“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.”

—  Jef Raskin

Programmers At Work (1986)

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American computer scientist 1943–2005

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