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"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."

June 12th 2005 Stanford commencement speech

Text: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Steve Jobs Dies
When I was 10 I visited my uncle’s factory in Michigan. He sat me down in front of an Apple II and fired up a video game. As I played Castle, I noticed the manual for the Applesoft programming language sitting next to the computer. I cracked it open and realized I could break into the monitor and see the source code.

I did just that, modifying the game to the point it was no longer playable. I had saved the file and effectively broke it. I shut off the computer, and never told my uncle.

The excitement of that moment stuck with me and was the enabler of the amazing life I've had since.

Thank you Steve Jobs. RIP.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs will be remembered as the greatest inventor and entrepreneur of our era.
A true visionary, maverick and someone who had healthy disregards for rules and status quo. RIP Steve. You'll be sorely missed.
Apple Visionary Steve Jobs Dies At 56
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: How to Live Before You Die
One thing that he really forced down all our throats was the importance of taste. He knew what he wanted, and he made us all see how great it was.

Here's a clip from back in 1996, before his return to Apple, where he talks briefly about Microsoft, and in it you can really see his continuing obsession with making insanely great things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzKj-1HaKw
Love him or hate him, and the company he created, this man was an icon who changed the way we interact with technology. This is a sad day.
Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies
There aren't too many people who are considered legends in life. I consider us lucky to have shared a time in this world with Steve Jobs, legend of innovation. Truly a man ahead of his time.
That last line is absolutely beautiful.
NPR's Steve Jobs timeline - The Man At Apple's Core
Me too, didn't expect it to get to me like that, a complete stranger, and all.... but none the less, a visionary and remarkable person who's left a huge mark on the world in which I work and live.
I've often been stumped why the notion of "strong AI" cannot be successfully refuted. On the one hand any analog system can be modeled to arbitrary precision by a digital one; and on the other hand it is also a fallacy to mistake a model for the thing itself (at least from the perspective of Aristotelian logic). The notion consciousness just arises at some level of complexity is a deus ex machina expectation, and not scientific, but this is not the argument the best proponents of strong AI put forward. Instead, I think the clincher argument itself points out the limitations of science. Science is based on observation. If intelligence is an observed phenomena (and I'm still not satisfied we have an adequate definition; it seems more of an I know it when I see it definition) then clearly, machines can be intelligent (but conscious !!??).
This is a link to the "Think Different" commercial from Apple. I must admit that after watching it just now I teared up a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE

What a life.
They were too sad to update the date before publishing http://cl.ly/3l1x2b1v2y2t0p3f2m09 (They since fixed it; Sept 9 was the date of the accidental CBS tweet: http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/09/steve-jobs-apple-ex-ceo-health...)
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I miss you, Steve.
This wasn't the "One more thing..." that I wanted.
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Thanks Steve, thanks for your inspiration. You pushed the human race forward.
My dad also died of pancreatic cancer that spread to his liver (he was 55). Tough disease. Steve died before his time, but in many ways he beat the odds. Five year survivorship rate for pancreatic cancer is around 5%.

His vision will be missed. He left an indelible mark on a generation of technology users, and then did it again.
That pretty much sums it up for me. Can't describe in words and I think that pretty much hits the nail on the head.
He definitely loved what he did. He stuck with it until the end. RIP Steve.
"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."

- Inscription on Steve Jobs' star at the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame in Cambridge, Mass., unveiled on 9/16/2011: http://instagr.am/p/NPa4o/
The world lost a great industrialist ...
Despite getting voted down, I believe you meant "He will reform tech in heaven like he reformed it on earth." The downvoters might have thought you meant he left for a different company, and that you were being cynical.

Whatever the case may be, we lost a true visionary, and the entire world should grieve as a result. RIP Steve
Just adding my voice to the millions who will be mourning the man and the visionary. As someone who works with computers for a living, I'm thankful for the beautiful tools his company created. As an entrepreneur, I'm intrigued and moved by his example.
Yah, my first program was done in an Apple ][+. My friend and I grew up programming on his various Apple machines (I had a Commodore 64).

