Revealed: What Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Thought About Each Other


So, on the occasion, where Gates travelled down the memory lane, read on to know what Gates and Jobs thought about each other according to Isaacson's biography on Jobs, as compiled by Business Insider.

#1 Gates: Steve Jobs was "fundamentally odd," and "weirdly flawed as a human being"

#2 Jobs on Gates: “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger"

#3 Gates on Jobs: "He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works"

#4 Jobs: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology"

#5 "He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas," said Jobs of Gates. This was a theme for Jobs. He also said, "They just ripped us off completely, because Gates has no shame."

To which Gates replied: "If he believes that, he really has entered into one of his own reality distortion fields."

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