45 Quotes by Andy Hertzfeld

Apple instigated the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, which was the first mass market personal computer as we know them today.

In those days I was a grad student in computer science and I liked to get to the bottom of all the systems I worked on, but you weren't allowed to.

I published on the web about 60 anecdotes about the development of the Mac in time for the Mac's 20th birthday in 2004. And that led to a book.

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.

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’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.

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

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

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.