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"

"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."

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

"How in the world do you sell something that's different? That's the biggest problem. The world's not quite ready to believe. It's like in the early days at Apple, they said, "What's it good for?" We c…"

"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 …"