FACTS AN QUOTES FROM AND ABOUT STEVE JOBS.
Steve Jobs is credited of single-handedly saving Apple, bringing a revolution in online music, creating a world-beating smartphone and leading Pixar to dominate computer animation. With iPad launch in 2010, the tech czar once again rewrote computingJobs started Apple with a fellow college dropout Steve Wozniak in the his family garage in Los Altos, California in April 1976. Jobs, then 21, was the 'sales' guy, while Wozniak worked as an engineer.
1 Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
2 born in San Francisco
3 His fav food is apples
4 He was dropped out of college in 1973 and Founded Apple Corp in 1976
5 CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Apple Inc.
founder of cutting edge animation studio Pixar
6 Idea behind 'i': First used with iMac in 1998, Jobs said at the launch that 'i' denotes tenets like internet, individual, instruct, inform, inspire.
7 Jobs' Stake in Disney Is Twice As Big As His Slice of Apple
8 A Buddhist and vegetarian Few know that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist and a vegetarian.
9 Mona Simpson, one of the renowned novelists is Steve Job’s sister and he didn’t know it until he was an adult. Steve and Mona didn’t know that they were brother-sister until the 90s when he tracked her down. One sibling is novelist while other is totally into technology. Both have a unique sensibility of life and the best artists in the world working in completely different areas.
10 Steve on his return to Apple in 1996 was feared in the company for his now infamous elevator brief ups and subsequent firings of low performing employees.
Steve Jobs Quotes
1 “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
2 “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
3 “The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!”
4 His favorite catch phrases are: “Un-be-lievable”; “Mere mortals”; “It’s huge” & “Wouldn’t it be great”
5 We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.
6 “I want to put a ding in the universe.”
7 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.
8 I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
9 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.
10 It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
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