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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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