I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

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.

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.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

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 knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

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

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables

Sometimes, we only truly find ourselves when we have lost ourselves first.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further. (Zarina)