STEVE JOBS IS OUR PERSON OF THE YEAR

"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".

Stay hungry. Stay Foolish – from the last issue of the Whole Earth Catalog . . . as quoted by Steve Jobs at the end of his Commencement Speech at Stanford University, June 5, 2005.

In this speech, Jobs had shared 3 stories:

• the first was about connecting the dots
• the second was about love and loss
• the third, ironically was about death

and, in each of these stories, he left the listener with an incredibly profound thought:

“. . . You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

“. . . Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“. . . If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”

and this was this simplistic genius of Steve Jobs, a technological giant and all of us worldwide who knew of him, about him, and might have been inspired by him, we are incredibly sad that he is gone.

Steve Jobs was all about what was right
in this country . . .

 

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.[35] They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula.[36]

In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years. In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking,

 "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

The rest is history.  He was a remarkable talent for our world of technology.  Steve Jobs was undeniably an extraordinary man by any standard. He has left his mark on no less than five industries: personal computers with Apple II and Macintosh, music with iPod and iTunes, phone with iPhone, and animation with Pixar. The middle-class hippie kid with no college education built a computer empire and became a multi-millionaire in a few years, was fired from his own company before coming back a decade later to save it and turn it into one of the world’s most influential corporations, with millions of fans around the world. He also contributed to the creation of the new leader in animated movies for decades to come. He has been called a fluke for years, but is now widely acknowledged as one the world’s most eminent business executives and an unrivaled visionary. He has changed millions of lives by making technology easy-to-use, exciting and beautiful.