Steve Jobs, of course, is God Almighty, but Andy Herzfeld tells a hilarious yarn about the Great Man’s foibles in his book Revolution in the Valley.
In the days when Herzfeld was helping bring the Mac into this world, he noticed that it was Jobs’ regular practice to park his car in the disabled parking spaces in the Apple car park.
One day an intrepid French Apple executive, Jean-Louis Gassee, who had just transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had parked his car and was walking to the entrance of the main building, when Jobs whizzed by in his Merc and parked in one of the handicapped parking spaces.
As Jobs walked past him, Gassee remarked: “Oh, I never realized those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.”
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