Steve Jobs: 10 Revealing Quotes from His Biography

When Apple Computer’s co-founder Steve Jobs asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography seven years ago, Isaacson found the request “presumptuous and premature, since Jobs was still a young man,” Isaacson explained in an interview on “60 Minutes” last night. The author, who had previously written best-selling books about Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, and is also the CEO of the Aspen Institute, interviewed Jobs more than 40 times over two years about Jobs' work, family and the Apple cofounder's view of himself and the world.

The publisher's note in the 656-page book, entitled Steve Jobs, says, "[Jobs] 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 people he knew to speak honestly." (Isaacson interviewed more than 100 people in addition to Jobs.) Nothing, though, speaks more loudly about Steve Jobs and his impact on the culture and economy, than Jobs himself. Here are 10 standout quotes from the book – already guaranteed to be one of the year’s biggest hits: