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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #000000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#000000"><b>Mind your own</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Business" class="mw-redirect" title="Business"><font size="5" color="White"><b>Business</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Business" title="Category:Business"><img alt="Icon business.png" src="/w/images/thumb/f/f0/Icon_business.png/100px-Icon_business.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/f0/Icon_business.png/150px-Icon_business.png 1.5x, /w/images/f/f0/Icon_business.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>"You're fired!"</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military-industrial_complex" title="Military-industrial complex">Military-industrial complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gina_Rinehart" title="Gina Rinehart">Gina Rinehart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Bannon" title="Steve Bannon">Steve Bannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Business_clothes" title="Business clothes">Business clothes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_human_rights_violations" title="Corporate human rights violations">Corporate human rights violations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Girl" title="American Girl">American Girl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Business" title="Template:Business">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Business" title="Template talk:Business">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Business&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Jobs<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Saint <b>Steven Paul Jobs</b> (1955–2011) was an <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Personality_cult" title="Personality cult">personality cult</a> head<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> technology innovator, <a href="/wiki/Business" class="mw-redirect" title="Business">businessman</a>, co-founder and former CEO of <b><a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a></b> and Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs is best known for his role in the technology revolution of the 1980s that began with Apple's Lisa and <a href="/wiki/Mac" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac">Macintosh</a> computers, and Apple's continued involvement in consumer electronics up until his <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. He is also incorrectly known as the <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brains</a> behind the operation; everybody knows Steve Wozniak was the one inventing while Jobs was the one selling. </p><p>Steve's career left a mark on many industries, notably for his abusive management tactics and "vision". </p><p>He also refused to pay a non-court-ordered child support requested by his ex-girlfriend, whom he impregnated, that consisted entirely of a one-time payment of $20,000. This was long after he'd become a millionaire. Even though he refused to have the kid in his life (until much later), he didn't mind naming an entire brand of computers after her and making boatloads of cash from it. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Woo"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Woo</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Jobs_faked_his_own_death_conspiracy"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Jobs faked his own death conspiracy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Full_of_shit.2C_or_not.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Full of shit, or not?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Woo">Woo</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Jobs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Woo">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Jobs was a <a href="/wiki/Vegetarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegetarian">fruitarian</a>, of varying degrees of fidelity.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> His doctors warned that an all-fruit diet would screw up his pancreas, but what do doctors know about how the body works? He believed that he lacked body odor because of this diet, so he didn't use deodorant or shower regularly. Everyone else… had different opinions.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>His pancreas, being subjected to a bath of sugary brine, also had a different opinion, and he was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> of the pancreas in 2004. According to <a href="/wiki/Brian_Dunning" title="Brian Dunning">Brian Dunning</a>, he refrained from proper <a href="/wiki/Medical" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical">medical</a> treatment at first, preferring <a href="/wiki/Alternative_medicine" title="Alternative medicine">alternative medicine</a>, thus hastening his death.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> During this time, he needed a new liver to extend his life a bit, which he got almost immediately because screw everyone else for not being filthy rich. He eventually died in 2011. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Jobs_faked_his_own_death_conspiracy">Jobs faked his own death conspiracy</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Jobs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Jobs faked his own death conspiracy">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Very few famous people are ever allowed to just die. Such is the case with Jobs. Like <a href="/wiki/Elvis" class="mw-redirect" title="Elvis">Elvis</a> and <a href="/wiki/27_Club" title="27 Club">Jim Morrison</a>, he apparently faked his own death. In 2019 a photo of a man sitting in an Egyptian cafe was shared on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> Unlike nearly every photo ever taken of <a href="/wiki/UFOs" class="mw-redirect" title="UFOs">UFOs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bigfoot" title="Bigfoot">Bigfoot</a>, it was a good photo. A total non-<a href="/wiki/Blobsquatch" title="Blobsquatch">blobsquatch</a>. Charitably, the man in the photo looks remarkably like Steve Jobs. Arguing against this being a photo of an extant Jobs is the guy could be anyone. A lot of balding fifty year old Semitic dudes with short grey hair look like Jobs these days (his birth father was Syrian). Others noticed the man wasn't wearing an Apple Watch. That seemed a significant counter factual. </p> <h2><span id="Full_of_shit,_or_not?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Full_of_shit.2C_or_not.3F">Full of shit, or not?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Jobs&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Full of shit, or not?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">Bullshit</a></div> <table style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px 0;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:10px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy <i>The Art of Computer Programming</i>. <p>I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand. </p><p>"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books." </p> "You're full of shit," Knuth responded.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—It's highly unlikely that Jobs, not being a techie, would have been able to comprehend any of Knuth's work, as even many techies struggle with it<sup id="cite_ref-zito_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zito-10">[10]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/Journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Journalist">journalist</a> Tom Zito attested to this,<sup id="cite_ref-zito_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zito-10">[10]</a></sup> Knuth himself denied that this actually transpired.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Jobs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html"><i>Triumph of the Nerds</i>: The Television Program Transcripts: Part III</a> <i>PBS</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOlLs2ApU0"><i>Triumph of the Nerds</i> (3 of 3)</a> <i>YouTube</i>. t=26:14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15194365">The cult of Steve Jobs</a> by Kate Dailey (7 October 2011) <i>BBC</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-vegetarian-peta-praise_n_998362.html">Steve Jobs, Innovator And Vegetarian, Praised By PETA</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • 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class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/strange-eating-habits-steve-jobs-119434">"The strange eating habits of Steve Jobs"</a>. <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=NBC_News&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="NBC News (page does not exist)">NBC News</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=NBC+News&rft.atitle=The+strange+eating+habits+of+Steve+Jobs&rft.date=2011-11-02&rft.aulast=Dahl&rft.aufirst=Melissa&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fhealthmain%2Fstrange-eating-habits-steve-jobs-119434&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ASteve+Jobs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/Why-did-Steve-Jobs-choose-not-to-effectively-treat-his-cancer">Steve Jobs: Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to-alternative-medicine/">Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine </a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2420784274643741&set=a.280868948635295&type=1&theater">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2420784274643741&set=a.280868948635295&type=1&theater</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" 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