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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？
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Larry Lang
【回顾】【乔布斯传】第一章：硅谷和小乔的成长（17）»
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Like most kids, he became infused with the passions of the grown-ups around him. "Most of the dads in the neighborhood did really neat stuff, like photovoltaics and batteries and radar," Jobs recalled. "I grew up in awe of that stuff and asking people about it." The most important of these neighbors, Larry Lang, lived seven doors away. "He was my model of what an HP engineer was supposed to be, a big ham radio operator, hard-core electronics guy," Jobs recalled. "He would bring me stuff to play with." As we walked up to Lang’s old house, Jobs pointed to the driveway. "He took a carbon microphone and a battery and a speaker, and he put it on this driveway. He had me talk into the carbon mike and it amplified out of the speaker." Jobs had been taught by his father that microphones always required an electronic amplifier. "So I raced home, and I told my dad that he was wrong."
"No, it needs an amplifier," his father assured him. When Steve protested otherwise, his father said he was crazy. "It can't work without an amplifier. There's some trick." "I kept saying no to my dad, telling him he had to see it, and finally he actually walked down with me and saw it. And he said, 'Well I’ll be a bat out of hell.'"
像大多数孩子一样，他开始受身边大人们的热情影响。“住在我周围的父亲们大都研究的是很酷的东西，比如太阳能光伏电池和雷达，”乔布斯回忆道，“我对这些东西充满了惊奇，经常向他们问这问那。”这些邻居中最重要的一个人，拉里·朗，跟乔布斯加隔了7户人家。“他是我心中惠普工程师的标准形象：超级无线电爱好者、铁杆电子迷，他会带东西给我玩。”当我们走到朗的老房子时，乔布斯指着车道说：“他把一个碳精话筒、一块蓄电池和一个扬声器放在车道上。他让我对着话筒说话，声音就通过扬声器放大出来了。”乔布斯的父亲曾经告诉过他，话筒一定要有电子放大器才能工作。“所以我跑回家，告诉父亲他错了。”
“不对，肯定需要放大器。”父亲的口气很肯定，当史蒂夫提出异议时，父亲说他疯了。“没有放大器是不可能工作的，这其中是有诀窍的。”
“我不停地对我父亲说不是那样的，让他亲眼去看看，最终他跟我一起走到邻居加，看到了。他说‘我们还是赶紧走人吧。’”