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Steve Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson, shared the Apple co-founder's final words in a eulogy she gave at Memorial Church of Stanford University on October 18.

The New York Times has published her gripping eulogy.

Simpson emphasized the primacy of her brother's aesthetic sensibility.

"Novelty was not Steve's highest value. Beauty was," Simpson shared in her speech.

Simpson, who teaches English at UCLA, met Jobs as an adult after learning she had a long-lost brother. He was already successful by the time they first met.

Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson, who spent much time with the innovator during the writing process, said in an article published Sunday he was often surprised by the intensity of Jobs' emotions. 

"Sometimes I'd look up and there'd be a tear rolling down his cheek," Isaacson said. 

Isaacson said Jobs admitted to being moved by an "artistic purity."

Jobs also had strong ideas about politics as well as technology. Isaacson reported a critical exchange between Jobs and Obama. Jobs expressed the necessity to allow foreign engineering students educated in the U.S. to be allowed to remain in the country to work. 

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Jobs warned Obama, according to the biographer.

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