By: Steve Jobs (Archive)

About: A collection of materials from the Steve Jobs archive of Steve, in his own words, reflecting on his life and creations.

https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/

(Not available for purchase to my knowledge. If you want one you have to bother SV Angel for it)

Overall review: ⭐️

Notes:

I am by no means an Apple fanboy, or a Steve Jobs apologist. That said, as far as archival documents that help illustrate a person’s point of view go, this is a great assembly of interviews, email threads, and memos that give great insight into a lot of Steve Jobs’ principles, and I can certainly admire that. There were a number of quotes and excerpts I found incredibly succinct and dense in communicating an idea, so I’ve pulled out a few below:

“Computers and society are out on a first date.” 

“People are going to spend more time interacting with these machines than they do interacting with automobiles today. People are going to be spending two, three hours a day interacting with these machines - longer than they spend in a car. And so the industrial design, the software design, and how people interact with these things certainly must be given the consideration that we give automobiles today - if not a lot more.”

“We’ve got to get away from programming because people don’t want to program computers. People want to *use* computers.”

“You work for Apple first and your boss second.”