Steve Jobs Shocker: Bill Gates Should Have Dropped Acid

Reuters via Foxnews ^ | October 24, 2011 | Reuters

[US Navy Vet]

Steve Jobs called long-time rival and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates as "unimaginative" and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple Inc chief executive.

"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."

Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died at age 56. Read more

"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," Jobs added.

[This Just In]

LOL! :^)

[brownsfan]

“(commodore was for the $ better I think)”

I would agree.

[Dr. Ursus]

I wonder if Jobs ever visited any of his slave labor,excuse me,worker’s paradise factories in China?

[Tribune7]

You don’t know that Xerox invented the first GUI?

I think he's taking issue with the claim that Apple "stole" it.

It didn't

[aruanan]

"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," Jobs added.

What to think...

Well, put it this way, dropping acid or going off to an ashram when he was younger wouldn't have made Bill Gates a "broader guy." But if he had been inherently a more creative guy, he would more likely have dropped acid or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

[Strk321]

No, but his Jim Jones-esque cult followers probably think so. Apple did not invent the 3.5” floppy, mouse, or GUI, but they popularized all of them.

[Keith in Iowa]

If only all these Steve Jobs biography quotes could be collected where one could read them all in one place... perhaps in book form... :D

[RJS1950]

The mouse, the GUI were “borrowed” from PARC/Xerox. The touchpad technology was borrowed as well although improved upon a little. Almost all of that technology has been around for 10 years. Gates also did some liberal borrowing, sometimes from the same sources. Gates actually did develop/coinvent some of the original technology he employed. Considering the economic and business history of the two firms I would say that Gates was more of a genius without the acid than Jobs was stoned. MS thrived and grew while Apple almost went under with their overpriced and proprietary hardware and software. Jobs was probably always a bit jealous and it showed, for instance, when Apple built a huge base of users by giving away hardware and software to schools and then years later sued MS for anti-competitive practices for setting up the same type of program. He was an overhyped, hippie, pimple on the ass of time. By the way; Dennis Ritchie who died the same week was a real inventor and creator of technology without which Apple and MS would have never been successful.

[Tribune7]

Jobs, in his final meeting with Isaacson in mid-August, still held out hope that there might be one new drug that could save him. He also wanted to believe in God and an afterlife.

"Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear," Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying.

"Then he paused for a second and he said 'yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone," Isaacson said of Jobs. "He paused again, and he said: And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."

R.I.P. Steve

[dfwgator]

“Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal.” - Pablo Picasso

[Strk321]

That’s why people died young in olden times. Because they used vegetables and roots to treat disease. Not that it was an issue then since they didn’t know any better.

But at the end of the day, we’re all gonna die eventually anyway.

[aruanan]

IIRC, both Jobs and Gates ripped off Xerox.

It's so easy to repeat the internet myths, isn't it? When that knee jerks, it's almost as good a feeling as a sneeze.

[tx_eggman]

"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."

Better put some ice on that, Bill.

[This Just In]

No, I’m not curious to know whether or not Jobs “stole” the invention. I wanted to know whether or not Jobs made any claims in inventing the GUI.

It’s obvious that he “ripped off” technology. Or, if you will, improved or redesigned it. People do this all the time, but to claim that you invented it is truly deceptive and criminal.

[RJS1950]

You hit it on the head. He built a market for those willing to pay big bucks for something that was not very upgradable if at all, limited in software packages, but it looked cool. They rode the “but it has better graphics” pony long after bigger, better horses came along.

[j_k_l]

Calls

Black

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Everyone in the computer business — and most certainly Xerox (Xerox made high end word processors) knew about the GUI. None of them recognized the significance of it. In fact, most IT “experts” at the time were hostile to the idea — dismissing it as a toy. Jobs saw it for what it could do for computing “for the rest of us”. He took it from the lab rats at PARC, and turned it into a practical, functioning product that met the needs of the market.

You could compare Jobs to Christopher Columbus. Mariners knew for centuries that the “scientific consensus” was bogus — that the world was round not flat. None of them sailed off to “the ends of the world” on that knowledge. That's why there's a “Columbus” day.

[Avery Iota Kracker]

Gates didn’t have to drop acid.

Ever hear of MSLSD?

[MHGinTN]

Ooo, that’s a nice tea pot!

[MHGinTN]

Ooo, that’s a nice tea pot! ... Or I should say, ‘That’s a nice kettle!’ Does it run on 110 alternating current or is a direct current only?