Bill Gates: 'I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ Melinda Gates Biography. Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which strives to improve global health and education. Synopsis Melinda Gates was born on August 15, 1964, in Dallas, Texas. She took a job at Microsoft Corporation in 1987 and married her boss, Bill Gates, in 1994. That year, she and her husband co-founded what was later to become the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2006 she restructured the organization. In 2012 she pledged $560 million toward improving access to contraception for women in poor countries. Early Life Melinda Gates was born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964, in Dallas, Texas. Elaine, who wished she had gone to college, placed a strong emphasis on her children's higher education. Melinda developed an early interest in computers while taking an advanced math class at the Ursuline Academy, a Catholic school for girls. Working for Microsoft Melinda took a job at Microsoft Corporation in 1987. Personal Life Philanthropy. An emotional Bill Gates details his last visit with Steve Jobs. The charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the focus of the Microsoft founder’s recent 60 Minutes interview with Charlie Rose, but the longtime richest man in the world got emotional when the conversation turned to friend and rival Steve Jobs.
When asked what the pair talked about during their final meeting at the Jobs home in May of 2011, Gates welled up, saying, “what we’d learned, families… anything.” He later went on to say that he and the Apple founder "practically grew up together. " In unaired footage from the interviews (above), Gates talked more about the visit, which was also the subject of an interview with Walter Isaacson for Jobs’s official biography.
“He was not being melancholy, like ‘Oh, I’ve been gypped,’” said the Microsoft founder. “It was very forward-looking, like ‘Oh, we haven’t really improved education with technology yet — what do you think?’” Not all of the conversation was similarly profound, however. Best of Steve Jobs Playboy Interview. How Steve Jobs Turned Technology — And Apple — Into Religion | Wired Opinion. "Much ink has been spilled drafting the Steve Jobs encomium. But Jobs and Apple are interesting for far more than technological prowess -- they provide an allegory for reading religion in the information age. They are further evidence that shifts in popular religion throughout history are accompanied by changes in the media environment: when the dominant modes of communication change, so do the frameworks for religious belief.
Still, this shift would require a fitting mythology... An ancient Egyptian myth helps illuminate the perennial relationship between media forms and metaphysical belief systems. The Egyptian god Theuth visits King Thamus to show him that writing “once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory.” The celebration of technological values in the Apple story requires a similar response. King Thamus’ anxieties about the new media of writing threatening wisdom have been resurrected in digital form. Apple Ads as Parables Enter the Paradox. On Steve Jobs' iPod. We bought a copy of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, which goes on sale next week, for an early and often poignant look into the world of a brilliant man who changed our world. NBC's Kate Snow reports. Nightly News bought a copy of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, which goes on sale next week, for an early and often poignant look into the world of a brilliant man who changed our world.
Among Steve Jobs' favorite artists were Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, his onetime girlfriend Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, B. B. King, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield, Don McLean, Donovan, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, Simon and Garfunkel and The Monkees ("I'm a Believer").
Isaacson writes that only about a quarter of the songs were from more contemporary artists such as Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Dido, Green Day, John Mayer, Moby, U2, Seal and Talking Heads. These Were Steve Jobs' Favorite Books and Bands. Steve Jobs once famously said that people don’t read anymore, but he did, and amongst the revelations of Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of Apple’s co-founder are his favorite books and bands. You probably won’t be surprised by the bands — hey, Steve loved the Beatles, go figure! — but would you ever have guessed that his favorite books include both Moby Dick *and* Mucusless Diet Healing Systems? The books and authors important to Jobs include Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which apparently “deeply influenced” Jobs, Shakespeare’s King Lear, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Dylan Thomas’ Poetry, and the following self-help books: Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Chogyam Trungpa’s Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi (the only book on Jobs’ iPad 2), as well as Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass, which sparked Steve Jobs to try LSD for the first time.
As for music, Huffington Post reports: Related. Steve Jobs’ Favorite Bob Dylan Song. Not that we need an excuse to revisit a Dylan classic, but here’s one nonetheless: Walter Isaacson’s new bio on the late beloved Apple CEO Steve Jobs contains a number of intriguing details about the digital music pioneer’s obsession with Bob Dylan — from the fact that Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak first bonded over Dylan bootlegs to his romance with Joan Baez in the early 1980s. The pair even met on a couple occasions, once for a two-hour discussion and again backstage at a concert, in which Jobs revealed that The Times They Are A-Changin’ ballad “One Too Many Mornings” was his favorite cut from the Dylan canon. The poet laureate of rock took that as a request and performed the tune at the show. Rolling Stone has quotes and other musical highlights from the book to peruse while we take two versions — the original and a Johnny Cash duet recording — of Jobs’ excellent pick for another spin above/below.
PYHOF: Steve Jobs's Music Playlist. Thanks to Death and Taxes Magazine, we were able to take a quick look at the late and great Steve Jobs's favorite records. Put your headphones on and let's pay tribute to a much-respected icon. “I grew up in the apricot orchards that later became known as Silicon Valley, and was lucky enough to have my young spirit infused with the social and artistic revolution of the day called rock and roll. It has never left me.” – Steve Jobs (via Death and Taxes). It shouldn’t be surprising then, that his favorite records included classics such as Who’s Next by The Who, and Some Girls by the Stones. Here’s a glimpse of Steve Jobs’s picks, as he listed in his (now-defunct) Ping profile: Highway Revisited : Bob Dylan Late for the Sky : Jackson Browne Imagine : John Lennon Some Girls : The Rolling Stones See the complete list. Steve Jobs was many things but ask anyone the first word that comes to their head with the mention of his name and you would get ‘apple’ as an answer.
The Steve Jobs' iPod Autopsy: Apple Innovator Stuck in the '60s. Changing the face of music doesn't mean having to keep up with it. Steve Jobs, who died earlier this month at age 56 after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer, paved the way for the digital music industry as we know it but, as a new biography reveals, the Apple co-founder packed his own iPod with artists from the 8-track era. "His iPod selections were those of a kid from the '70s with his heart in the '60s," Walter Isaacson writes in the new book, simply titled Steve Jobs.
Sure, Jobs listened to several acts young enough to have grown up using the personal computers he helped pioneer. Among them: Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Green Day, and John Mayer. But these "more contemporary artists" made up "only about a quarter" of the songs on Jobs's iPod, Isaacson writes — and that's counting U2 and Talking Heads.
Instead, the tech innovators' tastes leaned toward '60s icons like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. The Steve Jobs' iPod Autopsy: Apple Innovator Stuck in the '60s.