Includes bibliographical references (pages [575]-577) and index.

Introduction : how this book came to be

Childhood : abandoned and chosen

Odd couple : the two Steves

The dropout : turn on, tune in

Atari and India : Zen and the art of game design

The Apple I : turn on, boot up, jack in

The Apple II : dawn of a New Age

Chrisann and Lisa : he who is abandoned

Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces

Going public : a man of wealth and fame

The Mac is born : you say you want a revolution

The reality distortion field : playing by his own set of rules

The design : real artists simplify

Building the Mac : the journey is the reward

Enter Sculley : the Pepsi challenge

The Launch : a dent in the universe

Gates and Jobs : when orbits intersect

Icarus : what goes up

NeXT : prometheus unbound

Pixar : technology meets art

A regular guy : love is just a four-letter word

Family man : at home with the jobs clan

Toy Story : Buzz and Woody to the rescue

The second coming : what rough beast, its hour come round at last

The restoration : the loser now will be later to win

Think different : jobs as iCEO

Design principles : the studio of Jobs and Ive

The iMac : hello (again)

CEO : still crazy after all these years

Apple stores : genius bars and Siena Sandstone

The digital hub : from iTunes to the iPod

The iTunes store : I'm the Pied Piper

Music man : The sound track of his life

Pixar's friends : ... and foes

Twenty-first-century Macs : setting Apple apart

Round one : Memento Mori

The iPhone : three revolutionary products in one

Round Two : the cancer recurs

The iPad : into the post-PC era

New battles : and echoes of old ones

To infinity : the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond

Round three : the twilight struggle

Legacy : the brightest heaven of invention