"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com"
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Wow...at such a young age. Yet another great mind has departed too soon. He did make his mark on the world....RIP Steve Jobs
Amazing guy....I heard someone on the Radio tonight comparing him to Henry Ford....good comparison....iconic.
this is was the first news i watched when i woke up today. i was really sad. he was the thomas edison of our generation. he really made a big impact to our society. may your rest in peace steve.... :-(
I'm saddened, too. This is what I've written to a friend after I wrote how I felt with his demise.
Yes, his cancer was a painful battle for him. Only goes to show, no matter how much money, success and genius you have, ultimately your health is your greatest wealth. But he has indeed left an eternal legacy.
Just working out my shock (through the post I shared). As many artices have been written already, it should not be a shock but it still is somehow. We all always hope for a miracle, don't we? In the end we are all mortals. He is among the few who will stay immortal with the dreams he has fulfilled, and made others aspire to dream, too.
Although I'm no tekkie, I had a very healthy respect for this man. And I just plain liked him. His immortality has been carved and will lie among the greatest.
So sad. He had much more to offer which we will not have. His death is everyone's loss.
"In my life, I have had the good fortune to interact with all sorts of talented people. To me, Steve Jobs stands out most for his clarity of thought. Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpected direction. I myself have spent much of my life—in science and in technology—trying to work in somewhat similar ways. And trying to build the very best possible things I can. Yet looking at the practical world of technology and business there are certainly times when it has not been obvious that any of this is a good strategy. Indeed, sometimes it looks as if all that clarity, understanding, quality and new ideas aren’t really the point—and that the winners are those with quite different interests. So for me—and our company—it has been immensely inspiring to watch Steve Jobs’s—and Apple’s—amazing success in recent years. It validates so many of the principles that I have long believed in. And encourages me to pursue them with even greater vigor."
This is the form Google CEO on Steve Jobs
"What I remember thinking at the time is that you shouldn’t take a job unless you know how to win. I had no clue how to do what he did. When somebody tells you they’re going to do something and you say, “I don’t understand how you’re going to do that,” and they succeed? That is the ultimate humbling experience. My interactions with Steve were always like that. He was always ahead of me. When he started working on tablets, I said nobody really likes tablets. The tablets that existed were just not very good. Steve said: “No, we can build one.” One of the things about Steve is, he was always in the realm of possibility. There was a set of assumptions that Steve would make that were never crazy. They were just ahead of me.
I joined Apple’s board after the Apple Stores started. It used to be that you would go to a store and you had Macs and PCs. And then, because of volume and because of the Microsoft monopoly, people were not buying any Macs. There was less and less distribution, and many dual Mac-PC distributors were going away. The argument at the time was you shouldn’t screw your distributors because they are your lifeline. Steve made the calculated decision to open a series of stores and turn it into a sort of a consumer lifestyle. He also understood that people had trouble with computers, and they wanted to go to a place where somebody could help them. The stores were universally derided as the stupidest idea ever known to man, and they would literally bankrupt the company. It was an incredibly gutsy move. And Apple Stores I believe are the highest-grossing stores in America."