Birth and adoption:
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His unwed biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali (A Syrian Muslim), put him up for adoption. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a lower-middle-class couple.
(Jandali only learned that Jobs was his son in 2005, one year later after Jobs was diagnosed a cancer)
Neighborhood and Training:
Young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers (became known as Silicon Valley in early 1950’s) working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This shaped his interest in the field as he grew up.
Paul, Job’s father, was a machinist for a company that made …show more content…
Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs ' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.
Jobs 's design aesthetic was influenced by the modernist architectural style of Joseph Eichler, and the industrial designs of Braun 's Dieter Rams. His design sense was also greatly influenced by the Buddhism which he experienced in India while on a seven-month spiritual journey. His sense of intuition was also influenced by the spiritual people with whom he studied.
Jobs was a demanding perfectionist[123][124] who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style.
“There 's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. ' And we 've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will” (Steve Jobs,