain creativity when it comes to tech innovation. Why does he say this? Well he believes it¡¯s a product of both our culture and our education system.

In an interview with Times of India, Wozniak also said he doesn¡¯t believe any big tech advances will come from India.

¡°What is the biggest tech company here, Infosys maybe? I just don¡¯t see that sort of thing coming out of Infosys and I have done keynotes for them three times,¡± he said.

When asked why he believes that, what the critical missing link is, Wozniak said he believed the culture difference is to blame here. ¡°The culture here is one of success based upon academic excellence, studying, learning, practising and having a good job and a great life,¡± he lamented. ¡°For upper India, not the lower. I see two Indias. That's a lot like Singapore study, study, work hard and you get an MBA, you will have a Mercedes but where is the creativity?¡±

¡°The creativity gets left out when your behaviour is too predictable and structured, everyone is similar. Look at a small country like New Zealand, the writers, singers, athletes, singers, athletes, it's a whole different world."

Wozniak also had some sage words for how coding is taught in schools. He says children only get to a stage of ¡°symbolic reasoning¡± at around age 12, which is why you can¡¯t teach algebra until then. ¡°Programming can be taught only when you are ready for algebra. The real advantage of learning how to code is that you learn how to solve large problems with a lot of steps. The steps add up to a solution. That¡¯s true of everything in life.¡±