"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
--Steve Jobs - Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
Steve Jobs has passed away.
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#52I am not an Apple fan, I say that because I own no iPad, iPhone, iPod or iMac.
As someone who is starting and striving to build beautiful software and become an entrepreneur, Jobs is an inspiration.
He has done more than few could hope to achieve.
I feel saying anything else will just sound corny, which is not what he deserves.
So RIP Steve.
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#53Wow, this makes me really effing sad. What's worse is no one in my family understands, so it's like going into mourning solo. Bummer... RIP Steve
My wife understands, even if she could never fully Understand. But that's why we're parts of communities like this one. We all Understand.
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#54Even in the face of death, Jobs was a great visionary until the end. Now that's inspiring.
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#55Just remember this.
"You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me." -- Steve Jobs, Sept. 18, 1995
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago." -- Steve Jobs, Feb. 19, 1996
The best ideas are the ones you have to force on people.
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#56In the early 90's I was pretty sure I didn't want be a programmer anymore. I really got no joy from Windows and the Macintosh was looking like it was dead. I got ahold of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and was hooked. I remember the joy stuff like the Apple II and the Atari 400 brought me. It was just amazing. It is such a shame to know Steve Jobs, Seymour Cray, and Jay Miner are no longer with us. I should be happy to have been alive for the start of it all though.
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#57I'm quite sad at this loss -- both for the people he leaves behind and for an industry that desperately needs vision of his caliber.
On a personal note, if it weren't for Steve Jobs' relentless determination to revolutionize the mobile industry, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to make a living writing games for a platform I love. Thank you and RIP Steve.
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#58“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” - Steve Jobs
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#59"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have s…
i wanted to link to that speech as well.
while the tech scene will miss him a lot, my thoughts go to his family who'll miss him most.
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#60My first computer was a Macintosh Plus at age ~5. Not sure what I would be doing with my life without his contribution.
I'm another dev whose first computer was an apple IIgs. I don't know if I'd be a dev today if I hadn't spent far too many hours poking around in basic typing in games from magazine, modifying them, and writing my own.
For purely selfish reasons -- what could Steve have imagined next? -- he passed far too soon.