Team---Tributes to Steve Jobs 致敬乔布斯

我最欣赏的一句话
I've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." Seek out an occupation that gives you a sense of meaning, direction and satisfaction in life. Having a sense of purpose and striving towards goals gives life meaning, direction and satisfaction. It not only contributes to health and longevity, but also makes you feel better in difficult times. Do you jump out of bed on Monday mornings and look forward to the work week? If the answer is 'no', keep looking, you'll know when you find it.

Resignation
In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board.[71][72] Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped 5% in after-hour trading.[73] The relatively small drop, when considering the importance of Jobs to Apple, was associated with the fact that Jobs' health had been in the news for several years, and he was on medical leave since January 2011.[74] It was believed, according to Forbes, that the impact would be felt in a negative way beyond Apple, including at The Walt Disney Company where Jobs served as director.[75] In after-hour trading on the day of the announcement, Walt Disney Co. (DIS) shares dropped 1.5%.[76]

Business life
WealthEven though Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple,[77] he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he had received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar).[78] Jobs quipped that the $1 per annum he was paid by Apple was based on attending one meeting for 50 cents while the other 50 cents was based on his performance. [79] Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American.[80]

[edit] Stock options backdating issueIn 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. It was alleged that the options had been backdated, and that the exercise price should have been $21.10. It was further alleged that Jobs had thereby incurred taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report, and that Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. As a result, Jobs potentially faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations,[81] though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006, found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003.[82] On July 1, 2008, a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.[83][84]

[edit] Management style
Jobs demonstrating the iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 23, 2010Jobs was a demanding perfectionist[85][86][87] 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. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky:

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.[88]

Much was made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs".[89] Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom,The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. In 1993, Jobs made Fortune's list of America's Toughest Bosses in regard to his leadership of NeXT. Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable ... But the lows were unimaginable", to which Jobs' office replied that his personality had changed since then.[90]

In 2005, Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs.[91] In its 2010 annual earnings report, Wiley said it had "closed a deal ... to make its titles available for the iPad."[92]

Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France," alluding to Jobs' compelling and larger-than-life persona.[93]

Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers.[94]

[edit] InventionsJobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.[95][96]

[edit] PhilanthropyArik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek magazine opined that "Jobs isn't widely known for his association with philanthropic causes", compared to Bill Gates' efforts.[97] After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs.[98]

Personal life
Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa.[99] The couple have a son and two daughters.[100] Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[101] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.[101]

In the unauthorized biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan" (Dylan was the Apple icon's favorite musician). The biography also notes that Jobs went out with actress Diane Keaton briefly.[citation needed] In another unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children.

Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.[102]

In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 singer Bono. Jobs had never moved in.[103][104]

In 1984, Jobs purchased a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2), 14-bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by George Washington Smith, in Woodside, California (also known as Jackling House). Although it reportedly remained in an almost unfurnished state, Jobs lived in the mansion for almost ten years. According to reports, he kept an old BMW motorcycle in the living room, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998. From the early 1990s, Jobs lived in a house in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood of Palo Alto. President Clinton dined with Jobs and 14 Silicon Valley CEOs there on August 7, 1996, at a meal catered by Greens Restaurant.[105][106] Clinton returned the favor and Jobs, who was a Democratic donor, slept in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House.[107]

Jobs allowed Jackling House to fall into a state of disrepair, planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property; but he met with complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people expressed interest, including several with experience in restoring old property, but no agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began seeking legal action to prevent demolition. In January 2007 Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property, by a court decision.[108] The court decision was overturned on appeal in March 2010 and the mansion was demolished beginning February 2011.[109]

Jobs usually wore a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers.[110] He was a pescetarian, one whose diet includes fish but no other meat.[111][112]

His car was a silver 2008 Mercedes SL 55 AMG, which does not display its license plates.[113][114]

Jobs had a public war of words with Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, starting[when?] when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes".[115] On October 6, 1997, in a Gartner Symposium, when Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."[116] In 2006, Jobs sent an email to all employees when Apple's market capitalization rose above Dell's. The email read:

Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.[117]

Health
Jobs at the 2008 Macworld Conference & ExpoIn mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.[118] The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.[118] Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for evidence-based medical intervention for nine months,[119] instead consuming a special alternative medicine diet to thwart the disease, before eventually undergoing a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004 that appeared to successfully remove the tumor.[120][121] Jobs apparently did not require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.[118][122] During Jobs' absence, Timothy D. Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.[118]

