Andy Hertzfeld Quotes
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.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
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 got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere
I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world
You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.