<p>I’m tempted to go out and buy a couple of shares of Apple tomorrow, just to defy the inevitable. What he made should not be allowed to die as a result of the cynicism of so-called “investors.” (ie, parasites who have never created a thing and never will)</p>
<p>Once upon a time, a couple adopted a baby boy, shepherded him through high school and into college, only to watch him drop out and start tinkering with stuff in the garage with a friend. And thus was Apple born. Keep faith in the ability of your child to succeed in life, despite the little setbacks along the way. </p>
<p>Imagine the advice Mrs. Jobs would have gotten on CC had she written about her son dropping out of college, spending all his time in the garage, and not looking for full-time employment.</p>
<p>“7 years after diagnosis seems extraordinarily long for this type of cancer;”
He had the “less lethal” variety, but after treatment, it spread to his liver, had the liver transplant, and digestive complications arose in the last couple of years.</p>
<p>Like all the wealthy-worshiped he was a very mixed bag. And also with no exception, he had a publicist.</p>
<p>Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize there were different types of pancreatic cancer, MenloParkMom. Makes sense now that I think about it; 2 people I knew passed within 12 weeks of diagnosis, while another had a Whipple procedure and passed about 2 years later.</p>
<p>RIP… I think Steve Jobs is a publicist in his own right, an insperation to the future generations. I regret looked down on him at the darkest days of Apple and resisted on invest with him.</p>
<p>A sad day indeed.</p>
<p>I still have my color classic & my powerbook 540c in the basement.
Sad.
He was only two years older than me. & today is my birthday!.</p>
<p>^Happy birthday, emeraldkity4! Proud to be a S.F. Bay Area native while Steve Jobs was revolutionizing the world. I’m going to celebrate his life today, as only he would want! He was always the smartest guy in the room and now someone else will have to take his place. No one will be able to look so good in a black longsleeve t-shirt and denim jeans.</p>
<p>My two favorite gifts of the last, oh, twenty years (25, 30)?: an iPod (birthday 2004) and an iPhone (Christmas 2009). Sheer delight when I opened them, just like a kid. </p>
<p>That gorgeous diamond ring? Birthday, 1999…or was that 1998? Can’t quite remember. Beautiful red leather jacket…um, no idea. Wonderful, thoughtful gifts from a very generous husband, but wow, those other two are just so much <em>fun</em>!</p>
<p>Thank you, Steve Jobs, for making our world a lot more fun!</p>
<p>Our family are Apple geeks from way back. Oldest warmed to her college when she saw they had color classics and iMacs in the lounge ( so did Evergreen)
Jobs didn’t graduate from Reed, but we were proud that it made such a difference in his ( & our) lives.</p>
<p>I am reposting this commencement speech from Jobs in 2005 cause I think it is very wise.
[Text</a> of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)](<a href=“You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News”>You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News)</p>
<p>People said there are only 3 apples in the world.
First took by Adam and Eve
Second was hit Newtons head, we know the gravity
Steve took a bite on third one, we have his Apple kingdom</p>
<p>We were just remembering all the Apple products we’ve owned-- the Macintosh II, which DH wrote his PhD thesis on, the SE, 2FX, two iMacs, six powerbooks, an iPad, iPhone, four iPods plus a Touch, and the Air. That doesn’t count the desktops my husband had at work. The Apple products have been a part of our daily life for over twenty years.</p>
<p>Steve was a true innovator and will be missed by many. I wonder if anyone put flowers by his star:</p>
<p>[Move</a> over Hollywood, the Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame gets its first 7 geeks | Geek.com](<a href=“http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/move-over-hollywood-the-entrepreneurial-walk-of-fame-gets-its-first-7-geeks-20110917/]Move”>http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/move-over-hollywood-the-entrepreneurial-walk-of-fame-gets-its-first-7-geeks-20110917/)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/us/entrepreneur-walk-of-fame-opens-in-cambridge.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/us/entrepreneur-walk-of-fame-opens-in-cambridge.html</a></p>
<p>(Thank you, Steve, for making my bus rides enjoyable.)</p>
<p>Steve Jobs changed the world. My thoughts are with his family during this difficult time.</p>
<p>So sad. Respect all he has done.</p>
<p>He was a genius of our time. He changed the way the world works and the way the world lives. He is up there now with the greats - Euclid, Newton, Leibnitz, Euler, Edison, Maxwell, Bernouli, Einstein, Turing…:(</p>
<p>I’ve used Apple products for a quarter-century… my kindergarten classroom had a bank of Apple IIgs machines where I played Number Munchers and Oregon Trail. Apple has helped me dream, learn, explore, create and do magic ever since.</p>
<p>When I heard the news, I was sitting in a graduate school classroom learning about the philosophy of recreation… with a MacBook Pro on my desk. I’m not ashamed to say that my classmates probably wondered why I was having to choke back tears.</p>
<p>Thank you, Steve Jobs (and all those who worked with him) for having a vision of “a computer for the rest of us.” You will be missed - but never forgotten.</p>
<p>So sad. I love Apple products. I hope they will continue to design in the spirit in Steve Jobs. </p>
<p>My D, the science/Apple geek, called me just before ten tonight, stunned and saddened, to tell me of his passing. He truly was an iconic American visionary, a man of genius and daring. I wonder how many more of his sort we’ll see minted in America’s future, and I feel troubled by the feeling that he just might have been among our very last. I’ve never owned a single share, but it’ll pain me to watch Apple’s stock drop like a stone in a well (if only for a short time) in the wake of this. RIP Steve Jobs. America is sure to miss you.</p>
<p>polarscribe,<br>
I truly hope you dont mind that I copied your heartfelt message on to an email, told them it was from a college student who posted it on collegeconfidential and sent it and the link to
<a href="mailto:rememberingsteve@apple.com">rememberingsteve@apple.com</a>
it was so eloquent. I know it would be appreciated by his family and Apple employees world wide.</p>
<p>my son grew up on apple computers- his first school also had a computer lab filled with new computers from Apple.</p>