Steve Jobs's last words: 'Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow' The last words of the late, much-lauded and much-quoted Steve Jobs have been revealed almost a month after the Apple co-founder died at the age of 56.
Jobs, who once memorably described death as "very likely the single best invention of life", departed this world with a lingering look at his family and the simple, if mysterious, observation: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. " Details of his final moments came from his sister Mona Simpson, who has allowed the New York Times to publish the eulogy she delivered at his memorial service on 16 October. In it, she explains how she rushed to Jobs's bedside after he asked her to come to see him as soon as possible.
"His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us," she writes. However, he began to deteriorate. Steve Jobs’s last words: ‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.’ Culture Connoisseur Badge Culture Connoisseurs consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on the arts, lifestyle and entertainment.
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Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson did not meet until they were adultsJobs' birth parents gave him up for adoption at birth; his sister was born laterSimpson: "He said he was going to make something that was going to be insanely beautiful"Jobs last words: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. " (CNN) -- The last minutes in the life of Steve Jobs were still filled by the epiphanies and moments of inspiration that fed his inventor's mind, according to an intimate portrait provided by Jobs' sister in a eulogy published Sunday in The New York Times. Mona Simpson's eulogy -- originally read during Jobs' memorial service on October 16 -- is a sister's celebration of a brother she knew only later in life, and a lament of losing a best friend.
"I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him," said Simpson in her eulogy. Isaacson gives insight into Jobs' life. More Than Last Words: Steve Jobs’ Final Message. It’s the last One More Thing.
More time to really comprehend Steve Jobs’ genius is one of the greatest losses we must cope with given the all-too-young demise of Apple’s co-founder, and soul. Heck, after getting through only a third of the Walter Isaacson biography, it’s pretty clear that even Jobs might have come to a better understanding of the delights and demons that drove him had he lived to a ripe, old, philosophical age. But neither the hundreds of pages of his authorized biography or his enigmatic final words, as recounted in Mona Simpson’s eulogy (published as an op-ed by the New York Times) give us the Steve Jobs we encounter in the rest of Simpson’s extraordinary portrait of her brother.
Our sense of loss when a famous person whom we’ve never met but with whom we’ve convinced ourselves we have a connection — after all, we did all call him Steve — is one thing. “They’re not periods of years, but of states of being,” she writes. Simpson has kept to herself on matters of Steve.