Business Insider quoted Gates explanation about their dissimilarity as Jobs as the one with a design mind-set, while he had a coder’s mind, focusing more on the architectural built. The apt definition came from a new book on Jobs called, “Becoming Steve Jobs”, co-written by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Below is the excerpt from the book: “He had an expectation of superlative things in his own work and in the products they would create. Steve had a design mind-set. When I get to a hotel room, I don’t go, ‘Oh, if I had designed this car I would have done this and this.’ People like Jony Ive and Steve Jobs are always looking at stuff that way. You know, I look at code and say, ‘Okay, this is architected well,’ but it’s just a different way of understanding the world. His most natural, innate sense was a world-class instinct about whether this or that object met certain standards. He had extremely high standards of what was shit, and what was not shit.” Jobs suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He passed away on October 5, 2011 in Palo Alto, California at the age of 56.
