Make Something Wonderful with Steve Jobs

For various reasons I’ve not had the chance to make mention of it, but the Steve Jobs Archive is about to publish a free digital collection of speeches, interviews, and correspondence by the Apple co-founder.

Make Something Wonderful

The book, which is called Make Something Wonderful, will be made available via digital platforms on April 11.

It promises, “An unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work.”

With an introduction written by Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, the title’s contents will include Jobs’ reflections on his childhood, his experience of being pushed out of Apple in the company’s early days, his work with Pixar, NeXT and his return to Apple.

The book’s title refers to an internal presentation made by Jobs shortly after the iPhone launch.

That’s when he said, “One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.”

What is the Steve Jobs Archive?

The Steve Jobs Archive was jointly launched by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive and Tim Cook at Kara Swisher’s last Code conference in September 2022.

The website offers a range of interesting and insightful quotes and comments from Jobs. The founders promise more to come: “We are building programs, fellowships, collections, and partnerships that reflect Steve’s values and carry his sense of possibility forward,” they said at that time.

[Also read: Here is why Apple’s Steve Jobs loved to walk and so should you]

Speaking at Code, Powell Jobs explained the archive’s intent to be:

“Rooted in Steve’s long held notion that once you understand that, outside of the natural world, everything in the built environment and all the systems that govern our life on the planet were built and designed by other humans. Once you have that insight, you understand that you as a human can change it, can prod it, can perhaps, interrogate it and stretch it. In that way, human progress happens.”

Further reading

• Watch: Apple’s Steve Jobs explains what it takes to be smart
• Steve Jobs remembered, 65 years since birth
• Watch: Steve Jobs predict the future we live in today – in 1981
• Video: Steve Jobs talks iPhone with ABC in 2007
• VIDEO: Steve Jobs on designing the NeXT logo
• 12 new facts we learned about the legendary Steve Jobs
• Steve Jobs on Great Ideas And Craftsmanship
• Did You Know Steve Jobs Played ‘Special’ Chess?
• What Steve Jobs Said About The Future of Television
• Laurene Powell Jobs profiles Apple’s Tim Cook in Time 100

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