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'''Steven Paul Jobs''' (born [[February 24]], [[1955]]) is the co-founder and [[CEO]] of [[Apple Computer]] and was the CEO of [[Pixar Animation Studios|Pixar]] until its acquisition by [[Disney]] <ref name="Apple 2006" />, and he is currently the largest shareholder at Disney.
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He is considered to be a leading figure in both the [[computer industry|computer]] and [[entertainment industry|entertainment]] industries.
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Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic [[Silicon Valley]] [[entrepreneur]], emphasizing the importance of design while understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant has earned him a devoted cult following.<ref>
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Together with Apple co-founder [[Steve Wozniak]], Jobs helped popularize the concept of the [[personal computer]] in the late [[1970s|'70s]]. In the early [[1980s|'80s]], still at Apple, Jobs was among the first to see the [[commerce|commercial]] potential of the [[computer mouse|mouse]]-driven [[graphical user interface|GUI]].<ref>
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After being pushed aside in [[1985]], Jobs founded [[NeXT]], a [[computer platform|platform]] development company whose [[1997]] [[buyout]] by Apple served as his triumphant return. He was also the chairman and CEO of [[Pixar Animation Studios|Pixar]] until its purchase by [[Disney]], where he now sits on the [[board of directors]].<ref>
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==Biography==
===Early years===
Steve Jobs was born in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]],<ref name="Smithsonian 1995" /> to an American woman and a [[Syrian]] man&mdash;Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali, a graduate student who later became a political science professor.<ref>{{cite news | first=Andy | last=Behrendt | url=http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051204/GPG0101/512040591/1207/GPGnews | title=Apple Computer mogul's roots tied to Green Bay | publisher=Green Bay Press-Gazette | date=[[2005-12-05]] | accessdate=2006-04-19 }}</ref> One week after birth, Jobs was put up for [[adoption]] by his unmarried mother, who was also in graduate school. He was adopted by Paul and Clara ([[née]] Hagopian) Jobs of [[Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California|Mountain View]], [[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]], [[California]].<ref name="nonstop">{{cite news | first=David | last=Smith | url=http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,1697348,00.html | title=The non-stop revolutionary | publisher=[[Guardian Unlimited]] | date=[[2006-01-29]] | accessdate=2006-03-31 }}</ref> They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs. His [[:wikt:biological parent|biological parent]]s later married and gave birth to Jobs' sister, the novelist [[Mona Simpson]], whom Jobs did not meet until they were adults. The marriage of his biological parents ended in [[divorce]] years later. Jobs dislikes hearing the "adoptive parents" appellation applied to Paul and Clara Jobs and refers to them as his only parents.

Jobs attended [[Cupertino Middle School]] and [[Homestead High School (California)|Homestead High School]] in [[Cupertino, California|Cupertino]], California,<ref name="inc">{{cite news | first=Robert X. | last=Cringely | url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/20040401/25jobs.html | title=Steve Jobs &ndash; Apple Computer, Pixar | publisher=Inc.: America's 25 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs | date=April 2004 | accessdate=2006-05-18 }}</ref> and frequented after-school lectures at the [[Hewlett-Packard Company]] in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], California. He was soon hired there and worked with [[Steve Wozniak]] as a summer employee.<ref name="applemuseum">{{cite web | title=Biography: Steve Jobs | publisher=The Apple Museum | url=http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=49 | accessdate=2006-05-18}}</ref> In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in [[Reed College]] in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]], but he [[dropped out]] after only one semester.<ref name="guardian2004">{{cite news | first=Duncan | last=Campbell | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1241745,00.html | title=The Guardian Profile: Steve Jobs | publisher=[[Guardian Unlimited]] | date=[[2004-06-08]] | accessdate=2006-03-31 }}</ref> When speaking at the [[Stanford University]] [[graduation]] ceremony in 2005, Jobs told the graduates that, after dropping out, he continued taking auditing classes at Reed, including one in [[calligraphy]]. "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts", he said.<ref name="commencement">{{cite news | url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html | title='You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says | publisher=Stanford Report | date=[[2005-06-14]] | accessdate=2006-03-31 }}</ref>

