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.

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.

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.

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

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

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.