"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
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| Steve Jobs setting up the first Apple desktop keyboard |
Steve Jobs was baorn on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, who was a professor of political science. His mother was an American while his father was from Syria. A week after Steve's birth, he was put up for adoption. Justin and Clara Jobs, residing in Mountain View, Santa Clara County in California, adopted Steve and named him Steven Paul. His childhood home is on the Los Altos street. It is a 3-bedroom 2-bath house built in 1952. That was where Jobs stayed during his childhood years. It was also where Apple was born. Jobs spent his childhood in the South Bay area. His childhood house has always been a tourist attraction. The area where he lived later came to be known as the Silicon Valley. He was a student of the Cupertino Junior High School and then Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. It was here that he attended his first electronics class and made friends with Bill Fernandez, who was equally passionate about electronics. During the early years of his education, Jobs attended after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Paulo Alto. The company hired Jobs and there he got an opportunity to work with Steve Wozniak, who would later co-found Apple Computers with him.
After completing his schooling, Steve Jobs was admitted to the Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out from college but continued with his calligraphy classes. This course would later help Jobs in creating multiple typefaces for Mac. This was perhaps a classic example of the fact that nothing learned is ever wasted! During the years he was learning calligraphy, no one would have probably thought that calligraphy would form the basis of the font system in Mac. But it did. He had a dream to make it big; he had an ambition to redefine technology and the way people use it. He believed in his dreams and made them come true.
A look at Steve Jobs' childhood years tells us of the kind of person he was. They say, winners don't do different things; they do things differently. And Steve Jobs lived by this. He died on October 5, 2011 and will continue to stay in the minds of his admirers.
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