Описание стива джобса на английском. Стив джобс биография на английском. Обращение к выпускникам Стэндфордского университета
Steve Jobs (25.02.1955 - 05.10.2011) - American businessman and inventor.
Steve Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco. His full name was Steven Paul Jobs. Birth parents abandoned him and then Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Some years later his adoptive parents affiliated a daughter, Patti.
Paul was a mechanical engineer and worked for a corporation which produced lasers. Steve’s stepmother was a bookkeeper. She taught him to read at an early age and Paul showed Steve elementary electronics. Steve himself always insisted that Paul and Clara were his parents.
In 1972 Steve Jobs graduated from high school in California and became a college student at Reed College in Portland. He also attended lectures at the HP Company and then began to work there with his schoolfellow Steve Wozniak.
In 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne established Apple. Some years later Steve Wozniak created a new personal computer which carried Apple forward. Its name was Apple II. Steve Jobs worked on design and sales of new device.
In 1980s Xerox PARC introduced its product, mouse-driven graphical user interface. Steve Jobs predicted the success of Xerox PARC’s invention and this was an incitement to development of the Apple Lisa. The creators were Ken Rothmuller and John Couch. In addition to that Jef Raskin invented Macintosh in one year.
There was a race for power in Apple in 1985. Steve Jobs lost it and left the company. He decided to found a new corporation which was called NeXT. This company produced technologies for organizational markets and higher-education.
In 1986 Steve Jobs got the computer graphics branch of Lucasfilm Ltd. Later it was reorganized into Pixar Animation Studios. Steve worked on famous animated cartoon ‘Toy Story’ as an executive producer. He was controlling shareholder and his percentage was 50.1%. In 2006 The Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar Animation Studios and Steve became the stock owner and a member of its Board of Directors.
In 1996 NeXT was included in Apple. Consequently Steve returned to work for Apple and became its co-founder. Afterwards the NeXTSTEP codebase was used for the Mac OS X. In 1996 Steve Jobs was chosen as an advisor of Apple and interim CEO in 1997. In 2000 he became Chief Executive Officer of Apple. He supervised elaboration of the iMac, iPad, iPod, iTunes, iPhone and other company’s products.
On March 18, 1991 Steve married Laurene Powell. Married couple had son and two daughters. Jobs also was in a relationship with painter Chris Ann Brennan. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, their daughter, was born in 1978. She was Steve’s first child.
In 2003 Steve’s illness was diagnosed as a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He was cured of it. But in 2009 Steve sustained a liver transplantation. His health became worse. In August 2011 Steve Jobs resigned as Chief Executive Officer but he remained Chairman of the Board till his dying day. On October 5, 2011 he died.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (
; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder (along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies". Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC"s mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
In early summer 2004 he called me. He was very friendly to me for many years, sometimes even too friendly, especially in the days of the launch of any new product. Steve wanted to device appeared on the cover of Time or to be told on CNN - in those places, where I then worked (before 2004 - editor"s note). But since my departure from these companies for a long time I have not talked to him. When he called, we talked a little about the aspen Institute - my new job - and then I invited him to a meeting in our summer camp in Colorado. He said that he would come, but speak in public he is not willing. On the contrary, he just wanted to walk with me and talk.
It seemed strange to me. Until then I had no idea about his preference to conduct serious conversations during long walks. As it turned out, he wanted me to write his biography. I just recently published a biography of Benjamin Franklin, and worked on a book about albert Einstein. So, naturally, my first reaction was surprise. I even wanted in полушутку ask him whether he considers himself worthy to be among those people? At that moment I thought that his career - with UPS and downs - far from complete. So I refused. Not now, I said then. Maybe in ten years-twenty, when you come to retire.
Some time later I understood that he called me shortly before his first cancer surgery. I watched it with amazing effort and deep emotional colouring is fighting his illness. And it convinced me. I realized how his identity rooted in the created products. His passions, weaknesses, desires, pranks, artistry, obsessive tendency for total control - all this was inseparably linked with his approach. So I decided to write his story as a case study of creativity.
