本书追溯梦想成真的源头：来自苹果计算机公司某个不起眼角落里的麦金托什计算机开发小组。历数麦金托什的开发始末，从远自1979年的充满梦幻的研究计划起，至1984年一鸣惊人地让业界惊叹为止。本书作者作为苹果公司的成员，忠实地记录了苹果公司的历史，让苹果迷的读者能一窥麦金托什诞生的风雨历程。如果从经营管理者的角度阅读此书，则可了解许多令人省思的管理方式。

个人电脑对世界的改变仍在继续…… 斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克正是这场变革的开始。 从个人电脑的发明到苹果公司的崛起，技术和商业上的成功，没能改变他淘气而又害羞的性格，更没能让他放弃对技术理想的坚持。尽管他的设计成就了最初的苹果电脑公司，但是与乔布斯性格上的天壤之别，还是让他离开了苹果。没有人知道沃兹的离去是个人电脑发展的幸运，还是不幸。无论如何，一个电脑天才最终成为了新技术商业化的冷眼旁观者。 书中，沃兹从自己的视角回顾了那段绚烂的岁月。透过调侃的语言和轻松的笔调，一段交织着理想和现实、憧憬与迷茫、快乐与悲情的浪漫故事展现在每个读者面前。那种纯粹的创业精神，让每个人感动。 而曾为乔布斯撰写传记的艾伦说：“他（沃兹）的叙述是值得等待的——它为个人电脑革新起源这一历史增添了新的迷人一页。”

美国著名作家斯科特•菲茨杰拉德曾经说过，在美国人的生活中，不会有第二次创业的经历。但他显然没有预料到史蒂夫•乔布斯会上演一次漂亮的“东山再起”。 　　本书记录了在这个富有开创性的数字化商业时代，一位令世人称羡的风云人物的生活和工作经历。整部作品的材料多来源于硅谷和好莱坞，杰弗里•扬是第一位撰写史蒂夫•乔布斯传记的作家，他和这部作品的合著者威廉•西蒙从一个全新视角为读者展示了史蒂夫•乔布斯这个非凡的“电子神童”，并对他从一个默默无闻的中 学生成长为苹果公司的“重量级人物”和计算机革命的“弄潮儿”的传奇经历作了精彩绝伦的描绘。 　　在数字商业社会风云变幻的年代，乔布斯也经历了人生的大起大落。他曾在盲目自大而众叛亲离，被自己创建的公司赶出去，甚至完全脱离了电脑世界。但正是在被赶出自己亲手创建的苹果公司10年之后，他又卷土重来，并在一次只有他才能成功发动的“公司政变”后，重新执掌了苹果公司的大权。毫无疑问，这是乔布斯在 数字化时代的尘器中所做出的最巨大、最让人佩服的成就。 　　本书的出版并没有经过苹果公司授权，写作风格真实、大胆而泼辣，两位作者以锐利的眼光审视了苹果公司的兴衰成败与权力更迭，并对乔布斯本人做了全面的透析，既展示了他的过人智慧和商业成就，也没有回避他人格上的缺点和失当的行为。如果你想深入了解这位“数字之王”，了解他是如何纵横于电影、音乐和计算机 三个领域的，那么这本书你一定要读。

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.