You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

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.

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.

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.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

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