What's Steve Jobs to me?

[Lex]

I'm sitting here at my iMac. My iPod and is close by. If I were to call my wife, she'd answer on her iPhone. We're going to get an iPad. Technologically, it's been an Apple (which is to say Jobs) decade for us. Well, the new flat screen is a Samsung, but otherwise our money has gone to Apple.

He seems to have been much deeper and broader than the stereotypical geek/nerd genius. He seems to have been a rare bird, one who has done our species proud.

Here's a link to a commencement address he gave at Stanford in 2005:

http://mashable.com/2011/10/06/steve-jo ... nt-speech/

Here's a brief excerpt, which may make you want to spend the time listening to the whole thing (it's the video included with this article):

http://www.boston.com/business/technolo ... News_links


Here are some links to a most interesting period in Jobs' career--the backpacker in India:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour ... 8.4.1l13l0

[lprof]

He was exceptional... a giant... in my opinion.

Some Steve Jobs quotes I like... posted by iPad...
 
I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs
 
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Steve Jobs
 
‎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. Steve Jobs
 
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs
 
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs
 
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs
 
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will. Steve Jobs

[toni]

What a loss; who knows what other ideas might have come from him. I remember being responsible for the Macs at one of the libraries on campus back mid 80s. This made me go look at them online, how much has changed. I heard on TV how probably many people learned about his death on a device he'd helped create and it was true for me-I got a "push" from CNN on my IPad last night. RIP Mr. Jobs.

[Anthony]

The Mac has been deeply ingrained in my daily life since my first one in 199something - I often wonder what life would have been like without it.

[Marcia (Mrs. Pete)]

I wish he had made a car. Can you imagine?

[Lex]

That's a really intriguing thought. If he had, I'd imagine that I'd own one.

[Marcia (Mrs. Pete)]

That's a really intriguing thought. If he had, I'd imagine that I'd own one.

Me too. We have everything else he's ever created.

[Lovermont]

What did Steve Jobs mean to me? Well, when I was about 10, he was just the geeky friend of my equally geeky oldest brother. They'd play Risk on our living room floor and shoot hoops out on our driveway. Steve and my brother Philip were about sixteen. I've always been a huge fan of all things Apple, and currently have a MacBook Air, iPhone 4 and and iPad. My husband has my old MacBook, an iMac and an iPod Touch. In our basement we have an old Classic II, another Mac laptop, another old iMac, a first generation iPod and the first generation iPod Touch. We're hoarders.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the pride of Homestead High School, my alma mater. Many of my high school friends went on to work at Apple, some were key players in the original Macintosh design team.
The last time I saw Steve was in 1990, at a sales conference for a Silicon Valley software firm at which I worked. He was our key-note speaker, and he - of course - energized us all.
We all knew that he was gravely ill, but his death is so difficult to accept. It's really comforting to know that so many people share this deep sorrow. I hope great things continue to develop at Apple, as a fitting tribute to Steve Jobs.

[Terry]

Lovermont,
What a great story. Having really only his HS diploma, makes your high school pretty big on the map of education.

He really is a tribute to what people can do if they just put their mind to it.

I graduated from college with Howie Schultz. At that time he had no idea what his future would hold, but he was a go getter.