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

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

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

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"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 hosted from this house here."

Food

"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."

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"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."

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"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 or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people."

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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."

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

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