Steve Jobs has died
By Kelly BourdetOctober 5th, 2011, 7:16 pmComments (33)
Less than two months after resigning his position as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs has died in California. He was fifty-six. Jobs suffered from health problems for years; in 2004, he survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and was forced to undergo a liver transplant in 2009.
A computer prodigy, Jobs famously dropped out of Reed College, and then, at age twenty-one, founded Apple with friend Steve Wozniak. He was on the cover of Time magazine by age twenty-six. Jobs' biography is well known, so I won't rehash it here. Instead, I'll leave you with a quote from this visionary inventor:
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 others’ 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.
Comments ( 33 )
Rest in peace, Steve, and thanks for all the cool stuff.
This is way too soon, but I'm assuming his tombstone will just read "iDied."
seriously though, this is sad. rest in peace to an innovator.
......................................................................................... that would actually be pretty badass...
Already done:
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iLaughed
iCame.
Damn it. And someone as useless as me still chugs along...
Innovator? Ha! Ripped-off Xerox-Parc Labs ... actually Woz did.
Showman, period.
Well, not at all. Sure some of the idea for the original Lisa came from PARC but, first, it didn't capitalize on them and, second, there's no way you can look at the iPad, iPod or iPhone and point back to what they did at Xerox.
Everyone knows Xerox invented the iPhone. Duh!
Uhhh, its not like Steve was tinkering down in the labs and made the iPod, iPhone, etc.
They were made by talented engineers and designers who have been made annonymous while Steve took the credit. Cult of personality. Period.
Innovation isn't just about the technology
Actually, I'm just jealous that even in his death, Steve Jobs gets more attention than me.
Sure and Ford Motor Company was just where Henry Ford happened to find a job.
Incredibly sad. I love the quote
Apple, the most environmentally unfriendly IT company.
iPod, the most overpriced piece of garbage ever. (Sansa Clip is $30 and produces better music quality, WAY better music quality)
The rate at which Apple churns out 'new' technology creates an unsustainable attitude among people by promoting wasteful notions.
Yep, Steve Jobs, you're the man. The green world appreciates your shit.
We don't like people "thinking different"...it's bad for the bottom line. Posing as an "environmentalist" who hates Apple is brilliant. Keep up the good work, boys!
Posing? Majoring in environment and sustainability is hardly posing. He should've written a book on how to make a cult.
Oh no. You don't work for us! You are our worst nightmare, hippie.
Jobs was a hippie iHole.
@Lawrence - If you're majoring in "environment" why would we trust your assessment of computer gear? The Luddite view of sustainability is ridiculous.
I assume you're using a mid-90s cell phone?
No, I got my first phone in 08 used. It was an 06 model.
Studying technology doesn't necessarily require owning the piece. One could just study the company itself.
Studying technology is no problem. Commenting on it intelligently requires expertise. As an "environment" major, I'm not seeing it.
Lawrence, what Publius is saying is that you're not commenting "intelligently" if he doesn't agree with you.
Incorrect, Hugh. I'm saying I put no value in someone's opinion when he or she is expressing an opinion in on a subject about which he or she has no expertise.
When you need medical treatment, you consult a civil engineer, correct?
What exactly do you call an expert then? Someone who claims to know something better than you even though experts are more often wrong than they are right? Guessing gives you a better chance of being right than being an expert and using educated guessing.
I don't have to be an expert in technology to know that he produced a cult of Apple lemurs who will buy the next new thing even if it isn't any different. It's a terrible concept of making people waste more. Al Gore on the board of directors or not, that's bullshit.
I do find it interesting that those who demonize large corporations all use Apple products.
The anti-establishment corporation with a $390 stock price.
Just pegs my irony meter.
AAPL...that I was fortunate enough to buy at $95...
I don't know what Steve Jobs did or didn't do in his life,but I do know Great Men and Woman wern't perfect,no one is .He was a child of God and now he is with God.Maybe you people should be loving ,like God want's us to be.Never know where you will end up.
Isn't there some sort of limit of like 136,000 people in Heaven? Pretty sure that's been filled up a long time ago. Jobs ain't going there. No one is.
Tip top stuff. I'll epxcet more now.
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