In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His "thin, almost gaunt" appearance and unusually "listless" delivery,[123][124] together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters, inspired a flurry of media and Internet speculation about his health.[125] In contrast, according to an Ars Technica journal report, WWDC attendees who saw Jobs in person said he "looked fine".[126] Following the keynote, an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust."[127]

[edit] 2008 developmentTwo years later, similar concerns followed Jobs' 2008 WWDC keynote address.[128] Apple officials stated Jobs was victim to a "common bug" and was taking antibiotics,[129] while others surmised his cachectic appearance was due to the Whipple procedure.[130] During a July conference call discussing Apple earnings, participants responded to repeated questions about Jobs' health by insisting that it was a "private matter". Others, however, voiced the opinion that shareholders had a right to know more, given Jobs' hands-on approach to running his company.[131] The New York Times published an article based on an off-the-record phone conversation with Jobs, noting that "while his health issues have amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of cancer."[132]

On August 28, 2008, Bloomberg mistakenly published a 2500-word obituary of Jobs in its corporate news service, containing blank spaces for his age and cause of death. (News carriers customarily stockpile up-to-date obituaries to facilitate news delivery in the event of a well-known figure's untimely death.) Although the error was promptly rectified, many news carriers and blogs reported on it,[133][134] intensifying rumors concerning Jobs' health.[135] Jobs responded at Apple's September 2008 Let's Rock keynote by quoting Mark Twain: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."[136] At a subsequent media event, Jobs concluded his presentation with a slide reading "110/70", referring to his blood pressure, stating he would not address further questions about his health.[137]

On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that marketing vice-president Phil Schiller would deliver the company's final keynote address at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2009, again reviving questions about Jobs' health.[138][139] In a statement given on January 5, 2009 on Apple.com,[140] Jobs said that he had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" for several months.[141] On January 14, 2009, in an internal Apple memo, Jobs wrote that in the previous week he had "learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought" and announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who had previously acted as CEO in Jobs' 2004 absence, became acting CEO of Apple,[142] with Jobs still involved with "major strategic decisions."[142]

In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.[143] Jobs' prognosis was "excellent".[143]

[edit] 2011 medical leave and resignationOn January 17, 2011, a year and a half after Jobs returned from his liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted a medical leave of absence. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees, stating his decision was made "so he could focus on his health". As during his 2009 medical leave, Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company.[144][145] Despite the leave, he made appearances at the iPad 2 launch event (March 2), the WWDC keynote introducing iCloud (June 6), and before the Cupertino city council (June 7).[146]

Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO on August 24, 2011. In his resignation letter, Jobs wrote that he could "no longer meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple's CEO".[147]

[edit] DeathJobs died at his home on October 5, 2011. His death was announced by Apple in a statement which read:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."[148]
Jobs' family released a statement saying that he had "died peacefully".[149][150]

Also since October 5, 2011, Apple's corporate website greeted visitors with a simple page showing Jobs' name and lifespan next to his greyscale portrait. Clicking on Jobs' image led to an obituary that read "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." An email address was also posted for the public to share their memories, condolences, and thoughts.[151] [152]

Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, to whom he was married for 20 years; their three children, Reed (born 1991), Erin (born 1995), and Eve (born 1998); and by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, his daughter from a previous relationship.[153]

Statements reacting to Jobs' death were released by several notable people, including U.S. President Barack Obama[154], Microsoft founder Bill Gates,[155] and The Walt Disney Company's Bob Iger. Wired News collected reactions and posted them in tribute on their homepage.[156] Other statements of condolences were issued by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Wozniak, Alan Sugar and George Lucas.[157][158][159][160]

[edit] HonorsPartly due to his youth and charisma,[verification needed] after Apple's founding, Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When Time named the computer as the 1982 "Machine of the Year", the magazine published a long profile of Steve as "the most famous maestro of the micro".[161][162]

Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 with Steve Wozniak (among the first people to ever receive the honor),[163] and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" (also known as the Samuel S. Beard Award) in 1987.[164] On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine.[165] On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.[166]

In August 2009, Jobs was selected as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers in a survey by Junior Achievement.[167] On November 5, 2009, Jobs was named the CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine.[23] In September 2011, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People.[168] In December 2010, the Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010, ending its essay by stating, "In his autobiography, John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive who once ran Apple, said this of the ambitions of the man he had pushed out: 'Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High-tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.' How wrong can you be".[169]

