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have an easy time (of it)
Mieć łatwiej, Woźniak: He had an easier time making eye contact with a transistor than with a girl
impish demeanor
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.
admonition
namawianie, upominanie
getting their kicks
1: After all, most seventeen-year-olds were getting their kicks in other ways 2: Doyougetyourkicksfromthissortofthing?IgetmykicksfromBillySimpson.Whatagreatentertainer!
rub off
toseemtotransfertosomeoneelse 1: After he spent time with Robert, some of it started to rub off
Among
Among its visionaries was the scientist Alan Kay
inevitable
nieuniknione, 1: And it was also inevitable that once Jobs set his sights on the Macintosh project, Raskin’s days were numbered
like-minded
podobnie myślących, 1: like-minded seekers of enlightenment
devotion
As for Jobs, his devotion was intense
Astonishingly
Zadziwiająco 1: Astonishingly, they were able to get the job done in four days, and Wozniak used only forty-five chips
barefoot
boso
bizarre
dziwaczny
rub off
Bushnell’s inspiring willingness to play by his own rules rubbed off on him
shift under way
But by the early 1970s a shift was under way
dissembling
Demontaż, 1: But it was in fact a more complex form of dissembling
medlling
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
as he put it
By fourth grade Wozniak became, as he put it, one of the “electronics kids
