Your time is limited， so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.（ Steve Jobs ）

你的時間有限，不要浪費在重復別人的生活上。不要讓別人的觀點，淹沒了你內心的聲音。

——史蒂夫·喬布斯

Everyone knows Steve Jobs. If not， at least we know his products. Steve Jobs was a successful American businessman and inventor. He was the chief executive officer（CEO） and co-founder of the Apple Company. Apples revolutionary1 products， including the iPod， iPhone， iPad and iMac， are now seen as the most popular modern technologies.

Family Background

In 1955， Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali， two university students， gave up their son， Steve Jobs， for adoption2. Jobs father， Jandali， was a political science professor， and his mother， Schieble， worked as a speech therapist （治療專家）. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to find out information on his birth parents.

As an infant3， Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. Paul was a machinist4. As a boy， Jobs and his father worked on electronics5 in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to separate and re-construct electronics， a hobby that increased the confidence and interest in young Jobs.

A Tough Student

While Jobs was always a smart thinker， his youth was met with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs didnt behave well in his elementary school until his fourthgrade teacher， Hill， helped him a lot. Then Jobs skipped fifth-grade and went directly to middle school.

Jobs graduated from Homestead High School， California in 1972， and later enrolled6 at Reed College in Portland， Oregon. Lacking direction， he dropped out7 of college after 6 months and spent the next 18 months taking classes that he liked at the school. Jobs later said many times how one course in calligraphy8 developed his love of typography9， which was surely the foundation to building the Apple Company.

Create Apple

In 1976， when Jobs was just 21， he and his friend Wozniak started Apple Computer in Jobsfamily garage. They decided to revolutionize10 the computer industry with Apple by improving the technology and making machines smaller， cheaper， more creative and accessible to11 everyday consumers.

He invented and designed the following products： Apple Lisa in 1980， Macintosh in 1984， NeXT Computer in 1988， iMac in 1998， iTunes player in 2000， iPod in 2001， iPhone in 2007， iPad in 2010. All of those products were among the most popular technological elements in modern world， which greatly influenced peoples daily life.

Fight With Cancer

Steve Jobs dedicated12 his whole life to making Apple the greatest Company in the world. Due to his heavy workload， in 2003， Jobs discovered a tumor13 in his body. Though the tumor was removed in 2004 successfully， it continued to grow. After fighting pancreatic（胰腺的）cancer for nearly a decade14， Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5， 2011， two months after he gave away the CEO of Apple. He was only 56 years old. In his whole life， Jobs received total 458 patents15 ， while 141 of those were received after his death， more than most inventors win during their lifetimes.

史蒂夫·喬布斯這個名字，可謂家喻戶曉。即使不熟悉他的，也多少了解過他研發(fā)的產品。史蒂夫·喬布斯是一名成功的美國商人和發(fā)明家。他是美國蘋果公司的執(zhí)行總裁和聯合創(chuàng)始人。蘋果公司研發(fā)的一系列頗具創(chuàng)意的產品，比如iPod、iPhone、iPad和iMac，都被視為當下最流行的現代科技產品。

家庭背景

1955年，兩名在讀的大學生喬安妮·席貝爾和阿卜杜法塔赫·錢德里放棄了他們孩子的撫養(yǎng)權，并將史蒂夫·喬布斯送去了寄養(yǎng)家庭。喬布斯的生父錢德里曾經是政治科學系的一名教授，他的生母席貝爾是一名言語治療師。直到27歲，喬布斯才找尋到親生父母的信息。

喬布斯在嬰兒時期就被克拉拉·喬布斯和保羅·喬布斯夫婦收養(yǎng)。保羅是一名機械師。孩童時期，喬布斯常和養(yǎng)父在車庫里研究電子產品。保羅教會他如何拆分、重組電器零件，這個愛好給年輕的喬布斯增加了不少信心和興趣。

特立獨行的學生

雖然喬布斯天資聰穎，但年少的他很難適應正式的學校制度。讀小學時，喬布斯不怎么好學。直到四年級遇到給他極大幫助的希爾老師后，他才得以直接跳過五年級，進入中學。

1972年，喬布斯從加利福尼亞州的霍姆斯特德高中畢業(yè)后，入讀俄勒岡州波特蘭市的里德學院。由于找不到學習方向，6個月后他退學了。不過，在退學后的18個月里，他仍然在學校學習自己感興趣的課程。 后來，喬布斯多次提到，書法這門課程激發(fā)了他對印刷術的熱愛，為創(chuàng)建蘋果電腦公司打下了堅實的基礎。

創(chuàng)建蘋果公司

1976年，喬布斯年僅21歲，他和朋友沃茲在喬布斯自家的車庫里成立了蘋果電腦公司。他們致力于通過改進技術，制造出更小巧、更便宜、更有創(chuàng)意、更便于日常消費者使用的產品，從而改變計算機行業(yè)。

他后期參與研發(fā)與設計的產品有：1980年的電腦Apple Lisa、1984年的電腦麥金塔、1988年的電腦NeXT、1998年的電腦iMac、2000年的數字媒體播放應用程序iTunes、2001年的數字音樂播放器iPod、2007年的智能手機iPhone、2010年的平板型電腦iPad。這些產品都是當今社會最流行的科技元素，深深地影響了人們的日常生活。

和癌癥抗爭

史蒂夫·喬布斯將其一生奉獻給了蘋果公司，致力于將其打造成世界上最偉大的企業(yè)。2003年，由于工作壓力太大，喬布斯在其身體內發(fā)現一個腫瘤。盡管在2004年腫瘤被成功摘除，但并未阻止其消失。與胰腺癌抗爭近10年后，史蒂夫·喬布斯于2011年10月5日在帕羅奧圖市離世，當時僅56歲，距離他辭去蘋果公司執(zhí)行總裁職位僅兩個月。喬布斯這一生共收獲了458項專利，其中有141項是在他死后獲得的榮譽，比很多發(fā)明家一輩子獲得的還要多。