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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."

"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."

"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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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