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.

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.

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.

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

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

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

I just love preaching.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.