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05 October 2011
Remembering Steve Jobs
This evening, Apple announced that Steve Jobs, its legendary leader, has died. Watch his powerful talk “How to live before you die” — in which Jobs urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks, including death itself.
Tom Rielly, TED’s community director and an early Mac fanboy, writes: “Steve Jobs changed my life totally and utterly (and obviously, I’m not the only one). From the moment he introduced Macintosh with mesmerizing flair, I was hooked by his charisma. I knew that his invention would change everything. Even though I’ve met him only a few times, I felt a deep personal connection to him and his work that transcends the rational. When I heard the news today, I felt physically ill and terribly sad for his wife and children. I will always be grateful to him and the teams he led that brought us the Mac, the iPod, the iPad, Pixar, iTunes … Quite simply he is my hero.”
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Oct 5 2011
Every teenager should listen to this talk. And listen to it often over the years, so they don’t forget the message. Unfortunately, most will never get it.
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Oct 10 2011
Excuse me, your statement should have been people should listen to this talk, people not just teenagers…
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Oct 5 2011
A humble visionary, leader, teacher and inspiration. He will sadly be missed but his legacy will live on to inspire countless others as he has inspired me. Thank you Steve Jobs and rest in peace.
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Oct 5 2011
This has been tagged as my very favorite talk ever since I first saw it years ago. What a remarkable human being.
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Oct 5 2011
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. You accomplished a lot in your short life. You will be remembered.
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Oct 5 2011
Insanely great. A hero. A teacher. Thank you Steve. You will be missed.
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Oct 5 2011
rest in peace mr. steve jobs. you have given us, still do and will for generations to come, a different meaning to life. you connected the left brainers with the right ones. there is nothing that can not be done when the two work together.
you are the 21st century. i was hoping that before you go you would work on developing cure for cancer. yes, we are all going to die but you died too soon.rip. -
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Oct 5 2011
Should be an inspiration for people to follow their dreams. Life is short.
R.I.P.
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Oct 5 2011
To have such mastery over visualizing what human beings dream about, and then to give shape to that dream in reality. That is rare. He is rare.
R.I.P Steve Jobs. We will miss you. Your story, we are sure, will inspire many out there to trust their instincts.
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Oct 5 2011
please remember also, we lost a great civil rights person, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.
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Oct 6 2011
We didn’t lose a visionary, we gained the impetus to fulfill our own visions.
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Oct 6 2011
Hommage à un grand homme dont les idées ont révolutionnées les temps modernes. Un génie qui restera immortel. THE MAN WITH THE BIG APPLE
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Oct 6 2011
I was glad to see something in memorium for Steve from the TED team. Tom Reilly, your words are right on and I deeply share all of them. Thanks for your gift here.
I hope TED will think about doing something to commemorate Steve’s magnus opus of Technology Entertainment and Design contributions in some form.
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Oct 6 2011
We all leave at some point… we just don’t leave such a mark. Thanks, Steve. I love fonts, too.
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Oct 6 2011
Human history is now about two apples, the first one which had fallen on Newton’s head and the second one which had come from Steve Jobs’s head..One sticks us down to our G Force and the other allows our minds to fly…Kudos Steve Jobs
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Oct 6 2011
“I would like to leave a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.” – Steve Jobs
“Wisdom begins in Wonder.” – Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – SocratesGod Bless you Steve…You will always be with us for besides leaving a ding in the universe you have left a ding in all our hearts and you will always be with us. A true hero of my generation and for generations to come!!!
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Oct 6 2011
I am saddened, we have all lost an amazing Steve…
Steve’s of the world unite in prayer for our fallen brethren. -Steev Jobs: 1955-2011
as a graphic artist, I’ve only used Apple products since 1994, I believed in their approach to simple use, even when apple was near ruin just before Jobs returned., Ive since happily watched the system I’ve stood up for become a leader in, …if not innovation, but taking everyday use and common sense to incorporate simple features in simple design. For all my PC friends who claim that macs are too simple, and complain against their lack of configurability, (That might be a word.) I have always said, “sure, you can build your own Ford truck and work on it, but, why would you drive a Porsche off the lot and expect that you would ever want to tinker with the engine yourself?”
