Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

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

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  Overcoming, Path, Helping

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Real, Learning

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• 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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  Writing, Keys, People

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• Muéstrame un gran programa y te mostraré a una persona apasionada detrás de él.

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  Passion, Individual, Program

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• Soy el tipo de desarrollador al que le gusta lanzar pararrayos. Para hacer un gran programa tiene que haber al menos una persona en el centro que le insufle vida. De una manera feroz.

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  Breathing, Way, Likes

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• 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.

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  Leadership, Passion, Thinking

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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

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  Apples, Firsts, Facts

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

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  Unique, Projects, Software

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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

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  School, Apples, Uc Berkeley

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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

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  Jobs, Important, Would Be

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• 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

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  Team, Apples, People

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

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  Apples, April, Macs

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• A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

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  Jobs, Apples, People

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• Sabía que el Apple II era estupendo cuando lo compré, pero a medida que me adentraba en los detalles, me sorprendía el enfoque artístico y creativo que habían adoptado los diseñadores.

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  Taken, Apples, Creative

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

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  Apples, Months

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• Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

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  Taken, Thinking, Apples

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• 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.

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  Couple, Writing, Years

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• Me picó el gusanillo del software libre en febrero de 1998, en torno al anuncio de Mozilla.

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  Mozilla, Bugs, February

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• 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.

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  Years, Apples, Magic

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• As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

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  Apples, Hands, Gold

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• I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

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  Apples, Firsts, Cost

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• 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.

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  Team, Writing, Size

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

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  Crazy, Apples, Ordinary

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• Dejé General Magic en 1996 para convertirme en un aficionado a Internet: conseguí una línea T-1 para mi casa. Llegó un momento en que los cuatro bancos de alimentos de la zona de la bahía estaban alojados en esta casa.

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  House, Magic, Bay Area

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