I feel compelled to post this because my earlier post was so anti-Apple.
Steve Jobs Last TV Appearance at the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11) (by fercanal)
Three things:
- Jobs body and voice seem weak. Sad.
- The way Jobs says, “No, I don’t need to use my finger and highlight different parts of the map. You can see.”
- Imagine if other major business leaders and CEOs acted and spoke like Steve Jobs?
A series of photos Steve took in my office testing Photo Booth filters in 2005. Rest in peace.
Something lighthearted is necessary in death.
“A computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s a bicycle for our minds”
— Steve Jobs, on my two favorite objects.
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.
When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling.
—Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, from the Encyclopédie.
“Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
— I believe the best summation of Steve Jobs’s thinking.
