40 找回生活的意义

And a lot of people have set off throughout history to find out what that was, and whether it's Thoreau or whether it's, you know, some Indian mystics, so whatever it might be, and the hippie movement got a lttle bit like that, and they want to find out what that was about.

And life wasn't about what they saw their parents doing.

And of course the pendulum swung too far the other way, that was too crazy, but there was a germ of something there, and it's. .. it's the same thing that causes people to want to be poets instead of bankers, you know.

And... and I think that's a wonderful thing.

And I think that same spirit can be put into products, and these products can be manufactured and given to people, they can sense that spirit. I mean, if you talk to the people who use the Macintosh, they love it.

You don't hear people loving products very often.

You know, really, but. .. but you can feel it in there, there were something really wonderful there.

So, um... I...1 don't think that most of those really best people that I had worked with, had worked with computers for the sake of working with computers, they work with computers because they are the medium that is best capable of transmitting some feelings that you have, that you want to share with other people, does that make any sense to you? _Oh, yeah.

And you know, before they invented these things all of these people would have done other. .. other things.

But... but they. .. but computers were invented, they did come along, and all these people did get interested in. . . school or before school, and. .. say "hey, this is the medium that I think I can say something in", you know.

In 1996, a year after this interview, Steve Jobs sold NeXT to Apple.

He then took control of his old company at a time when it was 9o days from bankruptcy, what followed was a corporate renaissance unparalleled in American business history...

With innovative products like iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad and Apple Stores, Jobs turned an almost bankrupt Apple into the most valuable company in America...

As he said in this interview, he took the best and spread it around "so that everybody grows up with better thing"...