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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was a dummy in school."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."

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Amber Hurdle

"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997."

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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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Andy Hertzfeld
"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."

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

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Andy Hertzfeld
"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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Andy Hertzfeld
"I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project."

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