10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

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10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

#6 He doesn’t give any money to charity. And when he became Apple’s CEO he stopped all of their philanthropic programs. He said, “wait until we are profitable”. Now they are profitable, and sitting on $40bb cash, and still not corporate philanthropy. I actually think Jobs is probably the most charitable guy on the planet. Rather than focus on which mosquitoes to kill in Africa (Bill Gates is already focusing on that), Jobs has put his energy into massively improving quality of life with all of his inventions. People think that entrepreneurs have to some day “give back”. This is not true. They already gave at the office. Look at the entire ipod/Mac/iphone/Disney ecosystem and ask how many lives have benefited directly (because they’ve been hired) or indirectly (because they use the products to improve their quality of life). As far as I know, Jobs has never even commented about his thoughts on charity. Good for him. As one CEO of a (currently) Fortune 10 company once told me when I had my hand out for a charitable website, “Screw charity!”
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Nice find.

9) He didn’t go to college. I actually didn’t know this initially. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are the famous college dropouts that I knew about. But apparently Steve Jobs went to Reed College for one semester and then dropped out. I guess you don’t need college to program computers, make computers, build businesses, make movies, manage people, etc.
 
He’s a pescetarian.
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In other words, he eats fish but no other meat. And he eats anything else a vegetarian eats (including eggs and dairy). Turns out if you compare pescetarians with regular meat-eaters they have a 34% less chance of dying of heart disease. And if you compare vegetarians with meat eaters, they only have a 20% less chance of dying of heart disease. I think from now on I’m going to be a pescetarian, just because Steve Jobs is one. Except when I’m in Argentina. In Argentina you have to eat steak. Ted Danson and Mary Tyler Moore consider themselves pescetarians. Somehow, even the world “pescetarian” seems like it was invented in California.
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And this is probably whats killing him
 
Wow, Jobs is a bigger douche than I realized. Just goes to show you whether it's sports (Michael Jordan, Lebron James), business (Steve Jobs) or entertainment (Frank Sinatra) being the best at something absolves all sins.
 
I love apple computers and OS X more than any other computer/OS... But Pixar / Toy Story were his best inventions...
 
khirz said:
The guy who wrote that really wants to fuck Steve Jobs.
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Not really. I know far more about SJ than you see in the article, and still admire the guy immensely.

Did you know that SJ and Woz were early black hats? They called themselves "phone phreaks" at the time, although it involved phones, not computers.

Welcome to Woz.org

"Anywhere But Here," written by his sister Mona, was made into a film starring Natalie Portman. She is married to one of the original producers of "The Simpsons" and borrowed the name Simpson for her writing career.

SJ is truly an eccentric and an original. For example, during his career at Apple 1.0, he often worked barefoot. When he got upset at things, he'd take himself into a bathroom stall, stick his feet into the toilet bowl and flush. Ahhhh.... much better.
 
That's it. I'm moving off of Mac. Fucking fish bothering aids carrying tightfisted speccy four eyed gimp boy.
 
khirz said:
The guy who wrote that really wants to fuck Steve Jobs.
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BlueYonder said:
SJ is truly an eccentric and an original. For example, during his career at Apple 1.0, he often worked barefoot. When he got upset at things, he'd take himself into a bathroom stall, stick his feet into the toilet bowl and flush. Ahhhh.... much better.
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lol wut
 
Not cool-

He lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350. Again, no judgment. Young people do things. Show me someone who says he’s been honest from the day he was born and I’ll show you a liar. Its by making mistakes, having fights, finding out where your real boundaries in life are, that allow you to truly know where the boundaries are.
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Fuck altruism.

But who the fuck runs away from the responsibilities of a parent? (assuming it's true)
 
My opinion on Steve Jobs before reading the article - Typical eccentric billionaire, but a great visionary, and a better marketer.

My opinion on Steve Jobs after reading the article - What a fucking piece of shit human being. Apparently karma really is a bitch.
 
-Matt- said:
Fuck altruism.

But who the fuck runs away from the responsibilities of a parent? (assuming it's true)
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Most black males in the united states...


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With that said...I could care less about how he is or what he does...

But the company that he is head of does make superior products...And I prefer and enjoy using those products.
 
BlueYonder said:
Not really. I know far more about SJ than you see in the article, and still admire the guy immensely.

Did you know that SJ and Woz were early black hats? They called themselves "phone phreaks" at the time, although it involved phones, not computers.

Welcome to Woz.org

"Anywhere But Here," written by his sister Mona, was made into a film starring Natalie Portman. She is married to one of the original producers of "The Simpsons" and borrowed the name Simpson for her writing career.

SJ is truly an eccentric and an original. For example, during his career at Apple 1.0, he often worked barefoot. When he got upset at things, he'd take himself into a bathroom stall, stick his feet into the toilet bowl and flush. Ahhhh.... much better.
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From the authors mouth

"I was standing right next to Steve Jobs in 1989 and it was the closest thing I ever felt to being gay."
 
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