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Gates, Bill - Using LSD
Identifier
015566
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This may well be apocryphal, but I will add it nevertheless, just for fun. I have been unable to find the original article
A description of the experience
Friday, Aug 16, 2013 01:39 PM +0100 10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice
Robert T. Gonzalez
Bill Gates totally did experiment with LSD, though an excerpt from a 1994 interview with Playboy reveals he was much less open about it than Jobs:
PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD?
GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.
PLAYBOY: What does that mean?
GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently.
PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye.
GATES: [Smiles]
PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition.
GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don’t think at this age I could. I don’t think you’re as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.