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have an easy time (of it)

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Mieć łatwiej, Woźniak: He had an easier time making eye contact with a transistor than with a girl

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impish demeanor

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A few days after Raskin left, Jobs appeared at the cubicle of Andy Hertzfeld, a young engineer on the Apple II team, who had a cherubic face and impish demeanor similar to his pal Burrell Smith’s.

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3
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admonition

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namawianie, upominanie

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getting their kicks

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1: After all, most seventeen-year-olds were getting their kicks in other ways 2: Doyougetyourkicksfromthissortofthing?IgetmykicksfromBillySimpson.Whatagreatentertainer!

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rub off

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toseemtotransfertosomeoneelse 1: After he spent time with Robert, some of it started to rub off

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Among

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Among its visionaries was the scientist Alan Kay

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inevitable

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nieuniknione, 1: And it was also inevitable that once Jobs set his sights on the Macintosh project, Raskin’s days were numbered

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like-minded

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podobnie myślących, 1: like-minded seekers of enlightenment

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devotion

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As for Jobs, his devotion was intense

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Astonishingly

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Zadziwiająco 1: Astonishingly, they were able to get the job done in four days, and Wozniak used only forty-five chips

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barefoot

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boso

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bizarre

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dziwaczny

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13
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rub off

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Bushnell’s inspiring willingness to play by his own rules rubbed off on him

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shift under way

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But by the early 1970s a shift was under way

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dissembling

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Demontaż, 1: But it was in fact a more complex form of dissembling

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medlling

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But John Couch and the other professional engineers on his Lisa team, many of them buttoned-down HP types, resented Jobs’s meddling and were infuriated by his frequent insults

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as he put it

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By fourth grade Wozniak became, as he put it, one of the “electronics kids