Steve Jobs, Romantic

Remember the original Apple-1 that was up for auction at Christie’s in London? An Italian businessman bought it for more than $200,000, and together with the actual computer he also got an old letter from Steve Jobs and a paper with the first Apple Logo.

The Economist snapped some pictures of both the papers.

In fact, the first Apple logo is the work of Ronald Wayne, who some refer to as Apple’s third co-founder (besides Mr Jobs and Steve Wozniak). It depicts Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with an apple about to fall on his head. The inscription on the logo’s border is a quote from William Wordsworth, a romantic English poet: “Newton… a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought… alone.”  Could it be that Mr Jobs himself is a hidden romantic?