作者沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson），美国著名的传记作家。是乔布斯唯一授权传记。读完全书你会发现，乔布斯并非完美；光鲜耀眼的背后，还有另一个不为人知的乔布斯——自私、冷漠、固执、矛盾，习惯谎言与背叛，兼具强横与脆弱的内心。
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Time
Aspen Institute
Colorado
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
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In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him to speak at our summer campus in Colorado. He'd be happy to come, he said, but not to be onstage. He wanted instead to take a walk so that we could talk.
That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.
2004年的初夏，我接到史蒂夫乔布斯打来的电话。多年来，他对我还算友好，偶尔还会感情骤增一下，特别是当他希望即将推出的新产品能上《时代》杂志封面或者CNN专题报道的时候，而这两处恰好都是我曾工作过的地方。在我离开这两家媒体之后，就没有太多他的消息了。电话里我们谈论了一些关于我刚刚加入的阿斯彭研究所的情况，我邀请他来科罗拉多的校园演讲。他说他很乐意，但不想登台讲话，而是想和我散散步、聊聊天。
这番话听上去有点奇怪，因为当时我还不知道他喜欢在散步的过程进行严肃的对话。后来我才知道，他是想让我写一本关于他的传记。我刚刚出版了本杰明富兰克林的传记，正在着手完成阿尔伯特爱因斯坦的传记。因此我最初的反应是，他是不是把自己看做这些伟人的继承人了。当然这是半开玩笑的。我认为他还处在事业的波动期，等待他的还有诸多跌宕起伏，所以我拒绝了他的请求。现在还不是时候，我说，再等个十年二十年，等你退休了。