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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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"Big Brother is watching you."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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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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"I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project."
Media
"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
"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
"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
"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
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"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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"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."
Pretty
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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