Steve Jobs said...

"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. "

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kay21 from naples (May 31, 2008)
Steve is sexy smart powerful and one of the greatest people to ever walk the earth

Ashley from Idaho (September 12, 2007)
he is one of the biggest geek inventors

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Suffers from Windows Envy!

Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer. He and Steve Wozniak founded the company in 1976, and Jobs has been a leading figure in the computer industry since then.

Apple was founded in the Jobs family garage when he was 21; his partner Steve Wozniak was 26. The team introduced the first personal computer called Apple I. In 1977, the two produced the Apple II, which was where they found their success. By 1980 Apple Computer was a publicly traded corporation, and by the end of the same year, Apple Computer released Apple III.

In 1984 Macintosh was introduced. It had a graphical user interface and was the first commercially successful computer. The success of Macintosh led Apple to abandon the Apple line and favor the Mac, which is still used to this day.

After a power struggle within Apple, Jobs left and founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. It was popular in scientific research, but never became widely used. Many innovations from NeXt did, however, appear in some of Mac's later programming such as Display PostScript, and magneto-optical devices. NeXT was purchased by Apple for $402 million in 1996, which brought Jobs back into the company he founded. He worked for Apple for several years, earning an "average" salary. He was listed in the Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer."

Jobs co-founded Pixar Animation Studios in 1986. Pixar has created some of the most successful animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its films have grossed more than $3.2 billion at the worldwide box office to date. Pixar was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs now serves on the Disney board of directors.

Jobs was married on March 18, 1991 to Laurene Powell. He has four daughters. In 2004 he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas -- a rare form of pancreatic cancer that did not require chemotherapy or radiation. During this time, Tim Cook, the head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, took Jobs position.

Steve Jobs Poll Results

This poll ran from February 1 to 7, 2010.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"The iPad is a truly magical and revolutionary product." True 131/34% False 257/66%

Votes: 388

Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc., quoted in the article "Apple Takes Big Gamble on New iPad," published by the Wall Street Journal on January 25, 2010. Referring to the new Apple iPad, Jobs said "We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product today."

The article began: "Steve Jobs took the stage Wednesday to sell the world on one of his biggest gambles since returning to Apple Inc. nearly 15 years ago: a multimedia tablet-style computer called the iPad.

The 9.7-inch touch-screen device, which will let users play games, check email and read books, presents a major challenge to the media, publishing and wireless industries. For Mr. Jobs, it is an attempt to convince consumers they need yet another gadget—one between their mobile phones and laptop computers.

Before a crowded auditorium in San Francisco, Mr. Jobs acknowledged the company faced a high bar. Many past efforts to sell tablets have flopped. But he argued there was room for a new category of devices, especially one that was "so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone."

This poll ran from December 7 to 13, 2009.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"People don't read anymore." True 255/36% False 451/64%

Votes: 706

Steve Jobs, from an interview with John Markoff of the New York Times for the article "The Passion of Steve Jobs," published on January 15, 2008.

Markoff wrote: "Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading.

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”