After his resignation as Apple's CEO, Jobs was characterized as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time.[170][171]

[edit] In the mediaJobs was prominently featured in four productions about the history of the personal computing industry:

Triumph of the Nerds—a 1996 three-part documentary for PBS, about the rise of the home computer/personal computer.
Nerds 2.0.1—a 1998 three-part documentary for PBS, (and sequel to Triumph of the Nerds) which chronicles the development of the Internet.
Pirates of Silicon Valley—a 1999 docudrama which chronicles the rise of Apple and Microsoft. He was portrayed by Noah Wyle.
The Machine that Changed the World (1992)—Part 3 of this 5-part documentary, called The Paperback Computer, prominently featured Jobs and his role in the early days of Apple.

Don't equate making mistakes with being a mistake. There is no such thing as a successful person who has not failed or made mistakes, there are successful people who made mistakes and changed their lives or performance in response to them, and so got it right the next time. They viewed mistakes as warnings rather than signs of hopeless inadequacy. Never making a mistake means never living life to the full.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

我愿意用我所有的科技去换取和苏格拉底相处的一个下午。

stay hungry stay foolish!

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苹果内部员工回忆了与乔布斯共事时的点点滴滴。
——楚奇范罗斯帕克（Chuq von Rospach），从1989年到2009年9月，他在苹果工作了17年的时间；现在在惠普公司工作。
——彼特沃登（Pete Warden），2003年7月到2008年7月期间在苹果工作，现在经营着OpenHeatMap，同时在Jetpac担任首席技术官。
——楚奇范罗斯帕克（Chuq von Rospach），从1989年到2009年9月，他在苹果工作了17年的时间；现在在惠普公司工作。

北京时间10月6日消息，据国外媒体报道，苹果董事长、前首席执行官史蒂夫乔布斯（Steve Jobs）今日辞世，享年56岁。

在悼念这位著名的人才领袖的同时，苹果内部员工回忆了与乔布斯共事时的点点滴滴。

扁平结构

在制定产品决策时，苹果的效率是非常高的，而且也非常客观。 公司的重点从来也不会出现混乱，从上到下，公司各级员工都清楚地知道公司的产品开发战略。乔布斯、iPhone软件主管斯科特福斯托（Forstall Scott）、前软件总裁伯特兰瑟雷特（Bertrand Serlet）、提姆库克，人人都知道苹果该怎么做以及苹果正在做什么，他们知道公司里的发生的一切事情。

苹果采用的是一种非常扁平的组织结构，没有太多的管理层次，他们都参与其中。从我到乔布斯，总共也就只有5、6级管理层，我的直接领导是营销总裁菲 尔席勒（Phil Schiller）。 这些高管每天晚上还要发送邮件到深夜，有时可能还会拖到后半夜。苹果是世界上最大的公司之一，全公司所有人都兢兢业业，因为他们知道自己在做什么。 我处于这个组织的最底层，但是我在工作时也会经常问自己，我是否应该将这个东西展示给乔布斯看看，他会跟我说些什么？ 只要人们还在不断向自己提问，我相信苹果就会继续向前发展。

——麦特德兰斯（Matt Drance），2001年5月至2009年7月曾在苹果担任开发员传道者，现在经营着Bookhouse Software公司

史蒂夫无处不在

我在苹果担任工程师的那些年里，我只是在公司大门处看到过乔布斯，我们从未交谈过，我也从未向他介绍过自己。虽然如此，但他却完全控制着我的工作。 当时我正在为专业视频编辑工作者开发一款新产品，虽然我们的团队跟乔布斯没什么关系，但仍然必须每季度向他做一次演示。现在回想起来，真是难以想象他那个 时候到底要在公司里参加多少那种会议。 我从未在其他地方看到过这样的管理方式，这肯定要耗费他不少的精力和时间。

我们遇到过几次束手无策的情况。我们在办公室里等候裁决，设计师则在隔壁向乔布斯做演示。 有很多次，他根本没有明白我们正在演示的新功能，因为他可能马上就把重点放在了用户界面上的一个没有设计好的视觉元素上，也许是按钮设计得不好，字体没有 校准，或者控制板上有太多的按钮，而我们从未注意过那些东西。 我们所有的工作都是不足道的，如果没有他的监督，我们就不可能取得成功。