For the past 10 years I've made a living developing on all kinds of Macs. Couldn't imagine work without them.

Best of all, I loved watching Steve's keynotes. No one can distort reality the way he did.

I didn't even know him, but I feel like I'll miss knowing he's there, ready to present:

"one more thing.."
Walter Isascson had better be prepared for the amount of books he is about to sell - http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/14516485...

A more 'perfect' PR stunt, the official autobiographer of Steve Jobs couldn't ask for...before you start downvoting me for a seemingly insensitive comment, I don't mean that is perfect that he died. Absolutely not.

I am dealing with the loss just like any other tech-loving fan-boi.

Just pointing out that it the PR storm generated around this book as a result of his passing, will be nothing like he could have ever paid for....i.e. it is 'perfect' (from a selling the books perspective).

Perfectly sad...otherwise.
A very respectable tribute, right down to the img src.

http://images.apple.com/home/images/t_hero.png
I never met Steve Jobs but my house and life is jammed packed full of things that he had the vision to create.

I can honestly say that I think my life if better because of this. Lets hope they can continue to innovate and improve people lives to the same degree that mine has been influenced.
This is indeed very sad news....
Expectations, embarrasment and fear of failure are not "real issues". Overcomming them is important for 20 somethings as well.
Steve Jobs on Death
Apple's Steve Jobs Is Dead
We're all about to die.
This is a sad day in History
The end of infection?
"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
Bill Gates statement on the passing of Steve Jobs
Per a statement emailed to reporters [1]:

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.

[1] http://twitter.com/dinabass/status/121736369843339265
My first was an Apple IIe at age 12. I was thinking the same thing.
Jobs, Apple Co-Founder, A Visionary, A Legend Is Dead
Wow, this makes me really effing sad. What's worse is no one in my family understands, so it's like going into mourning solo. Bummer...

RIP Steve
This really made the world a little less bright for me today.

RIP Steve. Thank you for everything you've done to bring your magic to the world. Thank you also for things you haven't done, but easily could have.
I was a PC guy for 26 years, making fun of Apples/Macs for most of that time. Eventually Macs became so awesome that I couldn't help but love them. Jobs was able to convert me, and that wasn't an easy thing to do.
For those who are late to the party, Breaking Bad is now available on Netflix streaming, in case you didn't cancel your subscription in moral outrage over Quikstergate.
Indeed, Jobs will certainly be remembered. His initial founding of Apple might be dismissed as being in the right place at the right time, although it's harder to attribute the Mac to that. But in coming back to Apple when it was doing so poorly, and leading it back to enormous success -- that should secure his reputation for vision and leadership.

It is sad. But his memory will endure.
> One of the interesting things about doing Passenger deployments for Rails is that it's very similar to doing PHP deploys, with the added benefit of the server not reloading any application code until you tell it to.

You can get this with PHP's APC opcode caching with file_stat turned off. You deploy and when you're ready you clear the opcode cache.

Or if you want to deploy and clear, then add that to your deploy script. Done.
What Apple is going to be missing without Steve Jobs isn't creative talent or even someone capable of saying 'no.'

It's going to be missing someone who has the absolute credibility to say it.

Anyone can be a tyrant. If Steve Jobs was a dictator, it was because people thought he had the right to be.
One has to wonder what he might have accomplished with a full life span.

What he managed to do, though, is genuinely incredible, and he has much to be proud of. He made the world more beautiful.

RIP, Steve.
It isn't- I'm looking at it now. I have premium accounts with both Spotify and Rdio (so I can try them out and make a choice) and while the Rdio client might possibly be more HTML-oriented, it doesn't show.
Apple memorializes Steve on their front page
I knew after he stepped down it wouldn't be long. Guys like that don't stay still, they're too busy making a dent in the universe.

Not sure about anyone else, but the quote above does a lot for me, no matter how many times I've reread it.
It is really simple.

> We are paying him about $25/hr below his market pay.

You get what you pay for.

