Steve Jobs
1955 - 2011
"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor.
Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
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Steven Paul Jobs (born Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Jobs; * February 24, 1955 - † October 5, 2011) - American engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of American corporations Apple Inc.
He was also founder and former CEO of the studio Pixar, and in 2006 became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company, after the latter acquired Pixar Animation Studios. He listed as executive producer of animated film Toy Story, which was introduced in 1995.
In the late 1970s, Jobs with co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first people who drew attention to the commercial potential of the mouse when using it in a graphical user interface.
Having lost the power to fight the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded a computer company NeXT, which specializes in the markets of business and higher education. 1997 Steve Jobs returned to Apple, became interim executive director and joined them with NeXT. The magazine «Fortune» Steve Jobs was named the most influential entrepreneur in 2007 and fell to the list of top managers in 2009.
1986 Steve bought the Lucasfilm studio The Graphics Group, later renamed the «Pixar». He was its CEO and majority shareholder to purchase "Walt Disney" in 2006. By the end of their lives Jobs was a member of the Board of Directors «The Walt Disney Company».
Biography
Steven Paul Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Dear Mother Steve - 17-year-old student - after birth given child in a foster family. Foster child's parents were Paul and Clara Jobs Jobs-Akopian. Clara worked in the accounting firm, and Paul Jobs was a mechanic in the company that produced laser installations. When Jobs was five, the family moved to Mountain View campus, located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In 12 years, he telephoned the head of Hewlett-Packard William H'yulettu and asked him the details he needed to draw up a gear. Having talked with the boy, William sent him everything and invited us to his work on vacation. While working at Hewlett-Packard Jobs Wozniak met .
After graduating from high school in 1972, Steven Jobs came to Reed College (Reed College) in Oregon, but has 6 months left of training. Junior Jobs continued to live in dormitory rooms at your friends because they do not have another home. Engaged calligraphy courses in the future called the basis for a beautiful branded fonts Apple. To somehow survive, he handed the bottle and walked to the free Sunday dinners to kryshnayitskoho temple.
Together with friends Steve Wozniak and John Draper were gathering «Blue Box» 's - means for frikinhu.
In the 1975th year, together with a friend from Reed College (and later, the first employee of Apple) Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment has gone to India where the guru would visit vayshnavskoho nimu Karoly Baba in his ashram in Vrindavani. From India, Jobs returned to the Buddhist shaved head and traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, describing his experience with LSD, "one of the two or three most important things he did in his life."
On April 1976, at age twenty, along with Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, which was engaged in producing computer of his own design. The company was officially incorporated in early 1977. The author of the majority of development was Wozniak, while Jobs is performed marketolohom.Kompaniya Apple was founded in the garage, the example of many American computer companies of the time, trying to resist the computer giant IBM. Steve Jobs was the head of the company and its manager, while Wozniak was the designer of the first personal computer. For ten years after founding Apple was one of the leaders of the PC market that was valued at U.S. $ 2 billion and accounted for no 2 people and 4000 workers.
Jobs became CEO of Apple 1981. For many years he had no leadership position in the company, but had their hands full power. Profit Jobs then totaled 486 million U.S. dollars. January 24, 1984 year at the annual meeting of shareholders of Apple emotional Jobs
introduced the audience the first Macintosh. He became the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface. Steve Jobs in 1977
But in 1985 Steve Jobs was fired from the same companies own the decision of the Board of Directors Apple Computer. That same year he founded NeXT, that specializes in creating hardware and workstations. In 1986, Jobs became one of the founders of the animation studio Pixar, creating it on the basis of redeemed at the director of "Star Wars" George Lucas kinoimperiyi his unit. The company Pixar has created the world's first computer animated film Toy Story and today is one of the most successful animation studios in the world. 2006 Jobs sold Pixar Studios Walt Disney, and he remained on the board of directors of Pixar and simultaneously became the largest individual - a shareholder of Disney, received at its disposal a 7 percent stake studio.
1996 Apple bought a company NeXT, Steve Jobs and in 1997 returned to Apple. 2000 Steve Jobs is a full-fledged CEO.
2001 Jobs introduced the first player iPod. After several years selling iPod has become the main source of income of the company. Under the direction of Jobs, Apple significantly strengthened its position in the PC market. 2006 the company introduced a network media player Apple TV, in 2007 began selling mobile phone iPhone, in 2008 Steve has demonstrated the world's thinnest notebook, called MacBook Air.
Since January 2011 he was in a perpetual holiday for health reasons, but invariably represented the public the new products of the company. In August 2011 Steve Jobs stated that goes from office to the CEO.
2004 doctors discovered he had pancreatic cancer that is incurable. Steve left a few weeks to live, but it turned out that he had a rare form of cancer that can be cured. Steve promptly underwent surgery, and he continued to work in the company Apple. In April 2009, Jobs had a liver transplant.
Since January 2011 he was in a perpetual holiday for health reasons, but invariably represented the public the new products of the company. In August 2011 Steve Jobs stated that goes from office to the CEO.
