Today is a sad day not only for the nation, but the world. As I'm sure everyone knows, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday from cancer at the age of 56, leaving behind a wife and four children, 47,000 employees and and entire world who loved using his products. One of my mantras is that I leave the world a better place than when I arrived. He truly did. It is ironic in a sense that most people found out about his passing on a device that he created. Being a computer science engineer, I can tell you that I've worked with a lot of BADLY designed products. Some of the crazy things I had to do to keep hardware or software working, or even get it started in the first place, is shameful to the people who designed it. Never with an Apple product. They always, always just worked. I find that most people who have issues with any Apple device, really just have issues. It isn't the device (usually -- sure there are errors even in the Apple world), but the end user. He may not have been the greatest human being to his friends and family (I'll let everyone find that out if they want via Google), but he was one of the greatest inventors and thinkers of our time.
It's been said hundreds of times already this morning, but I'll repost from his 2005 Stanford Commencement speech,
"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."
Thank you, again, Mr. Jobs, for everything.
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