Andy Hertzfeld Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.”

“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 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.”

“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.”