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 was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

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

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

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.

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

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