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…
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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…
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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
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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…
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
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As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
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I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
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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…
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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…
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I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II
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I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
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The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere
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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…
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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
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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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