lalitha

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.

-Steve Jobs (Stanford Commencement Speech)

sheftali52

An amazing man who will be remembered always.

bluemoon

Thanks lalitha for that great quote. He changed the world and how we communicate. It is hard to measure his contribution. We have lost someone special.

bluemoon

Two more of Steve Jobs' quotes-

"That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

"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. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

stevedover1965

I was never a big Apple fan, but Steve Jobs changed the world for the better and his innovative thinking and products have become iconic. This man died too young but he lived his life so very powerfully his memory will be immortalised into that pantheon of great people in history...He will be remembered!

lalitha

i read somewhere that 3 apples changed the world
ie adams , newtons and Steves

chelydra

I intended to to sit this one out, thinking I had little to add here. But it just occurred to me that Jobs changed my life. I was one of the few people who bought one of his NeXT computers, and possibly the only one in the world for whom is was their first-ever computer. I looked and looked, and NeXT was the only computer I didn't loathe. All the rest seemed grubby and almost slimy in contrast, and not just in their grayish-beige plasticky exteriors. With the NeXT (bought with help of a 40% academic discount), I discovered I could not only bat out fliers and leaflets in no time flat (some of the software was better than anything I've seen since!) but also use a scanner and the built in indexing system to figure out which local politicians and real estate developers were in league with which of the New York crime families. I spent about a year feeding in documents of all kinds (this was pre-internet) and used the information to stop some huge evil boondoggles that seemed to be done deals before me and my NeXT (and our allies) blew the whistle on Mob involvement. This was the culmination of over 20 years of local grassroots activism, and the Next computer turned what would have been defeats into stalemates, and stalemates into victories. This was a direct result of Jobs' obsession with quality and clarity and user-friendliness. The company's best customer (by far) was the CIA, which was probably using that magical instant-indexing system the same way I was, although for different purposes.
That same miraculous operating system is now being phased in as the Mac OSX, which is gradually starting to become almost as good as the original version. I broke down and bought a Mac ten years after the NeXT (just before OSX) and I felt I had gone BACKWARDS ten years in time. The NeXT is still in perfect working order, and if it had an internet connection it might still be my main 'puter. Jobs was certainly not the only genius involved, and I think perhaps he wasn't even a genius himself, but someone with a rare talent for assembling and motivating geniuses (which is arguably more important).

bluemoon

I think the intuitive interaction with the machine is a about Jobs vision.

bluemoon

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted= all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

mdawrcn

Oh wow. Thank you for posting that bluemoon. What beautiful tribute to a very special person.

lalitha

thanku blueman this was really beautiful