The extracts are from Walter Isaacson's much-anticipated authorised book on Mr Jobs's life due to be released later this month. He interviewed Jobs 40 times in the past two years before the Apple chief executive died earlier this month.
In the 630-page book, he said of his Microsoft rival Gates, after he left the company to work on his charitable foundation: "BIll is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology."
In another extract, Isaacson claims Jobs said that taking LSD “reinforced my sense of what was important: creating great things instead of making money, putting things back itno the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
The book claims that Jobs died regretting that he had spent so long attempting to treat his cancer with alternative medicine before agreeing to undergo surgery.
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