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"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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"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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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."
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"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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"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."
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"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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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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"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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"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
"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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"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
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"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."
People
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"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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"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
"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
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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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."
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