Birth

"Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as
history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever
invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at
exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form."
—Steve Jobs, 1995. From the documentary, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview.[11]
Schieble became pregnant with Jobs in 1954, when she and Jandali spent
the summer with his family in Homs, Syria. According to Jandali, Schieble
deliberately did not involve him in the process: "without telling me, Joanne
upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without anyone
knowing, including me."[12]
Schieble gave birth to Jobs on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco and
chose an adoptive couple for him that was "Catholic, well-educated, and
wealthy,"[13][14] but the couple later changed their mind. [13] Jobs was then placed
with Paul and Clara Jobs, neither of whom had a college education, and
Schieble refused to sign the adoption papers. [15] She then took the matter to
court in an attempt to have her baby placed with a different family, [13] and only
consented to releasing the baby to Paul and Clara after the couple pledged to
pay for the boy's college education.[16]
When Steve Jobs was in high school, his mother Clara admitted to his
girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, that she "was too frightened to love [Steve] for
the first six months of his life ... I was scared they were going to take him
away from me. Even after we won the case, Steve was so difficult a child that
by the time he was two I felt we had made a mistake. I wanted to return
him."[13] When Chrisann shared his mother's comment with Steve, he stated
that he was already aware,[13] and would later say he was deeply loved and
indulged by Paul and Clara.[17][page  needed] Many years later, Steve Jobs's wife
Laurene also noted that "he felt he had been really blessed by having the two
of them as parents."[17][page  needed] Jobs would become upset when Paul and Clara
were referred to as his "adoptive parents"; he regarded them as his parents
"1,000%". With regard to his biological parents, Jobs referred to them as "my
sperm and egg bank. That's not harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank
thing, nothing more."[8]