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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
Employment
"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 got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
Time
"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
"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
"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."
Power
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"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
"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
"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."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."
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"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."
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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
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"A job is a temporary need."
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"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."
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