The summary could be:
The text is an excerpt from a 60 Minutes episode about the life and legacy of Steve Jobs, the visionary founder of Apple. It covers his early years as a rebellious hippie, his adoption and search for his biological parents, his creation of revolutionary products like the Macintosh, the iPhone and the iPad, his departure and return to Apple, his struggle with pancreatic cancer, and his views on death and God. The text is based on interviews with Jobs himself and his biographer Walter Isaacson, who wrote a book titled simply Steve Jobs.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Steve Jobs asked Walter Isaacson to write his biography in 2004, when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
2. Jobs was born out of wedlock, given up by his birth parents, and adopted by a working class couple from Mountain View, California.
3. Jobs grew up in Silicon Valley and befriended Steve Wozniak, a computer wizard who helped him create Apple in his parents' garage.
4. Jobs was a visionary and a perfectionist, but also a demanding and abrasive leader who often clashed with his co-workers and board members.
5. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985, but returned in 1997 to save the company from bankruptcy and launch revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
6. Jobs also acquired Pixar from George Lucas and turned it into a successful animation studio that produced hit movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
7. Jobs searched for his biological mother and sister, but never met his biological father, who ran a restaurant that Jobs had visited unknowingly.
8. Jobs delayed surgery for his cancer and tried to treat it with alternative methods, which may have reduced his chances of survival.
9. Jobs died in 2011, leaving behind his wife Laurene Powell and four children, Lisa, Reed, Eve and Erin.
10. Jobs had a reality distortion field that allowed him to bend facts and people to his will, and he believed in intuition and creativity over rationality.