Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He struggled in school but was motivated by a fourth-grade teacher. After skipping fifth grade, he was bullied, leading his family to move to Los Altos. Jobs met Steve Wozniak and attended Hewlett-Packard lectures, later insisting on attending Reed College despite the high cost. He dropped out after one semester but continued auditing classes, including calligraphy.
Steve Jobs sinh ngày 24 tháng 2 năm 1955 tại San Francisco và được Paul và Clara Jobs nhận nuôi. Cậu gặp khó khăn ở trường nhưng được một giáo viên lớp bốn động viên. Sau khi nhảy lớp năm, cậu bị bắt nạt, khiến gia đình chuyển đến Los Altos. Jobs gặp Steve Wozniak và tham dự các bài giảng của Hewlett-Packard, sau đó nhất quyết theo học Reed College dù chi phí cao. Cậu bỏ học sau một học kỳ nhưng tiếp tục tham dự các lớp học, bao gồm thư pháp.
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
His birth parents had to give up Steve due to being too young at the time and not being prepared to be parents, so Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
In 1961, the family moved to Mountain View, California.
This area, just south of Palo Alto, was becoming the hub for electronics such as radios, televisions,
stereos, and computers.
At that time, people started to refer to the area as Silicon Valley.
Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby.
Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands.
Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son to pass along his love of mechanics.
Steve often found it difficult in making friends his own age and struggled to function in a
traditional classroom.
He resisted authority figures, frequently misbehaved, and was even suspended a few times.
Jobs later said himself he was pretty bored in school and had turned into a little terror.
He regularly played pranks on others at Monta Loma Elementary School in Mountain View.
Although Jobs credited his fourth grade teacher with turning him around, he said it took her about a month to get
hip to my situation.
She bribed me into learning.
She would say, 'I really want you to finish this workbook.
I'll give you five bucks if you finish it.' That kindled a passion in me for learning.
I learned more that year than I think I learned in any other year in school.
They wanted me to skip the next two years in grade school and go straight to junior high to learn a foreign language, but my parents very
wisely wouldn't let it happen.
However, Jobs did skip the 5th grade and transferred to the 6th grade at Crittenden Middle School in Mountain View.
Although this transition led to Jobs being bullied, he then gave his parents an ultimatum: take him out of Crittenden or he would drop out of school.
His parents used all their savings in 1976 to buy a new house, which would allow Jobs to change
schools.
Their new house on Chris Drive in Los Altos, California, would later become a key figure in Apple's history.
Whilst Jobs started studying at Cupertino Junior High, a fellow electronics hobbyist, Bill Fernandez, became his first friend.
Fernandez later commented that for some reason the kids in the 8th grade didn't like Steve because they thought he was odd.
I was one of his few friends.
Fernandez eventually introduced Jobs to electronics with Steve Wozniak, who lived across the street from Fernandez.
As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself.
He swam competitively but was not interested in team sports or other group activities.
He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.
Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club, where he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of 12.
He was impressed and knew immediately that he wanted to work with computers.
While in high school, Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant.
On one occasion, he boldly asked William Hewlett, the president, for some parts he needed to
complete a class project.
Hewlett was impressed.
He gave Jobs the parts and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.
Jobs said, "He didn't know me at all, but he ended up giving me some parts, and he got me a job that summer working at Hewlett-Packard on the line assembling frequency counters.
While 'assembly' may be too strong—I was putting in screws—it didn't matter.
I was in heaven."
The location of the Los Altos home meant that Jobs would be able to attend nearby Homestead High School, which had strong ties to Silicon Valley.
He began his first year there in late during mid-1970.
Steve went through a period of change.
He said, "I got stoned for the first time.
I discovered Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and all that classic stuff.
I read Moby Dick and went back as a
junior taking creative writing classes." From that point, Jobs developed two different circles of friends: those involved in electronics and engineering, and those interested in art and literature.
học sinh cuối cấp tham gia lớp học viết sáng tạo." Từ thời điểm đó, Jobs phát triển hai nhóm bạn khác nhau: những người liên quan đến điện tử và kỹ thuật, và những người quan tâm đến nghệ thuật và văn học.
