எத்தனை உயரம் போனாலும் ஞானத் தேடல் மனம் கொண்டிருந்த ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ் என்னும் அமெரிக்க ஞானப் பழம் (ஆப்பிள்)!

எத்தனை உயரம் போனாலும் ஞானத் தேடல் மனம் கொண்டிருந்த ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ் என்னும் அமெரிக்க ஞானப் பழம் (ஆப்பிள்)!

நமக்கு ஞானப் பழம் மாங்கனி என்றால் அமெரிக்கர்களுக்கு அது ஆப்பிள் பழமோ?

திருவாளர் ஆப்பிள் ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ்.


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பிறரது கருத்துக்கள் உங்கள் உள்ளுணர்வை மூழ்கடித்து விட அனுமதிக்காதீர்கள். உங்கள் ஆயுட்காலம் குறுகியது, பிறரது வாழ்க்கையை வாழ்ந்து உங்கள் காலத்தை வீணடிக்காதீர்கள். உங்கள் மனமும், உள்ளுணர்வும் சொல்லும்படி வாழும் துணிவைக் கொள்ளுங்கள்,பசித்திருங்கள்; அறிவுப் பசியோடு இருங்கள்.

மேதை ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ் ஆப்பிள்.

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"செயற்கரிய செய்வார் பெரியர்" 

பெரிய கல்வியாளரும் அல்ல, பெரிய பணக்காரரும் அல்ல... ஆனால் ஆசிர் வதிக்கப்பட்டவர்...

வாழ்ந்தது குறுகிய காலம் , அதனாலே தானோ பெரிய சாதனைகளை செய்தாரோ? என்பது விளங்கவில்லை. காரணம் இவைகள் தான் கால காலமாக நடந்து வருகின்றன.

இந்த அற்புத மனிதர்... இன்றைய விஞ்ஞான உலகில் மின்னியல் துறையில் பெரும் சாதனை செய்த இந்த மனிதர் மனித குலத்திற்கு அறிய பெரிய சாதனைகள் புரிந்தவர்... வரலாற்றிலே தனக்கென தனி இடம் பிடித்து சென்றவரின் வாழ்க்கை நிகழ்வுகளில் சில அதிசயங்களைக் காணமுடிகிறது.

இத்தனை உயர நிலைக்கு வந்தர்களுக்கு அடிப்படை தகுதியே வறுமை தான் போலும். ஒருவன் வாழ்வில் இன்றைய உலகில் வாழ்வியல் ஞானம் பெற அவன் வயிறு தமிருக்க வேண்டும் போலும். தரையில் தூங்கவேண்டும் போலும். 


பெற்றவர்களையும் மற்றவர்களையும் தூரமாக விட்டு தவித்து தன்னைப் புடம் போட்டு கேள்விகளால் வேள்வி செய்து பலத் தோல்விகளை அதற்கே ஆகுதியாக்கி பிறகு தான் சாகா வரம் பெற முடியும் போலும்.

இதைத் தான் இந்த சாதனையாளர் ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ் செய்திருக்கிறார்.

இதில் அதிசயத்தைப் பாருங்கள்... இவரின் பிறப்பில் ஒரு கிருஸ்துவ தாயும், இஸ்லாமியத் தந்தையும் காரணமாகிறார்கள். பிறகு வளரும் நாட்களில். கல்லூரியில் படிக்கையிலே வறுமையான சூழலில் தங்க இடமில்லாமல் தனது நண்பனின் அறையிலே தரையிலே படுத்து உறங்கி வாழ்ந்த நாட்களில்; பழைய பிளாஸ்டிக் போத்தல்களை கடையில் போட்டு அந்த காசைக் கொண்டு உணவு வாங்கி உண்டும்...தானிருக்கும் இடத்தில் சரியான உணவு கிடைக்காமல் வாரம் ஒரு முறை அதுவும் ஏழு மைல்கள் நடந்தே சென்று அதுவும்... 

