Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

#1. Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Apple team and now an engineer at Google, once said that what Jobs taught him was to "follow your heart" and only great work comes out of doing what you adore.

Carmine Gallo

#2. God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.

Janette Oke

#3. We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Kofi Annan

#4. I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.

Michael Hayden

#5. 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

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

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#8. My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

Bobby Knight

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

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#11. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#12. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#13. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#14. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#16. I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#18. On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.

Justin Halpern

#19. Servants think like stewards, not owners.

Rick Warren

#20. 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

#21. It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

Jaime Hernandez

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

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Sayings from Chairman Jobs." 1. Real artists ship. 2. It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. 3. Mac in a book by 1986.

Andy Hertzfeld

#28. You were meant for more than me, and I'll die fighting to give it to you. But please don't ask me to pretend it's easy.

Leigh Bardugo

#29. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#30. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#31. You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

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

Andy Hertzfeld

#34. 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.

Andy Hertzfeld

#35. My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

Michael Imperioli

#36. Remember that girl who gave up? Yeah, neither does anyone else

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