These dual interests were especially reflected during Jobs' senior year, as his best friends were Steve Wozniak and his girlfriend, the artistic Homestead junior Chris Anne
Những sở thích kép này đặc biệt được phản ánh trong năm cuối của Jobs, khi những người bạn thân nhất của anh là Steve Wozniak và bạn gái của anh, cô gái nghệ thuật Chris Anne
Brennan.
Brennan.
He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of a brain and kind of a hippie, but he never fit into either group.
Anh được một bạn cùng lớp Homestead mô tả là "một loại trí thức và một loại hippie, nhưng anh không bao giờ thuộc về nhóm nào.
He was smart enough to be a nerd but wasn't nerdy, and he was too intellectual for the hippies who just wanted to get wasted all the time.
Anh đủ thông minh để là một mọt sách nhưng không phải mọt sách, và anh quá trí thức đối với những hippie chỉ muốn phê thuốc suốt ngày.
He was kind of an outsider in high school.
Anh là một người ngoài cuộc ở trường trung học.
Everything revolved around what group you were in, and if you weren't in a carefully
Mọi thứ xoay quanh việc bạn thuộc nhóm nào, và nếu bạn không thuộc một nhóm được xác định rõ ràng,
defined group, you weren't anybody.
bạn chẳng là ai cả.
He was an individual in a world where individuality was suspect." Paul and Clara Jobs had made a pledge when they adopted Steve that they would send him to college, so they'd worked hard and saved dutifully for his college fund, which was modest but adequate.
Anh là một cá nhân trong một thế giới nơi cá tính bị nghi ngờ." Paul và Clara Jobs đã cam kết khi nhận nuôi Steve rằng họ sẽ gửi anh vào đại học, vì vậy họ đã làm việc chăm chỉ và tiết kiệm đều đặn cho quỹ đại học của anh, số tiền tuy khiêm tốn nhưng đủ.
By the time he graduated, however, Jobs, becoming even more willful-minded, did not make it easy at first.
Tuy nhiên, vào thời điểm anh tốt nghiệp, Jobs, trở nên cứng đầu hơn, ban đầu đã không làm mọi việc dễ dàng.
He toyed
Anh đã đùa giỡn
with not going to college at all.
với ý định không đi học đại học chút nào.
"I think I might have headed to New York if I didn't go to college," he said.
"Tôi nghĩ tôi có thể đã đến New York nếu tôi không đi học đại học," anh nói.
When his parents pushed him to go to college, he responded in a passive-aggressive way.
Khi cha mẹ thúc ép anh đi học đại học, anh đáp lại một cách thụ động-hung hăng.
He didn't consider state schools such as Berkeley, where Steve Wozniak was, despite that they were more affordable.
Anh không xem xét các trường công lập như Berkeley, nơi Steve Wozniak theo học, mặc dù chúng có giá cả phải chăng hơn.
Nor did he look at Stanford, just up the road and likely to offer a scholarship.
Anh cũng không nhìn đến Stanford, chỉ cách đó một đoạn đường và có khả năng cấp học bổng.
"The kids who went to Stanford, they already knew what they wanted to do," he said.
"Những đứa trẻ học Stanford, chúng đã biết mình muốn làm gì rồi," anh nói.
"They weren't really artistic.
"Chúng không thực sự nghệ thuật.
I wanted something that was more artistic and interesting." So instead, he insisted on applying only to Reed College, a private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, that was one of the most expensive in the nation.
Tôi muốn một thứ gì đó nghệ thuật và thú vị hơn." Thay vào đó, anh nhất quyết chỉ nộp đơn vào Reed College, một trường cao đẳng nghệ thuật tự do tư thục ở Portland, Oregon, một trong những trường đắt đỏ nhất nước.
He was visiting Steve Wozniak at Berkeley when his father called to say
Anh đang thăm Steve Wozniak ở Berkeley thì cha anh gọi điện nói
an acceptance letter had arrived from Reed, but he tried to talk Steve out of going there.
một lá thư chấp nhận từ Reed đã đến, nhưng ông cố gắng thuyết phục Steve đừng đến đó.