In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the [[Homebrew Computer Club]] with Steve Wozniak.<ref>{{cite news | first=Jessie | last=Seyfer | url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14546202.htm | title=New can-do club wants to build better cell phone | publisher=The Mercury News | date=[[2006-05-10]] | accessdate=2006-05-18 }}</ref> He took a job as a technician at [[Atari]], a manufacturer of popular [[Computer and video games|video games]], with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to [[India]]. During the [[1960s]], it had been discovered by [[phreaking|phone phreakers]] (and popularized by [[John Draper]]) that a slightly modified toy whistle included in every box of [[Cap'n Crunch]] [[breakfast cereal]] was able to reproduce the [[2600 Hz|2600]] [[Hertz|Hz]] supervision tone used by the [[AT&T]] [[long distance]] [[telephone]] [[system]]. After reading about it and later meeting with [[John Draper]], Jobs and Wozniak went into business briefly in 1974 to build "[[blue box]]es" that allowed free long distance calls.

Jobs then backpacked around India with a Reed College friend (and, later, first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment. He came back with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. He returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a [[circuit board]] for the game [[Breakout]]. According to Atari Founder [[Nolan Bushnell]], Atari had offered $100 for each chip that was reduced in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 (instead of the actual $5000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350. <ref>[http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html ''Letters - General Questions Answered''], Woz.org</ref>
<ref name="iWoz">Wozniak, Steven: "iWoz", pages 147-148. [[Norton]], 2006. ISBN 13:978-0-393-06143-7</ref> <ref name="UHVF">Kent, Stevn: "The Ultimate History of Video Games", pages 71-73. [[Three Rivers]], 2001. ISBN 0-7615-3643-4}}</ref> <ref name="DotEaters">http://www.thedoteaters.com/p2_stage1.php</ref> <ref name="ArcadeHistory"> http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=3397</ref>

===Beginnings of Apple Computer===
[[Image:Apple first logo.jpg|thumb|right|110px|The original Apple logo featuring [[Isaac Newton]] under the fabled apple tree, designed by cofounder Ron Wayne.]]
{{Seealso|History of Apple Computer}}

When the then twenty-one-year-old Jobs saw a computer that Wozniak had designed for his own use, he convinced Wozniak to assist him and started a company to market the computer. Apple Computer Co. was founded as a partnership on [[April 1]], [[1976]]. Though their initial plan was to sell just [[printed circuit board]]s, Jobs and Wozniak ended up creating a batch of completely assembled computers and entered the personal computer business. The first [[personal computer]] Jobs and Wozniak introduced- called the [[Apple I]]- sold for $666.66, a number Wozniak came up with because he liked repeating digits (Wozniak 2006, 180). Its successor, the [[Apple II]], was introduced the following year and became a huge success, turning Apple into an important player in the nascent personal computer industry. In May of 1980, Apple Computer released the [[Apple III]], which met with less than stellar success, but in December of that year, with a successful [[initial public offering|IPO]], Apple Computer became a [[publicly traded]] corporation, making Jobs a multi-millionaire.

As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion. In 1983, Jobs lured [[John Sculley]] away from [[Pepsi-Cola]], to serve as Apple's CEO, challenging him, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want to change the world?" That same year, Apple also released the technologically advanced but commercially unsuccessful [[Apple Lisa|Lisa]].<ref name="lastfruit">{{cite news | first=May | last=Wong | url=http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=132139 | title=Last fruit left in Silicon orchard | publisher=[[New Orleans Times-Picayune]] | page=C-10 | date=[[2006-03-25]] | accessdate=2006-03-25 }}</ref>

[[January 24]], [[1984]] saw the introduction of the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]], the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface heavily influenced by [[Xerox PARC]]. This product was introduced with one of the most famous Super Bowl commercials that played off the novel ''1984''. The development of the Mac was started by [[Jef Raskin]], and eventually taken over by Jobs. The success of the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] product line eventually led Apple to abandon the [[Apple II]].

