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

"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."

"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."

"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 enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."

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

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

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

"But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing."
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