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Jobs's primary test for recruiting people in the spring of 1981 to be part of his merry band of pirates was making sure they had a passion for the product.
1981年春天，喬布斯在為自己的Mac團隊招兵買馬，他招募成員的主要標準就是要對產品有激情。
He would sometimes bring candidates into a room where a prototype of the Mac was covered by a cloth, dramatically unveil it, and watch.
有時候，他會把應試者帶入一個房間，里面有一臺被布蓋住的Mac樣機，然后他會像變戲法一樣把布掲開，觀察對方的反應。
"If their eyes lit up, if they went right for the mouse and started pointing and clicking,
“如果他們兩眼放光，立刻拿起鼠標開始操作，
Steve would smile and hire them," recalled Andrea Cunningham.
史蒂夫就會微笑著雇用他們，”安德烈·坎寧安回憶說，
"He wanted them to say 'Wow!'"
“他就是想看到應試者們喊出一聲‘哇’!”
Bruce Horn was one of the programmers at Xerox PARC.
布魯斯·霍恩是施樂PARC的一名程序員。
When some of his friends, such as Larry Tesler, decided to join the Macintosh group, Horn considered going there as well.
在他的一些朋友，比如拉里·特斯勒決定加入麥金塔項目后，霍恩也考慮過加入。
But he got a good offer, and a $15,000 signing bonus, to join another company.
但他從另一家公司得到了一份很好的工作，還有15000美元的簽約獎金。
Jobs called him on a Friday night.
喬布斯在一個周五的晚上給他打了電話：
"You have to come into Apple tomorrow morning," he said. "I have a lot of stuff to show you."
“你明天早上必須到蘋果公司來，”他說，“我有很多東西要給你看。”
Horn did, and Jobs hooked him.
霍恩照做了，喬布斯也借此機會成功地將他招至麾下。
"Steve was so passionate about building this amazing device that would change the world," Horn recalled.
“史蒂夫是如此充滿激情地要造出這臺可以改變世界的令人驚奇的設備，”霍恩回憶說，
"By sheer force of his personality, he changed my mind."
“他強大的人格魅力讓我改變了主意?！?/div>
Jobs showed Horn exactly how the plastic would be molded and would fit together at perfect angles,
喬布斯向霍恩完整展示了塑料外殼是怎樣鑄造成型的，又怎樣以完美的角度拼裝在一起，
and how good the board was going to look inside.
以及內部的電路板看上去有多漂亮。
"He wanted me to see that this whole thing was going to happen and it was thought out from end to end.
“他想要我看到，整個項目必定會取得成功，方方面面都已經考慮周到了。
Wow, I said, I don't see that kind of passion every day. So I signed up."
我說，哇，這種對產品的狂熱可不是每天都能見到的。于是我就簽約了?！?/p>
