I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
From Andy Hertzfeld
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
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 it took a few years.
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 know he really, really wants to do something great.
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 developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
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.
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