In 1985 , Playboy spill to an enthusiastic 29 - yr - old Steve Jobs . In that lengthy interview , the entirety of which has beenrecently reposted online , Jobs touches on many topics , including the allure of California in the sixties . Namely : Dylan and LSD .
Yup .
Playboy : Was Wozniak obsessed at sure periods ?
problem : [ Laughs ] Yes , but not just with computing machine . I think Woz was in a universe that nobody understood . No one partake his pursuit , and he was a little ahead of his time . It was very solitary for him . He ’s driven from inner sights rather than external expectations of him , so he survived OK . Woz and I are different in most ways , but there are some ways in which we ’re the same , and we ’re very closemouthed in those way . We ’re sort of like two planets in their own orbits that every so often intersect . It was n’t just computers , either . Woz and I very much wish Bob Dylan ’s verse , and we expend a great deal of sentence think about a quite a little of that hooey . This was California . You could get LSD fresh made from Stanford . You could sleep on the beach at night with your girl . California has a sense of experimentation and a mother wit of receptiveness — openness to new possibilities .
Besides Dylan , I was interested in Eastern religious mysticism , which rack up the shores at about the same time . When I fit to college at Reed , in Oregon , there was a constant flow of hoi polloi stopping by , from Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert to Gary Snyder . There was a constant flow of intellectual questioning about the accuracy of life sentence . That was a time when every college student in this country take Be Here Now and Diet for a Small Planet — there were about ten books . You ’d be hard pressed to find those books on too many college campuses today . I ’m not say it ’s honest or worse ; it ’s just unlike — very different . In Search of Excellence [ the book about business practices ] has taken the piazza of Be Here Now .
Steve ’s hold of Dylan and LSD are n’t anything new , but check him discuss them so honestly is just one of the many joy of the full , 15,000 word interview . [ PlayboyviaThe Atlantic ]
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