> he went to college with me so he is helping with discount

That's a very poor excuse for not paying a market rate. You got a better end of a deal and you are complaining. How about you look at the whole situation from his end and evaluate who comes out as a dick?
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life." - Steve Jobs.
Steve jobs has passed.
CNN - Steve Jobs dies
A Tribute to Steve Jobs
The text for the full speech is here - if you've never read it, you should. It's amazing:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Rest in Peace, Steve.
Mine was an Apple IIe, and likewise it really opened my eyes to the world of computing and gave me a life long passion for technology.

I thank him for that as well.
I'm surprised at how sad (devastated?) this news makes me. I use Apple products now, but I am not at all a fanboy of the company and for many years defended the other side. I really hate the proprietary nature of many of their products and only use them if there is nothing else equivalent in the "open" world. That I own a few Apple products speaks volumes in itself.

But Steve has been an inspiration for the past decade or so. Brilliant, passionate, energetic, and visionary in a way that no one else can ever be.

I don't believe any company in history has had the 10 year record of Apple in the 00's. He's a genius in technology and business... but you can't study him like any other company. Case studies on Apple don't work. Because other companies don't have Steve.

Sidenote: You know he had a profound impact when the news of his departure slows down HN this much. R.I.P.
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs
Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
I don't know what to say. It's a heart-numbing moment.
Accomplished more in his 56 years of life than many people do in a full lifetime.

Thank you for your vision, creativity and inspiration.
It's slow to load, here's the text of their (extremely eloquent) statement:

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
Steve Jobs said he wanted to make a dent in the universe. I'd say he achieved that, he fundamentally changed the world of technology. What an amazing journey and legacy to leave behind. Rest in peace Steve.
In other words, you want to hire in places where there's a large pool of good developers, but few employers competing for them. Am I following you now?:)
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
--Steve Jobs - Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
I am not an Apple fan, I say that because I own no iPad, iPhone, iPod or iMac.

As someone who is starting and striving to build beautiful software and become an entrepreneur, Jobs is an inspiration.

He has done more than few could hope to achieve.

I feel saying anything else will just sound corny, which is not what he deserves.

So RIP Steve.
My wife understands, even if she could never fully Understand. But that's why we're parts of communities like this one. We all Understand.
I think he was probably downvoted for bringing religion into it. Since this is not the time or place for a very boring religious flamewar let's just leave it at that.
Even in the face of death, Jobs was a great visionary until the end. Now that's inspiring.
I was pretty happy with anywhere.fm myself. Great user interface for four years ago, they let me upload my entire music library and listen socially with others. I had fun checking out TLB's extensive music collection and finding other people with interesting tastes and playing their music without even meeting them. Never experienced that kind of discovery before or since.

One of the most exciting YC companies and I could only imagine where they would have gone if they'd had a great funding round and participated in the Facebook platform revolution. They could've been everything Spotify already is before this letter was even written.

P.S. Congrats to Sachin on Connected being acquired earlier today!
If you haven't achieved anything, you haven't got anything to be proud of in the first place. You can't go backwards from step 1. I don't care when I lose at street fighter, or if my player rating sucks compared to my friends' - I'm not good at street fighter yet.

And believe me, if you think it's difficult to take risks now, at ~25, without children to feed and send to school, without a girlfriend who requires upkeep or friends with high-paying jobs who want to eat at Michelin restaurants... you're never going to get off the boat.

Every journey begins with one step.
Just remember this.

"You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me."
-- Steve Jobs, Sept. 18, 1995

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Steve Jobs, Feb. 19, 1996

The best ideas are the ones you have to force on people.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies aged 56
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste; they have absolutely no taste. And what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way - in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products .. And so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success; I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success, in the most part; I have a problem with the fact they make really third rate products."
In the early 90's I was pretty sure I didn't want be a programmer anymore. I really got no joy from Windows and the Macintosh was looking like it was dead. I got ahold of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and was hooked. I remember the joy stuff like the Apple II and the Atari 400 brought me. It was just amazing. It is such a shame to know Steve Jobs, Seymour Cray, and Jay Miner are no longer with us. I should be happy to have been alive for the start of it all though.
I'm quite sad at this loss -- both for the people he leaves behind and for an industry that desperately needs vision of his caliber.

