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Andy Hertzfeld

"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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Akiroq Brost

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Akiroq Brost

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have always loved going to school."

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Akiroq Brost

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."

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"My school is attended by near three hundred scholars."

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"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."

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"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."

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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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Andy Hertzfeld
"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."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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Andy Hertzfeld
"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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Andy Hertzfeld
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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