RIP Steve Jobs

[4NDR01D]

One of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes:

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" -- The line he used to lure John Sculley away from Pepsi to be Apple's CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John Byrne

Wow, what an amazing quote.

[emeraldknight47]

As a Macphile, I was very shocked and saddened to learn of the passage of this man who brought SO much innovation to the world in such a relatively short time span. Plus, he seemed genuinely interested in making that innovation available to everyone, not just a select few. Steve's physical passage from this world will rob us of his next great ideas and innovations, but he did leave us with a firm foundation to stand on and launch from for the next generation. I sincerely hope that the folks he leaves behind at Apple can truly follow in his footsteps and not squander his legacy or his genius on pettiness or greed. To Steve's family and friends, know that he is in a much better place now, no longer suffering and that his vast imagination and will is now completely free to explore this vast universe! Rest well, Mr. Jobs, after a life well-lived and a world made better by your ideas. You were one of the great ones whom we shall surely miss in days yet to come...

[Brazoo]

I believe this was created years ago as an example of one of the free online services Apple use to offer to people who owned Macs.:

[Brazoo]

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me."


"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."


"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."


This last one is more tasteless, but it is simplified and basically on the same theme:
"Are you a virgin?"

[clemso]

Wow that is really tragic. 56 is so young to pass away. This Blade Runner quote from Tyrell seems very fitting "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly" I've used Macs for many years, since the early LCs, so thank you and RIP.

[Hector]

Jobs deserves to be mentioned alongside other industrialists/visionaries such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and of course...his contemporary rival...Bill Gates.

[Hector]

Awesome interview...Steve Jobs and Bill Gates...together...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI

[Hector]

Someone said he was with iGod now...I though that was pretty clever.

[emeraldknight47]

Someone said he was with iGod now...I though that was pretty clever.

Definitely amongst the iClouds, that is for certain...

[MIB41]

RIP Steve. You transformed the world we live in.

[samurainoir]

Let's not forget his role in Pixar as well.

[Adam West]

It was pretty shocking to hear the news. I agree his name will be read in history books and to kids that never saw him alive will be as well known as Edison. I never really paid much attention until they mentioned on the news that Apple had surpassed Microsoft in market cap value and never was the best seller in one particular category of items they sold.

[Cmonster]

I think he had the same type of Cancer Patrick Swayze had, Pancreatic. Most people who have it don't find out until it's in the late stages. No symptoms of it until it has progressed.

Yeah, most people with it do not last long. I actually lost one of my best friends to it. However, when you're one of the richest men on Earth, there are all kinds of things available to you... Six years with pancreatic cancer??? That's completely unheard of. There are A LOT of doctors and health professionals asking a lot of questions right now-- The biggest one being; Will they make what kind of treatment he was on, public? My guess is no-- Not unless they wanna start world war 3.

SC

[Brazoo]

Yeah, most people with it do not last long. I actually lost one of my best friends to it. However, when you're one of the richest men on Earth, there are all kinds of things available to you... Six years with pancreatic cancer??? That's completely unheard of. There are A LOT of doctors and health professionals asking a lot of questions right now-- The biggest one being; Will they make what kind of treatment he was on, public? My guess is no-- Not unless they wanna start world war 3.

SC

[EDIT] here's a quote that I think really illustrates the main point I'm trying to make:

"Based on 31 cases, including three patients who had a Whipple procedure similar to Jobs's, they calculated that 59 percent of patients survived at least one year, 47 percent were alive at three years, and 36 percent survived five years or more. The rates were better for the kind of neuroendocrine cancer Jobs had: 69 percent of patients with metastatic carcinoid tumors were alive at five years."

From this article: Jobs's Unorthodox Treatment | Story | POWERWALL

Whipple procedure seems to be the most common and most effective treatment. My uncle is going into year 2 after his Whipple surgery - and seems totally healthy and active.

[megoapesnut]

they mentioned on the news that Apple had surpassed Microsoft in market cap value and never was the best seller in one particular category of items they sold.

Did they actually say that in those words? If so, Ah... Hello - iPod, iPad. If those two aren't the best seller's in their categories, then I don't know what would be.