Even though he was the founder and the inspiration behind the company, Steve Jobs was gradually pushed out of Apple Computer Co. for what some perceived to be aggressive and underhanded tactics.

===Exile and founding of NeXT===
[[Image:NeXT logo.svg|thumb|left|Jobs founded [[NeXT|NeXT Computer]] shortly after leaving Apple.]]

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic evangelist for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and tempestuous manager. In [[1985]], following an internal power struggle, Jobs was stripped of his duties by the board of directors. Jobs resigned in protest, but remained the chairman of Apple Computer for some time. He was so upset at being sidelined in the company he had founded that he sold all but one of his shares in Apple. In [[1986]] he bought The Graphics Group (later renamed [[Pixar]]) from [[Lucasfilm]] for US$5 million and gave another US$5 million to the company as capital.

After leaving Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, [[NeXT|NeXT Computer]]. Like Apple's Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced, but was never able to break into the mainstream mainly owing to its high cost. Among those who could afford it, however, the NeXT workstation garnered a strong following because of its technical strengths, chief among them its [[object-oriented]] software development system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the [[Mach kernel]], the [[digital signal processor]] (DSP) chip, and the built-in [[Ethernet]] port).

The NeXT Cube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next step after "personal" computing. That is, if computers could allow people to communicate and collaborate together in an easy way, it would solve a lot of the problems that "personal" computing had come up against. Jobs had been criticized for not including built-in networking features on the original Macintosh (calling it an "umbilical cord to the company"), and he was determined not to repeat the mistake. During a time when e-mail for most people was plain text, Jobs loved to demo the NeXT's e-mail system, [[NeXTMail]], as an example of his "interpersonal" philosophy. NeXTMail was one of the first to support universally visible, clickable embedded graphics and audio within e-mail.

Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced such things as the NeXT Cube's magnesium case. This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of [[NEXTSTEP|NeXTSTEP]]/Intel. During this time, NeXT and [[Sun Microsystems]] started working on the [[OpenStep]] specification, which would lead to the next release of NeXTSTEP called OPENSTEP, and later on also a [[Solaris Operating Environment|Solaris]] port of the environment.

NeXT technology played a large role in catalyzing two unrelated events:
*The World Wide Web. [[Tim Berners-Lee]] developed the original [[World Wide Web]] system at [[CERN]] on a [[NeXT]] workstation. Jobs' insistence that average people should be able to write custom "mission-critical" applications formed the basis of [[Interface Builder]], which Berners-Lee utilized to do just that — by writing a program entitled "WorldWideWeb 1.0".
*The return of Apple Computer. Apple's reliance on ancient software and internal mismanagement, particularly its inability to release a major operating system upgrade, had brought it near bankruptcy in the early-to-mid 1990s. Jobs' progressive stance on [[Unix]] underpinnings was considered overly ambitious and somewhat backward in the 1980s, but his choice ultimately became an expandable, solid foundation for an operating system. Apple would later acquire this software and, under Jobs' leadership, experience a renaissance.

NeXT's technologies also helped the advancement of technologies such as [[object-oriented]] programming ([[Objective-C]]), [[Display PostScript]], and [[magneto-optical]] devices.

===Return to Apple===
[[Image:Steve Jobs with iMac.jpg|thumb|250px|right|In 1998, Jobs introduced the [[iMac]] in an attempt to bring Apple back into profitability.]]
:''See also: [[Apple Computer#1998 to 2005 .E2.88.92 New beginnings|“1998 to 2005: New beginnings” in '''Apple Computer''']]''

In 1996, Apple bought [[NeXT]] for $402 million, bringing Jobs back to the company he founded.<ref name="lastfruit" /> In 1997 he became Apple's interim CEO after the directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO [[Gil Amelio]] in a [[boardroom coup]]. In March of 1998, in order to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs immediately terminated a number of projects such as [[Apple Newton|Newton]], [[Cyberdog]], and [[OpenDoc]]. In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened". The reality was that Jobs's summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/10/11/jobs_excerpt/index2.html | title=The once and future Steve Jobs| date=[[2000-10-11]]}}</ref> This practice became known as "getting Steved."

