Jobs spent a few days in Munich, where he solved the interference problem, but in the process he flummoxed the dark-suited German managers. They complained to Alcorn that he dressed and smelled like a bum and behaved rudely. "I said, 'Did he solve your problem?' And they said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'If you got any more problems, you just call me, I got more guys just like him!' They said, 'No, no we'll take care of it next time.'"
Saturday, November 12, 2011
"Don't make me send you another hippie."
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography is a hoot thus far. Atari engineer Al Alcorn, finding that problem-child Jobs wants to quit and go to India, gets him closer to the subcontinent by sending him to Germany to solve a tech problem:
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"problem child"? I bet you wish you were a problem child.
ReplyDeleteAlas, I share some of Jobs's bad qualities, but few of his good ones.
ReplyDeleteBut if you prefer hagiography to biography, might want to skip the Isaacson.