எங்கே?

அதுவும் ஹரி கிருஷ்ணன் கோவிலுக்கு சென்று அங்கே நல்ல உணவை வாங்கி உண்டிருக்கிராறாம். 

அதன் பிறகு அவரின் திருமணம் நடந்தது... 

யாரால் நடத்தப் பட்டது?

அது ஒரு புத்த ஜென் துறவியால் நடத்தப் பட்டுள்ளது. 

அதோடு திரு ஸ்டீவ் ஜாப்ஸ் தனது இந்திய வருகையின் போதும் ஒரு ஒரு முக்கிய ஆசரமத்திற்கு சென்று ஒரு ஜென் புத்த மதத்தை முழுவதும் ஏற்று திரும்பி இருக்கிறார். 

வாழ்வில் எவ்வளவு கீழிருந்தாலும், உழைத்து மேலே சென்றாலும் கூட தனக்குள் அந்தத் தேடுதல் இருந்து கொண்டே இருந்திருக்கிறது என்பதை அறிய முடிகிறது. பல மதங்களின் தொடர்பு கொண்ட இந்த மாமனிதர் ஆசிர் வதிக்கப் பட்டவர் என்பதில் எந்த ஐயமும் இல்லை.

அதோடு தனது அவதார நோக்கை முடித்துக் கொண்டு இந்த உலகில் பல புதுமைகளை நடத்திச் சென்றுள்ளார். அவரை நாமெல்லாம் நன்றியோடு நினைவில் கொள்வோம்.

"செயற்கரிய செய்வார் பெரியர்" 

இவரைப் பற்றிய வாழ்வின் நாம் அறியப் படாத ஒன்பது விஷயங்கள் என்ற இந்த ஆங்கில கட்டுரையை முழுதாகப் படித்துப் பாருங்கள்.

Steve Jobs leans against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis)

For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56.

While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today.

1. Early life and childhood
Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was adopted shortly after his birth and reared near Mountain View, California by a couple named Clara and Paul Jobs. His adoptive father — a term that Jobs openly objected to — was a machinist for a laser company and his mother worked as an accountant.

Later in life, Jobs discovered the identities of his estranged parents. His birth mother, Joanne Simpson, was a graduate student at the time and later a speech pathologist; his biological father, Abdulfattah John Jandali, was a Syrian Muslim who left the country at age 18 and reportedly now serves as the vice president of a Reno, Nevada casino. While Jobs reconnected with Simpson in later years, he and his biological father remained estranged

2. College dropout
The lead mind behind the most successful company on the planet never graduated from college, in fact, he didn't even get close. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California — a town now synonymous with 1 Infinite Loop, Apple's headquarters — Jobs enrolled in Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed at Reed (a liberal arts university in Portland, Oregon) for only one semester, dropping out quickly due to the financial burden the private school's steep tuition placed on his parents.

In his famous 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University, Jobs said of his time at Reed: "It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

3. Fibbed to his Apple co-founder about a job at Atari
Jobs is well known for his innovations in personal computing, mobile tech, and software, but he also helped create one of the best known video games of all-time. In 1975, Jobs was tapped by Atarito work on the Pong-like game Breakout.

He was reportedly offered $750 for his development work, with the possibility of an extra $100 for each chip eliminated from the game's final design. Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak (later one of Apple's other founders) to help him with the challenge. Wozniak managed to whittle the prototype's design down so much that Atari paid out a $5,000 bonus — but Jobs kept the bonus for himself, and paid his unsuspecting friend only $375, according to Wozniak's own autobiography.

4. The wife he leaves behind
Like the rest of his family life, Jobs kept his marriage out of the public eye. Thinking back on his legacy conjures images of him commanding the stage in his trademark black turtleneck and jeans, and those solo moments are his most iconic. But at home in Palo Alto, Jobs was raising a family with his wife, Laurene, an entrepreneur who attended the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton business school and later received her MBA at Stanford, where she first met her future husband.

