Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (stevejobsarchive.com) 54
Steve Jobs Archive: The official ebook edition of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is free to read on Apple Books and from participating libraries through our partners at Libby. You can also download the book to view it on any compatible e-reader: our EPUB file works on almost all tablets, smartphones, desktop computers, and digital reading devices. From a speech in 2007: There's lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.
And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something's transmitted there. And it's a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what's really important to us."
And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something's transmitted there. And it's a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what's really important to us."
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The same complaints were lodged about television. Go back to the good old days. Everyone sitting on the bus, head buried in a newspaper. Oh wait that's different somehow?
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Let the dumbing down of humanity continue exponentially.
How "wonderful".
What about his real words? (Score:4, Interesting)
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That's a book I would buy to be honest. He was a great business man and product maker, but taking life advice from the guy that got killed by his diet experiment in his mid-50s doesn't seem like the best idea.
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Jobs was a victim of his own reality distortion field.
A classic example is his infamous "stay foolish" speech given to graduates. That advice only works if you are already so wealthy (or your parents are) that making catastrophic mistakes doesn't have any serious consequences for you.
That's the essence of the Apple brand he built. Aspirational products that allow you to buy a little bit of the lifestyle, even though it's usually not the most sensible or beneficial decision.
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That's the essence of the Apple brand he built. Aspirational products that allow you to buy a little bit of the lifestyle, even though it's usually not the most sensible or beneficial decision.
Phones so expensive the owners cannot afford to replace them, so they keep using them even after the screens are massively cracked, bought due to the RDF generated by a man so wealthy he could afford to keep getting new cars so he couldn't get busted for parking in the handicapped space.
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From the get-these-expletive-scribble-pads-out-of-my-office dep't
Does that include making children? (Score:2)
Just wondering if Mr. Jobs like to "create" children and then disavow any parental responsibilities of thus.
Re:Does that include making children? (Score:5, Interesting)
Yep, "make something wonderful" then deny paternity to avoid paying child support. Can't have the money you stole from your partner going to feed some brat.
Re:Does that include making children? (Score:5, Insightful)
Where are all the books based on Wozniak's philosophy ?
I guess they just don't appeal to the small "Not a complete up myself wanker" demographic.
Re:Does that include making children? (Score:5, Informative)
Where are all the books based on Wozniak's philosophy ?
see: "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It" [amazon.com]
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Steve Jobs: https://archive.org/search?query=steve+jobs&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
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Where are all the books based on Wozniak's philosophy ?
Wozniak was a nerd. Jobs was a Messiah.
Like it or not, it's reality that normal guys go unseen, and the driven Type-A's... call them leaders, Alphas, charismatics, what have you... those are the guys that suck up all the oxygen in the room. Of the movers and shakers throughout history, most of them haven't been very nice people. Further, when a Steve Jobs succeeds, it reinforces the notion that being a self-absorbed asshole is HOW you make your mark in this world.
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For me, Elon Musk went from being my nerd hero to a conspiracy-spreading asshole.
But AFAICT he still seems like much more of a normal human being than Jobs.
Re: Does that include making children? (Score:3, Funny)
To be fair, Steve denied paternity when he and Woz were both centimillionaires, not when Steve kept a few thousand dollars for the Breakout game that Woz created.
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You Smell Like A Toilet: Steve Jobs His Own Words
To his daughter on his deathbed no less.
His own words (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe drinking juice isn't a good cancer treatment.
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Or.... (Score:5, Insightful)
If this had come from almost anyone else... (Score:3, Insightful)
... It would be a great humanitarian quote.
That it came from one of the top-10 narcissistic a-holes in all of humanity takes a significant amount of shine off of it.
Gayest thing I've read all day (Score:1)
And before you ask, I've spent the day proofreading my fanfictions about boy bands fucking each other
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Steve jobs never wanted to give anyone anything wonderful.
He let a lifelong mission to patent restrict and so hold hostage wonderful things from graduating the closed-commercial-garden to be received by the world in the public domain.
Steve Jobs seems like worst tech figure to have such a book written about him. Linus Torvalds, seems more deserving of such a book. He made something wonderful and really did give it away. This allowed others to build on his work and make it even better.
Re: Why do we celebrate this narcissist? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wellâ¦Jobs helped create functional markets for personal computers, MP3 players, digital music, digital video, digital software distribution, computer animation, smartphones, tablets, and wireless headphones. Those were all niche markets before Apple improved them and made them mainstream. Jobs wasnâ(TM)t Ford or Edison, he was multiple Fords or Edisons. And those guys were dicks too.
Perhaps the greatest industrialists must be sociopaths to succeed?
