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

It'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.

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

In 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

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.

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 did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.