Reality Distortion Field
The original Macintosh team formed reality to its will around Steve Jobs. He believed he could impart his feeling to others and push them to do things they hadn't thought possible. Robert Friedland, one of the few people that mesmerized Jobs, taught him how to turn charm into a force and distort reality with his personality. Bud Tribble compared it to the aliens in Star Trek that create their own world through sheer mental force. Tribble said it was dangerous to get caught in Steve's distortion field, but it was what led him to actually be able to change reality. The reality distortion field was built out of charismatic rhetoric – an unmovable will – and bending facts to fit the purpose. Jobs was so effective at using it because he didn't believe the rules applied to him. When he decided something should happen he made it happen.