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 down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

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 have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

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 at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.