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Steve Jobs was not warm and fuzzy: Biographer

WASHINGTON: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs could be mean, abrasive and cuttingly dismissive of co-workers in his quest for perfectionism, according to his biographer. Hes not warm and fuzzy, Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores on Monday, said in an interview with the CBS show 60 Minutes. He was very petulant, Isaacson said of Jobs, who died on October 5 at the age of 56. He was very brittle. He could be very, very mean to people at times. Whether it was to a waitress in a restaurant, or to a guy who had stayed up all night coding, he could just really just go at them and say, Youre doin this all wrong. Its horrible. And youd say, Why did you do that? Why werent you nicer? And hed say I really want to be with people who demand perfection. And this is who I am. You know, he was a pretty abrasive and in some ways, you know, cantankerous character, Isaacson said. Jobs quest for perfection came in part from his adopted father, Paul Jobs, who taught him how to make great things, his biographer said. Once they were building a fence. And he said, You got to make the back of the fence that nobody will see just as good looking as the front of the fence, he said. That will show that youre dedicated to making something perfect.

                                                                                                               
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