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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. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#formal #good #grows #had #like

But I was very much into sports when I was a child. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#i #into #much #sports #very

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

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple ii #because #berkeley #bought #grad

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. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple ii #because #before #computer #did

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

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple ii #crazy #designed #everywhere #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. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #company #creative #group #had

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#anymore #because #being #devote #essentially

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#blame #born #dying #fault #misfortune

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#another #better #easier #furnished #future