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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."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."
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"The universe is flux, life is opinion."
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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."
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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."
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"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."
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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."
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"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
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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
"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."
Job
"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
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
Gold
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"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
"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
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
Being
"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
"I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project."
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