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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
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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