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Steve Jobs — early life and education
Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was
an American businessman and
visionary widely recognized (along
with his Apple business partner
5 Steve Wozniak) as a charismatic
pioneer of the personal computer
revolution. He was co-founder,
chairman, and chief executive officer
of Apple Inc.
10 Steve Jobs was born ∈San
Francisco ∈1955, and adopted
at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs
(1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). When asked
about his “adoptive parents,” Jobs replied emphatically
15 that Paul and Clara Jobs “were my parents 1,000%.”
Asked ∈a1995 interview what he wanted to pass on to
his children, Jobs replied, “Just to try to be as good a
father to them as my father was to me. I think about that
every day of my life.”
20 Jobs told an interviewer, “I was very lucky. My father,
Paul, was a pretty remarkable man, a genius with his
hands.” When his son was five or six, Paul Jobs
sectioned a piece of his workbench and gave it to Jobs,
25 saying ‘Steve, this is your workbench now.’ And he gave
me some of his smaller tools and showed me how to
use a hammer and saw and how to build things. It really
was very good for me. He spent a lot of time with me...
teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart,
30 put things back together.” Jobs also noted that while his
father “did not have a deep understanding of electronics
[...] he’d encountered electronics a lot ∈ automobiles
and other things he would fix. He showed me the
rudiments of electronics and I got very interested ∈ that.”
35 Jobs went to elementary school and high school ∈
Cupertino, California. He attended after-school lectures
at the Hewlett-Packard Company ∈Palo Alto, California,
and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak
as a summer employee. Following high school graduation
40 ∈1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College ∈Portland,
Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one
semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while
sleeping on the floor ∈ friends’ rooms, returning Coke
bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at
45 the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, “If I had
never dropped ∈ on that single calligraphy course ∈
college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces
or proportionally spaced fonts.”
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