Steve Jobs: One Last Thing Page #4

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have the impression

that somehow or other I got

diddled out of something.

Well, I did not.

Nobody diddled me out of anything.

Wayne may not be bitter,

but he wasn't the only

early Apple employee

who made a life decision

most of us would regret.

The funny thing is that

Steve Jobs hired me,

and he said... he had hair just

down to his waist at the time,

and as I recall

he only ate fruit,

and he said,

"we don't have very much loot,

so we'd like to

pay you in stock."

I held out for the cash.

When Steve Jobs

first launched Apple,

the computer industry meant

mainframes and minicomputers.

Huge devices sat

in air conditioned rooms,

and users worked

on terminals.

It wasn't

a personal experience.

The Apple II was

the first computer

that looked like

a consumer electronic device.

It was actually designed,

and they thought

about the user experience

and that it was intended

really to be used

by a single person

in some interactive way

that was enjoyable

to the user, different.

Steve always

thought much more broadly

than just technology.

He was certainly

a techno-visionary,

but the key to his greatness is

to see how broad he thought.

He was obsessed with design,

with elegant design,

and he was obsessed

with the overall experience

of technology and the idea

of creativity generally.

So somehow he was able

to bring these things together

and create technology that

made peoples' eyes light up.

And I wait 8 hours

in a line,

and I'm hungry,

I am everything you imagine,

but I'm happy.

I wait for my iPad

and really, really,

really happy now.

Jobs drew on a diverse

range of influences to feed

his creativity, including

a class he dropped into

at college in Portland, Oregon,

in the early seventies.

Reed college has one

of the best calligraphy courses

in the U.S.

His teacher had a major impact

on his aesthetic

and the clean lines

of his products.

We had many very bright

students here,

d we had bright thinkers

and people that wanted

to change things

and improve the world.

But Palladino

witnessed first hand

the impact Jobs

had on his peers.

The other

students brought him to me

like they were bringing me

someone very special.

They really had

a high regard for him.

I guess they could see

the dynamics

already forming

in his thinking.

Jobs completed

the course in 1974

but returned to palladino

just two years later.

He was enthusing

about a machine he

had created in his garage

and seeking advice on a font.

He was interested in telling

me what he was doing

and how he was using

what he had learned in class,

but he wanted some help

with Greek letters

because he wanted

a Greek font,

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