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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

【回顾】【乔布斯传】第一章：惠普工程师邻居（18）»
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Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything. Then a more disconcerting discovery began to dawn on him: He was smarter than his parents. He had always admired his father's competence and savvy. "He was not an educated man, but I had always thought he was pretty damn smart. He didn't read much, but he could do a lot. Almost everything mechanical, he could figure it out." Yet the carbon microphone incident, Jobs said, began a jarring process of realizing that he was in fact more clever and quick than his parents. "It was a very big moment that's burned into my mind. When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. I will never forget that moment." This discovery, he later told friends, along with the fact that he was adopted, made him feel apart, detached and separate, from both his family and the world.
这件事在乔布斯的心中印象深刻，因为这是他第一次意识到父亲不是万事通。然后，他发现了一件让他更加不安的事情：自己比父母还要聪明。他一直很仰慕父亲的智慧和才能。“他没有受过良好的教育，但我以前一直认为他特别聪明。他不怎么看书，却会做很多事情。机械方面的东西他几乎样样精通。”然而碳精话筒这件事，乔布斯说，让他的想法开始动摇，他意识到自己实际上比父母更聪明、更敏捷。“这种想法出现在脑海中，对我来说是一个重大的时刻。当我意识到自己比父母更聪明时，我为自己有这样的念头而感到异常羞愧。我永远忘不了那一瞬间。”他后来告诉朋友，这个发现，再加上自己是被领养这个事实，让他觉得自己有些孤立——与世隔绝一般——脱离了父母，也脱离了世界。