Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

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• But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And…
• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't…
• A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
• Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us…
• Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
• As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
• I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
• I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you…
• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the…
• I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II
• I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
• The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere
• The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple…
• Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world
• In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because…
• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person…
• It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical…
• I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
• We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing…

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