Born to unmarried college graduates in a judgemental era and adopted by an accountant and carpenter, Steve Jobs' birth mirrored his unconventional life. Able to read before he attended school, Jobs became a class
prankster who had to be bribed to work. In 1973, Jobs dropped out of university after six months. He
travelled to India seeking spiritual enlightenment, experimented with LSD and became a serious Zen Buddhist. When he brought his unconventional world view to
technology, the Apple legend was born. Jobs oversaw many of the great inventions of the late 20th and early 21st Century. He recognised the importance of the computer mouse and
steered the birth of the Apple II computer, the Macintosh and the introduction of the Laser Writer. Thrown off Apple's board of directors in 1985, he founded NeXt, another computer company, created Pixar Animation and was executive producer of Toy Story. In 1996 Apple ran into diffi culties and Jobs took control,
saving the business from bankruptcy and turning it into a major corporation. He oversaw development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad and the Apple Retail Stores, iTunes and App Store. Jobs died of cancer in 2012. His fresh approach to everything
he did, his sense of spirituality and natural brilliance mark him out as one of the century's true geniuses.
In a few words, Steve Jobs was a visionary and a creative genius, a resilient man that would not take no for an answer. From 1996 to 2013, he took Apple from nearly a broke company to the most profitable and cash rich company in the world. Bernardo Moya
Evelyn Glennie Good Vibrations
Dame Evelyn Glennie is the fi rst person in 20th Century Western Society to make a full-time living as a solo percussionist. She is also profoundly deaf. Born and raised on a farm in Aberdeenshire, to musical
parents, Evelyn started to go deaf from age 8, almost completely losing her hearing by age 12. Initially angered by her loss, one day she realised she could express her emotions through percussion. When her teacher showed her how to differentiate pitches
by feeling vibrations with her hands, her life as a percussionist began. On applying to the Royal Academy of Music as a solo percussionist, she was told, "There’s no solo literature for percussion. No one’s done it before.” She remained undeterred and today is a virtuoso performer.
Glennie says deafness is largely misunderstood by the public, claiming to hear through her body. She often plays barefoot, to pick up sound vibrations. She is also a force to be reckoned with. In 2007, Glennie's dedicated lobbying played a large part in the UK Government's announcement of a £332 million boost for music education. Despite having what many would class as a disability, Evelyn
Glennie remains a model of upbeat, joyous professionalism - an inspiration for the able-bodied and disabled, for men, women and children alike.
The word "disabled" became "enabled" when it encountered Glennie's positive approach to life - an approach that enabled her to create a profession from something that had never been done before. Bernardo Moya
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