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I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern

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Steve Jobs
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Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1955 to 2011; Wikidata Q19837, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19837 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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