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Oct 6 2011
There are some people I would really have liked to have met, now I will never get the chance.
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Oct 6 2011
To Steve : It’s not the first time I watch your speech, It’s certainly not the last one neither. Today is a very special moment in your “life”, it’s also a very special moment in my life. Thanks a lot for your advises, it’s helping me dealing with hard choices and decisions I have to make. Rest in peace Steve!
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Oct 6 2011
Steve,
For me you will always be a standard of what can be done:
a living inspiration to all creative professionals!
I suggest everybody buries an apple or even better,
plant an apple tree their back garden in honor of you.RIP
Marcel
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Oct 6 2011
carry the stevie flag!
keep beauty, passion and love for innovation alive! do not believe those who want to make you believe the world is essentially a spread sheet or the balance on a bank account.
make things more beautiful. make tools more human and not the other way round humans more tool-like.
i think this is what steve jobs would like to see us doing.
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Oct 6 2011
every time I have a hard time executing our projects. I listen to this talk. My mind gets cleared of the insecurities, and I get pumped up again to work some more. Steve Jobs was like Redbull for my brain.
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Oct 6 2011
One of the most inspirational individuals in living memory. He will be sadly missed.
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Oct 6 2011
We lost one of the world visionary, he was a role model and an inspiration for most of us. The best CEO ever, enterpruner and innovator . We will really miss him but his great work and his legacy will remain. R I P!!!
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Oct 6 2011
I used The Mac Before it was cool, before the I Touch, I Phone and
I Pad, when everybody else was using Window. People use to say to me, why are you using that computer there are no program for it, they don’t use it in the classroom and it’s not in the work force. I knew different because the first time I ever use a Mac I was hook like a fish on a line. I think the hole world knows what I knew back then. We are all on that same line.
Here’s something about THE MAN behind it all, MR JOBS.
NOBODY else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter who by the force of his charisma, intuition and personality reshaped industries and turned Apple into America’s most valued company, Mr Jobs was a man ahead of his time. But in the end he changed reality, channelling the magic of computing into products that reshaped music, telecoms and media. On Wednesday, America lost its most successful chief executive, the technology industry lost its greatest visionary, and Silicon Valley lost a giant whose influence will be felt for years to come.Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: Technology’s greatest visionary.
Travel Well my friend
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Oct 6 2011
I wish I could peek into that place and time, called Divinity and Eternity, when the Lord was creating Steve Jobs, infusing him with a morsel of His vast intelligence, with the sole purpose in His Mind to let forgetful men of so little faith know that technology and science will never ever decipher the greatness of God Almighty. The Lord merely gave us a glimpse of what heaven is through only one of the many great men He has created, Steve Jobs.
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Oct 6 2011
Jobs was a great man and it is a great speech – but it has a DotSub version like all the other TED talks with a multi lingual translatin like the other TED talks.
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Oct 6 2011
Jobs was an amazing passionate dreamer. He demonstrated, like Einstein, the ability to manifest thought into a multi-dimensional reality. Jobs was a great intelligence inhabiting a human body for a moment in time. Jobs spirit will continue to create in other realms. Us little humans are enjoying the tools and gifts of his creativity in this temporal physical realm. May your soul transcend the illusions of the Bardos to achieve the enlightenment you yearned to experience on earth.
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Oct 6 2011
Steve Jobs lived fearlessly, refusing to go with the flow, to bow to internal politics or convention, redefining our digital age. I share a few thoughts about the passing of this icon of the Information Age on my blog at http://bit.ly/oHci4M #ThankYouSteve
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Oct 6 2011
I can’t wait to see him introducing the iHeaven from heaven. He must be working from up there on a new Heaven, thin, light, approachable, even portable, he will create a new vision of Heaven.