With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products, notably [[NeXTSTEP]], which evolved into [[Mac OS X]]. Under Jobs' guidance the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the [[iMac]] and other new products; since then, appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple. Being Apple's interim CEO along with the introduction of the iMac led Jobs to use the title iCEO.

In recent years, the company has branched out. With the introduction of the [[iPod]] portable music player, [[iTunes]] digital music software and the [[iTunes Store]], the company is making forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his employees that "real artists ship",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Real_Artists_Ship.txt|title=Real Artists Ship}}</ref> by which he means that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and killer design.

Jobs worked at Apple for several years with an annual salary of $1, and this earned him a listing in [[Guinness World Records]] as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer". At the 2000 keynote speech of [[Macworld Expo]] in San Francisco, the company dropped the "interim" from his title, making him permanent CEO of Apple. His current salary at Apple officially remains $1 per year, although he has traditionally been the recipient of a number of lucrative "executive gifts" from the board, including a [[Gulfstream V|$46 million jet]] in 1999 and just under 30 million shares of restricted stock in 2000-2002. As such, Jobs is well compensated for his efforts at Apple despite the nominal one-dollar salary. This effectively reduces his tax liability, because under current U.S. tax law, salary income is taxed at a top rate of 35%, whereas capital gains tax, which applies to stock grants, maxes out at 15% for profits derived from long-term capital gains. Obtaining remuneration through stock instead of income is a common tax minimization strategy for many upper-echelon U.S. executives.

[[Image:Steve Jobs Apple Store.jpg|thumb|left|Steve Jobs at the opening of the Fifth Avenue [[Apple Store]] in 2006.]]

Jobs is both admired and criticized for his consummate skills of persuasion and salesmanship, which has been dubbed the "[[reality distortion field]]" and is particularly evident during his keynote speeches (colloquially known as "[[Stevenote]]s") at [[Macworld Conference & Expo|Macworld Expos]]. The "RDF" is an encapsulating term, also referring to Apple's sometimes premium market pricing, the overly-expensive [[Power Mac G4 Cube]] being a case in point.

In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for [[e-waste]] in the U.S. by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. When asked by a representative of a liberal investment fund why Apple's programs lagged behind Dell's and HP's, Jobs wound up his critic by calling the advocates' complaints "bullshit". However, a few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The [[Computer TakeBack Campaign]] responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the keynote speaker. The banner read "Steve - Don't be a mini-player recycle all e-waste". In 2006 he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1952356,00.asp|title= Apple Improves Recycling Plan |date=[[2006-04-21]]}}</ref>

==Pixar and Disney==
[[Image:Pixar.jpg|thumb|right|Pixar is best known for its ''[[Toy Story]]'', ''[[A Bug's Life]]'', ''[[Toy Story 2]]'', ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'', ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', and ''[[Cars]]'' animation films.]]

In 1986, Steve Jobs bought [[Lucasfilm]]'s computer graphics division from [[George Lucas]] for $5 million, a [[computer animation]] studio named [[Pixar]].<ref>[http://alvyray.com/Pixar/ Pixar Founding Documents]</ref> The new company, which was originally based in [[Point Richmond, California]] but has since relocated to [[Emeryville, California]], contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute.

The first film produced by the partnership, ''[[Toy Story]]'', brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next ten years, under Pixar's creative chief [[John Lasseter]], the company would produce the box-office hits ''[[A Bug's Life]]'' (1998), ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' (1999), ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' (2001), ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' (2003), ''[[The Incredibles]] (2004)'', and ''[[Cars]] (2006)''. Both ''Finding Nemo'' and ''The Incredibles'' received the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]], an award introduced in 2001.

In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive [[Michael Eisner]] tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films once its contract with Disney expired. Personal animosity between the two executives was largely blamed for the companies' failure to renew their partnership.

