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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
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Wow, couldn't believe the news.
The world lost a true independent thinker - I hope the culture you fostered and engender into your employees will continue to thrive and shape the way the world thinks of computing. RIP, Steve.
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Thank you Sir
Because of you I was able to share the my daughters birth, first steps, and first trip to Santa Claus with all of her grandparents, live.
If it was your dream to make people smile with tears in their eyes, you did it.
Safe home, Steve
Because of you I was able to share the my daughters birth, first steps, and first trip to Santa Claus with all of her grandparents, live.
If it was your dream to make people smile with tears in their eyes, you did it.
Safe home, Steve
Steve Jobs was a true visionary and has positively impacted the lives of so many at the helm of Apple. Call him a control freak, an eccentric - whatever. I don't think anyone can deny the contributions he's made to the connected world.
I learned to type at 8 years of age on an Apple II. I wrote my first program at the age of 10 using Apple BASIC. I played Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail on the same Apple II machines. Memories...
As an adult, I didn't use Macs exclusively until about 10 years ago (my family couldn't afford an Apple computer in my youth). I'll always remember the magical experience I had with my very first Mac, a PowerBook G4 Titanium. Another magical moment: the iPod. It revolutionized the way people listen to music all over the world. It paved the way for numerous imitators, yet it still carried itself above the competition as the elite portable media device - and that still stands today. The iPhone completely changed the smartphone game through remarkable innovation.
When you really think about it, how many technology CEOs have truly accomplished what Steve has? Not very many. While I didn't always agree with Steve's decisions, nothing but humbled respect comes from this side of the table.
RIP Steve. You will be missed dearly. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your loving family. Thanks for everything!
I learned to type at 8 years of age on an Apple II. I wrote my first program at the age of 10 using Apple BASIC. I played Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail on the same Apple II machines. Memories...
As an adult, I didn't use Macs exclusively until about 10 years ago (my family couldn't afford an Apple computer in my youth). I'll always remember the magical experience I had with my very first Mac, a PowerBook G4 Titanium. Another magical moment: the iPod. It revolutionized the way people listen to music all over the world. It paved the way for numerous imitators, yet it still carried itself above the competition as the elite portable media device - and that still stands today. The iPhone completely changed the smartphone game through remarkable innovation.
When you really think about it, how many technology CEOs have truly accomplished what Steve has? Not very many. While I didn't always agree with Steve's decisions, nothing but humbled respect comes from this side of the table.
RIP Steve. You will be missed dearly. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your loving family. Thanks for everything!
I normally don't get too invested in celebrity deaths, etc but this is certainly different. I learned of his passing from a gadget in my pocket and am now typing this on a sleek all in one PC with a killer OS - Largely because of Jobs' creative and visionary leadership. RIP.
I can't help but thinking...
If only every industry had a Steve Jobs
I can't help but thinking...
If only every industry had a Steve Jobs
Woke up from a restless sleep and, as I habitually do when my mind won't let me drift, slid open my iPhone to check Twitter. I haven't been able to get back to sleep since. It doesn't matter how ill someone like Steve Jobs is. For some reason the mind can't process the idea that someone so astonishing, so intelligent and so visionary can die. He was just a man, after all.
I never met Steve Jobs but I knew him. I knew him through his work and through his words which inspire and delight me and have done for so many years now. If not for him I wouldn't care the way I do about what technology can do for people, how technology can change the world. I wouldn't really get it because, to me, no one has ever been able to express it so clearly and so beautifully.
In my life some great figures have passed away. Arthur C. Clarke, Douglas Adams and John Lennon, to name but three. To this list I can now sadly add Steve Jobs. I'm so sad that he's gone.
I never met Steve Jobs but I knew him. I knew him through his work and through his words which inspire and delight me and have done for so many years now. If not for him I wouldn't care the way I do about what technology can do for people, how technology can change the world. I wouldn't really get it because, to me, no one has ever been able to express it so clearly and so beautifully.
In my life some great figures have passed away. Arthur C. Clarke, Douglas Adams and John Lennon, to name but three. To this list I can now sadly add Steve Jobs. I'm so sad that he's gone.
I hope nobody rips me, but it definitely reminds me of when John Lennon died. Two peas in a pod. Steve was one of a kind. Not perfect, but he did what did in spite of his imperfections.
Check out this short tribute video I made featuring two of my favorite quotes from Steve.