On a personal note, if it weren't for Steve Jobs' relentless determination to revolutionize the mobile industry, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to make a living writing games for a platform I love. Thank you and RIP Steve.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” - Steve Jobs
Thank you Steve Jobs for...
i wanted to link to that speech as well.

while the tech scene will miss him a lot, my thoughts go to his family who'll miss him most.
While not conscious of the morbidity that really underlies it, that's been my personal way of looking at life for a long time. What is there really to lose?
I'm another dev whose first computer was an apple IIgs. I don't know if I'd be a dev today if I hadn't spent far too many hours poking around in basic typing in games from magazine, modifying them, and writing my own.

For purely selfish reasons -- what could Steve have imagined next? -- he passed far too soon.
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Apple Inc.
Tim Cook: "No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death"
He poured his life and soul into Apple. When his health suffered, he fought tooth and nail and stayed involved with Apple until the very end. When he left Apple (feels like just yesterday), he said it was because he truly felt he was unable to continue to lead.

I'm left with a feeling of ambivalence. I feel bad that he couldn't enjoy the fruits of his labor by retiring and spending time with his family or whatever other interests he had. At the same time, I know that he wouldn't have had it any other way.

He recognized his gift and shared it with all of us. The experiences when using his products and the emotions when hearing him speak. I feel blessed just to have been a witness to such a human's life.
It just reminds me of how impermanent life is. It's still hard for me to swallow the fact that Steve Jobs has already passed away. RIP Steve. Your inspirations will continue to live with us.
I had a feeling this was right around the corner the moment I saw his presentation to the Cupertino planning committee. My dad died of pancreatic cancer 10 years ago at the age of 46. In the month or so leading up to the end, as his liver started to fail, his voice changed and at times seemed almost "thick". When I heard Steve start to speak, it immediately made me think of my dad.

My heart goes out to his family and friends. Steve was a childhood hero of mine as far back as I can remember. The world was a much better place with him in it.
Here's the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
I am not the biggest Apple fan. I love my macbook and I have a very old iPod, but in the last few years I misliked the company attitude. Even so, suddenly I feel that the world is a worst place to live. RIP Steve.
He worked up until he barely had a month left. That's passion for you.
Timeline: Steve Jobs' career
He made the world a better place and he was our generation's Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Thomas Edison, Jack Welch, and Henry Ford all at once. Revolutionized multiple industries.

He will be sorely missed.
Yeah, that's sort of what came to my mind. The 'S' in the iPhone 4S for me at least will mean Steve - buying one although I don't have any iDevice around.

Rest in peace and here is to hoping that cancer researchers around the world get all the inspiration they need - keep looking, don't settle.
What amazes me most about his life is that he revolutionized on so many fronts and his innovations have helped people of all walks of life. Pixar movies have entertained children of all ages, the iPhone market has been a great resource for educational tools to help children with disabilities, and he did so with style. (;_;)
I love that speech, back in the early 80s he spoke to the Academy of Achievement which was also great to listen too:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/brochure/p3.html (search for steve jobs)
After listening to his speech, hearing him say "Keep looking, don't settle", I quit my job and started out on my own. He din't just indirectly affect me through technology, he influenced me directly. Anyone could have said those words, it wouldn't have affected me in such a visceral manner, it had to be Steve. You have to win some ones respect first before you can say something to them.

The whole world had its head up its a$$ with regards to the smart phone market, and steve had to show us how its done. Strangely I now feel like how I did when I moved out of my parents home. I feel a huge sense of responsibility descending on us. Steve won't be there to show us anymore. We have to figure things out on our own.
If you watched the iPhone keynote yesterday, you may have noticed this:

http://i.imgur.com/BsIoS.png

This shot was shown for about 5 seconds right at the beginning of the recording. Front row, center. Reserved. Empty.
RIP Steve Jobs, one of the greatest visionaries of our times.
I'm not telling you how to live your life. Please, feel free to take ridiculous risks. Give up all your worldly possessions and move to the SF bay area. Start boring web 2.0 apps. Do a startup or whatever. Go to burning man. I'll be over here enjoying my nice, stable life.