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Steve Jobs dead

I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.

Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.

The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

-Bill Gates
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/05/gates-i-will-miss-steve-immensely/
 
The very first desktop computer I ever used was one of the original Macs, I guess (fall of 1985 in the OG&B office at Wake). It changed my life, and certainly changed my career trajectory. RIP, Steve. You changed the whole world, not just mine.
 
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OliveGardenDeac said:
He was an amazing leader and visionary. A true American hero. It's a shame that he passed before his time. His commencement speech for Stanford's class of 2005 clearly exhibits his great character and humility along with his incredible success. You will be missed dearly Steve.

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Great speech. Here's a transcript http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

My favorite section from the speech:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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‎"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
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-Steve Jobs [The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]
 
Man, that quote gave me the shivers.

RIP Steve.
 
Humility?

Read his bio, Icon. The man was a notorious ass.

That said, he did take other peoples ideas, improve them, and revolutionize several industries. Incredible accomplishments, but he was no saint. Lets not go overboard.
 
pinochadeac said:
Humility?

Read his bio, Icon. The man was a notorious ass.

That said, he did take other peoples ideas, improve them, and revolutionize several industries. Incredible accomplishments, but he was no saint. Lets not go overboard.
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You get to be a jerk on the Internet because of Steve Jobs.
 
Biographies have to be sensational to get press and sell.

I don't think we have a real grip on how much the loss of Jobs will affect technology innovation over the next decade. If he died a decade earlier we don't get the iPod or iPhone until much later and instead would have gotten crappy versions of those products that made a smaller impact because they wouldn't work well enough for mainstream America to adopt.
 
Or someone else would have come up with a great idea, perhaps even a better idea, the iPod/phone/pad would have never been conceived and we'd be none the wiser.

Definitely lost an important figure with his passing but it's not like innovation is going to grind to a halt.
 
I think for all the plaudits the iPod / iPhone / iPad / iTunes / digital content revolution will receive in terms of his impact on technology and the world, his second tour with Apple was far less influential than his first.
 
vadimivich said:
I think for all the plaudits the iPod / iPhone / iPad / iTunes / digital content revolution will receive in terms of his impact on technology and the world, his second tour with Apple was far less influential than his first.
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Completely agree

Apple part 1 - genius inventing
Apple part 2 - genius marketing
 
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
 
i know its probably too soon but the 'idead' tag made me giggle.
 
What a great speech.


You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
 
wakegrrl said:
The very first desktop computer I ever used was one of the original Macs, I guess (fall of 1985 in the OG&B office at Wake). It changed my life, and certainly changed my career trajectory. RIP, Steve. You changed the whole world, not just mine.
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Larry, Moe & Curly!
 
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