Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world
Andy HertzfeldPeople 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.
Andy HertzfeldIn 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
Andy HertzfeldI did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
Andy Hertzfeld