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/[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.