Steve Jobs's remarkable life reads like a history of the personal technology industry. He started Apple Computer in his parents' garage when he was twenty-one and then molded it into the world's most valuable business. He bought a struggling computer graphics company, Pixar, and turned it into a megahit animation studio. He became the tastemaker of a generation, creating products we couldn't live without while revoltionizing the music, phone, and tablet computer industries in the process. Through it all, he was an overbearing and demanding perfectionist, both impossible and inspiring.