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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."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."

"We need to learn to protect our time."

"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."

"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."

"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."

"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."

"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."

"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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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."

"Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin."

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

"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."

"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."

"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."
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