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- Grabbed
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As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
- Overcome
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
- Nov 07, 2020
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
- February
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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
- Apple II
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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.
- Important
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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.
- Apple II
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The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
- Creative
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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.
- House
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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.
- First
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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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Apple
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
- People
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