* In the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton sought advice from Jobs. "I don't know if you did it," he told the President, "but if so, you've got to tell the country." (Washington Post)
* He told Barack Obama he was headed for a one-term presidency (Huffington Post)
* He offered to create Obama's ad campaign but became annoyed because Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't sufficiently deferential (HuffPo)
* He joked that he had to hide the knives from his wife when Rupert Murdoch came to dinner (New York Times)
* He was "annoyed and depressed" by the iPad launch's lukewarm reception -- which included more than 800 e-mails from users (HuffPo)
* He was livid when Google (GOOG) copied the iPhone's interface, calling it "grand theft" (AP)
* He swore to Isaacson he was going to destroy Android to his "last dying breath," even if he had to spend Apple's entire $40 billion cash hoard to do it (AP)
* Yet when asked for business advice from Google CEO Larry Page earlier this year, he obliged, telling him to focus on just five products. "Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft." (Bloomberg Businessweek)
* He told Isaacson he had figured out how to make a TV that was "completely easy to use... It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it." (WashPost)
* He scrapped an early design for the new Cupertino campus because its shape reminded his teenage son of male genitalia (Merc)
* He once told John Sculley he thought he would die young (HuffPo)
* He came to regret having delayed surgery when his cancer was first diagnosed -- turning instead to fruit juices, acupuncture and herbal cures, some of which he found on the Internet (NYT)
"The big thing was that he really was not ready to open his body," his wife told Isaacson. "It's hard to push someone to do that." (NYT)
* When he decided to fight his cancer with modern medicine, he spared no expense -- including $100,000 to have the DNA of his tumor sequenced (NYT)
* Jobs began meeting last spring with the people he wanted to see before he died, including Bill Gates (NYT)
* Gates was fascinated with Jobs but found him "fundamentally odd" and "weirdly flawed as a human being" (HuffPo)
* Jobs was working on new Apple products until the day he died (PC Magazine)
* He told Isaacson, perhaps in jest, that his fear of death without an afterlife -- "click and you're gone" -- was why he didn't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices (60 Minutes via Andy Ihnatko)
UPDATE: CBS has posted Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with Walter Isaacson plus several segments that weren't in the broadcast. Click here.
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