Steve Jobs on Connecting the Dots: The First Story
What Jobs talks about
Jobs says he wants to explain his life in three stories, then starts with the story of “connecting the dots.” He describes being adopted after his biological mother, a young graduate student, placed him for adoption.
The interview then veers into a clearly playful or altered exchange about an “iPhone five,” with exaggerated features and jokes. That material does not match Jobs’s real product history and reads as part of a spoofed conversation.
The meaningful core of the transcript is Jobs’s familiar life-story framing: identity, adoption, and how early events shaped him. That personal narrative is central to how he often explained his outlook and career.
Because the source and date are not confirmed, the page should be presented as an unidentified interview recording rather than tied to a specific outlet or year.
An interviewer asks the questions; Jobs answers, though the transcript appears to include a spoofed exchange.
In his words
“I'm gonna explain my life in three stories.”
“The first story is about connecting adults.”
“It started before I was born.”
“My biological mother was a young, in weight, graduate student.”
“They said, of course.”
Key points
- He frames his life as three stories.
- His first story is about “connecting the dots.”
- He says his biological mother was a young graduate student.
- He explains that his adoptive parents were called in the middle of the night about an unexpected baby boy.
- The rest of the transcript turns into a joking, non-literal exchange about a fictional iPhone five.
- The transcript as given should not be treated as a reliable source for product claims.
Full transcript
Hi. Hello. Hi, America. I'm Steve Jong. Hello, Steve Jong. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. Come on, please. Sit down. Steve, you are the person who doesn't need any presentation. I don't think so. I think that I'm like everyone. Yes. Well, so apple, the fruit will change the world. So, Steve, I have your first question. Explain to us your life briefly, please.
I'm gonna explain my life in three stories. The first story is about connecting adults. It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, in weight, graduate student. My parents, who were on the waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, we've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him? They said, of course. Interesting. Can you tell us about your second story? My second story is about love and work. I feel in love with an amazing woman who will become my wife.
Well, talk me about your new iPod. Well, it is not an iPod. It is the new iPhone five, my lastest product of Apple. Woah. What the fuck? This is an exclusive of BBC News. Oh, please please. Come on. Tell me about your new iPhone five. I think that our public is is very interested to know what is the new features of iPhone five.
Well, the new iPhone... Oh, wait. Excuse me. Well, like I was saying, it has a special screen with the routines that you can touch and so what? And you cannot touch it if you don't want. Well, it has a lot of applications that you can download from App Storey Storey. Well, it has so much things. The processor a six is twice faster than the last step. And more things that it will be a surprise. Wow. Interesting screen and interesting video. Later, can you show me the video, please?
Very interesting. I think that iPhone five have a new feature. And this phone have something that anyone else phone have in the world. It can be invisible. Yes. You can see. I got it here, but you can you cannot see. You can read so many robberies. Well, in a few minutes, we return to our BBC breakfast news. This is good. And this is good too. But this is much better. April Georgina, the best of the market.
Steve, this is the last minute of our interview. Won't you like to say something? So I've always wished that for myself, now I am you. I wish that for you. Well, thank you very much, Steve. Thank you very much, BBC, and see you tomorrow at 03:00 in the morning. Bye, mommy. Hold on.
Steve. Wow. My My beauty. My biological mother was a young and weight grade. Just How? Can you?
Can you? Oh, no. My second year. Oh, that's a really exciting time with you. Well, next to stop about telling cats. Talking about your new feature technology upgrade. No. No. No. Well, it's not an iPhone.
It is the new iPhone five. Where's the spa? Fuck, man.
Transcribed from the audio by speech recognition (Deepgram). Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.