What Do Steve Jobs' Obituaries Leave Out? His Appreciation for LSD

Apple's legendary co-founder Steve Jobs said acid was one of the most important things he did in his life.

Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, "Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." He was hardly alone among computer scientists in his appreciation of hallucinogenics and their capacity to liberate human thought from the prison of the mind. Jobs even let drop that Microsoft's Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Apple's mantra was"Think different." Jobs ... Full Story »

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Walter Cox
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by Walter Cox - Oct. 10, 2011

That Steve Jobs used psychedelics, including LSD, is not really news to anyone who has read much about him, yet it is important and relevant. The book, WHAT THE DOORMOUSE SAID, is quite good; anyone who thinks hippie culture was a passing phenomenon just hasn't been paying attention.

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