“He told us to go back to the roots of the original 1984 Macintosh, an all-in-one consumer appliance,” recalled Schiller. “That meant… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
“I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. 'These boxes alone should make both of us scream… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling.… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
“On January 24th, Apple computers will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” – Old Hollywood film director… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
“the Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs’s dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image