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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.

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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

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I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 20th, 1952

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