Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
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4.6 • 207 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work.
Across the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.
Featuring an introduction by Laurene Powell Jobs and edited by Leslie Berlin, founding executive director of the Steve Jobs Archive, this beautiful handbook is designed to inspire readers to make their own “wonderful somethings” that move the world forward.
Customer Reviews
A great fantastic, touching insight
Beautiful, touching insight into the man behind the company. Some deeply touching and inspiring moments of reflection and progress.
I’ll be going back through this book many times throughout my life.
I loved it!
I could not put this book down. The thoughts, processes and honesty of Steve Jobs were truly incredible. Some parts made me smile and some parts made me reflect. Other parts made me tear up. I recommend this book 100%.
Through the screen. Clearly…
As a long-time Mac user, I read the SJA (Steve Jobs Archive) book with a mind to adding to my understanding of the motivations of Jobs and the development of Apple. What I actually read was a book about the development of Steve Jobs, through the emails, speeches, memos and interviews he made. It was fascinating to me to finally understand the extent of the failure at Apple whilst Scully, et al were in charge, rather than bewail the loss of the Newton OS (I still have a MessagePad or two), and the PB5300 (mine was perfect and I never had a problem). I have come away from the book with a profound feeling of illumination and inspiration. For all the plaudits and excessive hyperbole about Jobs, he was a humanist, and a brilliantly flawed person, who achieved extraordinary things for a genuine purpose, not someone whose sole ambition was to be extremely wealthy. I have a more complex and nuanced impression of the man and his mission…