How many times did Microsoft try to create a
Re: Why do we celebrate this narcissist? (Score:5, Insightful)
One seldom-mentioned positive outcome that would come from eliminating Steve Jobs from the timestream by using a time machine to murder him as a child would be a great reduction in the number of Slashdot comments using fucking Unicode, as you did.
There is absolutely no good reason to use a curly apostrophe in the words "don't" or "wasn't" or "I've". It's completely obvious what the words are when you use a plain ASCII apostrophe as I just did, and nobody can convince me that a curly apostrophe would look appreciably better in a comment forum such as this one. And Apple devices make this the fucking DEFAULT for typing into web forms. What a stupid decision, entirely enabled by Jobs.
Re: Why do we celebrate this narcissist? (Score:2)
And thatâ(TM)s really the best you can do, but you wonâ(TM)t address my points?
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Personal Computers were a "niche market"? Really?
Good to see that the old Jobs reality distortion field continues to operate after his death.
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In the late ‘70s, they were. Altair, TRS-80, and Osborne weren’t household names, but Apple became one.
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Apple was very successful with the Apple II, but they didn't make the PC big. IBM did. In college, I got to play with Osbornes and Apple IIs, but the first PC I owned was an IBM XT. I know that this burns your soul, but it's the truth.
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Perhaps the greatest industrialists must be sociopaths to succeed?
Unfortunately that's probably true of any leadership position, it seems.
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Wellâ¦Jobs helped create functional markets for personal computers, MP3 players, digital music, digital video, digital software distribution, computer animation, smartphones, tablets, and wireless headphones. Those were all niche markets before Apple improved them and made them mainstream. Jobs wasnâ(TM)t Ford or Edison, he was multiple Fords or Edisons. And those guys were dicks too.
Perhaps the greatest industrialists must be sociopaths to succeed?
How many times did Microsoft try to create a tablet market? Three? Iâ(TM)ve lost count. But at least it enabled a functional market for computers with GUIs. That was huge.
"Helped create" in the sense that these things all existed already. Come on, this is Slashdot, we know that most of these came the Xerox PARC! MP3 players were a mature technology before the Ipod (and they didn't need special software to work, they just plugged in and worked!) PDAs were around long before Apple's Newton, which incidentally was a flop. "Computer animation?" I don't even know where to start correcting you on that. "Digital software distribution?" What, Jobs invented the internet? People never
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Jobs helped create functional markets for personal computers, MP3 players, digital music, digital video, digital software distribution, computer animation, smartphones, tablets, and wireless headphones.
That is so preposterous that I first read the part about personal computers in a way that was not meant.
:-], MP3 players ....
:-] personal computers, MP3 players ....
... which is even more ridiculous.
I read it as: "Jobs helped create functional markets for personal computers [in the following areas
but I now think they meant: "Jobs helped create functional markets [in the following areas
Oh Steve you brilliant PR worker (Score:3)
This is just Steve making his audience do mental gymnastics to turn his toxic behaviors into something positive and altruistic.
Steve Jobs didn’t leave his baby and her mama without a daddy figure because his immense love for the human race needed great computers. This is suspiciously similar to the arguments Ray A Croc made to the owners of McDonalds to lower their defenses while he stole the company.
Steve did all that for money and his own ego.
To the victors go the spoils (Score:3)
This is just Steve making his audience do mental gymnastics to turn his toxic behaviors into something positive and altruistic.
As has been true throughout all history, to the victors go the spoils, and the greatest spoil of all is the presentation of history.
I downloaded this eBook the other night.... (Score:3)
It has some really great insights into what Jobs dealt with and believed.
I think it also, at times, showed he was prone to anger and lashing out, yet realizing he made a mistake in some cases and trying to walk it back.
(There's a series of emails between him and a guy at Intel Corp. like this. When Pixar was first getting started, Intel apparently wanted to try to learn some of their tricks to do what they did with 3D graphics. They tried to schedule a meeting with Jobs to sit down and talk about it. Jobs initially replied that he'd be willing, for the right price. Intel's guy shot back some stuff about their company never paying to share knowledge that can benefit the industry as a whole and that they wouldn't start paying now. Jobs wrote back, suggesting they might want to reconsider, given their inability to do anything much in the 3D graphics acceleration space. A few hours later, he emailed again -- probably giving more thought to ending the discussion with an attack on Intel's product line, and agreed to meet.)
Honestly, I was cheering for Jobs when he sent the first angry reply. I agree.... pretty arrogant of Intel to expect a relatively new startup specializing in 3D graphics and making movies with them to just hand over their trade secrets. But he probably did make the right call, ultimately, to smooth that over. I mean, Apple wound up using Intel processors for all of the Macs for quite a while, later on.
"Free to read" (Score:2)
Translation: "Nobody would ever PAY for this crap. We have to literally give it away for free."
Maslow FTW (Score:2)
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