Andy Hertzfeld

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

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

“The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.”

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

“Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did,...”

“But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You k...”

“I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.”

“Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on th...”