Andy Hertzfeld Apple Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think Apple would be more of an ordinary company without him--it would be much less audacious, daring and artistic.