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

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 ….

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….

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element t….

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

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess..

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 ….

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 ….

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….

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good en….

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 i….

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement..

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

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area host….

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 dow….

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

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

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….

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

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