You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

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.

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.

The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

An innovative mind is never once bitten, twice shy.

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.