[Part 2](http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/businessmen-have-no-taste-ii/) of my series of articles entitled _Businessmen Have No Taste_ had a long quote from Steve Jobs where he said
> “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste…”
In the [first episode](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/) of [NerdTV](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/), [Andy Hertzfeld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld), “a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team”, tells a funny story about Steve Jobs’ reaction to his own quote.
NerdTV [encourages remixing](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/cc/), so I pulled out the video of this story and you can watch it in QuickTime format [here](http://www.nivi.com/blog/wp-content/taste.mov). Watch it, I thought it was funny!
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NerdTV also provides [transcripts](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html) of every episode. Here is the transcript of the video clip:
> “Bob [Cringely]: You were in Triumph of the Nerds and did a beautiful job I thought. And of course Steve Jobs was in the show, too. You have a story about that?
> Andy: Yeah. Steve came over to my house shortly after it aired in 1996. I asked him what he thought of the documentary. He said he thought it was really good, but when he watched it on TV he thought his comment about Bill Gates having no taste might have been a little too harsh. So he called Bill Gates to apologize.
> I don’t know how you call Bill Gates, but if you are Steve Jobs you get right through. He said, “Bill I’m calling to apologize. I saw the documentary and I said that you had no taste. Well I shouldn’t have said that publicly. It’s true, but I shouldn’t have said it publicly.”
> And Bill Gates replied, “I’m glad you called to apologize, Steve, because I thought that was really an inappropriate thing to say.”
> Steve couldn’t help himself, he said, “You know it’s true, it’s true you have no taste.”
> And Bill Gates responded to him, saying “Steve, I may have no taste, but that doesn’t mean my entire company has no taste.”
> So Bill admitted he had no taste, but thought it was an unfair slur to say that MICROSOFT had no taste.
> (laughter)
> Bob: He hires people to have taste.
> Andy: Exactly.
> (more laughter)”
Bill Gates has a tremendous amount of poise if this story is true.
You can also read Parts [1](http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/businessmen-have-no-taste-i/) and [2](http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/businessmen-have-no-taste-ii/) of _Businessmen Have No Taste_.
P.S. You can use [QTKitImport](http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050814095714156&query=trim+quicktime) on the Mac to trim QuickTime files if you don’t want to buy Quicktime Pro. If you don’t have a Mac, get a real computer man.