Here is Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs' technical knowledge, I think the point is pretty clear: -- He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionat

Here is Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs' technical knowledge, I think the point is pretty clear: -- He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionated, knew what he was doing. He was so passionate about object-oriented programming. He had this extraordinary depth. I have a PhD in this area, and he was so charismatic he could convince me of things I didn’t actually believe. I should tell you this story. We’re in a meeting at NeXT, before Steve went back to Apple. I’ve got my chief scientist. After the meeting, we leave and try to unravel the argument to figure out where Steve was wrong—because he was obviously wrong. And we couldn’t do it. We’re standing in the parking lot. He sees us from his office, and he comes back out to argue with us some more. It was over a technical issue involving Objective C, a computer language. Why he would care about this was beyond me. I’ve never seen that kind of passion. -- http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/eric-schmidt-on-steve-jobs-10062011.html http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/eric-schmidt-on-steve-j...