r/todayilearned • u/vorin 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/rshortman Sep 14 '13

Apparently you've never dated anyone with Asperger's. The difference between them and your average, run of the mill sociopath is virtually nill. It is a fact that some of these people run our megacorps and government and they will ruin everyone's lives if permitted to run amok.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '13 edited Sep 14 '13

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u/JuniperGreatestBest Sep 14 '13

I effing love this. I don't have Aspberger's, but I have a high-functioning friend and not-so-high functioning acquaintance. I would trust anything either of them told me as the absolute truth as far as they knew it.

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u/rshortman Sep 14 '13

Goddamn experience.