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22 quotes by Andy Hertzfeld

Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American computer scientist and inventor who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in...
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

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As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

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

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

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

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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

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