Steve Jobs dies

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[Steve</a> Jobs, Apple Co-Founder, Is Dead - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576410753210811910.html#ixzz1Zyf9JsUn]Steve”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576410753210811910.html#ixzz1Zyf9JsUn)</p>

<p>Yes, he was just starting because he was constantly thinking and working. My DH’s words, “So sad. The planet lost one of its best innovators. He died so young, he was completely absorbed by his work and did not get a chance to grow old, sit back, relax and enjoy the world he helped to shape”.</p>

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<p>Was glad to hear he collaborated on his biography, comes out next month.</p>

<p>iSad3</p>

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<p>If not for Steve, we’d all still be using the IBM vision of computers – amber letters on a black screen. He made computers fun.</p>

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<p>Undoubtedly, he was one of the greatest technology entrepreneurs of all time.</p>

<p>Steve didn’t just sell computers, movies, music, portable music players, and phones to people. He knew there was much more to it than that. </p>

<p>He was in the business of making people happier and more productive with technology. And he was the best in his business.</p>

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<p>R.I.P Steve Jobs. :(</p>

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<p>No doubt Steve Jobs was a visionary and will be considered one of the greatest inventors, along with Edison, Ford and Bell, but I don’t think we need to make him a saint. He was no angel. He berated and belittled his subordinates and denied he was the father of his daughter, even suggesting that he was infertile. There are numerous biographies of Jobs and many of his interactions with people were quite ugly. So I guess we can honor him for his accomplishments, but let’s not make him more than he was.</p>

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<p>let’s not go there, parent57.
if your biological parents dumps you, but have a kid and raise her later in their life like nothing is a matter,
everyone talk about him dropping out of college but reason being he nor adaptive parents couldn’t have afforded more than one semester,
get to meet this biological baby sister only because he’ve became famous and then she brags about it, yet gone write twisted book about him?
I don’t know him in person, I never worked with him, don’t know how much of what is true or not. from what I saw at Mac expo and few I knew who happened to get to “meet”- meet him job related, he was a fine man, husband, and a father. -Lisa was the name of the D he first rejected.
please let that be?
What is true in someone’s life is all up to that someone.</p>

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<p>I never understood why a guy who was so focused on getting the public to embrace flashy new technology wore such dull and outdated clothing.</p>

<p>But if it hadn’t been for Macs, I probably would never have learned to use a computer. He made technology accessible.</p>

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<p>To be able to change everybody’s life by doing what you love does not happen to very many. He was one of the very few, his 56 years are worths few centuries, he is part of human history on a positive side of it.</p>

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<p>One of my favorite quotes, not just by Steve Jobs, but favorite quotes period…</p>

<p>The Misfits</p>

<p>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, 1955-2011</p>

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<p>H and I have been Mac users forever - until a few years ago, we still had the old SEII in the basement.</p>

<p>My favorite Jobs quote: </p>

<p>Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 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.</p>

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<p>I was just kindly informed by mathmomvt that the quote in post #50 was actually part of an ad campaign by apple. Go figure. Someone isn’t getting credit for a great quote because ‘the computers interwebs’ for the most part gives it to Steve Jobs. Oh well, I still love it and will always associate it with him. Sorry for the misrepresentation. :o</p>

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<p>It seems so fitting to have found out about his death while reading the news on my Mac.</p>

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<p>“I never understood why a guy who was so focused on getting the public to embrace flashy new technology wore such dull and outdated clothing.”</p>

<p>Well all I can say…is there is a lesson in this. Maybe Mr. Jobs understood exactly how important fashion is in the big picture?</p>

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<p>Jobs’ clothing was as timeless and elegant as his products. A real loss to the world.</p>

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<p>Jeans and a tshirt (or polo or turtleneck) is pretty SOP for N Cali. casual dress, isnt it?</p>

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<p>Agreed ^ He demonstrated the difference between simple, functional design and “fashion”.</p>

<p>“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”</p>

<p>Oscar Wilde</p>

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<p>For high-tech companies in general. I’m wearing an Adidas T with jeans and sneakers right now. Sometimes I wear Khakis and a dress shirt, sometimes more casual clothes. Norm is casual to very casual.</p>

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<p>I am wearing a black tee, jeans and black Pumas today. My little homage to Mr. Jobs.
Besides, my company=my rules.</p>

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<p>thats great musicamusica.</p>

<p>A tribute.
[xkcd:</a> Eternal Flame](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/961/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Eternal Flame)</p>