01 Steve Jobs
史蒂夫·乔布斯，让苹果疯狂的计算机狂人

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01 Jobs' famous persuasive power was equaled by his creativity and business brilliance—apparent in legendary hardware and software achievements across three decades of work.

乔布斯的说服力，与之创造力和商业才华都同样令人瞩目，这是他在硬件和软件领域驰骋了30多年结出的硕果。

02 For his influential（有影响的）career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, he transformed（转换）one industry after another, from computers and smart phones to music and movies.

在计算机和电子消费领域，乔布斯有很大的影响力，他改变了一个又一个产业，从电脑、手机到音乐、电影。

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Personal life

Jobs' birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. When his mother became pregnant, his grandfather vehemently（激烈地）refused to let them married, then his mother ended up going to California to have the baby and give it up for adoption（收养）. His adoptive father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, as a result, he became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering（铸补，熔补）.

Following high school graduation, Jobs enrolled at Reed College. His parents were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy（书法）.

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史蒂夫·乔布斯出生在美国旧金山，刚刚出世就被父母遗弃了。幸运的是，保罗·乔布斯和克拉拉·乔布斯——一对好心的夫妻领养了他。在养父的影响下，乔布斯从小迷恋电子学。19岁那年，乔布斯只念了一学期就因为经济不济而休学，成为雅达利电视游戏机公司的一名职员。他借住在沃兹家的车库，常到社区大学旁听书法课等课程。

Career

In 1972, Steve Wozniak designed his own version of the classic video game Pong. After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to Jobs, who then took the game down to Atari, Inc. In 1976, Wozniak single-handedly（单独地）invented the Apple I computer. Wozniak, Jobs and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents. Wayne stayed only a short time, leaving Jobs and Wozniak as the active primary cofounders of the company.

After a power struggle with the board of directors, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform（讲台）development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from nearly bankruptcy（破产）to profitability by 1998.

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1976年乔布斯签署了一份合同，决定成立一家电脑公司。之后，乔布斯在美国第一次计算机展览会展示了苹果Ⅰ号样机。之后“苹果”公司开始了小批量生产。由于乔布斯经营理念与当时大多数管理人员不同，董事会于1985年决议撤销了他的经营大权。从苹果辞职之后，乔布斯于1986年成立独立公司皮克斯动画工作室。该公司在2006年被迪士尼收购，乔布斯也因此成为迪斯尼最大的个人股东。1996年苹果公司经营陷入困局，乔布斯于苹果危难之中重新回来。回来后的乔布斯大刀阔斧改革，并开始研发新产品iMac和OSX操作系统。

妙语连珠

You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma（因果报应）, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence（信心）to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma（教条）, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow heart and intuition（直觉）. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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没有人可以未卜先知，事事的因果往往只在回首时显现，那些点点滴滴，会在你未来的生命里，以某种方式串联起来。人总要相信一些东西，你的勇气、命运、生命、因果报应或其他什么，会给你带来循从本觉的自信，哪怕离经叛道，也绝不止步。只有这样，才能有所成。

时间是有限的，所以不要浪费在重复别人的生活上。不要被教条束缚，那意味着只会走别人的老路。还有最重要的是，你要有勇气去听从自己的直觉和心灵的指示——它们从来都知道你想要成为什么样的人，所有其他的一切都是次要的。