Jef Raskin

"I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not."

"Articles from Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh"

"List of Jef Raskin articles"

"A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary."

"I was very much amused by the recent Newsweek article where he said, "I have a few good designs in me still." He never had any designs. He has not designed a single product. Woz designed the Apple II.…"

"By choosing to focus on computers rather than the tasks we wanted done, we inherited much of the baggage that had accumulated around earlier generations of computers. It is more a matter of style and …"

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"Creator of first Apple Mac dies, BBC News"