Steve Jobs Day: This Video Will Make You Cry. California Gov. Jerry Brown officially declared Sunday (10/16/2011) Steve Jobs Day in California, and Apple is holding an invitation-only memorial event for Steve Jobs at Stanford University. To commemorate Steve Jobs Day, I found a video I think he would have liked. Of the dozens of memorial videos that honor Jobs, I thought this one was the most appropriate for the occasion, created by a musician who calls himself AzR. Here's how he describes the production of this profoundly moving work of art: "I made this song using only sounds from Apple products and Steve's 2005 Stanford commencement speech.
If you take away nothing else from this day, just remember what I think is the most important quote ever said by Steve Jobs: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. " Here's Steve Jobs delivering his memorable Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005: Steve Jobs: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" | Features. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. It started before I was born. And 17 years later I did go to college. It wasn’t all romantic. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. My third story is about death. Steve Jobs, Revolutionary: An eBook From Wired | Magazine. It’s hard to imagine a better subject than the life and times of Steve Jobs—charismatic and difficult, mysterious and inspiring, with a biography that might have been plucked from Greek myth.
In the wake of his death Wired presents Steve Jobs: Revolutionary, an eBook featuring our best stories about him. The anthology begins with a remembrance by Wired senior writer Steven Levy, who interviewed Jobs many times over the last two decades. We continue with six other stories that track Jobs on his uncanny rise, his dramatic fall, and his spectacular, unlikely return to Apple. The Life And Times Of Steve Jobs. The life and times of Steve Jobs. How Steve Jobs Changed the Story. It’s been simply astonishing to see the heartfelt response to the death of Steve Jobs. Here was a successful businessman and CEO: a billionaire no less. Not the kind of positions that usually produce such public affection.
But he touched many lives and many hearts in a profound and powerful way… The story didn’t start so promising: He was born to an unwed mother and put up for adoption. Dropped out of college. He changed the story… And changed the world in ways both small and majestic. He had belief. Your story up to this point doesn’t have to be how the book ends. You get a new beginning in life by becoming a new you. You have the power to create your destiny. There is a new you locked inside you at this very moment. Steve changed the story because he was an innovator and a visionary. One thing is certain: If your life is boring, it is not the life you are meant to live. If Steve Jobs touched your life like he did mine, do his memory justice. Apple says Steve Jobs has died. ASSOCIATED PRESS October 5, 2011 6:37PM Name: Steven Paul Jobs Born: Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco Died: Wednesday at 56.
Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause. Education: Graduated from high school in 1972 and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Ore., but dropped out after six months. Family: Wife, Laurene Powell; their three children, Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve; plus daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from different relationship. Career: Worked for video game maker Atari before founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 in Jobs’ garage. Took third medical leave in January 2011 and resigned as CEO in August. Photos: Steve Jobs, a look back Ihnatko: Steve Jobs truly changed the world Videos: Steve Jobs in his own words Updated: October 7, 2011 5:00AM CUPERTINO, Calif. — Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. Fans design Steve Jobs portrait using Post-it Notes at Apple Store. 17 October '11, 09:07am Follow If there was one thing that defined Steve Jobs, it was his immense creativity, and it seems that a lot of fans were as inspired by the man as his creative genius. Some of them found a wonderful way to express their respect for the departed Apple co-founder by creating a portrait of him out of thousands of Post-it Notes, as reported by MacRumors. The portrait now adorns the front-facing glass walls of an Apple Store in Munich, Germany and has been created out of 4,001 of those small sticky notes. It’s touching, it’s beautiful and it’s a very skilled demonstration of a sort of real-world counterpart to pixel art.
Here’s a photograph of the people who fashioned it, standing in front of their creation: Here’s a photograph of the portrait itself: Also worth watching is this time-lapse video of the team in action as they prepare their tribute to Steve Jobs: Here’s another great Steve Jobs tribute. Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997. Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies.
CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen.
"This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over. " My Neighbor, Steve Jobs | Lisen's "Blog" – An Angle of PrismWork. My neighbor, Steve Jobs, has been in the news lately. The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds grow at Apple. The business press, the general press, the blogosphere, and just about everybody else has waxed poetic about the “greatest CEO of all time” saying that this “boy wonder” has shaped the very nature of our lives with his genius. It’s all true, but here in Palo Alto, Steve Jobs isn’t just an icon, he’s also the guy who lives down the street. I first met Steve (does anyone call him Mr. Jobs anymore?) Years ago at a backyard pool party. I was so flummoxed by the off chance I was breathing in his DNA, I could barely say a word.
I watched as he swam in the pool with his son. The next time I met him was when our children attended school together. Not long after, I saw Steve as I was running in our neighborhood. It was at Halloween not long after when I realized he actually knew my name (yes, my name!). In time, things changed. Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late. Bud Colligan wrote: How the Knowledge Navigator video came about Sparked by the introduction of Siri, as well as products such as iPad and Skype, there have been many recent posts and articles tracing the technologies back to a 1987 Apple video called “Knowledge Navigator” ( The video simulated an intelligent personal assistant, video chat, linked databases and simulations decades before they were commercially available.
Educom, the main higher education conference for academic computing, was coming up in October 1987. There was no big hullabaloo about Knowledge Navigator in the couple months post Educom (the mainstream media does not attend Educom). Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies. Jobs had battled cancer for yearsJobs founded Apple when he was 21He developed the concept of the personal computer and mouseHe oversaw the launch of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (CNN) -- Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse.
In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age. Fortune: Ten ways Steve Jobs changed the world His friends and Apple fans on Wednesday night mourned the passing of a tech titan. See reactions from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many others How Steve Jobs grew up Jobs 'set the agenda' for tech industry.