By Christina Nickolas
Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away today. I have always thought of him as the Thomas Edison of my generation. A true innovator. He started Apple in his garage in Silicon Valley and made it the world’s leading company.
He had been battling with cancer for years. Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.
Apple store Manhasset, NY - early morning on Oct 6
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose” — Steve Jobs, 2005
What other editors had to say about the loss of Steve Jobs:
For me, Steve Jobs made computers totally accessible to the everyday user, when others made you learn their cryptic command structure. The iMac computer and its oh so friendly operating system were actually fun, and the introduction of fonts to personalize your use and help you express yourself, was simply amazing . Yes, it meant you needed to learn about fonts but that was fun! Additionally, the iPad was the next ground breaking step into the future of what computing and interpersonal connection can be. Long may you run, Steve Jobs, you are one of a kind. – Paul O’Shea
R.I.P. Steve Jobs.
The world mourns the loss of this technology pioneer. For me the technology connection runs a life time. I remember creating some of my first small chunks of code on a Mac in my grade school computer class.
Bryan DeLuca
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“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
More quotes on Steve Jobs can be found at,
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steve_Jobs
It seems like one of those occurrences, like the death of JFK or 9/11, where everyone will always remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about it. Me, I was driving home from work when an announcer on NPR said that Steve Jobs had died. My first reaction was that I had to be with friends, and so I picked up my iPhone.
I have this feeling of personal loss, which in some ways surprises me. While I’d seen Jobs at press conferences and had friends who were his neighbors, I can’t really say I knew him personally. Yet I’m surrounded by him. The way I’m writing this, with a graphic user interface and a mouse, is due mainly to his realization that it’s the right way to interact with a personal computer. The way I buy and listen to music is the result of his vision. Several of the movies I most fondly remember sharing with my wife and daughter – Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Finding Nemo – were the result of his efforts. And of course the wireless device I so heavily depend on, the iPhone, which is so much more than a phone, was his doing. And what can I say about the iPad? It really is magic.
So I guess the feeling of personal loss comes from the fact that this man has changed my life in ways that I’m really happy about. And I’m afraid that that will never happen again. But I want to say thank you, Steve, for making our world a better place.
I first knew that Steve Jobs was significant when my dad was fascinated with his work. It was 1976. My dad was a retired TV repairman, and an amateur radio operator, who loved to tinker with electronics, and Steve Jobs had created what I thought would be my dad’s next big thing. I was just starting out in the science copyediting field, and personal computers were still some years away from being commonplace. But Steve Jobs had started my dad thinking afresh. If he had lived longer, my dad would have had fun doing teardowns of all Steve Jobs’ stuff. And there has been a lot of it.
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