[pork]

What you can surmise from that is that they've both probably taken some acid in their lifetimes. If Jobs were alive and younger, he too would probably have been at Burning Man, place of many a revelation to the technologically inclined.

[nitrogen]

You don't need acid to say things like that, just Star Trek.

[psbp]

Coming to this conclusion on acid is much more gripping and powerful than while watching star trek.

[shasta]

In other words, acid doesn't produce profound thoughts, it just makes you think your thoughts are profound.

[jlgreco]

I think the value of that should not be misunderstood. Imagine the reverse: it would be quite damaging if something made you think that your ideas were less profound or worthwhile than usual.

(I am saying this as someone who has never taken LSD, so take my take on it with a grain of salt I guess.)

[stcredzero]

He did too much LDS in the 60's.

[pork]

He was too Mormon?

[nitrogen]

In Star Trek IV, Kirk says to a marine biologist that Spock is strange because he did a little too much "LDS." This was paricularly amusing to viewers who grew up in Utah.

[ryan]

In this video Elon states he came up with his idea for an electric plane at Burning Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8#t=20m19s

[wololo]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099574