RIP Steve Jobs

im sorry

It's a true shame to lose somebody who was heading a company in the middle of it's third big (biggest?) stride. R.I.P.

reason enough to rewatch this i guess

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Steve Jobs" family have made the following statement regarding his death:

 

 

"Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life,

he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve"s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our

feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief."

RIP

sad news, I guess. I certainly respect the guy for what he achieved, brilliant businessman in the broadest sense of the term.

and lol at all of you who said the last picture of him looking frail was shopped.

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Bill Gates, the former chief executive of Microsoft, said in a statement that he was “truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’s death.” He added: “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”

RIP

:'(

seriously, i never gave a rats ass about apple or steve jobs except for one thing - if it hadn't been for the apple ][s at my elementary school, i probably never would have had a chance to turn into the massive nerd i am today. i will miss you steve jobs

:(

  On 10/6/2011 at 2:46 AM, disparaissant said:

:'(

seriously, i never gave a rats ass about apple or steve jobs except for one thing - if it hadn't been for the apple ][s at my elementary school, i probably never would have had a chance to turn into the massive nerd i am today. i will miss you steve jobs

Fuckin' A. Smug product launches of the 00s be damned. Pixar. Apple II. The prophetic NeXT system. This man contributed so much until his dying day. He truly lived by his own words. RIP

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.

his contribution to pixar should not be discounted either.

damn

rip

iSad

the Andy Warhol of consumer technology RIP

now can Apple finally get along with making a 17" ten point touch power tablet with a quad i7 processor instead of trickling cosey closed girl friendly technology to materialistic gadget trendies with a little more spending money than they know what to do with

Kind of wish that he would have stepped down earlier so he could have gotten more time with his family and not working so hard.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

"My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because 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.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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."

You don't get many chances to change the world twice, but this man did. Helped usher in the home computer age, then the digital mobile age.

Cloud computing is the wave of the future. Steve Jobs gets a first-hand look now. RIP

i wonder if Johnathan Ive could do a good job running the show

posting from MacBook Pro,

OS X is fucking sweet. Good job, Steve

will be missed.

If I could contribute a quarter as much as he has, I would die a happy man.

RIP Steve.

Syrupy post ahead: Yesterday my eyes welled up watching the keynote and realizing how incredibly far Apple has come, and for better or worse, how essential the company and its ethos were (and are) to the development of my own identity. Tonight my eyes welled up for different reasons. I was filled with opposite emotions, not a sense of gain, but instead loss. But what is more important is the intense admiration that powers both these feelings. As silly as it sounds, Steve has influenced my cognizant life probably more than any other person I've never met. In fact now it seems sillier to try and pretend like that's not true.

Steve, you were, are and will forever be an incredible person and a complete inspiration! R.I.P.

this is the front page of hacker news right now:

when someone in the tech field dies, one or two stories might make the front page... but no one has ever captured literally the entire page...