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by horofox 5486 days ago
Steve Jobs don't know how to program probably. Once I've watched a video of Steve Woz on youtube saying he(Jobs) didn't knew a shit about making computers(hardware), but he is very talent at being the CEO or something like that. So it's very unlikely that he knows how to program.

I know that microsoft employees, including Bill Gates have read some Knuth, I've read that in a book of Bill Gates.
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whyenot 5486 days ago
When Steve Jobs was 13, he called up Bob Hewlitt to ask for some spare parts for a frequency counter he was working on. He worked at HP, was a technician at Atari, and attended the Homebrew Computer Club. He does know about electronics, and it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to me that he might actually know a thing or two about programming as well.
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dvdhsu 5486 days ago
He actually called Bill Hewlett [1], one of the founders of Hewlett and Packard [2].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g... 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Reddington_Hewlett

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whyenot 5486 days ago
You're right. Bill, not Bob. Thank you for the correction :)
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