Have we lost a sense of perspective?
Do people honestly believe this sort of thing, or are they writing it just to get a reaction:
"You changed the world and made a bigger impact on our lives than anyone have done before you, and probably ever will."
"There should still be a public memorial though, maybe not a memorial service but a national 1 or 2 minute silence around the globe or in the USA and UK or something along those lines or maybe events celebrating Steve's life taking place in Apple stores around the world."
"While I certainly respect the family's decision to do as Steve would have wished, I do find it odd that they would not hold some sort of public memorial for a man who had such a profound impact on the lives of so many people."
"Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Burlesconi etc need to get together and arrange a national minutes silence in Steve's honour in their countries so that everyone can pay their respects."
"There is an Apple device in almost every household and in the households that there aren't there is almost certainly a pc with a mouse or a DVD of Toy Story, Steve's life and work exists in almost every home in those countries so it is right that there should be a minutes silence for Steve"
Steve Jobs did great things, but surely nobody really believes that he had "a bigger impact on our lives than anyone have done before", that we should respect his wishes for privacy but "hold some sort of public memorial" (i.e. not respect his request for privacy at all) and that because there "is an Apple device in almost every household" we should have a period of international mourning. (Using the "in every household" logic means we'd be having minute's silences for the creators of LCD panels, cellphones, remote controls, CDs, paperclips....!)
"I wonder how many people actually cried when Einstein died, or Beethoven died, people who have never met them."
I expect you'd be shocked by how few. The reaction to Einstein's death is easily researched in papers' archives, as it was only 1955 - and it's noticeably different to today. And nobody could argue that Einstein didn't change the world profoundly.
"Jobs was generous. Jobs gave his time. So much of it, he even said he agreed to the biography so his children could know him better."
I hope you can see how incredibly sad that statement is. Maybe he could have given a little less time to us, and a bit more to those who really would have felt its absence?
I am very sad that an extremely talented man, who was only 56, has died, leaving a family and children.
I think that is the real tragedy, but I fear that people are losing perspective.
Do people honestly believe this sort of thing, or are they writing it just to get a reaction:
"You changed the world and made a bigger impact on our lives than anyone have done before you, and probably ever will."
"There should still be a public memorial though, maybe not a memorial service but a national 1 or 2 minute silence around the globe or in the USA and UK or something along those lines or maybe events celebrating Steve's life taking place in Apple stores around the world."
"While I certainly respect the family's decision to do as Steve would have wished, I do find it odd that they would not hold some sort of public memorial for a man who had such a profound impact on the lives of so many people."
"Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Burlesconi etc need to get together and arrange a national minutes silence in Steve's honour in their countries so that everyone can pay their respects."
"There is an Apple device in almost every household and in the households that there aren't there is almost certainly a pc with a mouse or a DVD of Toy Story, Steve's life and work exists in almost every home in those countries so it is right that there should be a minutes silence for Steve"
Steve Jobs did great things, but surely nobody really believes that he had "a bigger impact on our lives than anyone have done before", that we should respect his wishes for privacy but "hold some sort of public memorial" (i.e. not respect his request for privacy at all) and that because there "is an Apple device in almost every household" we should have a period of international mourning. (Using the "in every household" logic means we'd be having minute's silences for the creators of LCD panels, cellphones, remote controls, CDs, paperclips....!)
"I wonder how many people actually cried when Einstein died, or Beethoven died, people who have never met them."
I expect you'd be shocked by how few. The reaction to Einstein's death is easily researched in papers' archives, as it was only 1955 - and it's noticeably different to today. And nobody could argue that Einstein didn't change the world profoundly.
"Jobs was generous. Jobs gave his time. So much of it, he even said he agreed to the biography so his children could know him better."
I hope you can see how incredibly sad that statement is. Maybe he could have given a little less time to us, and a bit more to those who really would have felt its absence?
I am very sad that an extremely talented man, who was only 56, has died, leaving a family and children.
I think that is the real tragedy, but I fear that people are losing perspective.
