“He had a way of telling you things that were wrong straight-out and always telling you a way to make it better,” College of Charleston computer science professor Jerry Boetje said.

Boetje met Jobs in 1989, when Boetje worked at what was then Lotus Development Corp. in Massachusetts before IBM later bought it. Jobs wasn’t even with Apple at the time.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/07/local-professor-recalls-brush-with-jobs-genius/