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Born in 1955, Jobs grew up in the same place he later built Apple's headquarters, in Cupertino, California. He displayed his well-known brashness and interest in electronics at a young age; as a teen-ager, he didn't shy away from phoning the president of Hewlett-Packard for parts for a school project. (William Hewlett not only sent Jobs the parts; he offered him a summer job at the company). Jobs did go to college; he dropped out after a year, though, returning later to audit a class on calligraphy. It's this class that he credits with giving him the graceful sense of design that influences ...