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Rest in Peace: Steve Jobs

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Re: AP: Apple says Steve Jobs is dead.

I just heard about this on the News, happy someone else made this topic because I didn't want to put one up. It's too bad, thoughts go to his family and friends although I'm sure they were prepared. I wonder what the state of Apple will be because of it, I don't think they'll die or anything, but I'm sure tomorrow morning their stocks will plunge. It really is too bad though.
 
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Well this is bad news. RIP.
 
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Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr are going crazy.


Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs. Your contribution and your vision will be greatly, dearly missed.
 
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Is this confirmed besides on twitter?
 
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Jax said:
Is this confirmed besides on twitter?
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AP which is basically the news agency all the other news channels get their information from has confirmed it.
 
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Big Lutz said:
AP which is basically the news agency all the other news channels get their information from has confirmed it.
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Well then...

RIP Steve Jobs

We lost a great mind today.
 
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From Steve Jobs Commencement speech at Stanford, it seems fitting to post this excerpt.

Steve Jobs said:
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.
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Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

The entire speech is amazing, but this part, touching on his own mortality seems to be the most important part of all.
 
Re: AP: Apple says Steve Jobs is dead.

No matter the technology arms race and PC vs. Mac debates we have, all I have to say is he made it cool to like technology, made MP3's so widespread and having a Tablet cool again. ;___;
 
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I am shocked about this news. It is saddening to hear that such an innovative mind has been lost.
 
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Rest in Peace Steve Jobs it is really a shame to lose such an innovator in technology.
 
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I'm a Windows guy, but this is a shame.
 
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Rest in Peace Steve Jobs. It's really sad when someone so revolutionary is passes.
 
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Yeah, he helped fund Pixar, that just puts it over the top for me. TT^TT
 
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Such a shame. He will be remembered as one of the great innovators of our time. And also as a great man outside of Apple.

Oh, and 4S means 4Steve
 
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56...wow that was young. D:

RIP, even though I dislike Apple.
 
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