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

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

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

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

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'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.