Can't believe he's gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWEYYQ-DTY
Can't believe he's gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWEYYQ-DTY
I attended Homestead High School in Cupertino with Steve Jobs in the early 1970's and could not figure out why anyone would want a computer.
A number of years later in 1984, Steve came out with the Macintosh, the "computer for the rest of us." It changed my life.
Thank you Steve.
A number of years later in 1984, Steve came out with the Macintosh, the "computer for the rest of us." It changed my life.
Thank you Steve.
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as a woman engineer - i always looked up to successful women, but steve was one of the few men that truely inspired me. No offense to men, but women in science would understand! He will be missed!
And I'm mourning the loss with a new mug. truly i am... iSad
http://www.zazzle.com/isad_mourning_steve_jobs_mug-168707509953687934
as a woman engineer - i always looked up to successful women, but steve was one of the few men that truely inspired me. No offense to men, but women in science would understand! He will be missed!
And I'm mourning the loss with a new mug. truly i am... iSad
http://www.zazzle.com/isad_mourning_steve_jobs_mug-168707509953687934
In the grand scheme of things some how, an iPhone release does not mean anything right now.
I am battling terminal cancer also at 57 and have identified with Steve in his fight. He has inspired me to push my limits and cherish my family because in the end, that's the most important thing there is in life.
I also don't know Steve personally, but his exposure was bigger than life itself.
Prayers to his family
I am battling terminal cancer also at 57 and have identified with Steve in his fight. He has inspired me to push my limits and cherish my family because in the end, that's the most important thing there is in life.
I also don't know Steve personally, but his exposure was bigger than life itself.
Prayers to his family
Not at all. This reminds me of how I felt when Jerry Garcia died.
Just a sad,dreary day.
After reading the news tonight, while working as a retoucher at a retouching studio here in NYC, I contemplated on how nearly everything I do all day, every day, even after work, involves something touched by this one man's influence and vision.
Then I read a few obituaries, and noted in particular a passage in one that mentioned how a young Steve had quit an early job at Atari to travel to India (and take psychedelic drugs), and how that was basically where he found himself.
I left work for the evening, and walked home, continuing to feel contemplative about Steve's passing. As I crossed 23rd St, heading south on Broadway, I noticed a man selling paintings. I thought it rather odd, because in 20+ years of living in the same neighborhood, and walking the same streets every day, I have never seen anyone selling paintings on 23rd St at Broadway, much less at 8:30pm.
The artist had many smaller paintings laid out on a table, but one BIG painting mounted to a metal pole, with two work lamps pointed directly at it, illuminating it. It was the biggest and most eye catching painting of the lot, and clearly the one the artist was most proud of.
The painting was a bold graphic desert landscape, in surreal vibrant colors, with an indescribable, but very deity-like figure at the very center. The painting struck me as modern Indian art (not American Indian). And arching across the sky directly over the deity figure, was several lines of perfectly executed ones and zeroes...a binary code rainbow, shining in the sky.
Very psychedelic. Very Indian influenced. Very young Steve Jobs. A very haunting, beautiful, and moving moment I will never forget.
Then I read a few obituaries, and noted in particular a passage in one that mentioned how a young Steve had quit an early job at Atari to travel to India (and take psychedelic drugs), and how that was basically where he found himself.
I left work for the evening, and walked home, continuing to feel contemplative about Steve's passing. As I crossed 23rd St, heading south on Broadway, I noticed a man selling paintings. I thought it rather odd, because in 20+ years of living in the same neighborhood, and walking the same streets every day, I have never seen anyone selling paintings on 23rd St at Broadway, much less at 8:30pm.
The artist had many smaller paintings laid out on a table, but one BIG painting mounted to a metal pole, with two work lamps pointed directly at it, illuminating it. It was the biggest and most eye catching painting of the lot, and clearly the one the artist was most proud of.
The painting was a bold graphic desert landscape, in surreal vibrant colors, with an indescribable, but very deity-like figure at the very center. The painting struck me as modern Indian art (not American Indian). And arching across the sky directly over the deity figure, was several lines of perfectly executed ones and zeroes...a binary code rainbow, shining in the sky.
Very psychedelic. Very Indian influenced. Very young Steve Jobs. A very haunting, beautiful, and moving moment I will never forget.
NB: Thanks by the way for making me possible to write this among thousands of people with the possibility they can read this, you've enaibled this all!
