Steve Jobs. Who doesn't know him? Father of invention. He is big. He is genius.
I was a computer science student and I have worked as a programmer for a half year. I am an IT person. Wow. Haha. It would be funny if I don't know the man who invented computer and all of its derived devices I have been using until now. To be honest, as a dumb student, I thought Bill Gates were the first man who invented computer. God, microsoft had definitely blown my mind up haha. Yea, the first computer I knew was a windows based computer, and my current computer is also using windows. Well.....
What I knew about Steve Jobs was he is the founder of Apple Inc. I didn't know if he is the man who invented the first computer with GUI even before Bill Gates. Then my college friend gave me a copy of a movie titled "Pirates of Silicon Valley". It turned out that he is not an ordinary man. He invented everything related to all computers and gadgets we are all using now.
This book tells us all about Steve Jobs from he was born until he became one of the most influential people in the world. It took me three months to finish this book. It's clearly obvious because it is an english book with more than 600 pages inside it and english is not my common language as well. I had tried hard, fellas. But thank God I love the way Walter Isaacson wrote the book. I could easily understand paragraph by paragraph. You know sometimes reading a biography book is boring, right? Isaacson has proved it wrong!
I won't write the review or resume or whatever because I believe there are already thousands of articles talking about him, completely. Here, I just want to share some interesting points I got from this book.
Steve Jobs was a genius, but had bad temper.
It can't be denied. Since he was a child he had learned about electronics from his father. His father gave him a 'working table' therefore he could learn anything he want using some little equipments. He was a curious boy. He also had a high sense of design and art. He knew how to turn simplicity into something elegant and fancy. But badly, it turned him into a bloody perfectionist person. The impact was when he led Apple, everytime his employees couldn't fulfill his expectations of making a product, he would shout to them in a very annoying way, or he could fire his employees right at the moment. I can't imagine if my boss were like him, I'd better resign soon LOL.
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| That's a complete apple! |
Details are everything.
When his company was making a product, he had to know every part, every tiny part of it. Each part must be perfect. If he said the color is not match then the product wouldn't be released. That's what makes his products are all amazing. He didn't think about money, he just wanted to make good and powerful products.
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| He was handsome, wasn't he? haha |
Father of innovation.
Machintosh?
iPod?
iPhone?
iPad?
iTunes?
He brought everything that seemed not possible to reality.
I don't need more words.
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| Steve Jobs with iPad |
Oh yes, don't forget PIXAR.
He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He's one of the founders, along with Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter. Toy Story was their first animation movie, one of the most successful animation movies of all time. Then it followed by another great movies like Finding Nemo, Monster Inc, The Incredible, Cars, Wall E, Up, Monster University, with all great success.
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| Edwin Catmull, Steve Jobs, John Lasseter |
I do admire Steve Jobs. He was genius. He knew what people need. He knew what was gonna be hits. The world of technology would be nothing without him.
