他改变了世界

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 ）

你的時间有限，不要浪费在重复别人的生活上。不要让别人的观点，淹没了你内心的声音。

——史蒂夫·乔布斯

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 （治疗专家）. 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·乔布斯这个名字，可谓家喻户晓。即使不熟悉他的，也多少了解过他研发的产品。史蒂夫·乔布斯是一名成功的美国商人和发明家。他是美国苹果公司的执行总裁和联合创始人。苹果公司研发的一系列颇具创意的产品，比如iPod、iPhone、iPad和iMac，都被视为当下最流行的现代科技产品。

家庭背景

1955年，两名在读的大学生乔安妮·席贝尔和阿卜杜法塔赫·钱德里放弃了他们孩子的抚养权，并将史蒂夫·乔布斯送去了寄养家庭。乔布斯的生父钱德里曾经是政治科学系的一名教授，他的生母席贝尔是一名言语治疗师。直到27岁，乔布斯才找寻到亲生父母的信息。

乔布斯在婴儿时期就被克拉拉·乔布斯和保罗·乔布斯夫妇收养。保罗是一名机械师。孩童时期，乔布斯常和养父在车库里研究电子产品。保罗教会他如何拆分、重组电器零件，这个爱好给年轻的乔布斯增加了不少信心和兴趣。

特立独行的学生

虽然乔布斯天资聪颖，但年少的他很难适应正式的学校制度。读小学时，乔布斯不怎么好学。直到四年级遇到给他极大帮助的希尔老师后，他才得以直接跳过五年级，进入中学。

1972年，乔布斯从加利福尼亚州的霍姆斯特德高中毕业后，入读俄勒冈州波特兰市的里德学院。由于找不到学习方向，6个月后他退学了。不过，在退学后的18个月里，他仍然在学校学习自己感兴趣的课程。 后来，乔布斯多次提到，书法这门课程激发了他对印刷术的热爱，为创建苹果电脑公司打下了坚实的基础。

创建苹果公司

1976年，乔布斯年仅21岁，他和朋友沃兹在乔布斯自家的车库里成立了苹果电脑公司。他们致力于通过改进技术，制造出更小巧、更便宜、更有创意、更便于日常消费者使用的产品，从而改变计算机行业。

他后期参与研发与设计的产品有：1980年的电脑Apple Lisa、1984年的电脑麦金塔、1988年的电脑NeXT、1998年的电脑iMac、2000年的数字媒体播放应用程序iTunes、2001年的數字音乐播放器iPod、2007年的智能手机iPhone、2010年的平板型电脑iPad。这些产品都是当今社会最流行的科技元素，深深地影响了人们的日常生活。

和癌症抗争

史蒂夫·乔布斯将其一生奉献给了苹果公司，致力于将其打造成世界上最伟大的企业。2003年，由于工作压力太大，乔布斯在其身体内发现一个肿瘤。尽管在2004年肿瘤被成功摘除，但并未阻止其消失。与胰腺癌抗争近10年后，史蒂夫·乔布斯于2011年10月5日在帕罗奥图市离世，当时仅56岁，距离他辞去苹果公司执行总裁职位仅两个月。乔布斯这一生共收获了458项专利，其中有141项是在他死后获得的荣誉，比很多发明家一辈子获得的还要多。