In October 2005, [[Bob Iger]] replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Jobs and Pixar. On [[January 24]], [[2006]], Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became [[The Walt Disney Company]]'s largest single shareholder with approximately 7 percent of the company's stock.<ref>[[January 25]], [[2006]] [http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/25disney.htm ''Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 bn''], rediff.com</ref> Jobs' holdings in Disney far exceeds those of Eisner, who holds 1.7 percent, and Disney family member [[Roy E. Disney]], who holds about one percent of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.

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Jobs also helps oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-man [[steering committee]]. One of the committee's first decisions was to discontinue the production of so-called "cheapquels" (cheap direct-to-video sequels). Many also see Jobs as a valuable and influential advisor to Iger and Disney on technology matters. Pixar's latest film, ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'', was released [[June 9]], [[2006]].

==Managerial style==
Much has been made of Steve Jobs’s aggressive and demanding personality. Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in [[Michael Moritz|Mike Moritz]]’s ''[[The Little Kingdom]]'', one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; Jeffrey S. Young’s unauthorized ''[[Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward]]''; the aforementioned ''The Second Coming of Steve Jobs'', by Alan Deutschman; and ''iCon: Steve Jobs'', by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon.

In ''iCon: Steve Jobs'' the authors point out that Paul Jobs, his father by adoption, was also known for his aggressive side: "Paul was soon hired as a kind of strongarm man by a finance company that sought help collecting on auto loans—an early repo man. Both his bulk and his aggressive personality were well suited to this somewhat dangerous pursuit, and his mechanical bent enabled him to pick the locks of the cars he had to repossess and [[hot-wire]] them if necessary."

In the documentary ''[[Triumph of the Nerds]]'', the reaction to Jobs' famous firing from Apple Computer by CEO [[John Sculley]] and the Apple Board of Directors was talked about by various people:
*[[Chris Espinosa]]: ''"The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley."''
*[[John Sculley]]: ''"The board had to make a choice and I said look, it's Steve's company, I was brought in here to help. If you want him to run it, that's fine by me. But we gotta at least decide what we're gonna do and everybody's got to get behind it ... and ultimately after the board talked with Steve and talked with me, the decision was that we would go forward with my plans and Steve left."''
*Steve Jobs: ''"What can I say? I hired the wrong guy. He destroyed everything I spent 10 years working for; starting with me, but that wasn't the saddest part. I would have gladly left Apple if Apple would have turned out like I wanted it to."''
*[[Larry Tesler]]: ''"People in the company had very mixed feelings about it, everyone had been terrorized by Steve Jobs at some point or another, and so there was a certain relief that the terrorist would be gone. And on the other hand I think there was incredible respect for Steve Jobs by the very same people, and we were all very worried what would happen to this company without the visionary, without the founder, without the charisma."''
*[[Andy Hertzfeld]]: ''"He took it as a personal attack, started attacking Sculley, in which, you know, backed himself into a corner. Because he was sure that the board would support him and not Sculley ... Apple never recovered from losing Steve; Steve was the heart and soul and driving force; it would be quite a different place today; they lost their soul."''

In Apple’s early days, wishing to surround himself with people of a similar mindset, Jobs would often ask job applicants about their sexual histories and how many times they had taken LSD.<ref name="folklore-gobble-gobble">{{cite news | author=[[Andy Hertzfeld|Hertzfeld, Andy]] | url=http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.txt&topic=Personality&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium%20Gobble,%20Gobble,%20Gobble | title=Gobble, Gobble, Gobble | work=Folklore.org }}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[Image:Steve_Jobs_at_Stanford.jpg|thumb|left|Steve Jobs speaking at [[Stanford University]] in 2005.]]

Jobs married [[Laurene Powell]], nine years his junior, on [[March 18]], [[1991]] and has had three children with her.<ref name="nonstop" /> He also had a daughter named Lisa Brennan-Jobs with Chris-Ann Brennan, whom he did not marry. Lisa (born [[May 17]], [[1978]]) is a [[journalist]], who wrote for [[The Harvard Crimson]].
In the unauthorized [[biography]], ''[[The Second Coming of Steve Jobs]]'' author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated [[Joan Baez]]. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of [[Bob Dylan]]."

