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Indians lack creativity, according to Steve Woz. Do you agree?

March 03, 2018 10:10 IST

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Steve Wozniak, better known to the world as the man who engineered the first Apple -- a desktop computer with a keyboard and screen -- attended the Economic Times' Global Business Summit.

In an interview with The Times of India, the American engineer and inventor spoke about his friendship with Apple founder, late Steve Jobs, the future of coding and technology, and his views about India's talent.

In his response, he detailed how a part of India, like Singapore, studies and works hard to get an MBA, maybe even have a Mercedes but lack creativity.

 

Here's an excerpt from the interview, published in the Times of India:

What are your views on India? Do you think a global tech company can emerge from here?

I am not an anthropologist and I don’t know the culture of India well enough. I don’t see those big advances in tech companies.

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.

What's the missing link here?

The culture here is one of success based upon academic excellence, studying, learning, practising and having a good job and a great life.

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, it’s a whole different world.

Within minutes since the interview went public, Woz's remarks became the talk of the Internet. 

Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group was among the first to respond. "I love it when such comments are made. Nothing like a sweeping stereotype to get our juices flowing & prove it wrong. Thanks @stevewoz Come back soon. We’ll make you sing a different tune…” he responded to Woz's comment on Twitter.

"Did he just stereotype a whole country?' Vidya  Srinivasan, an engineer at Microsoft tweeted.

"Did it ever occur to #stevewozniak that the CEO’s of two of the biggest tech companies are Indians? Ever heard of Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai?" Srinivasan wrote on the microblogging site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[himacream]

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[Idassamed]

1 minute ago, himacream said:

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Unna maaatey ga 

[himacream]

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[LastManStanding]

Creativity lekunda ne Appi reddy millions sampadinchada ? Mestri lu antha millionaires ayyara ? CTS,TCS lo manollaki Creativity lekunda ne CNN etc Einstein visas ani cheppe EB1s thousands manaki vastunnaya evari year ? Creativity lekunda ne serial chuse aunties sudden ga oka month lo sr. Java developer avutunnara h4 mida ? Veedikem telusu creativity gurinchi Apple lo pani chestunnadu ga papam Indians iphones pogottukuntaru mati matiki..claims lo chustunna telivi takkuva anukuntunnadu emo..ade moviepass co founder no adagamanu cheptadu mana gurinchi..tumri gadu..edi padithe adhi aneyatame manalni

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Just now, LastManStanding said:

Creativity lekunda ne Appi reddy millions sampadinchada ? Mestri lu antha millionaires ayyara ? CTS,TCS lo manollaki Creativity lekunda ne CNN etc Einstein visas ani cheppe EB1s thousands manaki vastunnaya evari year ? Creativity lekunda ne serial chuse aunties sudden ga oka month lo sr. Java developer avutunnara h4 mida ? Veedikem telusu creativity gurinchi Apple lo pani chestunnadu ga papam Indians iphones pogottukuntaru mati matiki..claims lo chustunna telivi takkuva anukuntunnadu emo..ade moviepass co founder no adagamanu cheptadu mana gurinchi..tumri gadu..edi padithe adhi aneyatame manalni

daanni creativity anaru, thokkalo athi thelivi antaru 

[LastManStanding]

10 minutes ago, AlaElaAlaEla said:

daanni creativity anaru, thokkalo athi thelivi antaru 

America Mestri Association and America Aunty Association e comment ni kandistunnai..

[Hydrockers]

19 minutes ago, LastManStanding said:

Creativity lekunda ne Appi reddy millions sampadinchada ? Mestri lu antha millionaires ayyara ? CTS,TCS lo manollaki Creativity lekunda ne CNN etc Einstein visas ani cheppe EB1s thousands manaki vastunnaya evari year ? Creativity lekunda ne serial chuse aunties sudden ga oka month lo sr. Java developer avutunnara h4 mida ? Veedikem telusu creativity gurinchi Apple lo pani chestunnadu ga papam Indians iphones pogottukuntaru mati matiki..claims lo chustunna telivi takkuva anukuntunnadu emo..ade moviepass co founder no adagamanu cheptadu mana gurinchi..tumri gadu..edi padithe adhi aneyatame manalni

Lol

[Hydrockers]

19 minutes ago, LastManStanding said:

Creativity lekunda ne Appi reddy millions sampadinchada ? Mestri lu antha millionaires ayyara ? CTS,TCS lo manollaki Creativity lekunda ne CNN etc Einstein visas ani cheppe EB1s thousands manaki vastunnaya evari year ? Creativity lekunda ne serial chuse aunties sudden ga oka month lo sr. Java developer avutunnara h4 mida ? Veedikem telusu creativity gurinchi Apple lo pani chestunnadu ga papam Indians iphones pogottukuntaru mati matiki..claims lo chustunna telivi takkuva anukuntunnadu emo..ade moviepass co founder no adagamanu cheptadu mana gurinchi..tumri gadu..edi padithe adhi aneyatame manalni

Lol dani creativity antara or system ni abuse cheyatam antara?

[LastManStanding]

Just now, Hydrockers said:

Lol dani creativity antara or system ni abuse cheyatam antara?

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[Hydrockers]

athaillu iana pandaga ki vachi ellipotaru , akkde undiporu kada

[Android_Halwa]

Steve Woz is right. Indians lack crrativity because they are part of the herd busy working for monthly salary because every other person they now of does the same and in order to survive and sustain in the society, they are also supposed to follow the same path to success and so leaving the creativity behind. 

gorrelam manamandaram...

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39 minutes ago, LastManStanding said:

Creativity lekunda ne Appi reddy millions sampadinchada ? Mestri lu antha millionaires ayyara ? CTS,TCS lo manollaki Creativity lekunda ne CNN etc Einstein visas ani cheppe EB1s thousands manaki vastunnaya evari year ? Creativity lekunda ne serial chuse aunties sudden ga oka month lo sr. Java developer avutunnara h4 mida ? Veedikem telusu creativity gurinchi Apple lo pani chestunnadu ga papam Indians iphones pogottukuntaru mati matiki..claims lo chustunna telivi takkuva anukuntunnadu emo..ade moviepass co founder no adagamanu cheptadu mana gurinchi..tumri gadu..edi padithe adhi aneyatame manalni

Manolla ...Loopholes ki holes pettey creativity gurinchi vadiki telvadanukunta... telisthey public ga kshamapana cheptadu...