Steve Jobs handwritten letter to Tim Brown
Maker
Steve Jobs
(American, 1955 - 2011)
Date1974
ClassificationsHistory
DimensionsFrame (Frame): 24 x 16 x 1 3/4 in. (61 x 40.6 x 4.4 cm)
DescriptionA handwritten letter and signed letter from Steve Jobs to Tim Brown, February 23, 1974. One page, with handwritten envelope. The letter and envelope are framed with a white mat and black frame.Steve Jobs wrote this letter at 19 years old, in response from a previous letter from his childhood friend, Tim Brown, who shared his thoughts on Zen Buddhism. Jobs shows his wisdom at the crossroads of his early life in the letter that reads:
"tim i have read your letter many times / i do not know what to say. many mornings have come and gone / people have came and went / i have loved and i have cried many times. / somehow, though, beneath it all it doesn't change - do you understand?" i am now living on a farm in the mountains between Los Gatos / and Santa Cruz. i wish to go to india for the Kumba Mela, which starts in April. i will be leaving sometime in March, / not really certain yet. if you desire, and i am still here / when you arrive, we can come up here in the mountains together and / you can tell me your thoughts and feelings, which i did not / fully understand from your letter. There is a fire in the other room / and i am getting cold here, i will end by saying i do not even / know where to begin. / shanti / steve jobs".
Jobs had recently dropped out of Reed College in Oregon and returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent time on the All One commune and farm. Jobs soon began working at Atari, which was an early foray into the computing and electronics world.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was a pioneering figure in the computing world. Working with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Jobs helped innovate the design of technology.
Apple’s early desktop computers, such as the Apple I, Apple II, and Macintosh brought computing to a retail-based market.
Jobs later earned notoriety for his work on Apple’s groundbreaking devices of the 2000s. The iPod, iPhone, and other Apple portable devices revolutionized the way people interacted with technology. The Apple aesthetic can be traced back to Jobs.
Jobs’s entrepreneurial legacy has been upheld, as Apple continues to develop groundbreaking technology more than a decade after his passing.
