# Sources — Steve Jobs

## What informed this capture

1. **Walter Isaacson, *Steve Jobs* (2011)** — the authorized biography; primary basis for the private-life material (Lisa, cancer decisions, Android quote, fifty-fifty on God, family chapter).
2. **Stanford commencement address (2005-06-12)** — the densest primary source for the life-philosophy voice; three-story structure, all the mortality material. Text: https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/ (blocked bot fetch this session; Wikiquote corroborated seven lines).
3. **The Lost Interview / Triumph of the Nerds outtakes (Robert X. Cringely, 1995)** — his most expansive conversational register; source of the taste/Microsoft, PARC/stealing, and process-vs-product riffs.
4. **Playboy interview (Feb 1985)** — the early-era voice at full brashness; money, vision, the network prediction.
5. **WWDC 1997 fireside chat** — the canonical hostile-question response ("customer experience backwards to the technology") and the focus doctrine.
6. **D5/D8 conference interviews (AllThingsD, 2007/2010, with Walt Mossberg & Kara Swisher)** — late conversational register; post-PC "trucks" thesis, Flash, tablets, Gates détente (D5 joint session).
7. **Keynotes: Macintosh launch (1984), iMac (1998), iPod (2001), Macworld iPhone (2007), iPad (2010), iPad 2 (2011)** — keynote register, enumeration habits, "one more thing," the 2011 technology-liberal-arts closing.
8. **"Thoughts on Flash" open letter (April 2010)** — his written argumentative voice; open-standards-vs-open-model distinction.
9. **BusinessWeek interview (May 1998) and Fortune interviews (2000, 2008)** — simplicity/focus quotes, "buttons you'll want to lick," "this is our life" passage.
10. **Andy Hertzfeld, folklore.org** — Mac-era anecdotes (reality distortion field, pirate flag) grounding the early-era characterization.
11. **Mona Simpson's eulogy (NYT, Oct 2011)** — actual last words; misattribution guard for the fake deathbed speech.
12. **Lisa Brennan-Jobs, *Small Fry* (2018)** — the counter-narrative on the paternity years; keeps the blind-spot section honest.
13. **Wikiquote Steve Jobs page** — fetched this session (2026-07-17); source of all `verified` provenance marks in quotes.jsonl, including its Disputed/Misattributed lists.

## What the pipeline should ingest later

1. **Stanford 2005 speech — full text + audio.** https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/ (403 to bots — fetch via browser UA or the official Stanford YouTube upload, watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc, for the transcribe stage). Upgrades q021–q029 to verified.
2. **The Lost Interview (1995), full 70 min** — available as a paid stream/DVD; substantial fair-use excerpts on YouTube (search "Steve Jobs Lost Interview 1995"). Highest-value transcript for conversational style.
3. **AllThingsD D5 (2007, solo + joint with Gates) and D8 (2010) full videos** — WSJ/AllThingsD archive; canonical late-era Q&A under pressure. Transcribe.
4. **WWDC 1997 fireside chat full video** — YouTube (search "Steve Jobs WWDC 1997 insult response" for the segment; full session ~70 min). Transcribe.
5. **Keynote archive** — 1984 Mac intro, 1997 Macworld Boston (Microsoft deal, boos), 2001 iPod intro, 2007 iPhone intro (Macworld), 2010 iPad intro, 2011 iPad 2. All on YouTube; the 2007 iPhone keynote is the single best keynote-register source.
6. **Playboy Feb 1985 interview full text** — reprinted at allaboutstevejobs.com and longform archives.
7. **Smithsonian Institution oral history (1995-04-20)** — full transcript at americanhistory.si.edu; reflective mid-era register.
8. **"Thoughts on Flash" (2010)** — removed from apple.com; retrieve via Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, blocked to this agent but not to the pipeline).
9. **Isaacson biography (2011)** — for retrieval grounding on biographical fact; not for verbatim-quote indexing without page-level provenance.
10. **Make Something Wonderful (Steve Jobs Archive, 2023)** — free ebook at stevejobsarchive.com; curated speeches, emails, and drafts with the estate's imprimatur — excellent verified-quote source, though posthumously curated.
11. **Mona Simpson eulogy** — https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html
12. **antennagate press conference (2010-07-16)** — YouTube; crisis-register sample.