NYT opinion: The man who inspired Jobs (Edwin Land)

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From a few days ago, but didn't see it posted here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinio....html?_r=1

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Bonus interview of Jobs, Playboy Feb. 1985: http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playboy-...steve-jobs

Note: the page displays an overlay that's probably NSFW but you can close it. This presumes IT doesn't get rankled at you visiting that domain to begin with.

Jobs wrote:
The man [he's speaking about Land--deckeda] is a national treasure. I don’t understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be—not an astronaut, not a football player—but this.'"

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Thanks for posting. I didn't know that story at all.

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Steve Jobs met Keith Haring and Andy Warhol? Someone should make sure DavidDC sees this.

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From the TOP entry I got that all from:

Long ago I spent a workday with Mr. Jobs during the "Lisa" release, doing photo work. Sometime during the day this story came out and it was memorable.

Steve was in New York during the previous week. He notoriously didn’t carry a wallet or keys and so forth. (For most of our day he was in his socks—no shoes, although he put a tie on for a couple of shots.) He found himself in his hotel’s bar and was in conversation with two nice women. They treated Steve to drinks. But when it came his turn to buy, he didn’t have any money. The two women didn’t know who he was, just a nice guy who had no money. He told the ladies the he was good for the cost of a round of drinks as he would get some money from his traveling companions.

The women were unsure of his promise but paid for the drinks. At his next turn, he again promised money from his friends; they were late, but would arrive soon. He told the women that he and a friend (Woz) started a computer company in California and that he was paid well and was good for the drink money. The women were more leery at this point about fronting money to this guy with promises and no wallet. Then Steve remembered that his photo was to be on the cover of the current TIME Magazine. He told the women that if they would follow him out to the corner newsstand (in the rain) he would prove to them that he was good for the drink money and was not BS-ing about his work in California. Well, they went out into the rain and saw his photo on the cover of TIME—and the three of them went back to the hotel bar, where the two women bought the next round.