Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

February 24, 1955 - Steven Paul Jobs is born in San Francisco to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. The then-unmarried couple give up their son to adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs become Jobs' non-biological parents.
1961 - The Jobs family moves to Mountain View, Calif., part of what would later become known as Silicon Valley.
1970 - Meets future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak through a friend. In Wozniak's 2006 autobiography, "iWoz," he notes that the two "hit it off" immediately, despite their four-year age difference.
1972 - Graduates from Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif., and enrolls at Reed College in Portland, Ore., only to drop out a semester later. Jobs would go on to sit in on classes that interested him, such as calligraphy, despite not getting credit for them.
1977 - Apple incorporates.
1988 - NeXT Computer releases its first computer.
1998 - Introduces the iMac, which becomes commercially available in August.
2007 - Drops "Computer" from Apple's name. Introduces the iPhone.
October 5, 2011 - Steve Jobs died.

“If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?”