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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Steven Why
Oct 5 2011
R.I.P
Cristiano Richers
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.
- Daniel Münnighoff
  Oct 5 2011
  True story.
- Luke DeHart
  Oct 10 2011
  Excuse me, your statement should have been people should listen to this talk, people not just teenagers…
JPBechtold
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.
yifan xie
Oct 5 2011
Rest in Peace
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Tayler Drake
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.
Estela Estela
Oct 5 2011
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. You accomplished a lot in your short life. You will be remembered.
xtaforster
Oct 5 2011
Thank you, Mr. Jobs. What a great mentor you’ve been to all of us.
Javier Mariño
Oct 5 2011
We’re finite. Thanks for encouraging the World.
Nathanael Geman
Oct 5 2011
Awesome.
Chadburn Blomquist
Oct 5 2011
Insanely great. A hero. A teacher. Thank you Steve. You will be missed.
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lidia shaddow
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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Paul Newman
Oct 5 2011
Should be an inspiration for people to follow their dreams. Life is short.

R.I.P.
Mahendra Penumathsa
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.
Sue Spevack
Oct 5 2011
please remember also, we lost a great civil rights person, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.
Bil Mitchell
Oct 6 2011
We didn’t lose a visionary, we gained the impetus to fulfill our own visions.
Hargovind Singh
Oct 6 2011
A legend .. may ur soul rest in peace.. regards
vu-tuan hoang
Oct 6 2011
Wish him always stay with those who have big ambition and wishes like him.
Matt Lantz
Oct 6 2011
As a visionary and a leader, he will be missed but never forgotten.
bou lou
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
Vincent Argiro
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.
Barry Friedman
Oct 6 2011
We all leave at some point… we just don’t leave such a mark. Thanks, Steve. I love fonts, too.
Prof. Prashant Mali
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