"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, Time, Being

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"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."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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

Time

"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

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

Thought

"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

"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."

Leadership

"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

"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

"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

"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