圖:保羅·喬布斯和史蒂夫·喬布斯

每一個人都有自己小小的童年,然而,人們都是無法選擇自己的出生,無法預(yù)知自己的童年??鞓坊虮瘋?,似乎都是命中注定。蘋果之父喬布斯又有怎樣的童年呢?

HINTS:
Westinghouse
Edwin Land
Polaroid
Eisenhower
ne'er-do-wells
U-2
Soviet
NASA Ames Research Center
Sunnyvale

【回顧】【喬布斯傳】第一章:小喬布斯有什么不明白的?(12)?
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His father was calm and gentle, traits that his son later praised more than emulated. He was also resolute. Jobs described one example: Nearby was an engineer who was working at Westinghouse. He was a single guy, beatnik type. He had a girlfriend. She would babysit me sometimes. Both my parents worked, so I would come here right after school for a couple of hours. He would get drunk and hit her a couple of times. She came over one night, scared out of her wits, and he came over drunk, and my dad stood him down -- saying "She's here, but you're not coming in." He stood right there. We like to think everything was idyllic in the 1950s, but this guy was one of those engineers who had messed-up lives. What made the neighborhood different from the thousands of other spindly-tree subdivisions across America was that even the ne'er-do-wells tended to be engineers. "When we moved here, there were apricot and plum orchards on all of these corners," Jobs recalled. "But it was beginning to boom because of military investment." He soaked up the history of the valley and developed a yearning to play his own role. Edwin Land of Polaroid later told him about being asked by Eisenhower to help build the U-2 spy plane cameras to see how real the Soviet threat was. The film was dropped in canisters and returned to the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, not far from where Jobs lived. "The first computer terminal I ever saw was when my dad brought me to the Ames Center," he said. "I fell totally in love with it."
他的父親寧靜又溫和,這些特質(zhì)后來得到了喬布斯的贊揚而不是效仿。他還是一個堅決果斷的人。喬布斯說了一個例子: 住在我們隔壁的是一個在西屋電氣公司研究光伏電池的工程師。他還沒有結(jié)婚,屬于“垮掉的一代”那種類型的人。他有一個女朋友,她有時候會給我做保姆。我的父母都要工作,所以放學(xué)后我就去他們家待幾個小時。他會喝酒,然后還會打她。有天晚上她嚇得魂不附體地跑到我們家來,那男人也醉醺醺地跟過來了,我爸爸攔住他說:“她是在這兒,但你不準進來。”他就站在那兒。上世紀50年代的時候,我們以為萬事都是平靜祥和的,但這個家伙就屬于那種生活一團糟的工程師。 這個地區(qū)與遍布美國的千千萬萬個綠樹濃蔭的地區(qū)不同的一點是,即便是個一無所長的人也想成為工程師?!拔覀儼岬竭@里時,每個角落都能看到杏子和李子果園,”喬布斯回憶說,“但因為軍事投資的關(guān)系,整個地區(qū)開始急速發(fā)展起來?!眴滩妓故盏焦韫葰v史的浸淫,渴望自己也能施展拳腳。寶麗來的埃德溫?蘭德后來告訴他,艾森豪威爾曾要求自己幫助制造U-2偵察機上的照相機,來監(jiān)視蘇聯(lián)的威脅。膠卷被裝在小罐子里,然后送到森尼韋爾的美國國家航空航天局埃姆斯研究中心,這里離喬布斯家不遠?!拔业谝淮我姷接嬎銠C終端,就是我爸爸帶我去埃姆斯中心的時候,”他說,“我覺得自己徹底愛上它了?!?/div>