John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
<i>The Steve Jobs "hero / shithead" rollercoaster was real</i><p>That's funny.  I had a boss at Apple when I did some contracting there in 1999 who told me that Jobs asked him, "You wanna be a hero?" before giving him a project.  My boss told me, "Yep, one day you're a hero, the next day you're a shithead."