Jobs 'proud of being an a***hole.' -former Apple hack

[Mac Reporter]

SMH.com.au reports:
By Sam Varghese
April 30, 2004
Robert X. Cringely is nothing if not individualistic. That's probably the one thing that marks him out among all the technology reporters who are part of the industry in the US - the man is different.

Best known for his history of the personal computer industry - Accidental Empires - which became a best-seller, and the 1996 documentary, Triumph of the Nerds, based on the book, Cringley has been writing for nearly a quarter of a century but he still has something fairly new to say each week.

As he himself puts it, he's one individual writing a column every week, with little or no editorial guidance, yet he continues to break stories week after week.

Cringely was one of Apple's first employees way back in 1977. But he has no illusions about his own programming prowess; in Accidental Empires, he describes himself as being able to program poorly in four languages.
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