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Andy Hertzfeld

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

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

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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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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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"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."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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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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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"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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"I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project."
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