He was my idol, a genious , he was the best business, creative, visionaire leader and we are so fortunate to have lived all these years enjoying his Job, great Job, Mr Jobs.See you in Heaven -
Oct 6 2011
Yes EVERY person should listen to this inspirational speech by Steve. NO EXCUSES that what Steve was all about. He fought for his health so bravely, but lost his battle and has been taken from us. I am So sorry for Steve’s close friends and family for their loss and send my sincere condolences.
Steve truly was an amazing human being and in a cruel twist of fate, had everything but his health. It is devastating for us all to lose him at such a young age. Taken from us all far far too soon, he is now on his iCloud
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Oct 6 2011
He created whole Picture and shared his struggle and emphatic moments of his life in form of 3 grt stories at stanford…… with each story giving strong messages , ……..which he wanted every young grads to understand and spread it ..to there future generations….
I am fortunate enough to watch it ….and will try to be “Hungry and Foolish” …..simple but very strong words….
He strongly explained to us that Nothing is Unfortunate..in Life….it’s the way u look at it and how Confidently you..still love…to do things which you believe …in….
Its definatly a…Silent moment …as he is Einstein..of our Gen’s….and I salute him…..for making our complex wired world ….Visually friendly….and inventing different Products to suit our Lifestyle…..
Thanks Steve for creating difference….. and you …will always be remembered and stay in my heart forever….. -
Oct 6 2011
I can just say …..the way he narrated his speech at stanford….he shared his personal struggle and emphatic moments of his life … right from his Heart… ..in form of 3 stories…which he wanted all new grads and us to follow and carry it to our future genrations …..
Each story had strong Message….i will too try to be “Hungry and Foolish”……..He made us believe that nothing is Unfortunate.by sharing his Failures and Personal Grieviences…its the way you look at it and how deeply and confidently you believe what you love…..and keep Moving Forward….
I salute you Steve for making our Fast Complex wired life Visually Beautiful….and Relaxing…Thanks …for making Difference and Being there for us…..You are definatly Einstein of our Gen’tn’s……..
..Your True speech has spread again a Ray of Otpimism…in my life …and you will be always remembered and will stay in my Heart ..forever….making me believe to walk that extra..Mile….
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Oct 6 2011
I think I can thank Steve Jobs for my TED fellowship. I saved and saved to buy my first Mac in 1993 despite being told by an eminent personage that ‘a fashion designer would never need to use a computer’. That first Mac and every Apple product I have embraced since helped to shape my creative journey. Apple has been ever present in my life as a beautiful, thoughtful, creative partner. Steve’s family can be proud that his legacy will impact positively on the lives of millions for decades to come.
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Oct 6 2011
Dear Steve, Mourn you we do not,
We Celebrate you, for the Hero you are!
You knew what we needed,
Much before we realized.
This SECOND BITE on the Apple,
Pains us more than you know.My humble homage my Guru:
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Oct 7 2011
I made a short film about Steve Jobs earlier this year, his untimely death has change the film a bit, but it still works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvH0l2AG3GM
I wonder if he got to see it.
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Oct 7 2011
RIP Steve, and thank you for changing our world. You are a true genius and the biggest inventor of our generation.
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Oct 7 2011
Thank you very much, Mr. Jobs.
Well done!
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Oct 7 2011
My love for MAC is BIG. I have a Classic II with all the stuff. TO THE INFINITY AND BEYOND!! Thanks Great Man!!
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Oct 8 2011
Thank you, mr.Jobs! You are the best leader of our time! STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH! R.I.P! Travel well in heaven!
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Oct 9 2011
“Steve Jobs Dies, Apple Products Stop Working”
Millions of Apple products, including iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Mac computers, suddenly stopped working on Wednesday when Apple founder Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer late that night. Apple issued a statement saying that they are working ’round the clock to devise and implement a solution, though they said it is proving difficult to devise and implement anything very successfully without their genius leader.
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Oct 10 2011
In theses days we speak, read and listen so much about Steve Jobs…that huge man…I was wondering will there ever be another steve jobs??? I found what think about this the people who lnow him closer, but what do YOU think?
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