Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger role. He spewed out a stream of ideas – some reasonable, others wacky – about what Pixar’s hardware and software could become. And on his occasional visits to the PIxar offices, he was an inspiring presence. “I grew up a Southern Baptist, and we had revival meetings with mesmerizing but corrupt preachers,” recounted Alvy Ray Smith. “Steve’s got it: the power of the tongue and the web of words that catches people up. We were aware of this when we had board meetings, so we developed signals – nose scratching or ear tugs – for when someone had been caught up in Steve’s distortion field and he needed to be tugged back to reality.

Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger role. He spewed out a stream of ideas – some reasonable, others wacky – about what Pixar’s hardware and software could become. And on his occasional visits to the PIxar offices, he was an inspiring presence. “I grew up a Southern Baptist, and we had revival meetings with mesmerizing but corrupt preachers,” recounted Alvy Ray Smith. “Steve’s got it: the power of the tongue and the web of words that catches people up. We were aware of this when we had board meetings, so we developed signals – nose scratching or ear tugs – for when someone had been caught up in Steve’s distortion field and he needed to be tugged back to reality.

– Walter Isaacson –

Steve Jobs

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