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- Steve Jobs' lifelong interest in the humanities gave Apple a human touch.
- Some of the CEO's favorite books included "Moby Dick" and the poems of Dylan Thomas.
- Here are 16 books that inspired Steve Jobs.
Wednesday marks what would have been the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' 66th birthday. And while Tim Cook has since taken the reins, Jobs' legacy in modern technology lives on.
Much of Jobs' vision for Apple stems from his lifelong interest in the humanities, which gave the company a human touch. As Jobs said while introducing the iPad, Apple was never just a tech company.
"The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts," he said.
By combining these, Jobs said that Apple was able "to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but also have them be intuitive, easy-to-use, fun-to-use, so that they really fit the users."
Jobs arrived at that perspective through a lifetime of reading, as reviewed in Walter Isaacson's biography and other places. We've put together a list of 16 books that most inspired him.