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Steve Jobs talks on tape about biological dad

October 21, 2011 11:53 AM

In his own words, Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells biographer Walter Isaacson he "didn't like what I learned" about his biological father and asked at the time that they never meet. Hear these and many other revelations about Jobs' complex life and personality on "60 Minutes," Sunday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Steve Jobs and biological father unknowingly met, biographer says
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by pghosh79 October 28, 2011 8:32 AM EDT
People when will we stop obsessing about Jobs. Sure he copied Xerox and made it nice. He was a good industrial designer. Also this month Dennis Ritchie died. DENNIS RITCHIE. The guy who wrote C from which Java, Cocoa, C++, C# and almost every modern language is derived. And he wrote C so he could use it to write UNIX!! from which Mac OS, iOS, Linux and even Dos (to certain extent) are derived. And who are we paying attention to? Jobs. I mean seriously Jobs contribution was more at Pixar and I love Toy Story but if we have to mourn a tech Titan Dennis Ritchie is the one to mourn
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by Nyloc_Rek October 24, 2011 1:36 PM EDT
Steve was full of contradictions, but so are we all. Yet I can't help wonder how he resolved these to himself:
1) he drove a car without plates so he wouldn't be noticed and followed, yet without a plate everyone knew who he was;
2) he didn't want to meet the biological father who abandoned him, yet he wanted the daughter he abandoned to become part of his family;
3) at the stanford address he urged students to follow their dreams and not the dogma of others, yet he lorded over Apple and expected everyone to follow his own dream;
How he resolved this cognitive dissonance, we may never know. I suspect that being told by all around you how wonderful you are may have clouded personal doubts. The book may reveal that "the emperor has no clothes", yet the real lesson is that Steve was indeed like the rest of us. Just crazy enough to follow his passions despite it's contradictions.
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by nataleew October 24, 2011 1:16 PM EDT
Maybe Jobs should have contacted his father, that could have been a healing moment and a big factor in his health recovery. He had a stubborn streak; an altered perception of reality that included denial of certain "destinies"
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by posavea October 24, 2011 5:27 AM EDT
I admire him for being honest about his life. He wasn't perfect, and like everybody else, he had his own family problems. His life was much more than his own product.
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by PCL1 October 23, 2011 8:50 PM EDT
Well, the conspicuously un-answered question here is "What didn't he like about what he hear about his biological father?". Did his biological mother tell him something that would have given anyone reason to avoid him? Was it true? Or, was it some petty criticism that would have seemed crazy to any normal person. Given that Jobs seems to have been very reasonable in some situations and totally unreasonable in others, it could be anything. I'm sure it will come out one way or another. It's not really any of our business, but we'll find out anyway, thanks to the "connected culture" that Jobs helped create.
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by beth572 October 23, 2011 11:32 AM EDT
Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford was one of the most inspiring I've ever heard. He lived his dream.
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by marilyn4886 October 23, 2011 10:53 AM EDT
Could you imagine what California would look like if Apple products were made here? Thanks for nothing Jobs.
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by Turbidite October 23, 2011 9:00 AM EDT
What's with the obsession with Jobs' dad? What is the point of the story? Is this all that the interviewer found out about Jobs? Is this all that Jobs accomplished, being born? Sounds like a racial hang-up to me.
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by Jphantome October 23, 2011 7:10 AM EDT
Hath spoken like Mark Anthony (Julius Caesar)

"To every Roman citizen he gives, to every several man seventy-five drachmas" as well as land. He then asks the crowd, "Here was a Caesar, when comes such another?"
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by todaypost October 22, 2011 7:09 PM EDT
the media gave all the credits to Job but none to the technical team who invented the devices. Sad
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