Earlier this week on Tuesday, Apple launched the new iPhone 4S. The next day, ((Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011) the company announced that Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died of pancreatic cancer at age 56.
The impact that Steve Jobs had can be fathomed by what my younger daughter Reia said. “Lets pay a real tribute to Steve Jobs. Let’s get an iPad 2”.
He had been hailed as the next great inventor after Einstein, amongst many glowing tributes paid him. To my mind the genius of Steve Jobs was in his ability to make things simple for users. He seemed to follow Einstein’s thoughts accurately and effectively."Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
What better way to say Goodbye to Steve than in his own words.
“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.”
"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."
“There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”
“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 ... Stay hungry, Stay foolish."
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions”
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
And finally Steve Jobs at Stanford. Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
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