15 interesting facts about Steve Jobs:

1. Mac team TNT 100 thousand dollars per year on fresh juice
Culture Apple has always differed originality. No stuffy cubicles, cubicle. Already in 1985 the company offered its employees a video game, the opportunity to play ping-pong, listen to music (from The Rolling Stones to jazz Windham Hill). Konfrerents rooms received not a boring room, and were named after great artists - Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci. Apple spends $ 100 thousand to the fact that the staff had fresh juice (compare modern Russia, where officials want to equate the consumption of drinking water for members of additional income and a tax charge).
2. Steve Jobs already uttered phrases like "incredibly excellent", announcing new development (today he prefers to call things "magical").
3. The opinion of the child is more important than the views of the artist
Steve Jobs demonstrated Mac 9-year-old child. At this stage he attended the famous artist Andy Warhol. The most interesting thing is that Steve seems to be more interested in the opinion of the boy, not the eminent artist. Why is that? Steve Jobs says that adults usually ask "what is it?", While the children ask another question: "What can I do about it?"
4. Apple benefit from the petrochemical revolution.
Steve Jobs emphasizes the role of the petrochemical revolution, which occurred a little more than 100 years ago. This revolution has given free energy. Initially mechanical energy. The Revolution changed the warehouse itself society. The information revolution, in turn, gave the free energy of a different kind: intellectual energy. Already in the 80th Mac uses less power than a 100 watt light bulb on. Who knows what people will do with a computer 20 or 50 years. The information revolution will make sure that the petrochemical revolution seem a dwarf. And Apple is at the forefront of this revolution.
5. The computer - the most incredible tool we only saw
"Playboy" asked Jobs how he would have sold the computer skeptic. A Steve shows that Apple founder from the start did not consider the computer as a host. Back in the '80s, Steve knew that the power of computers will go a long way: "Computer - this is the most amazing tool that we have just seen. It can be used for writing texts, as a center of communication, superkalkulyatora, planner, artistic tool. And in a single device. Just give a new set of instructions or applications to work. No other tool provides so many opportunities, and is not as versatile as a computer. Now we can not even imagine the possibilities that will give your computer in the future. Already, computers make our lives easier. They operate in a split second the work that we have extended into hours. Computers improve our lives by automating routine and expanding our capabilities. As you progress, they will do more and more for us.
6. In 1985, many considered ineffective mouse
And here is a very unusual fact. Jobs said that Apple's spent a lot of research and found that many of the features, such as "cut" and "paste" will be done using the mouse (!).
7. Already in 1985, people thought that Apple's products are very expensive
"Playboy" directly asked about the high cost of computers Apple: «Critics say that you" cling "entiziastov products at a premium price, then look around and begin to reduce the cost to capture the rest of the market." Jobs says it is not so: "This is simply not true. As soon as we can to reduce the price, we do it. It is true that our computers have become cheaper than a few years ago (or even a year ago). But it is also true of the IMB PC. Our goal is to provide computers to tens of millions of people. And the lower the price, the easier it will be to do it. I'd really like to Makinshtosh cost $ 1,000.
8. Failures - a part of life
Apple spent endless, countless time and money on the Apple III (a personal computer, which was focused on the business, worth $ 7800, and the project was a failure). According to Jobs, "that's life."
9. The most stupid thing that heard Jobs
"You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He threw Harvard and founded the Polaroid. He was not only one of the greatest inventors of our time, but also, more importantly, saw the intersection between art, science and business. He even built an organization that reflects this. Polaroid did so for a while, and then the Land, one of the greatest troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company. This is the most stupid thing that I've ever heard. Thus Land at 75 left to devote the rest of life pure science, trying to unravel the code represent color. The man - a national treasure. I do not understand why people like him can not be an example for us. They - the most stunning. They, not the astronauts or the players. "
10. A World Without Apple
In the 80s Apple keenly competed with IBM. If the company has made a huge mistake if IBM won, then it would have come, "Dark Ages" for computers. "Once IBM gains control of the market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They literally do not permit innovation. "
11. What was wrong Jobs
In 1985, Jobs believes that the world will be a little hardware manufacturers. He believed that the computers will be produced only Apple and IBM. The majority of new innovative companies will develop applications, said Steve. However, as it became clear he was wrong. PC makers have been (and is) a lot.
12. The school Jobs was "little terror"
Steve Jobs at the school was mildly restless. "My mother taught me to read before I went to school. So there I was pretty bored. So I became a little nightmare. You should have seen us in the third grade. We actually destroyed our teacher .. We were able to release snakes in the middle class or explode bomb. Everything changed in the fourth grade. One of the holy people in my life - it Aymodzhen Hill (Imogen Hill). This woman was a teacher in the fourth grade. She knew my whole situation in the first month, and breathed in me a passion for learning new things. That year I learned more than in any other year in school. The teachers even want to transfer me to the high school after the school year, but parents wisely did not allow them to do it. "
13. Hewlett-Packard offered a job Jobs, when he was only 12!
"When I was 12, I wanted to do something, to create something. I needed components and spare parts, so I picked up the phone, found in the address book of Bill Hewlett, founder of HP. He answered the phone and was very kind. We talked somewhere minutes 20. He did not know me, but ended the conversation by promising to provide the necessary details. He also invited me to work in the summer of Hewlett-Packard. I collected frequency counter. The work tedious, but it did not matter. I felt like in paradise. I remember my first day of work. I then shared with a guy named Chrissy, my head, my enthusiasm and joy to work in the summer of Hewlett-Packard. I told him that more than anything in the world I like electronics. I asked what he likes. Chris looked at me and said, "Fuck!". About many things I learned that summer. "
14. Steve was the 40th employee of Atari
After leaving Atari, Jobs and Wozniak started creating Apple I
15. Steve Jobs's death
"Death is inevitable. So I think that the death - one of the amazing inventions of life. Death cleanses the system from older models, which have become obsolete. I think it's one of the challenges for Apple. When the two young men come to the fact that they consider the new big thing, we will take it? Say "This is - fantastic!"? We abandon any of our models? I think in the future we will be even better, because it is fully aware of the threat.