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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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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."
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"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."
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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"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."
Existence
"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 had on a computer before."
Power
"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
Time
"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."
People
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"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."
Work
"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 down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
Management
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
Gold
"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
Technology
"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
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