October 5, 2011, after a long illness aged 56, co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs is dead. Sympathy and sorrow over his death the same day publicly voiced U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Google founders Sergey Brin and others
Steve was buried on Friday, October 7, the media reported that the ceremony was very modest and where he was buried is unknown.
Views on life
Steve spent his youth in search of meaning in life and enlightenment, he was engaged Maharyshy yoga while traveling India. For some time uzhyvav light and heavy drugs such as marijuana, LSD and some other psychotropic substances. Resorted to fasts and vegetarianism.
About Steve Jobs was shot feature film based on his biography and the history of Apple and Microsoft, which is called Pirates cylikonovoyi Valley
Steve Jobs was not the inventor and designer of the first personal computer, Apple, Steve Wozniak created it. But Steve Jobs brought the idea of PC life. If Steve does not put all their energy to commercialization project Apple I, he had many chances to fail.
Speech before graduates of Stanford, 2005
"I did not have my room, I slept on the floor in friends, handed over the bottle from under when the 5 cents to buy food, and every Sunday walked 7 miles on foot to once a week good dinner in the church Krischnait. It was wonderful! " (With a speech before graduates of Stanford, 2005)
"Stay hungry, stay foolhardy" (from speech to graduates of Stanford, 2005)
"The main reason why people would buy a home computer will be able to be associated with a national communications network. We are now at the beginning of this stage, but it will be a real breakthrough. At about the same as the appearance of the phone" (Playboy, 1985 year)
"Better be a pirate than to serve in the Navy" (From the book Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1982)
"If for some reason we ostupymosya, make some irreparable mistakes and lose the competition, IBM and Microsoft ... Then for the entire computer industry comes the dark times" (From the book of Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward, 1984)
"He (machine) executes the instructions are very simple - take a number, add it to another number, compare the result with the third, but he does them at a speed of one million per second. And at the speed of one million per second result seems to have magic "(Playboy, 1985)
"You want life to sell sweetened water or want to go with me and try to change the world?" (PepsiCo President John Sculley peremanyuyuchy him the post of CEO of Apple, 1983. Two years later, Scully would achieve the liberation of Jobs with Apple)
"John Sculley ruined Apple, filling the minds of employees wrong values. He replaced the people with the right principles for people with the wrong. And together they earned tens of millions of dollars to take care of their own glory and prosperity than about Apple and, most importantly, users of its products "(Speech at the Smithsonian Institution, 1995)
"I was like a hit in the stomach and knocked on my soul. I'm only thirty, and I want to continue to create things. I know that I can create at least one large computer. But Apple does not give me a chance" (Playboy, 1987)
"I have a plan to save Apple. Perfect products and perfect strategy that will suit the company. But nobody there will listen to me" (Fortune, 1995)
"Looking back, I can say that my release from Apple was the best event in my life. I lost luggage successful person and again found the ease and novice doubts. It freed me and marked the beginning of my most creative period" "(from speech to Stanford graduates , 2005)
"The problem Microsoft is that they have no taste. Not at all. They do not think creatively. In their products no culture" "(Triumph of The Nerds, 1996)
"I wish him all the best, though. I just think he and Microsoft - it's very narrow-minded. He went to the benefit, if in his youth, he tried LSD or lived with hippies" (about Bill Gates, The New York Times, 1997)
"Creativity - is simply creating relationships between things. When you ask creative people how they have done something, they feel a little guilty because they did not do anything really, just noticed. It becomes clear to them over time. They had called 'yazaty various pieces of his experience and synthesize something new. This is because they have experienced and seen more than others, or because they think more about it "(Wired, 1996)
"When you are young and you watch TV, I think that TV companies have agreed to and want to make people stupid. But then you get older and comes to understand: the people themselves want it. And this idea scares a lot more. Conspiracy - it's not scary. You can shoot freaks , start the revolution but there is no conspiracy, TV just to meet demand. Unfortunately, it is true "(Wired, 1996)
"It is very difficult to create a product, using focus groups. Often people do not know what they want as long as they do not teach" (BusinessWeek, 1998)
"We made the icons on the screen so beautiful that you want them lyznuty" (On Mac OS X, Fortune, 2000)
"" Do not be evil "- is nonsense" (On the corporate motto of Google "Don't be evil", 2010)
"The last 33 years every morning I looked in the mirror and ask yourself:" If today is the last day?? In my life whether I will do what is planned for today? "(Speech before graduates of Stanford, 2005)
"I do not want to be the richest man in the cemetery" (The Wall Street Journal, 1993)
"The problem is that I became older and realized that technological innovations can not really change the world. Sorry, but true. This understanding comes with the advent of children. You narodzhuyeshsya, aging, and then dies. And so there are a lot of years . And nothing is not change "(Wired, 1996)
"I am confident that the lightest days of Apple inventions and innovations yet to come" "(Message of Apple staff of 24 August 2011)
"The idea that I will soon die - a great tool that helped me to make all important decisions in life. The thought of impending death - the best way to get rid of the illusion that you have something to lose. Holenkyy like you already, and there is no reason to follow from the bottom of my heart. Death - is the best invention of Life "(speech to students at Stanford, 2005).
Always alive. Steve Jobs.
