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To: brushwud who wrote (181301)	2/4/2012 6:27:27 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 543310

I don't know that. The only thing that google turned up on a quick check was this: Steve Jobs, closet Ayn Rand devotee Steve Jobs is one of the central heroes in our book I Am John Galt -- we trace his life and career as the real-world analog to Howard Roark, the heroe of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. But we never knew that Jobs was actually a Rand fan! He was, but his hero wasn't Roark -- it was Hank Reardon from Atlas Shrugged. Here's a report based on a telephone interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Despite times when Apple was in financial and structural turmoil, Wozniak believes Jobs’ speed of thought and endless drive helped the company move forward, believing that he may have adopted the ethos of the hard working, never failing Hank Reardon in Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged. “Steve was very fast thinking and wanted to do things, I wanted to build things. I think Atlas Shrugged was one of his guides in life” iamjohngalt.com There's a little bit more in atlas-shrugged-movie.com but he sure didn't show the devotion of Greenspan or Ryan, for example. The available evidence seems weak. There was a pretty strong libertarian representation among early internet types in the DARPA days, but Jobs was a hippie then, and he never was an engineer.