Steve Jobs was correct!
Without FREEDOM Innovative products like Apple produced would never
have happened!
Regulations and unnecessary costs AKA stemming from "Obama's"
Socialist Marxists policies will and are at this very moment
smothering innovation!
If companies like Apple and those new start ups, are loaded down
with unnecessary regulations there is not any incentive to take the
risks that Steve Jobs took!
Steve Jobs enjoyed the GODLY freedom "endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, Freedom that is,
" that the USA offers and produced Apple!
Chuck Reichel
In GOD I Trust
On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Hai Nguyen Ly wrote:
A glimpse in to the life of a man who changed the life of so many
people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786.html?1319148475
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-
Term Presidency'
In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, "Steve
Jobs," author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to
design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite
being highly critical of the administration's policies and that Jobs
refused potentially life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer
because he felt it was too invasive. Nine months later, he got the
operation but it was too late.
Those are just some of the tidbits about Jobs' life revealed in the
upcoming biography, a copy of which was obtained by The Huffington
Post. The publication date of the official biography of the
notoriously-secretive Apple co-founder was pushed up after his death
in October. "I wanted my kids to know me," Isaacson quoted Jobs as
saying in their final interview. "I wasn't always there for them and
I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."
Among other details unearthed in the book on the notoriously-
secretive Apple co-founder:
Jobs' Meeting With Obama
Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost
missed meeting President Obama in the fall of 2010 because he
insisted that the president personally ask him for a meeting. Though
his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you,"
Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted
for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin
San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed
to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.
"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the
start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to
be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease
with which companies can build factories in China compared to the
United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it
difficult for them.
Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was
"crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers'
unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform."
Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on
merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11
months a year.
Aiding Obama's Reelection Campaign
Jobs suggested that Obama meet six or seven other CEOs who could
express the needs of innovative businesses -- but when White House
aides added more names to the list, Jobs insisted that it was
growing too big and that "he had no intention of coming." In
preparation for the dinner, Jobs exhibited his notorious attention
to detail, telling venture capitalist John Doerr that the menu of
shrimp, cod and lentil salad was "far too fancy" and objecting to a
chocolate truffle dessert. But he was overruled by the White House,
which cited the president's fondness for cream pie.
Though Jobs was not that impressed by Obama, later telling Isaacson
that his focus on the reasons that things can't get done
"infuriates" him, they kept in touch and talked by phone a few more
times. Jobs even offered to help create Obama's political ads for
the 2012 campaign. "He had made the same offer in 2008, but he'd
become annoyed when Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't totally
deferential," writes Isaacson. Jobs later told the author that he
wanted to do for Obama what the legendary "morning in America" ads
did for Ronald Reagan.
Bill Gates And Steve Jobs
Bill Gates was fascinated by Steve Jobs but found him "fundamentally
odd" and "weirdly flawed as a human being," and his tendency to be
"either in the mode of saying you were shit or trying to seduce you."
Jobs once declared about Gates, "He'd be a broader guy if he had
dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
After 30 years, Gates would develop a grudging respect for Jobs. "He
really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing
instinct for what works," he said. But Jobs never reciprocated by
fully appreciating Gates' real strengths. "Bill is basically
unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think
he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just
shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
Meeting His Biological Father
Jobs, who was adopted, was a customer at a Mediterranean restaurant
north of San Jose without realizing that it was owned by his
biological father -- from whom he was estranged. He eventually met
his real Dad -- "It was amazing," he later said of the revelation.
"I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting
the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands."
Nevertheless Jobs still had no desire to see him. "I was a wealthy
man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go
to the press about it."
Anticipating An Early Death
Jobs once told John Sculley, who would later become Apple's CEO and
fire Jobs, that if he weren't working with computers, he could see
himself as a poet in Paris. "Jobs confided in Sculley that he
believed he would die young, and therefore he needed to accomplish
things quickly so that he would make his mark on Silicon Valley
history. "We all have a short period of time on this earth," he told
the Sculleys. "We probably only have the opportunity to do a few
things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how
long we're gong to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to
accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young."
* * * * *
For his first interview about the book, Isaacson talked to "60
Minutes" for the Sunday, Oct. 23 episode, telling host Steve Kroft
that he was shocked about Jobs's decision to initially skip surgery
for his pancreatic cancer -- that such a genius could make such a
wrong decision about his own health.
"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said,
'I didn't want my body to be opened ... I didn't want to be violated
in that way,' said Isaacson.
"I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you
don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. ... We
talked about this a lot," he told Kroft. "He wanted to talk about
it, how he regretted it. ... I think he felt he should have been
operated on sooner."
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