Who was Steven Jobs?
Summary
Steven Jobs was the chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Company, CEO of Pixar and the founder of NeXT. Steve was the one who knew the world was going to change and the one who made it happen.
He was born in San Francisco to parents who had to put him up for adoption at birth; he was raised in the San Francisco during the 1960s. Jobs then attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out.Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II,one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
After leaving Apple, Jobs started up NeXT,a computer platform development company that specialized in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. Years later, his new company, Pixar, produced the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event made possible thanks to Disney and Jobs’ personal financial support.
In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT. Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company; he revived Apple at the verge of bankruptcy. Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time.
Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.
Vocabulary
handpick
這個單詞出現(xiàn)在喬布斯堅(jiān)持開發(fā)Macintosh的部分鼻听，講到He handpicked a team of engineers to build it. 詞匯效果類似于select, sort out等，譯為“精心挑選”“親手挑選”钠糊。
RDF (reality distortion field)
“現(xiàn)實(shí)扭曲力場”，就是指結(jié)合駭人的眼神、專注的神情驮捍，口若懸河的表述危虱、過人的意志力、扭曲事實(shí)以達(dá)到目標(biāo)的迫切愿望悍及，及所形成的視聽混淆能力闽瓢。
該詞匯原本來自《星際迷航》，由于喬布斯本身就是《星際迷航》忠粉心赶，又極其擅長“洗腦”（勸服他人認(rèn)同他的觀點(diǎn)）扣讼，所以自詡也擁有此力量。
Thoughts
喬布斯是個一個非常復(fù)雜又非常簡單的人物缨叫。他自幼被領(lǐng)養(yǎng)椭符，雖然和養(yǎng)父母過著愉快的生活荔燎，但內(nèi)心卻總有一道過不去的坎，導(dǎo)致他egotism嚴(yán)重销钝。一方面湖雹，他惹得同事不快，另一方面曙搬，又以其獨(dú)特的個人魅力吸粉無數(shù)摔吏。他大學(xué)時期由于學(xué)費(fèi)問題“主動”退學(xué)，但就算睡地鋪撿可樂罐換錢飽腹也從未停止學(xué)業(yè)纵装。雖然在生活中有諸多怪癖（比如有段時間只吃水果不洗澡）征讲，但他有決定做一件事就一定做到底的意志力。開發(fā)二代蘋果也好橡娄，傾家蕩產(chǎn)投資皮克斯也罷诗箍，只要他認(rèn)定這件事會成功，就排除萬難挽唉，不談放棄滤祖。自古英雄出少年，卻只有不尋借口瓶籽、堅(jiān)持不懈的終身學(xué)習(xí)者才能成大事匠童。向這個改變歷史的創(chuàng)業(yè)者學(xué)習(xí)：Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
