45 Quotes by Andy Hertzfeld

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

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

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.

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

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

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

I started focusing all my time on being an Apple II hobbyist, dropped out of grad school to go to work for Apple in August of '79.