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The technology writer Steven Levy, who was then working for Rolling Stone, came to interview Jobs,
當時還在《滾石》雜志工作的科技作家斯蒂芬·列維來采訪喬布斯，
who urged him to convince the magazine's publisher to put the Macintosh team on the cover of the magazine.
喬布斯立即要求該雜志將麥金塔團隊登在封面上。
"The chances of Jann Wenner agreeing to displace Sting in favor of a bunch of computer nerds were approximately one in a googolplex," Levy thought, correctly.
“簡·溫納同意換下斯汀（Police樂隊主唱）而讓一群電腦狂人登上封面的可能性幾乎為零。”列維如此認為。他是對的。
Jobs took Levy to a pizza joint and pressed the case:
喬布斯帶列維去吃比薩，談論對麥金塔電腦團隊的報道：
Rolling Stone was "on the ropes, running crummy articles, looking desperately for new topics and new audiences.
“《滾石》雜志的處境岌岌可危，凈登些爛文章，它正在拼命發掘新的話題和受眾。
The Mac could be its salvation!"
麥金塔電腦就是《滾石》的救命稻草！”
Levy pushed back. Rolling Stone was actually good, he said, and he asked Jobs if he had read it recently.
列維反駁說，《滾石》雜志事實上很好，并問喬布斯最近真的讀過《滾石》嗎？
Jobs said that he had, an article about MTV that was "a piece of shit."
喬布斯說自己在飛機上讀了上面一篇關于MTV的文章，他認為這篇文章就是“一坨狗屎”。
Levy replied that he had written that article.
列維回答說，那正是自己寫的文章。
Jobs, to his credit, didn't back away from the assessment.
值得贊揚的是，喬布斯并沒有轉換話題停止評論，
Instead he turned philosophical as he talked about the Macintosh.
接著，在談論麥金塔電腦的時候，他又變得豁達了。
We are constantly benefiting from advances that went before us and taking things that people before us developed, he said.
他表示，人類一直都在從超前的知識進步中獲益，并且在使用超前者所研發出來的東西
"It's a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge."
“能夠創造出在人類經驗和知識史上占有一席之地的東西，是一種美妙和令人欣喜若狂的感覺。”
Levy's story didn't make it to the cover.
列維的報道并沒有登上《滾石》的封面。
But in the future, every major product launch that Jobs was involved in
但是后來，喬布斯參與的所有主要產品的發布
at NeXT, at Pixar, and years later when he returned to Apple
無論是在NeXT、皮克斯，還是多年后重回蘋果公司
would end up on the cover of either Time, Newsweek, or Business Week.
都登上了《時代》雜志、《新聞周刊》或《商業周刊》的封面。
