Tim Cook Describes How Steve Jobs' Old Office Remains Untouched, And It Will Make You Emotional

Memories are important to keep around, but they can evoke some bittersweet feelings.

And that¡¯s absolutely true for people that worked at Apple during the reign of their iconic CEO Steve Jobs, as evident in a recent oral history of the company.

Compiled by Wired, the piece is a collection of anecdotes, both good and bad, surrounding the company through the years. Among those is an interesting tidbit concerning Apple¡¯s co-founder and original face, Steve Jobs.

Gathered when Apple moved from its original campus, the Infinite Loop, to the current Spaceship Campus, one story in there talks about Jobs¡¯ old office at the earlier headquarters. And it¡¯s related by none other than current CEO Tim Cook.

¡°We locked up Steve¡¯s office. I would not have moved into his office, and no one has,¡± Cook said at the time.

¡°I decided early on it didn¡¯t feel right to change that office at all. There are some personal things he had in there that are now with Laurene (Jobs¡¯ wife). But it¡¯s the same desk and chair, credenza, bookcase. As a matter of fact, there¡¯s still drawings on the whiteboard that his daughter did. Last summer she came by, and I showed her the stuff that she had drawn.¡±

The way Cook describes Jobs¡¯ old office it¡¯s turned into a sort of monument to the man that changed Silicon Valley, ever since his passing on October 5, 2011. It¡¯s one that his employees consider a priceless relic of both good and bad days gone by. After all, while there have been plenty of CEOs of tech giants over the years, none have really garnered the sort of cult following that Jobs has, equal parts for his charisma and his microscopic attention to detail that made Apple the powerhouse it is today.

¡°You can still feel him in there,¡± Cook adds, ¡°because I saw him in there so much. Some people go to the grave site to reflect on someone. I don¡¯t do it frequently, but I go to his office.¡±