Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times

"Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”"

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Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox

In 1979, Steve Jobs led a delegation from Apple into Xerox's secretive Silicon Valley computer lab. The world would never be the same.

Los Angeles Times