But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

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

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

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

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