A couple of weeks ago I visited jobs at his home in Palo Alto. He moved to the bedroom on the first floor, because he was too weak to walk up the stairs. He was troubled by pain, but his mind was clear, and humor - ever bright. We talked about his childhood, after which he gave me some photos of his father and family, so I used them in writing the biography. As a writer, I used to be separate , but when I tried to say goodbye, I felt a sudden wave of sadness. To hide it, I asked him a question that so long and could find no answer. I asked him why he with such fervor sought to open yourselves to me for nearly fifty interviews and many conversations over the last two years? Usually he preferred to keep privacy. He answered: “I want my children to know me. I don"t always been right there with them. I wanted them to know the reasons for that and we understand the meaning of my actions.”
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Подборка цитат Стива Джобса на русском и английском, сказанных им в разное время, в т. ч. на знаменитом выступлении перед выпускниками Стэндфордского университета, а также популярные цитаты, неверно приписываемые Джобсу.
«Лучше быть пиратом, чем служить во флоте».
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
1982
«Вы хотите провести остаток жизни, занимаясь продажей газировки, или хотите изменить мир?»
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
1987
«Компьютеры - замечательнейшие инструменты, с которыми мы только можем иметь дело. Это как велосипед, только для нашего сознания».
“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
1991
«Быть самым богатым человеком на кладбище - это не главное… Ложиться спать и говорить себе, что сделал действительно нечто прекрасное,- вот что главное».
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
Май 1993
«Мы иначе смотрим на дизайн. Дизайн - это не то, как продукт выглядит и воспринимается. Дизайн - это то, как он работает».
“That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Февраль 1996
«Креативность - это просто создание связей между вещами. Когда творческих людей спрашивают, как они что-то сделали, они чувствуют себя немного виноватыми, потому что они не сделали ничего на самом деле, а просто заметили. Это становится им понятно со временем. Они смогли связать разные кусочки своего опыта и синтезировать что-то новое. Это происходит потому, что они пережили и увидели больше, чем другие, или потому, что они больше об этом размышляют».
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.”
Февраль 1996
«Когда ты молод и смотришь телевизор, то думаешь, что телекомпании сговорились и хотят отуплять людей. Но потом ты взрослеешь и приходит понимание: люди сами этого хотят. И это гораздо более пугающая мысль. Заговор - это не страшно! Можно пристрелить кого надо! Начать революцию! Но телекомпании просто удовлетворяют спрос. И это правда».
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”
Февраль 1996
«Создавать продукт, опираясь на фокус-группы, по-настоящему трудно. Чаще всего люди не понимают, что им на самом деле нужно, пока сам им этого не покажешь».
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
Май 1998
«Сосредоточенность и простота - вот моя мантра. Тяжелее добиться простоты, чем усложнённости: нужно работать изо всех сил, чтобы начать мыслить ясно и сделать какую-нибудь простую вещь».
“That’s been one of my mantras-focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
Май 1998
«Мы сделали кнопочки на экране такими хорошенькими, что вам захочется их лизнуть».
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
Январь 2000
«Я бы обменял все свои технологии на встречу с Сократом».
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
Октябрь 2001
«Моя бизнес-модель - группа Битлз. Четыре парня контролировали негативные проявления друг друга. Они уравновешивали друг друга, и общий итог оказался больше суммы отдельных частей. Вот как я смотрю на бизнес: крупные дела не делаются одним человеком, они совершаются командой».
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
2003
«Мы думаем, что смотрим телевизор для того, чтобы мозг отдохнул, и работаем за компьютером, когда хотим включить извилины».
“We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”
Февраль 2004
«Я - единственный человек, который знает, что такое потерять четверть миллиарда долларов за год. Это закаляет характер».
“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year… It’s very character-building.”
Февраль 2004
«Единственная проблема „Майкрософт“ - отсутствие у них вкуса. Абсолютное отсутствие вкуса. Не в мелочах, а в крупном масштабе. У них нет своих идей, в их продуктах нет культуры».
