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| − | Jobs reportedly claimed that he left [[Christianity]] when he was thirteen and saw a Life magazine picture of starving children.<ref>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44979333#.TqN5x0cRqO8</ref> That story, however, sounds implausibly similar to the reason given by [[Buddha]] for founding [[Buddhism]], a belief system that Jobs later found attractive. Jobs was, in fact, similar to many California teenagers in the 1970s who did what they liked, while rejecting Christianity. | + | Jobs reportedly claimed that he left [[Christianity]] when he was thirteen and saw a Life magazine picture of starving children.<ref>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44979333#.TqN5x0cRqO8</ref> That story, however, sounds implausibly similar to the reason given by [[Buddha]] for founding [[Buddhism]], a belief system that Jobs later found attractive. Jobs was, in fact, similar to many California teenagers in the 1970s who did what they liked, while rejecting Christianity. But that all changed when he found out about his cancer. "Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear." |
| + | <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-shocker-bill-gates-should-have-dropped-acid/?test=faces#ixzz1biO9g7Pl Steve Jobs Shocker: Bill Gates Should Have Dropped Acid, Fox news, October 24, 2011]</ref> | ||
Jobs left Apple in the mid-1980s after losing control of the company, but later returned in the mid-1990s to eventually restore it to preeminence. He was credited with overseeing the development and marketing of the Macintosh, the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod. | Jobs left Apple in the mid-1980s after losing control of the company, but later returned in the mid-1990s to eventually restore it to preeminence. He was credited with overseeing the development and marketing of the Macintosh, the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod. | ||
Revision as of 15:54, October 24, 2011
Steve Paul Jobs (1955-2011)[1]; born in Los Altos CA served as the CEO of Apple, Inc. until August 24, 2011, which he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976. He also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios in 1986. In 2010, Steve Jobs was recognized as the “best-performing CEO in the world.”[2] Steve Jobs grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and lived there with his wife and three children until his death on October 5, 2011.[3][4]
Contents
Biography
Jobs reportedly claimed that he left Christianity when he was thirteen and saw a Life magazine picture of starving children.[5] That story, however, sounds implausibly similar to the reason given by Buddha for founding Buddhism, a belief system that Jobs later found attractive. Jobs was, in fact, similar to many California teenagers in the 1970s who did what they liked, while rejecting Christianity. But that all changed when he found out about his cancer. "Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear." [6]
Jobs left Apple in the mid-1980s after losing control of the company, but later returned in the mid-1990s to eventually restore it to preeminence. He was credited with overseeing the development and marketing of the Macintosh, the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod.
Steve Jobs co-founded Pixar Animation Studios in 1986. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006, and Jobs served on Disney's board of directors. Jobs was one the very few persons to successfully run a company that takes a horizontal diversification approach (selling and marketing a variety of products that would appeal to their original consumer base). He was also one of the adoption success stories.
- I love beautiful objects. I love creating them. Negative people upset me... 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.
Jobs co-invented 313 Apple patents, mostly on designs rather than as utility patients. This is far more than most technology executives, such as Bill Gates.
Jobs was a liberal who had donated over $150,000 in soft-money to causes related to the Democratic Party,[7] but there are indications Jobs became more conservative on issues like the public schools as he grew older. It is possible that Jobs promoted liberal causes simply to further his own businesses, rather than based on personal views.[8]
Awards
National Technology Medal from President Reagan in 1985, before founding NeXT; Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987; Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. Magazine in 1989. [1]
External links
- Steve Jobs Apple-Macintosh computers-iPods.
- Steve Paul Jobs
- "You've got to find what you love," Jobs says Stanford Report, June 14, 2005.
- Steve Jobs, the Perfect CEO, Wired Magazine, September 27, 2011.
References
- ↑ http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
- ↑ Steve Jobs, World's Best CEO, blog.intego.com, January 6, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/franktau/History1.html
- ↑ Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011, The Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2011.
- ↑ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44979333#.TqN5x0cRqO8
- ↑ Steve Jobs Shocker: Bill Gates Should Have Dropped Acid, Fox news, October 24, 2011
- ↑ http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Steve_Jobs.php
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/01/70072
