Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs urged Bill Gates to take acid because it would inspire more design prowess, making Microsoft products better and more appealing.

That's where I found Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates to be in a recent chat about his onetime rival, the late Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs. "Steve was very different than I was, I mean, in terms of intuitive sense of a good user interface,

Bill Gates shared an anecdote about Steve Jobs suggesting he take LSD to improve his design skills. Gates humorously acknowledged the different strengths each of them had, with Jobs excelling in design and marketing and Gates in coding.

Bill Gates has shared personal stories from his childhood and teenage years in his memoir, Source Code, the first book in a series about his life. In an interview with People magazine before the book’s release,

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently disclosed that Steve Jobs once advised him to take drugs in the hope that it would improve his taste in product design. “Steve Jobs once said that he wished I'd take acid because then maybe I would have had more taste in my design of my products,