Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

BIG THINKERS OFTEN DO BIG THINGS. SMALL THINKERS NEVER DO BIG THINGS.

Steve Jobs, He trusted that the dots would connect . He believed the reward is the journey. He followed his heart. He didn't settle for Okay. He did what he loved. And if he didn't love what he did, if didn't believe it was a great work, he redid it again and again. He tried to live each day as though it really matter, even before he had cancer.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become

Schieble wanted her child to be adopted by college-educated parents. Before the adoption could be finalized, however, she learned that neither parent had a college degree. She balked and only agreed to complete the adoption a few months later, “when my parents promised that I would go to college,” Jobs said. Signing on to the hope of a bright future for their baby, the Jobs family settled in, adopting a daughter, Patty, a couple of years

Meanwhile, there was a curious new social phenomenon. In a 1967 cover story titled “The Hippies,” Time magazine described the mostly white, middle-class, and well-educated young people who were “dropping out,” rejecting college and traditional job paths in favor of seeking love, peace, and enlightenment—partly by experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs like marijuana and LSD. Getting their nickname from the 1950s beatnik term “hip” or “hipster,” these hippies dressed in wildly colorful clothes, listened to “acid rock” like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and wore their hair long. The epicenter of the movement was the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in nearby San Francisco.

images, points are chosen to define various shapes, essentially breaking them into polygons. Because those shapes are bumpy and inflexible, the polygons are divided and curved, until the image looks smooth and realistic. The technique, called “subdivision surface,” was pioneered at Pixar. With each film, Pixar’s team was challenged to develop something

With that,” Hertzfeld recalled later, “he walked over to my desk, found the power cord to my Apple II, gave it a sharp tug, and pulled it out of the socket.” Everything Hertzfeld had been working on was gone. Jobs stacked the monitor on top of the computer and told Hertzfeld, “Come with me. I’m going to take you to your new desk.

This is the start of an industry,” he told Jobs and Wozniak, predicting the company would make the Fortune 500, the prestigious list of America’s biggest companies, in a matter of years. “It happens once a decade.

Some of his teachers, however, saw him more as a troublemaker than as a special kid. Jobs found school so dull and dreadful that he and a buddy got their biggest kicks

would put much of the power of a computer neatly into the palm of your hand. The father of four would be repeatedly compared with the inventor Thomas Edison and

On a warm June day in 2005, Steve Jobs went to his first college graduation—as the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder and leader of Apple Computer wasn’t just another stuffed-shirt businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world to the first computer that could sit on your desk and actually do something all by itself. He revolutionized music and the ears of a generation with a spiffy little music player called the iPod and a wide selection of songs at the iTunes store. He funded and nurtured a company called Pixar that

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith,

I figured happiness is the most important thing in life, just how much you laugh

Wozniak had a breakthrough: He had pulled together chips, a power supply, a monitor, and a keyboard.

at Apple for being too disruptive and difficult. He set out to build another computer company and missed the mark, blowing through millions of dollars of investors’ money. He could