一开始我发现这一点非常令人失望。我感觉他是否过分强调不重要的细节了。 难道他不能透过表象看到我们编写的动人代码吗？ 我们解决的都是大难题，有点小瑕疵又怎么样呢？ 我花了很长时间才意识到他的方法有多么地有效。因为我们知道，任何表面上的瑕疵都可能否定我们所做的一切工作，用户体验是第一位的。 我们开始考虑乔布斯会对我们正在考虑的修改提出什么样的意见，他会经常参与到我们的讨论中来。

有些现象在其他公司可能是完全合理的，但是如果我们解决了那些问题，我们的生活将会变得更加容易。 我们知道他有至高无上的否决权，如果他认为用户体验会受到威胁，他一定会行使他的否决权，正应为如此，我们被迫要做得更好，养成了精益求精的工作作风。他 的要求虽然不近人情，但却是至理名言，他教会我们一个道理：开发产品是为了取悦他人，而不是令自己满足。

——彼特沃登（Pete Warden），2003年7月到2008年7月期间在苹果工作，现在经营着OpenHeatMap，同时在Jetpac担任首席技术官。

如果乔布斯从未出现过，世界会是什么样的？

试想一下，如果乔布斯从未存在过，今天的社会会是什么样的？ 没有乔布斯，就没有苹果II、Macintosh、鼠标、让电脑为非技术专业人士所用、利用iPod和iTunes重振音乐行业、重振电影行业、利用皮克 斯让动画片事业焕发新生、利用iPhone重振个人通信行业，也就没有最新的iPad，乔布斯是很多社会变革中最基本的元素之一，其中任何一项变革都可以 让大多数人成就一番事业。

我之所以有今天，也是因为乔布斯，因为他培养的公司、产品和技术；更重要的是，因为他招揽的人才，因为他所宣扬的思维和态度已经成为我生活的关键组成部分。我之所以有今天，完全是因为乔布斯和他过去所做的事，他创造的机会，他对周围的人的影响和期望。

有一次在Infinite Loop 1外面，我差点就撞到他。当时我赶着去参加一项会议，而他则刚好进入大街，iPod部门主管约恩鲁宾斯坦（Jon Rubinstein）和iTunes部门主管艾德库（Eddy Cue）跟在他的后面。还有一次则刚好相反，他可能正急着去工作，而我正站在同一条人行横道上。

史蒂夫可能是一个倔强而且很严厉的人，但是他怎么要求别人，他也会怎么要求自己。他曾参与过我在苹果的其中一个项目，我负责团队，史蒂夫则负责在广告播出前检查广告拷贝并标出变化。 他总是关注细节，而且他总是正确的。

现在，史蒂夫离开了我们，但他的记忆和精神将永远存在，并继续推动和改变我们生活的这个世界。没人可以替代乔布斯，他是独一无二的。 我们每个人都可以选择做点事来填补他的离开造成的空白。如果我们这么做的话，我们就可以帮助他完成遗愿，让世界变得更加美好。 我因为受到他的影响而获益良多，但却无以为报，但我可以努力推动他的理想前进。

-楚奇范罗斯帕克（Chuq von Rospach），从1989年到2009年9月，他在苹果工作了17年的时间；现在在惠普公司工作。

满足最高标准的无情要求以及日常生活中的魔术

“那都是真的。”正是这句话让我接受了苹果的工作。是的，那都是真的。史蒂夫的苹果公司拥有全世界最聪明的人才、启迪新思想所必需的细微混乱以及满 足最高标准的无情要求。 史蒂夫乔布斯曾经被同时描述为“卓越的”和“刻薄的”人。卓越是因为他极富洞察力和远见，刻薄是因为他会让你知道你是想法缺乏洞察力或远见。

功能评测总是充满压力。史蒂夫喜欢这种想法吗？ 一个偶然的因素会干扰会议的议程吗？ 它是否会被当场否决？ 如果真是那样，你可能会怒气冲冲地坐在办公桌前生闷气，但是你不得不承认，他的理由是对的。这就是苹果内部的压力，平庸的产品绝不会让这个世界变得更加美 好。 追求卓越和关注细节的企业文化早就扎根于公司的高层。

——不愿意透露姓名的苹果前员工

敬佩乔布斯！