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 blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Andy HertzfeldI was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
Andy HertzfeldI got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Andy HertzfeldIn 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 had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before
Andy HertzfeldIt'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 element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.
Andy Hertzfeld