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
2006
Обращение к выпускникам Стэндфордского университета
«Не всё было так романтично. У меня не было комнаты в общежитии, поэтому я спал на полу в комнатах друзей, я сдавал бутылки Колы по 5 центов, чтобы купить еду и ходил за 7 миль через весь город каждый воскресный вечер, чтобы раз в неделю нормально поесть в храме кришнаитов. Мне он нравился. И много из того, с чем я сталкивался, следуя своему любопытству и интуиции, оказалось позже бесценным».
“It was not all romantic. I did not have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for 5 cents, to buy food and go for 7 miles across town every Sunday night, once a week to eat normally at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of, from what I’ve come across, following my curiosity and intuition, turned out to be priceless later.”
«Нельзя соединить точки своей судьбы, если смотришь вперёд; соединить их можно только ретроспективно. Так что надо верить, что эти точки как-нибудь, да соединятся в будущем. Надо во что-то верить - в свой кураж, предназначение, карму, во что угодно. Этот принцип никогда меня не подводил и изменил всю мою жизнь».
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
«Есть только один способ проделать большую работу - полюбить её. Если вы к этому не пришли, подождите. Не бросайтесь за дело. Как и со всем другим, подсказать интересное дело вам поможет собственное сердце».
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it..”
«Когда мне было 17, я прочитал одну цитату, которая примерно звучала так: „Если каждый день для вас, как последний, то однажды вы окажетесь правы“. Это произвело на меня впечатление, и с того времени, уже 33 года, я смотрю в зеркало каждый день и спрашиваю себя: „Если бы сегодняшний день был последним в моей жизни, захотел ли бы я делать то, что собираюсь сделать сегодня?“ И как только ответом было „нет“ на протяжении нескольких дней подряд, я понимал, что надо что-то менять».
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
«Память о том, что я скоро умру,- самый важный инструмент, который помогает мне принимать сложные решения в моей жизни. Потому что всё остальное - чужое мнение, вся эта гордость, вся эта боязнь смущения или провала - все эти вещи падают пред лицом смерти, оставляя лишь то, что действительно важно. Память о смерти - лучший способ избежать мыслей о том, что вам есть что терять. Вы уже ничем не скованны. У вас больше нет причин не идти на зов своего сердца».
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything-all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
«Никто не хочет умирать. Даже люди, которые хотят попасть на небеса, не хотят умирать. И всё равно, смерть - пункт назначения для каждого из нас. Ещё никто не смог избежать её. Так и должно быть, потому что Смерть, наверное, самое лучше изобретение Жизни».
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.”
«Ваше время ограничено, не тратьте его, живя другой жизнью. Не попадайтесь на крючок вероучения, которое являет собой результат мышления других людей. Не позволяйте взглядам других заглушать свой собственный внутренний голос. И очень важно иметь мужество следовать своему сердцу и интуиции. Они уже знают, что вы действительно хотите сделать. Всё остальное - второстепенно».
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Неверно приписываемые
«Оставайтесь голодными. Оставайтесь безрассудными».
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
Эта излюбленная фраза Джобса взята им из каталога «
Whole Earth Catalog » 1974-го года.
«Талантливые художники копируют, гениальные - воруют».
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
Тоже любимая фраза Джобса, искажённое высказывание Пабло Пикассо.
«Слухи о моей смерти сильно преувеличены».
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Оригинальное высказывание Марка Твена: «Слухи о моей смерти были преувеличением» (“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”).
«Моя девушка всегда смеётся во время секса, вне зависимости от того, что она в это время читает».
“My girlfriend always laughs during sex-no matter what she’s reading.”
Это высказывание часто можно встретить в интернете, однако же оно принадлежит не Джобсу; впервые оно прозвучало в шоу стэнд-ап комика Эмо Филипса.
Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple and Pixar animation
I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college , and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to college graduation. Today I want to tell you 3 stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal, just 3 stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots
I dropped out of Reed college after the first six month, but then stayed around as a drop in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates. So everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night, asking: “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?” They said “Of course”. My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college, and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign final adoption papers. She only relented a few month later, when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
And seventeen years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After 6 months I couldn’t see the value in it, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was, spending all of the money my parents had saved in their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the 5 cents deposits to buy food with. And I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I’ve stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about the serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in the way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in into that symbol course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple type faces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have that wonderful typography that they do. Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forwards when I was at college, but it was very very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forwards, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your God, Destiny, Life, Karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even if it leads you off the well-torn path. And that will make all the difference.
