Tech Icons' Weird Habits and Hobbies


1.Name: Steve Jobs

Position: (late) Co-Founder, CEO of Apple, NeXT, Pixar

Weird Habit/Hobby: Steve Jobs had a strictly vegan diet that he followed, but what was weird about this great man, was the fact that he used to restrict himself to certain fruits or vegetables for weeks or months on end. His biography notes that at one time he ate only apples and carrots, and so on.

His aim in doing so was to eliminate mucous from his body, and although nutrition experts oppose his diet-style, they agree that it would purge the body of goo. What he was not right about though, was that if he got rid of mucous, his body odor would disappear. Because he believed this, he avoided bathing as often as he should have, apparently.

But if this wasn’t enough, an MSNBC report said that in the early days of his company, the icon used to relieve stress by soaking his bare feet in company toilets.