In the unauthorized biography, ''[[iCon: Steve Jobs]]'' by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children. Baez included a mention of Jobs in the acknowledgements of her 1987 memoir ''[[And A Voice To Sing With]]''.

Jobs is not a [[vegetarian]] or [[vegan]] as is often claimed. Although he does not eat mammalian meat, he reportedly eats fish from time to time. This is known as [[pescetarian]]ism. <!--This needs a reference before it is added in. It contradicts other stories about the founding of Apple...--><!--Earlier in his life, in the 1970s, he was a [[fruitarianism|fruitarian]], though, and the following quote is attributed to him, in which links the company name to his eating habits back then: “I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.”{{fact}}-->

In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in [[The San Remo]], an apartment building with a politically progressive reputation, where Princess [[Yasmin Aga Khan]], daughter of [[Rita Hayworth]], also had an apartment. With the help of [[I.M. Pei]], Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 frontman [[Bono (U2)|Bono]]. Jobs had never moved in.

In 1984, Jobs purchased a 17,000 square foot, 14 bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by [[George Washington Smith]] in [[Woodside, California]], also known as [[Jackling House]]. Although Jobs lived in the mansion for ten years, reportedly in an almost unfurnished state, and let [[Bill Clinton]] use it in 1998, the mansion was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair. Planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property, he met complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people expressed interest, including several with experience restoring old property, but no agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began seeking legal action to prevent demolition of the property. Litigation has been ongoing since September of 2005.<ref>[http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/ Friends of the Jackling House]</ref>

Jobs had a public war of words with [[Dell, Inc.|Dell Computer]] CEO [[Michael Dell]], starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes". On October 6, 1997, when Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled [[Apple Computer]], said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."<ref>[http://news.com.com/Dell+Apple+should+close+shop/2100-1001_3-203937.html CNet]</ref> The feud now appears to be over as Dell and Apple reached an agreement for Dell's online store to sell [[IPod|iPod]]s in 2004. (As of November 2006, Dell no longer offers iPods on its online store.)

In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by [[John Wiley & Sons]] from the [[Apple retail store]]s in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, ''iCon: Steve Jobs''.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Steve Jobs's Review of His Biography: Ban It
|last=Hafner |first=Katie
|publisher=New York times
|date=2005-04-30 |page=Technology
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/30/technology/30apple.html?ex=1272513600&en=7cc0ad54117bc197&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
|accessdate=2006-10-16
}}</ref>

In an interview in the book ''[[What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry]]'', Jobs says that taking [[LSD]] was "one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life".

===Health concerns===
In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a malignant [[tumor]] in his [[pancreas]].<ref name="www-sfgate-MNGMJ816F41">{{cite news
|title=Apple’s Jobs has cancerous tumor removed
|last=Evangelista |first=Benny
|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
|date=2004-08-02 |page=A1
|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/02/MNGMJ816F41.DTL
|accessdate=2006-08-09
}}</ref>
The prognosis for [[pancreatic cancer]] is usually very grim; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell [[neuroendocrine tumor]].<ref name="www-sfgate-MNGMJ816F41" />
On July 31, 2004, Jobs successfully underwent surgery to remove the tumor, which did not require [[chemotherapy]] or [[radiation therapy]].<ref name="www-sfgate-MNGMJ816F41" />
During his absence, [[Timothy D. Cook]], head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.<ref name="www-sfgate-MNGMJ816F41" />

