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

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

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.

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.

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

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

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