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…

- Andy Hertzfeld

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…

- Andy Hertzfeld

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…

- Andy Hertzfeld

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

- Andy Hertzfeld

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…

- Andy Hertzfeld

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

- Andy Hertzfeld

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 …

- Andy Hertzfeld

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

- Andy Hertzfeld

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 …

- Andy Hertzfeld