Steve Jobs had a daughter named Eve (as in she who bit the fabled apple)? I did not know that. How perfect.
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
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#112OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. One can only wonder what he was referring to. Such a well written piece.
It reminds me of Hamlet's last words in the Folio edition:
O I dye Horatio:
The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,
I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,
But I do prophesie th'election lights
On Fortinbras, he ha's my dying voyce,
So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,
Which haue solicited. The rest is silence. O, o, o, o.
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#113OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. One can only wonder what he was referring to. Such a well written piece.
That line sent and still sends shivers down my spine.
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#114Nice eulogy for an arsehole
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#115He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit. It is scary to think what Steve could have accomplished if he lived into his 70's.
I once read that Howard Hughes did something similar while he was recuperating from an accident.
Robert Heinlein, while hospitalized, once designed, in his head, a far more comfortable hospital bed. He later wrote about it in one of his books in such great detail that when the waterbed was eventually invented, it couldn't be patented because Heinlein's written descriptions gave so much detail to qualify as prior art.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me I interpreted it as him being somewhat conscious as the feeling of your body dying comes over you and you pass. I have no idea what that would actually feel like, or if that's what happened/is possible, but the thought of being awake and experiencing that feeling gives me chills.
"I have no idea what that would actually feel like, or if that's what happened/is possible" You can experience ego death relatively safely using various techniques, which science has shown is the same as a near death experience. This is covers most of the experience of dying, minus the last part.
Steve famously practiced some of those "techniques" in his youth.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aw c'mon, I got downmodded to -3 for being cynical yet realistic on HN? I really do think that "massive injections of painkillers is the most likely context in which someone a few hours of dying of cancer is likely to say "oh wow oh wow oh wow".
I didn't downvote your reply, even if I don't especially care for your explanation. I do believe in the power of painkillers, I just think that there's more to it than that. The idea of pre-recording one's last words, though, is brilliant!
A will?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aw c'mon, I got downmodded to -3 for being cynical yet realistic on HN? I really do think that "massive injections of painkillers is the most likely context in which someone a few hours of dying of cancer is likely to say "oh wow oh wow oh wow".
I didn't downvote your reply, even if I don't especially care for your explanation. I do believe in the power of painkillers, I just think that there's more to it than that. The idea of pre-recording one's last words, though, is brilliant!
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#119OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. One can only wonder what he was referring to. Such a well written piece.
In the Buddhist tradition, being aware and clear minded (no grasping to life, no desires, no regrets, no fear) during the end of the self, while being in a meditative state, is the greatest feeling you can experience. It seemed to me like Steve got to that place he was referring to when he last talked to his wife. > He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn’t be able to be…
No, it is not. Yet not knowing what the alternative is like gives us that delusion.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not a matter of hours or days, it is a matter of years and centuries. Bach is more beautiful every new century, so is Vermeer, so is Pride and Prejudice. It is the mark of a Classic, regenerated by each new generation. But we are off-topic, this is again a Jobs thread, unless someone dare compare Sixtine Chapel (priceless) and an Ipad (expensive)?
Someone said that Steve Jobs painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that Dennis Ritchie built. Does that count?
very nice!