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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
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So sad
I still can't believe he's gone. He and Wozniak released their first machine the year I was born. I don't think I'll ever be able to get used to living in a world without Steve Jobs in it.
It's amazing what he managed to achieve in his lifetime though. Hopefully his legacy will last for at least several more.
I still can't believe he's gone. He and Wozniak released their first machine the year I was born. I don't think I'll ever be able to get used to living in a world without Steve Jobs in it.
It's amazing what he managed to achieve in his lifetime though. Hopefully his legacy will last for at least several more.
Heh, I suppose that can be arranged. I only went for here for the ease of logging in and such.
Sad, just sad
He died young yet contributed what many couldn't have done in a lifetime. I remember him writing a letter back to me when I complained about the inability to upgrade an Apple II+ to a //e. He actually took the time to write back to a high school student. May god give you peace Steve
Noushy
He died young yet contributed what many couldn't have done in a lifetime. I remember him writing a letter back to me when I complained about the inability to upgrade an Apple II+ to a //e. He actually took the time to write back to a high school student. May god give you peace Steve
Noushy
I want to preface by saying I'm not a detractor. I'm a lifelong user of Apple products, so I hope the first part of this isn't taken in the wrong way:
It's very enlightening to hear this, because a long time ago I read my father's copy of Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People." Carnegie shared an anecdote in which an executive, perhaps Charles Schwab (correct me if I'm mistaken), had related to him that one should master the ability to tell someone to go to hell so charismatically that they're willing to pack their bags with a smile.
Steve sometimes had to deliver news not to customers' liking. All arguments about fairness or business models aside, he mastered this skill. It's essential because in business as in life you cannot and will not please everyone. And so I find it a testament to his genius that you remember him today as a *result* of, and not in spite of, the unfortunate news he had to relay to you.
It's difficult enough to be remembered positively by the people whose expectations you've exceeded, but far more difficult to be admired by the people whose expectations you could not meet.
Dear Steve
Dear Steve,
You have taught me so much about life.
1. Have a vision and a purpose.
2. Go after that vision and purpose.
3. Dont be afraid of other people when they get in the way of your vision and purpose.
4. Work hard and long, and when that is not enough, work harder.
5. Confront people when appropriate. It makes magic happen.
6. Make sure that the work produced is beautiful.
7. Make sure that the work produced is functional.
8. Dont be afraid to start over.
Your friend,
Sim
Dear Steve,
You have taught me so much about life.
1. Have a vision and a purpose.
2. Go after that vision and purpose.
3. Dont be afraid of other people when they get in the way of your vision and purpose.
4. Work hard and long, and when that is not enough, work harder.
5. Confront people when appropriate. It makes magic happen.
6. Make sure that the work produced is beautiful.
7. Make sure that the work produced is functional.
8. Dont be afraid to start over.
Your friend,
Sim
steve
steve would not want you to, never get used to it. Steve would say, "get on with it, the past is the past, learn from it and move on" take what you have learned and any other take aways, apply them and make your life better.
good luck! Maybe YOU are the next Steve Jobs!
Anything is possible!
THAT is what steve would say
steve would not want you to, never get used to it. Steve would say, "get on with it, the past is the past, learn from it and move on" take what you have learned and any other take aways, apply them and make your life better.
good luck! Maybe YOU are the next Steve Jobs!
Anything is possible!
THAT is what steve would say
I find many of these "Steve Jobs changed my life" posts amusing - not insincere, not insignificant, but amusing. Steve really did change _ my_ life. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and I moved from the east coast to California to work for him. That story is a novel, not a forum post, so no details.
My reaction to Steve's demise is intense sadness, and _rage_ that such a mind could be wiped out far too soon by a mere frailty of the flesh.
My reaction to Steve's demise is intense sadness, and _rage_ that such a mind could be wiped out far too soon by a mere frailty of the flesh.
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It's interesting that you would feel a monopoly on the "change my life" stocks because you actually worked with Steve Jobs. I suppose this was just another man who ran a company, just like anybody else? Your comments don't seem to match reality, but seem more of an attempt to feel superior. You may feel superior, I'll permit you to feel that way....just this once.
I worked for Steve at NeXT (though I later worked at Apple under Scully).
To reply to the immediate prior poster, I probably expressed myself poorly. I do _not_ in any way feel myself superior to folks who've had their lives changed, shall we say, -_indirectly_, by Steve Jobs. I've had that experience myself. I did something significant with the first Macintosh shortly after it was introduced (doesn't matter what) that got me a classic Andy Warhol "fifteen minutes of fame". My sole exposure prior to that was owning an Apple // e - I had no direct connection with anyone at Apple.
Anyway, it turned out, ultimately, that the mere exposure to the Macintosh, and what I did with it, were life-changing. So I respect the testaments we've seen here, I do not denigrate them.
