Macintosh

“Hyperagent, It's just much more of, like, the Macintosh experience, right, versus the Linux.”

“I remember the week before we launched the Mac, we all got together and we said, every computer is going to work this way. You cannot argue about that anymore. You can argue about how long it will take, but you can't argue about it anymore. It is inevitable.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”

“20 of them are on the patent. There's 24 that were, that are on the iPhone patent. Now there's other people involved, but generally there's 24 people on the iPhone patent.”

“And I wrote the first native assembly language on the Macintosh. It's kind of a crazy thing to be able to say, but it's, True that I was writing these example programs for this Macintosh 68,000 development system in, on these, you know, Apple headquarter build…”

“So when he was building the first Macintosh, he's in his twenties, he limited the team to a hundred people. If you wanted to add a person, if you say, Hey, we need, you know, this person's help. You act, you first have to find the person that was unnecessary a…”

“Far and away, the first thing to point out is the first version of Microsoft Excel was for the Mac.”

“Steve Jobs Shows Bill Gates the Mac project in 1981. Three years before it ships. And Microsoft and Apple signed an agreement to work together on applications for it in 1982.”

“I think selling jewelry was harder because jewelry is, it's made of commodities, albeit valuable commodities like gold and diamonds, but you can stick that on a scale. Whereas with Macintosh, you know, we really had magic”

“If we don't cannibalize our business, Two guys or two gals in a garage are. So isn't it better that we create a Macintosh that kills an Apple II, or we create an iPhone, iPod, iPad that kills a Macintosh? Isn't it better we kill it than somebody else kills it?”

“The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only, only with other A players, which means you cannot indulge B players.”

“I remember the week before we launched the Mac, we all got together and we said, every computer is going to work this way. You cannot argue about that anymore. You can argue about how long it will take, but you can't argue about it anymore. It is inevitable.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”

“First of all, the concept of reality distortion field dates back to the early Apple days. Bud Tribble, who was an engineering and design leader that worked on the original Macintosh, would describe Steve Jobs and his charisma as a reality distortion field that…”

“I think you have to think of this almost like the new version of the Macintosh, and this will borne out its own versions of iPhones and iPads and watches, right? There'll be accessories that go along with this, and you have to like, think of this as like the t…”

“When Steve was building the first Macintosh, he coined the phrase, it's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. The Mac team got on board, creating a homemade pirate flag with a rainbow-colored Apple logo as an eyepatch.”

“In that sense, it's actually, you could kind of compare it to the Macintosh, which launches in 1984 and was over 7000 dollars in today's money. And most people still didn't know why they needed it. And I think Apple only sold like half a million in the first y…”

“And there's about an 18 month window in the life cycle of the Macintosh where graphic designers refused to use it.”

“He asked the 30 engineers on the team to sign their names onto a whiteboard that they engraved on the inside of the case, where nobody would ever see it, nobody would ever know, but their signatures were on the inside of the case.”

“Something that he shared with Steve jobs who would hold up shipping the original Macintosh because the circuit board inside was not beautiful enough.”

“I had an assignment to do animatics, an animated storyboard on a Mac, and I worked directly with William Shatner on One of the Star Trek movies, and I had never done anything like that, and I had to build the Starship Enterprise, and I had no idea how to build…”

“And the buyer for PCs in 1984 was a CIO who wanted 5000 of them at a price to go under people's desks, probably actually to collect to a mainframe or to run a single line of business application, and they didn't care where the power switch was, and how easy it…”

“The SAC and the new iPad has I think 11.8 billion transistors. Which, what does that mean? Well, you're going to do the math. The original Mac in 1984 had 68 K, 68,000 transistors, and they sold 370,000 in the first year. So you can work that out, and it turns…”

“So we designed this mouse and a word processor and a spreadsheet and a database All for the Apple II with a graphical user interface about a year before the Macintosh was released.”