In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual [[Worldwide Developers Conference]]. His “thin, almost gaunt” appearance and unusually “listless” delivery,<ref>
“Looking very thin, almost gaunt”: {{cite web
|url=http://www.wired.com/news/columns/cultofmac/0,71557-0.html
|title=Has Steve Jobs Lost His Magic?
|last=Kahney |first=Leander
|publisher=Wired News
|work=Cult of Mac
|accessdate=2006-08-08
}}</ref><ref>
“they were uninspired (and concerned) by Jobs' relatively listless delivery”: {{cite news
|title=Jobs speech wasn’t very Jobs-like
|last=Meyers |first=Michelle
|url=http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6103427.html
|publisher=CNET News.com
|work=BLOGMA
|accessdate=2006-08-08
}}</ref>
together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters,
inspired a flurry of media and internet speculation about his health.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Where's Jobs' Mojo?
|last=Saracevic |first=Al
|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
|date=2006-08-09 |page=C1
|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/09/BUGTEKDE6M1.DTL
|accessdate=2006-08-09
}}</ref>
According to an [[Ars Technica]] journal report, WWDC attendees who saw Jobs in person said he “looked fine.”<ref>{{cite web
|title=What happened to The Steve we know and love?
|url=http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/8/8/4913
|last=Cheng |first=Jacqui
|publisher=Ars Technica
|work=Infinite Loop
|accessdate=2006-08-08
}}</ref>

Following the Keynote an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust."<ref>{{cite web
|title=Mac Rumors: Steve Jobs in Good Health
|url= http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/08/20060815074346.shtml
|publisher=MacRumors.com
|work=Infinite Loop
|accessdate=2006-08-08
}}</ref>

==Jobs Quotes==
*"Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world?" ''Question to [[John Sculley]]''<ref>{{cite web
| last = Gallo
| first = Carmine
| title = How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs
| publisher = Business Week
| date = April 6, 2006
| url=http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2006/sb20060406_865110.htm?chan=search
| accessdate = 2006-11-21 }}</ref>
*"...and one more thing..." ''Climactic end to his presentations''
*"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates." ''Newsweek, Oct. 29, 2001''

==In popular culture==
Jobs was prominently featured in three films about the history of the personal computing industry.

*''[[Pirates of Silicon Valley]]'' &mdash; a [[1999]] [[docudrama]] which chronicles the rise of [[Apple Computer]] and [[Microsoft]].
*''[[Triumph of the Nerds]]''&mdash; a [[1996]] three-part [[Documentary film|documentary]] for [[PBS]], about the rise of the [[home computer]]/[[personal computer]].
*''[[Nerds 2.0.1]]''&mdash; a [[1998]] three-part [[Documentary film|documentary]] for [[PBS]], (and sequel to ''Triumph of the Nerds'') which chronicles the development of the [[Internet]].

*In the [[anime]] ''[[Eureka 7]]'' there are two members of Gekko State called Jobs and Woz, both engineers/software specialists. Their names are homages to Steve Jobs and [[Steve Wozniak]].

*In the ''[[Remnants]]'' series by [[K.A. Applegate]], which takes place in the near-future where characters can name themselves, one of the main characters calls himself "Jobs" after him.