So did his mother.
Mẹ anh cũng vậy.
It was more than they could afford, but similarly, their son responded with an ultimatum: if he couldn't go to Reed, he wouldn't go anywhere.
Số tiền đó vượt quá khả năng chi trả của họ, nhưng tương tự, con trai họ đáp lại bằng một tối hậu thư: nếu không được vào Reed, anh sẽ không đi đâu cả.
So they relented, as usual.
Vì vậy, họ đã nhượng bộ, như thường lệ.
Reed was known for its free-spirited hippie lifestyle, which combined somewhat uneasily with its rigorous academic standards.
Reed nổi tiếng với lối sống hippie tự do, kết hợp không mấy dễ dàng với các tiêu chuẩn học thuật nghiêm ngặt.
Steve enrolled at Reed to study physics and philosophy.
Steve nhập học Reed để nghiên cứu vật lý và triết học.
Chris Ann Brennan remained involved with Jobs while he was at Reed.
Chris Ann Brennan vẫn tiếp tục quan hệ với Jobs khi anh ở Reed.
However, Steve soon decided to drop out of Reed College.
Tuy nhiên, Steve sớm quyết định bỏ học Reed College.
He liked being there; however, he didn't enjoy having to attend the required classes.
Anh thích ở đó; tuy nhiên, anh không thích phải tham dự các lớp học bắt buộc.
Although Jobs continued to go to classes he enjoyed, like calligraphy.
Mặc dù Jobs vẫn tiếp tục đến các lớp anh thích, như thư pháp.
During that time, the relationship between Jobs and Brennan broke down.
Trong thời gian đó, mối quan hệ giữa Jobs và Brennan tan vỡ.
In a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, Jobs stated that during this period he slept on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returned Coke bottles for food money, and got weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.
Trong một bài phát biểu tốt nghiệp năm 2005 tại Đại học Stanford, Jobs nói rằng trong thời gian này anh ngủ trên sàn nhà trong ký túc xá của bạn bè, trả chai Coke để lấy tiền mua thức ăn, và nhận bữa ăn miễn phí hàng tuần tại đền Hare Krishna địa phương.
In that same speech, Jobs said, "If I'd never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple
Trong cùng bài phát biểu đó, Jobs nói, "Nếu tôi chưa bao giờ tham dự lớp học thư pháp duy nhất đó ở trường đại học, Mac sẽ không bao giờ có nhiều
typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts." In 1972, Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital blue box to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long distance calls.
kiểu chữ hay phông chữ có khoảng cách tỷ lệ." Năm 1972, Wozniak đã thiết kế một hộp xanh kỹ thuật số giá rẻ để tạo ra các tần số cần thiết nhằm thao túng mạng điện thoại, cho phép gọi đường dài miễn phí.
Jobs decided that they could make money selling it.
Jobs quyết định rằng họ có thể kiếm tiền bằng cách bán nó.
The two stopped making the boxes after they were nearly caught by police.
Hai người ngừng sản xuất hộp sau khi suýt bị cảnh sát bắt.
Despite giving up on the venture, they reportedly made about six thousand
Mặc dù từ bỏ liên doanh, họ được cho là đã kiếm được khoảng sáu nghìn
dollars selling the blue boxes.
đô la từ việc bán hộp xanh.
Jobs said that if not for the blue boxes, there would have been no Apple, and that it showed them they could take on large companies and beat them.
Jobs nói rằng nếu không có hộp xanh, sẽ không có Apple, và nó cho họ thấy họ có thể đối đầu với các công ty lớn và đánh bại họ.
In mid-1973, when Jobs was 18, he moved back to the San Francisco area and began renting his own apartment.
Giữa năm 1973, khi Jobs 18 tuổi, anh chuyển về vùng San Francisco và bắt đầu thuê căn hộ riêng.
Brennan and Jobs' relationship was complicated by this stage.
Mối quan hệ giữa Brennan và Jobs trở nên phức tạp ở giai đoạn này.
Jobs hitchhiked and worked around the
Jobs đi nhờ xe và làm việc khắp