Steve Jobs on Living With Squares and Stiffs
Short interview recording
What Jobs talks about
In this very short recording, Jobs offers a sharp, dismissive description of his surroundings: “It’s like living with a bunch of squares and stiffs.” The line stands alone without wider context.
Because the clip is so brief, it does not develop into a larger argument or story. Its value is mainly as a raw, memorable example of Jobs’s caustic, unfiltered speaking style.
Jobs speaks throughout; no other speaker appears in the transcript.
In his words
“It's like living with a bunch of squares and stiffs.”
Key points
- He makes a blunt personal remark about the people around him.
- The tone is sarcastic and cutting.
- No broader topic is explained in the transcript.
- The recording preserves Jobs in an offhand, unscripted moment.
Full transcript
It's like living with a bunch of squares and stiffs.
Transcribed from the audio with OpenAI Whisper. Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.