“It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”

American businessman, inventor, and investor

Steve Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. He was a leading figure in the personal computer revolution and co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak. After leaving Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT and bought Pixar in 1986, later serving as its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. He returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO and remained closely involved in the development and promotion of many of the company’s major products until he resigned in 2011.