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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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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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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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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."
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"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."
Family
"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
Time
"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."
School
"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 did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
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
"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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"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
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
Being
"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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