Apple CEO Steve Jobs is highly excited at the soon-to-be-revealed Apple tablet, telling friends and close colleagues, “This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done”, according to TechCrunch.

“We haven’t heard this first hand, but we’ve heard it multiple times second and third hand from completely independent sources. Senior Apple execs and friends of Jobs are telling people that he’s about as excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet as he’s ever been.”

This from a man whose had a hand in with the invention of the PC, the mouse-based interface, the implementation of typography on computers for graphic design, the iMac, iPod and iPhone.

We’ll learn more on Wednesday.