I was so sorry to hear this a few hours ago. What a loss, and it wasn't expected. Not today anyway.
This probably explains why most of the Apple people on stage yesterday seemed off their game. They probably all knew that this was coming.
A real great one has left us.
This probably explains why most of the Apple people on stage yesterday seemed off their game. They probably all knew that this was coming.
A real great one has left us.
the drive, the passion,
The vision.
Always the vision. And always the need for design to match the vision. I don't think we'll see anything quite like this in a company again - across so many avenues: computer, music player, phone, tablet.
The guy took Apple off the turf and turned it around for $1 a year.
Because he wanted to.
He fought the good fight and he kept pressing, always pressing. When I saw him at the last keynote earlier this year, I could not get over he did not seem right. The feeling was disturbing. Then this one not even there, not even in the audience.
I felt an odd feeling the other day wondering why we have not heard about him. There was no news on him, his condition, nothing. It stayed with me that question about a week ago.
Tonight I came here because other than Apple itself, this site represents Apple's spirit.
The person I want to hear from, speak to and hear stories now is Woz.
I hope we do get to hear from Woz soon. Because they were an extension of each other in a beautiful way.
Those of us who followed Apple products over decades know. There was always something elegant and beautiful in Apple. The push to keep the idea alive and pushing the envelope further and further.
Doing it on so many levels has been an incredible ride. May God take Steve in his hand and introduce him to His greatest OS ever.
I'm sure Steve will love every second of it.
Condolences to the Jobs family. Prayers up.
The vision.
Always the vision. And always the need for design to match the vision. I don't think we'll see anything quite like this in a company again - across so many avenues: computer, music player, phone, tablet.
The guy took Apple off the turf and turned it around for $1 a year.
Because he wanted to.
He fought the good fight and he kept pressing, always pressing. When I saw him at the last keynote earlier this year, I could not get over he did not seem right. The feeling was disturbing. Then this one not even there, not even in the audience.
I felt an odd feeling the other day wondering why we have not heard about him. There was no news on him, his condition, nothing. It stayed with me that question about a week ago.
Tonight I came here because other than Apple itself, this site represents Apple's spirit.
The person I want to hear from, speak to and hear stories now is Woz.
I hope we do get to hear from Woz soon. Because they were an extension of each other in a beautiful way.
Those of us who followed Apple products over decades know. There was always something elegant and beautiful in Apple. The push to keep the idea alive and pushing the envelope further and further.
Doing it on so many levels has been an incredible ride. May God take Steve in his hand and introduce him to His greatest OS ever.
I'm sure Steve will love every second of it.
Condolences to the Jobs family. Prayers up.
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Cheers to a man who blessed us with his vision, his creativity, and his passion for innovation. He has left a mark on a generation, and has touched my life in so many ways. For that I am eternally grateful.
Steve Kochan
Author, Programming in C for the Mac, Beginning AppleScript, and Programming in Objective-C
Author, Unix Shell Programming , Topics in C Programming, and Unix System Security, with figures drawn with MacDraw on a Macintosh and typeset on an Apple LaserWriter.
Cheers to a man who blessed us with his vision, his creativity, and his passion for innovation. He has left a mark on a generation, and has touched my life in so many ways. For that I am eternally grateful.
Steve Kochan
Author, Programming in C for the Mac, Beginning AppleScript, and Programming in Objective-C
Author, Unix Shell Programming , Topics in C Programming, and Unix System Security, with figures drawn with MacDraw on a Macintosh and typeset on an Apple LaserWriter.
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Nope you're not. I feel devastated too. I have serious stuff I should do but I'm just here, like paralyzed. A few weeks or months ago I watched his Stanford speech to graduating students and it really hit home. Today, as he's gone, those words are resonating in a much stronger way, especially the following that Tom Anderson (Myspace founder) posted on Google+:
I think those words are going to obsess me in the near future, hopefully in a positive way. The message is life-changing, perhaps even-more than all the revolutionary Apple products the design of which he presided.
It just doesn't seem right. It's like it hasn't sunk in that there will be no more appearances by Steve in his signature turtleneck, and there won't be anymore amazing devices he designed. I only hope that Tim Cook and the rest of Apple can continue to innovate and act as Steve would, because it's his life's work and it'd be a great tribute. It's really sad he had to go so young, when I'm sure he had a lot more to give to Apple and the world.
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