iSad-The amazing reaction to the death of Steve Jobs

[babylonsister]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-apple-20111007,0,4512877.story

iSad
The amazing reaction to the death of Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011


For many Americans, the years 2001-2010 were the roughest decade in memory. Our nation endured terrorism and war, temporary boom and lasting bust. Too many have been left feeling powerless in the recession's dismal aftermath.

By one measure, though, Americans have become much more powerful. One of the nation's corporate chief executives — a group suffering from a serious image problem these days — did more than anyone to transform our lives with the power of computers. With iPods in 2001, iPhones in 2007 and iPads in 2010, he made the hard years of the recent past easier, more productive, more beautiful to behold.

Thanks, Steve. We needed that.

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In 2005, Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University that makes his most fitting eulogy. Even though he told the graduating students that his cancer had been cured, he shared his thoughts about facing death since his diagnosis about a year earlier. Thinking about death every day helped him overcome the natural fear of failure, he told them.

Drawing on his 1970s California hippie roots, Jobs invoked The Whole Earth Catalog, a hodgepodge of photos, articles and neat ideas — "one of the bibles of my generation," as Jobs put it. He remembered its slogan: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." As Jobs said, "I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you."

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I don't know who said it, but it hit the right chord:

paraphrasing: The last man in American who knew what he was doing, just died.

[babylonsister]

3. I think that was the onion, but it does strike the right note. This

man gave us so much.

[corkhead]

2. I have a copy of "The Last Whole Earth Catalog" laying around somewhere.

It actually wasn't their last. They came out with "The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog" years later.

[bemildred]

4. Yah, I got that one and the first one.

Still a good read now and then.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

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