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

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.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

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

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

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