While he may be off his rocker at times, The San Francisco Chronicle has a very interesting story about Steve Jobs just in time for the company's upcoming 30th Anniversary April 1st. The article is a very good read and has a keen insight on the man though Steve himself, at times quite media-shy, turned down the newspaper's request for a story.

Inside you'll learn the humble beginning of the company making illegal blue boxes to allow people to make free phone calls on public phones, how the two Steve's who founded the company (along with a third person who quickly dropped out), Wozniak and Jobs, met and trace how Apple has gotten where it currently stands today. Of course it didn't happen all rosy and sweet and Jobs was known for cutting a few throats along the way.

This is how one Macintosh team member described a week working for Steve Jobs way back in the early '80s: "You come up with a great idea. Steve comes at it and says, 'Oh, that's s -- ,' " and spends the next few days telling you how bad it is, said Steve Capps, a software engineer. Capps would keep improving the project, and by the end of the week, Jobs would call marketing and say, " 'Come look at this great thing we did!' Very few people ... have ever worked for him more than once," Capps said. "Because life is too short to really deal with that all that much."