Andy Herzfeld's Folklore project is currently hosting people's recollections of the making of the original Mac.
One of Andy's anecdotes:
I went with Bill [Atkinson] to Larry Kenyon's cubicle, where he was maintaining the memory manager sources. Bill looked over our shoulders as we added a little code to correct the bug. But he objected when he noticed that we used one of our coding tricks (I'll explain the exact issue in a comment below) while making the fix, and began to get upset. "Hey, that's not the right way to code. What are you guys, a bunch of hackers? I'm not sure that I want to work with a bunch of hackers." Both Larry and I cared more about pleasing Bill than saving every possible byte or cycle, so we changed our fix to use the slower, more conservative, Bill-approved technique. We also added a comment to the instruction in the source code, to remind us why we did it the slower way in this circumstance. The comment said "We're Not Hackers!".