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*{{cite book|author= Caddes, Carolyn |authorlink=|year=1986|title= Portraits of Success: Impressions of Silicon Valley Pioneers |publisher= Tioga Publishing Co. |id=ISBN --}}
*{{cite book|author=Cringely, Robert X|authorlink=Robert X. Cringely|year=1996|title=[[Accidental Empires]]|publisher=HarperBusiness|id=ISBN 0-88730-855-4}}
*{{cite book|author=Denning, Peter J. & Frenkel, Karen A. |authorlink=|year=1989|title= A Conversation with Steve Jobs |publisher=[[Comm. ACM]]|id=Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 437-443}}
*{{cite book|author=Deutschman, Alan|year=2001|title=[[The Second Coming of Steve Jobs]]|publisher=Broadway|id=ISBN 0-7679-0433-8}}
*{{cite book|author=Freiberger, Paul & Swaine, Michael|year=1999|title=Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer|publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]] Trade|id=ISBN 0-07-135892-7}}
*{{cite book|author=Hertzfeld, Andy|authorlink=Andy Hertzfeld|year=2004|title=Revolution in the Valley|publisher=[[O'Reilly|O'Reilly Books]]|id=ISBN 0-596-00719-1}}
*{{cite book|author= Kahney, Leander|authorlink=Leander Kahney|year=2004|title=[[The Cult of Mac]]|publisher=[[No Starch Press]]|id=ISBN 1-886411-83-2}}
*{{cite book|author= Levy, Steven |authorlink= Steven Levy |year= 1984 |title= [[Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution]] |publisher= Anchor Press, [[Doubleday]] |id=ISBN 0-385-19195-2}}
*{{cite book|author= Levy, Steven |authorlink= Steven Levy |year= 1994 |title= Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything |publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|id=ISBN 0-670-85244-9}}
*{{cite book|author=Malone, Michael S.|authorlink=|year=1999|title=Infinite Loop|publisher=Aurum Press|id=ISBN 1-85410-638-4}} [[Bantam Doubleday Dell]]. ISBN 0-385-48684-7.
*{{cite book|author= Markoff, John|authorlink=John Markoff|year=2005|title=[[What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry]]|publisher=|id=ISBN 0-670-03382-0}}
*{{cite book|author=Simon, William L. & Young, Jeffrey S.|year=2005|title=[[iCon: Steve Jobs]], The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |id=ISBN 0-471-72083-6}}
*{{cite book|author= Semkiw, Walter |authorlink=|year= 2003 |title= Return of the Revolutionaries |publisher= Hampton Roads Publishing Company |id=ISBN 1-57174-342-1}}
*{{cite book|author= Stross, Randall E. |authorlink=|year= 1993 |title= Steve Jobs and The NeXT Big Thing |publisher= Atheneum Books |id=ISBN 0-689-12135-0}}
*{{cite book|author= Slater, Robert |authorlink=Robert Slater|year=1987|title=Portraits in Silicon|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|id=ISBN --}} Chapter 28
*{{cite book|author= Young, Jeffrey S. |authorlink=|year=1988|title= Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward |publisher= Scott, Foresman & Co. |id=ISBN --}}
*{{cite book|author= Wozniak, Steve |authorlink=Steve Wozniak|year=2006|title= '''iWoz''' Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple and had fun doing it |publisher= W. W. Norton & Co. |id=ISBN 13:978-0-393-06143-7}}
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==External links==
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*[http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html Steve Jobs' Executive Profile at Apple]
*[http://www.romain-moisescot.com/steve/ All about Steve] extensive & short biographies, pictures, movies & interviews of or related to Steve Jobs.
*[http://folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&characters=Steve%20Jobs&detail=medium Anecdotes] from Steve Jobs' early days in Apple as reported by [[Andy Hertzfeld]].
*[http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/august97/0001.html Creating Jobs: Apple's Founder Goes Home Again] ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', Sunday [[January 12]], [[1997]].
*[http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html Steve Paul Jobs by Lee Angelelli]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA YouTube video of Jobs' commencement address] at Stanford University, June 12, 2005
*[http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html Text of Jobs' commencement address] at Stanford University, June 12, 2005.
*[http://www.thebossawards.com/index.cfm?action=profile&managerID=2A4ACE02EB472B66B9BD4FE972E42B12 How is it like working for Steve Jobs?], December 5, 2006.

'''Interviews'''
*[http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/jobs.pdf Smithsonian Institution Oral History Interview] (PDF) — [[April 20]], [[1995]]
*[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5939600?rnd=1097596059279 ''Rolling Stone'', Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview] - [[December 3]], [[2003]]
*[http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041012_4018_db083.htm ''BusinessWeek'', The Seed of Apple's Innovation] — [[October 12]], [[2004]]
*[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/02/21/8251769/index.htm ''Fortune'', How Big Can Apple Get?] — [[February 21]], [[2005]]
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15262121/site/newsweek/ ‘Good for the Soul’] — ''[[Newsweek]]'', [[October 15]], [[2006]]

'''Pictures'''
*[http://www.apple.com/pr/photos/execs/jobsphotos.html Official Steve Jobs press release image]
*[http://www.kuodesign.com/pineapple/coverme/index.html Steve Jobs magazine cover pictures from 1982 to present day]
*[http://home.arcor.de/grouchosbox/keynote/ Steve Jobs' Keynote at Apple Expo Paris], [[September 16]], [[2003]]

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