Steve Jobs

近來讀畢熱門的「Steve Jobs」官方自傳，來分享分享。
客觀的感想不說了，已太多人說過，倒是有一兩段讀來深感共嗚：

“Jobs had never furnished his Woodside house beyond a few bare essentials: a chest of drawers and a mattress in his bedroom, a card table and some folding chairs in what would have been a dining room. He wanted around him only things that he could admire, and that made it hard simply to go out and buy a lot of furniture. Now that he was living in a normal neighborhood home with a wife and soon a child, he had to make some concessions to necessity. But it was hard."
大意是：Steve Jobs要求極高，很少找到合心意的傢俱，以至他的舊居空蕩蕩。新婚後，他讓步給妻子和將來的孩子，回歸正常家居佈置。是必要，卻為難。（認同 x 1000000）

"Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have ego go really deep."
大意是：簡約並非只是外表，不是簡單或什麼都沒有。簡約是深入複雜，看透繁瑣。（這出自Apple的Designer Jonathan Ive，不是 Steve 所說）

"At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked"
大意是：（當時Steve Jobs病重，生死關頭）當醫生把催眠氣罩帶上Steve Jobs頭上時，他雖連說話也有困難，但仍要扯開面罩，不滿其設計，要求醫生給他五款不同式樣的面罩選擇。

當然，還有他一生堅持追求完美，其熱情與瘋狂，是很多正牌設計師亦有所不及，包括我自己......