My second story is about the love and loss
I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started the Apple in my parent’s garage when I was twenty. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollar company with over 4 thousand employees. We just released our finest creation – The Macintosh – a year earlier, and I just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from the company you’ve started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented, to run a company with me. And for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so, at 30 I was out, and very publicly out. What had been a focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I’d let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I’ve dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I’d been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by a lightness of being a beginner again. Less sure about everything. It’d freed me to one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next 5 years I’ve started a company named Next, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, “Toy story”, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought Next, and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awfully-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick - don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going is that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like “If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you’ll most certainly be right”. It made an impression on me, and since then for the past 33 years, I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?“ And whenever the answer’s been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that all will be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering, that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn"t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor"s code for “prepare to die”. It means to try and tell your kids everything. You thought you"d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully I"m fine now.
This was the closest I"ve been to facing death, and I hope it"s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don"t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It‘s Life"s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true.
Your time is limited, so don"t waste it living someone else"s life. Don"t be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people"s thinking. Don"t let the noise of other"s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park , and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.
This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.
It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Jobs is a co-founder of Apple, the man behind the astonishing success of the computer animation firm Pixar - a billionaire regarded as a visionary in the industry. Born to an Egyptian father nd an American mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 49 years ago, Steven Paul was adopted soon after his birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, who lived in Mountain View in Santa Clara, California.
After completing high school in California, Jobs went north to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one term. Back in California, he became a regular at the Homebrew Computer Club, along with another young man, five years his senior, with his own visions of the future - Steve Wozniak.
In 1976, when Jobs was 21, he and Wozniak started their own business, the Apple Computer Company, in Job"s family garage. With a mission to produce affordable personal computers, the pair went to the market with Apple 1 shortly afterwards. A local company ordered 25 of the prototype and the pair were on their way. The almost instant success of Apple 1 and its sister Apple 2 launched them. By the age of 25 Jobs was worth $165m.
Apple was the first landmark in Job"s career but by 1985 he was on his way out after John Sculley, who had joined the company from Pepsi-Cola decided it was time to drop the pilot. Four years later Jobs returned with another computer company, NextStep, which never achieved the success of Apple but reminded people he was far from finished.
What was later hailed as Job"s second coming started with the involvement with Pixar, the animation company he bought from the Star Wars director, George Lucas, and renamed. The hit movie Toy Story instantly established it as one of the key players in Hollywwod, a success only added to with the release of Finding Nemo. Pixar made Jobs a billionairre. His triumph there also reminded people of his ability to predict the technological future. Apple asked him to return. He came back in 1997 and within a year the ailing company was once more making handsome profits.
His latest venture may turn out to be the most influential . Since the emergence of high-speed Internet the music industry has complained that it"s being brought to its knees by the pirates of downloading. The dream of hundreds of companies has been a way to harness the desire for music on the Internet and turn it into profit. Jobs believes that iTunes is the answer. But then Jobs doesn"t believe in underselling his companies. "This will go down in history as the turning point for the music industry," he told Fortune magazine at the launch of iTunes in the US. Journalists who have been following Job"s career have also seen another side of his personality when he has walked out of interviews, irritated at the time of questioning and refusing intrusions into his personal life. He is not known for his patience.
"We can"t have a heroic figure without a fatal flaw, was the assessment of David Plotikoff, writing a profile earlier this year in local paper." Jobs exudes arrogance of a certain blastfurnace intensity that people find hard to overlook. With Jobs it was never enough to say"We"re right on this and they are wrong." No, it was always "We"re right on this and they are idiots." But Plotnikoff added: " There is simply no way the Mac could have been born without that supreme confidence."
If there has been a theme to Job"s success it has been his genius for finding other geniuses and promoting their brilliance.
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