Pioneers: Andy Hertzfeld

[@hodgenick]

Andy Hertzfeld is one of my programming heroes.

[@rwanderman]

Great to see this. I'm a long-time Hertzfeld fan. I have a disk Andy gave me at Macworld with a pre-release version of Switcher on it. What an amazingly brilliant and generous and humble man. I remain in awe of him after many, many years. I hope you'll try to do an interview with Bill Atkinson as well. He's another important Macintosh team member. Hey, do as many of those early members as you can, no doubt they all have fascinating stories to tell.

[@rnurmin4967]

Just discovered this video (better late than never). Thank you for making this series and interviewing Andy Hertzfeld. You can tell that he genuinely shares his experiences; providing reasonings on why things didn't work out (these are real start-up stories that should be shared). It's a tough task to see a fail experiment, but it requires a dedicated and positive person to keep working on the experiment (sometimes with no guarantee or directions). I am in awe of his handwritten notes. It outlined the timestamp, project/meeting name, his step by step thinking process 😃

[@matthewpayne7318]

Amazing to get an insight in such an intimate way of the foundations of the devices we all love and use everyday. Long live the Macintosh!

[@dasaptaerwin]

Thank you for making this video. Incremental development. Communication was as important as computation. Tech Prediction can be wrong. If you could start something diff then it may end differently. Users group! > community > collaboration. Driven by enthusiasm.

[@fredrikbromee]

Great interview Devon, I enjoyed it very much and look forward to the next one!

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

Glad you included the clips of him here because I've watched tons of footage of Andy Hertzfeldt from the 80's but didn't recognize the name or the older person in this new interview.

[@octavian_2]

Great series, hope to see more of it :/

[@numspacsym]

Great interview! Thank you for sharing this with the world. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@msulemanf]

Brilliant, decent & transparent. I could read Folklore.org all day. How I would love to see Andy Hertzfeld & Burrell Smith together discussing their work. The glimpses of the engineering notebooks were a joy.

[@TheducksOrg]

Wow, starting off with a bang. This is great

[@sameliterally]

this video needs all the views what an amazing story

[@CortesArts]

Love this series already, keep 'em coming!

[@Mas-bj8fe]

Andy! We love you!

[@mattsephton]

Great, I could listen to Andy's stories all day long. I wonder if he plans to publish his memoirs?

[@Apostle1978]

Completely Agree. Love you Andy.

[@arttemka]

Nice start, keep going guys

[@dasaptaerwin]

“Communication was as important as computation” 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@JoshDavis9]

The song used is 'A New World' by Jordan Critz

[@duanestanford2827]

This is awesome.

[@Gromit801]

Andy without glasses. Perfect disguise.

[@skreutzer]

0:37 I guess it's well known by now that it came from Xerox, and that came from Engelbart, and that came from Sutherland/SAGE/Memex, and a wide range of other revolutionary discoveries and innovations. Apple was really good + lucky in terms of packaging and marketing it on scale.

[@Apostle1978]

Love this guy.

[@dmitrypetrouk8924]

Hey, squirrel is not credited! Look at background at 5:30

[@st0rmchild]

Came here to mention the squirrel

[@JonBailey]

Note to the Notion staff, sharing the original story URL on facebook just fetches a generic blurb for the Notion product, instead of the details of the episode at the URL.

[@dogriffiths]

An amazing human being

[@NATmusic27]

fascinating

[@skreutzer]

11:01 1-3 decades more and we'll finally get there. Don't understand why we continue to do it the slowest and most painful way.

[@VijitChandna]

Please do steve Wozniak as well!

[@agou1980]

Fantastic

[@skreutzer]

6:03 The hard work of engineering and implementing is somewhat different from coming up with visions.

[@ShalevLazarof]

here after the M1 launch 😎

[@elclay]

Thank you for your wonderful videos. Please DM me the person who designed this thumbnail if possible)

[@sgharms]

Telescript is basically agentic AI. You push something to a network and it goes about accumulating what you need to come back, eh?

[@LawsonEnglish]

Mac OS X was a complete replacement for the original Mac. He's well aware of that.

[@swapanjain892]

Damn!!!

[@brianparkinson1324]

A giant.

[@meiowalot7570]

We’re not worthy!

[@returninghero]

Loved it! Thank you!