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 really need to understand humans so well.
Andy HertzfeldA lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
Andy HertzfeldI did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
Andy HertzfeldAs you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
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