[ksec]

>Jobs responded by saying, "I think if I went back to Apple and didn't own any of Apple, and you didn't own any of Apple, I'd have the moral high ground."

>Ellison's response: "Steve, that's really expensive real estate, this moral high ground."

I still have vivid memory of this reading it 10+ years ago. It paints so much character to Steve as a person. Which is mostly considered as an Ass Hole on HN post 2014.

[hotpotamus]

A righteous asshole is still an asshole. But I always thought of Jobs as more like a good coach; he might be demanding and perhaps even tempestuous at times, but people chose to work with him because he drove them and their team to produce.