For all of his single-minded dedication to the company he built from the ground up, Jobs actuallyskipped a meeting to take Laurene on their first date: "I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, 'If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?' I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since."

In 1991, Jobs and Powell were married in the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite National Park, and the marriage was officiated by Kobin Chino, a Zen Buddhist monk.

5. His sister is a famous author
Later in his life, Jobs crossed paths with his biological sister while seeking the identity of his birth parents. His sister, Mona Simpson (born Mona Jandali), is the well-known author of Anywhere But Here — a story about a mother and daughter that was later adapted into a film starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon.

After reuniting, Jobs and Simpson developed a close relationship. Of his sister, he told a New York Times interviewer: "We're family. She's one of my best friends in the world. I call her and talk to her every couple of days.'' Anywhere But Here is dedicated to "my brother Steve."

6. Celebrity romances
In The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, an unauthorized biography, a friend from Reed reveals that Jobs had a brief fling with folk singer Joan Baez. Baez confirmed the the two were close "briefly," though her romantic connection with Bob Dylan is much better known (Dylan was the Apple icon's favorite musician). The biography also notes that Jobs went out with actress Diane Keaton briefly.

7. His first daughter
When he was 23, Jobs and his high school girlfriend Chris Ann Brennan conceived a daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs. She was born in 1978, just as Apple began picking up steam in the tech world. He and Brennan never married, and Jobs reportedly denied paternity for some time, going as far as stating that he was sterile in court documents. He went on to father three more children with Laurene Powell. After later mending their relationship, Jobs paid for his first daughter's education at Harvard. She graduated in 2000 and now works as a magazine writer.

8. Alternative lifestyle
In a few interviews, Jobs hinted at his early experience with the psychedelic drug LSD. Of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Jobs said: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

The connection has enough weight that Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who first synthesized (and took) LSD, appealed to Jobs for funding for research about the drug's therapeutic use.

In a book interview, Jobs called his experience with the drug "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." As Jobs himself has suggested, LSD may have contributed to the "think different" approach that still puts Apple's designs a head above the competition.

Jobs will forever be a visionary, and his personal life also reflects the forward-thinking, alternative approach that vaulted Apple to success. During a trip to India, Jobs visited a well-known ashram and returned to the U.S. as a Zen Buddhist.

Jobs was also a pescetarian who didn't consume most animal products, and didn't eat meat other than fish. A strong believer in Eastern medicine, he sought to treat his own cancer through alternative approaches and specialized diets before reluctantly seeking his first surgery for a cancerous tumor in 2004.

9. His fortune
As the CEO of the world's most valuable brand, Jobs pulled in a comically low annual salary of just $1. While the gesture isn't unheard of in the corporate world  — Google's Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt all pocketed the same 100 penny salary annually — Jobs has kept his salary at $1 since 1997, the year he became Apple's lead executive. Of his salary, Jobs joked in 2007: "I get 50 cents a year for showing up, and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."

In early 2011, Jobs owned 5.5 million shares of Apple. After his death, Apple shares were valued at $377.64 — a roughly 43-fold growth in valuation over the last 10 years that shows no signs of slowing down.

He may only have taken in a single dollar per year, but Jobs leaves behind a vast fortune. The largest chunk of that wealth is the roughly $7 billion from the sale of Pixar to Disney in 2006. In 2011, with an estimated net worth of $8.3 billion, he was the 110th richest person in the world, according toForbes. If Jobs hadn't sold his shares upon leaving Apple in 1985 (before returning to the company in 1996), he would be the world's fifth richest individual.

While there's no word yet on plans for his estate, Jobs leaves behind three children from his marriage to Laurene Jobs (Reed, Erin, and Eve), as well as his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

[Image credit: Ben Stanfield, Heinrich Klaffs]

This article originally appeared on Tecca

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