I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

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

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.

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

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

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.