Steve changed my life forever in 1978
It was in 1978 when I was a Senior Civil Engineering student in Venezuela Central University. I was supposed to code a program in the only mainframe computer available. At that time, you had to punch program instructions in cards, put them together and submitted to counter. Then after a few hours and sometimes the next day, you returned to pick up the cards with the wrapped printed output, usually saying that the compiler had found an error in one of the cards.
About the same time, a friend of mine told me that he had purchased a computer. Obviously, I thought he was pulling my leg, but he insisted, and he brought me to his computer. It was an Apple II computer. It was what looked to me as a sleek typewriter connected to an standard TV set and to a portable cassette player. My friend showed me how he could write a simple Basic program that printed on screen a list of the first 10 natural numbers. What a prowess!
The next day I was leaving on vacations to NYC with my family, and the first thing I did on arrival was to go to the fist electronic shop I found and asked for an Apple computer. Nobody understood what I was talking about. Then I called Apple Computer office in Cupertino and they told me the only place in NY that I could find an Apple II. I immediately went and purchased one. What a deal: $1500 for a 32k byte computer with an external floppy disk drive that could store 100k in each floppy. No monitor of course.
Upon my return, I had a hard time convincing my advisor that that machine was really a computer, but in the end, I was able to learn Applesoft (Apples programming Basic language), code the armoring program and graduate in time. I was one of the first Apple computers in Venezuela I guess.
After 33 years of that experience, I still keep my Apple II computer and will always recognize how a guy of almost my same age called Steve Jobs changed my life forever in 1978.
It was in 1978 when I was a Senior Civil Engineering student in Venezuela Central University. I was supposed to code a program in the only mainframe computer available. At that time, you had to punch program instructions in cards, put them together and submitted to counter. Then after a few hours and sometimes the next day, you returned to pick up the cards with the wrapped printed output, usually saying that the compiler had found an error in one of the cards.
About the same time, a friend of mine told me that he had purchased a computer. Obviously, I thought he was pulling my leg, but he insisted, and he brought me to his computer. It was an Apple II computer. It was what looked to me as a sleek typewriter connected to an standard TV set and to a portable cassette player. My friend showed me how he could write a simple Basic program that printed on screen a list of the first 10 natural numbers. What a prowess!
The next day I was leaving on vacations to NYC with my family, and the first thing I did on arrival was to go to the fist electronic shop I found and asked for an Apple computer. Nobody understood what I was talking about. Then I called Apple Computer office in Cupertino and they told me the only place in NY that I could find an Apple II. I immediately went and purchased one. What a deal: $1500 for a 32k byte computer with an external floppy disk drive that could store 100k in each floppy. No monitor of course.
Upon my return, I had a hard time convincing my advisor that that machine was really a computer, but in the end, I was able to learn Applesoft (Apples programming Basic language), code the armoring program and graduate in time. I was one of the first Apple computers in Venezuela I guess.
After 33 years of that experience, I still keep my Apple II computer and will always recognize how a guy of almost my same age called Steve Jobs changed my life forever in 1978.
Moment of Silence Video with Six Macs & an iPad
Here's my tribute video with six of nine of my own Macs and my iPad. We currently have a total of at least fifteen Macs in our house, but some of them were unavailable or not enabled for me to put in the video at the time, but here it is:
http://youtu.be/6lKFIdhMqVE
Please read the video description, as well. Thanks!
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Even after five days, it's still difficult to believe you're gone.
Here's my tribute video with six of nine of my own Macs and my iPad. We currently have a total of at least fifteen Macs in our house, but some of them were unavailable or not enabled for me to put in the video at the time, but here it is:
http://youtu.be/6lKFIdhMqVE
Please read the video description, as well. Thanks!
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Even after five days, it's still difficult to believe you're gone.
I've been really down ever since I found out.
I know this likely sounds really stupid, but I'll say it anyway: I just can't get over the fact that he's no longer here, no longer actively in the present sharing his ideas. One day he was here, sitting at a desk putting his thoughts together or advising senior employees, and in the next moment that life was snuffed out. No more voice. No more running a good or bad ideas across him.
Whenever I use my iPad, I start thinking about future versions...the iPad 5, 6, and it kind of freaks me out that he won't be able to see any of that (though I know he had years of plans ready, it's not the same as him delivering the keynote and watching fans use the final versions). It all seems very surreal. He's always been here as long as I've been alive, so there's this disconnect in my head now. Logically, I know life is short, people die (I lost a very close family member relatively recently), but it's still very difficult for me to digest that they're both gone.
I feel kind of dumb about this because it's not like I ever met him. I admired him greatly like an idol/mentor, but it's not like I even wanted a job like his; rather, I admired his work ethic, philosophy, and ingenuity, and he inspired me to apply some of his tenets to my own life and career choice. So I'm pretty upset about this, and I'm surprised at how upset I am. Maybe it's because that very close family member and I used to bond over Apple products and watch the keynotes?
Still can't believe it.
I know this likely sounds really stupid, but I'll say it anyway: I just can't get over the fact that he's no longer here, no longer actively in the present sharing his ideas. One day he was here, sitting at a desk putting his thoughts together or advising senior employees, and in the next moment that life was snuffed out. No more voice. No more running a good or bad ideas across him.
