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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 in San

Francisco in 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 in a 1995 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 in automobiles

and other things he would fix. He showed me the

rudiments of electronics and I got very interested in that.”

35 Jobs went to elementary school and high school in

Cupertino, California. He attended after-school lectures

at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California,

and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak

as a summer employee. Following high school graduation

40 in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland,

Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one

semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while

sleeping on the floor in 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 in on that single calligraphy course in

college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces

or proportionally spaced fonts.”

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