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

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.

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

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

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.

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