Whenever I use my iPad, I start thinking about future versions...the iPad 5, 6, and it kind of freaks me out that he won't be able to see any of that (though I know he had years of plans ready, it's not the same as him delivering the keynote and watching fans use the final versions). It all seems very surreal. He's always been here as long as I've been alive, so there's this disconnect in my head now. Logically, I know life is short, people die (I lost a very close family member relatively recently), but it's still very difficult for me to digest that they're both gone.
I feel kind of dumb about this because it's not like I ever met him. I admired him greatly like an idol/mentor, but it's not like I even wanted a job like his; rather, I admired his work ethic, philosophy, and ingenuity, and he inspired me to apply some of his tenets to my own life and career choice. So I'm pretty upset about this, and I'm surprised at how upset I am. Maybe it's because that very close family member and I used to bond over Apple products and watch the keynotes?
Still can't believe it.
As someone who's father is dying of cancer his passing was all the more upsetting...
It was my father buying me a Mac IIsi that started me down a career path that has enabled me to live the comfortable life I live today.
Truly a sad moment in time.
It was my father buying me a Mac IIsi that started me down a career path that has enabled me to live the comfortable life I live today.
Truly a sad moment in time.
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Steve Jobs on Business Practices & Death:
While going over some old magazines looking for interviews with Steve, I came arose the November 9, 1998 issue of Fortune magazine. The following is an excerpt:
'In business, if I knew earlier what I know now, I’d have probably done some things a lot better than I did., but I also would’ve probably done some other things a lot worse. But so what? It’s more important to be engaged in the present.
'I’ll give you a perfect example. On vacation recently I was reading this book by (physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynmann [sic]. He had cancer, you know. In this book he was describing one of his last operations before he died. The doctor said to him, “Look, Richard, I’m not sure you’re going to make it.” And Feynmann made the doctor promise that if it became clear he wasn’t going to survive, to take away the anesthetic. Do you know why? Feynmann said, “I want to feel what it’s like to turn off.” That’s a good way to put yourself in the present - to look at what’s affecting you right now and be curious about it even if its bad.'
RIP, Steve :***( Our thoughts are with your family in this difficult time ...
While going over some old magazines looking for interviews with Steve, I came arose the November 9, 1998 issue of Fortune magazine. The following is an excerpt:
'In business, if I knew earlier what I know now, I’d have probably done some things a lot better than I did., but I also would’ve probably done some other things a lot worse. But so what? It’s more important to be engaged in the present.
'I’ll give you a perfect example. On vacation recently I was reading this book by (physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynmann [sic]. He had cancer, you know. In this book he was describing one of his last operations before he died. The doctor said to him, “Look, Richard, I’m not sure you’re going to make it.” And Feynmann made the doctor promise that if it became clear he wasn’t going to survive, to take away the anesthetic. Do you know why? Feynmann said, “I want to feel what it’s like to turn off.” That’s a good way to put yourself in the present - to look at what’s affecting you right now and be curious about it even if its bad.'
RIP, Steve :***( Our thoughts are with your family in this difficult time ...
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Some nice new takes / personal ways of looking at things here today - I refresh this thread often during the day; it is pleasing to see that it keeps going and in such a personal way.
@ipoddingalong: Yeah I agree that it is weird to think he won't be introducing, or using, the future developments - I wonder how far out he was thinking more recently, of course it's so hard to predict what is going to come of it all especially as the pace seems to be picking up, but given that his ideas were always years ahead of what Apple had released, and what Apple had released tended to be years ahead of the overall game ... who knows.
I was watching some of the early noughties' keynotes at the weekend - for one thing, it was nice to see recent comments that others were going back to watch them as well. For another, it was just amazing to look back at what was being released (G4 iMac, 12" & 17" PowerBooks in particular) and when it was being released, and then thinking - even now those that are driven on imitation don't hold a candle to those machines.
Imagining a world without such iconic devices as those, let alone our iPhones and beyond, is pretty crazy - it's going to be a different future now ... but at least thanks to Steve, we're already there!
@ipoddingalong: Yeah I agree that it is weird to think he won't be introducing, or using, the future developments - I wonder how far out he was thinking more recently, of course it's so hard to predict what is going to come of it all especially as the pace seems to be picking up, but given that his ideas were always years ahead of what Apple had released, and what Apple had released tended to be years ahead of the overall game ... who knows.
I was watching some of the early noughties' keynotes at the weekend - for one thing, it was nice to see recent comments that others were going back to watch them as well. For another, it was just amazing to look back at what was being released (G4 iMac, 12" & 17" PowerBooks in particular) and when it was being released, and then thinking - even now those that are driven on imitation don't hold a candle to those machines.
Imagining a world without such iconic devices as those, let alone our iPhones and beyond, is pretty crazy - it's going to be a different future now ... but at least thanks to Steve, we're already there!
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