Steve Jobs Biography Offers Apple Co-Founder's Take On Top Tech Titans

"Steve Jobs," the official biography of Apple's legendary co-founder goes on sale October 24.

According to a copy of the book obtained by The Huffington Post, Jobs first asked biographer Walter Isaacson to write his story in 2004, the same year Jobs announced that he had been treated for a cancerous tumor on his pancreas. Isaacson writes that, at the time, he shrugged off the request, thinking Jobs had decades left. But when Jobs took his second medical leave from the company in 2009, Isaacson realized that time was short.

Jobs resigned from Apple on August 24th, and passed away on October 5th after a long battle with cancer.

The result of Isaacson's almost two-year effort is a 571-page tome whose index alone is almost 30-pages long and covers everything from "Abbey Road" to Mark Zuckerberg.

Take a look at the slideshow (below) to read Jobs' best quotes from Jobs about his fellow tech titans.

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[lmpub]

12:39 PM on 12/02/2011

See my review of the Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs: http://beyondtheregion.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/book-review-steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson/

[raniahh]

12:50 PM on 10/24/2011

Remembering Steve Jobs: The Biography & '60 Minutes' Feature Tells-All
http://blog.hudsonhorizons.com/Article/Remembering-Steve-Jobs-Biography--60-Minutes-Interview.htm

[HippieDippieWeatherman]

12:29 PM on 10/24/2011

Dell's computers have devolved into lumpy pieces of s hi it (rather like the CEO), while Macs are more useful than ever.

[DRaymond]

01:54 AM on 10/23/2011

He's not doing any favors by building this mythology around himself.   Disney nearly destroyed itself trying to live up to the mythology about Walt.

http://betweenthenumbers.net/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-the-great-man-theory/

[NerdyStudent]

02:50 AM on 10/22/2011

Wow, the man is exactly like the typical fanboy.

[Ppenguinator]

02:04 PM on 10/21/2011

People shouldn't be so hard on Bill Gates. He could jump over an office chair from standing.

[doctorkosan]

01:57 PM on 10/21/2011

S. Jobs - great visionary, lousy person.

[Changeling]

01:40 PM on 10/21/2011

"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."


So did Jobs. Buying companies "technically" allows you to call their product yours, but that doesn't mean YOU invented the stuff.

And let's not gloss over the daughter you spent years denying. And the other kids you deprived to the point that you felt you had to put a book together "So my kids would know me."

So you had a few billion by the end. In every way that matters, you're still an epic fail.

[xtiangodloki]

12:13 PM on 10/21/2011

After reading more about Jobs, it's apparent that the guy hates everyone who he had no control over.

[Chipher]

06:00 AM on 10/21/2011

Doesn't the consumer law require HP-AOL to post the warning 'paid advertisement infomercial'?

[Brandt931]

03:22 AM on 10/21/2011

Visionaries like Steve Jobs reveal the true secret to the Universe in that nothing is impossible with time, perseverance, and positive visualization. Such a passion for furthering human communication inspires. His legacy will survive generations with names like Edison, Tesla as the greatest inventors and visionaries of all time. As an artist, I draw from these inspirations and advancements in my work and you may enjoy my recent portrait of Mr. Jobs, now In Memoriam at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html

[StinkyPete0279]

03:13 PM on 10/21/2011

To be one of the great inventors of all time, he would have had to have invented something first.

[Ppenguinator]

03:38 PM on 10/21/2011

Not really. Edison stole all of his best inventions, but most people consider him a great inventor.