The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

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

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.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere