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

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

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.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

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.

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 wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people