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10/5/2011

Steve Jobs Dies

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:19 pm



Hot Air has a nice quote from Jobs about death. Sample:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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79 Responses to “Steve Jobs Dies”

  1. Amen.

    RIP Steve Jobs.

    DCSCA (9d1bb3)

  2. an apple a day ke-

    nevermind

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  3. bloomberg had the scoop over three years ago

    good job guys

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  4. As I commented at PJM:
    He will be regarded as the Thomas Alva Edison of his age for what he accomplished.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (65a0b7)

  5. Gosh, Mr. Feet, that wasn’t so haphaphappy.

    You must be a Microsoft dude.

    Simon Jester (b05509)

  6. honestly I don’t have a relationship with apple really Mr. Jester… except for just recently me and my sister rented Bridesmaids with my itunes cause Amazon Unbox is just really not working well on my machine for some reason and when I called amazon for help at the number they said to call what happened? They wanted to transfer me to another department – so they hadn’t even given me the right number! That’s just crappy customer service is what that is.

    So anyway thanks to apple we got to watch the movie but I’d already taken my sleeping pills thinking it was gonna start way earlier so I ended up falling asleep at the part where the fat lady was taking a crap in a sink.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  7. Fat lady crapping in a sink?

    Seems there’s a new porn genre every week.

    PC14 (4a4ed3)

  8. I think she won an emmy this year

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  9. What if your inner voice is an idiot or a permanent infant?

    My Bowels Hurt (8d652e)

  10. Jobs epitomizes what the “occupy Wall street” cretins hate and they don’t know it.

    Mike K (8f3f19)

  11. That quote is from his 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford. You can get it on YouTube. Very interesting and personal.

    shipwreckedcrew (bafbcb)

  12. Mike K,

    That’s a great point. Kevin Williamson at NRO has an excellent essay making exactly that point. He points out that politics aside, Jobs stood for the model that worksL challenged, created, provided jobs, provided technology so that others can progress and succeed. He then contrasts initiative with the workings of the government and compares output. It’s not a pretty sight.

    I was down at the Occupy Wall Street protest today, and never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them — and for us — is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the Barney Franks and Tom DeLays an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords. And they — and we — will be poorer for it. Of course, sadly this is lost on the Occupy people.

    And to the kids camped out down on Wall Street: Look at the phone in your hand. Look at the rat-infested subway. Visit the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, then visit a housing project in the South Bronx. Which world do you want to live in?

    Dana (4eca6e)

  13. it will be interesting to contrast what we see over the next week with what we see the week after bill gates dies

    someone should take notes

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  14. But Gates won’t die, Mr. Feet. He will be uploaded into every beige box. That little “assistant” in Microsoft programs? It’ll be his face.

    More seriously, Gates has done a lot for the treatment of infectious disease throughout the world; that is what he did with his money. Jobs kept working at Apple, wrestling reality into his vision.

    Different styles.

    Simon Jester (dddc0d)

  15. bill gates built a house what has its own wikipedia page

    he’s a goddamn saint

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  16. Does anyone remember the old series “Connections” by James Burke?

    Jobs connected many dots, with the help of hundreds if not thousands of millions before him, very successfully.

    He deserves credit for that.

    The stupid neo-hippies on Wall Street couldn’t connect a dot in Highlights.

    RIP.

    Ag80 (bae7ed)

  17. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    October 5, 2011

    Statement by the President on the Passing of Steve Jobs

    Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

    By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.

    The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.*

    gack

    memries!

    lightthecornersofmymind.

    An article on NetworkWorld points out an interview with President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, where he admits receiving an Apple iPad 2 before it was released to the public. Not only did he get the iPad 2 early, but he received it directly from Steve Jobs himself.

    President Obama tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulous:

    Steve Jobs actually gave it to me, a little bit early. Yeah, it was cool. I got it directly from him.

    It’s important to note that the President of the United States of America called this “Cool”.

    Here’s a fun game: let’s compare and contrast the number of jobs Mr. Steve created with the number of jobs the little president man created.

    ok go

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  18. 56 is way too young to be dying, if you ask me.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  19. 56 is way too young to be dying, if you ask me.

    Comment by Dave Surls —

    Yeah. That’s very sad.

    Slublog simply says “thanks” and I think that’s a good way to remember him.

    Dustin (b2fb78)

  20. 🙁

    Death is permanent sleep.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  21. Has NY ever suffered from tsunamis or america?

    Global Warming will kill us all but I need to drive my SUVS-Typical Liberal.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  22. Comment by Dave Surls — 10/5/2011 @ 9:24 pm

    Millions more, at a younger age, have died so that Jobs could live to 56, doing what he loved.
    We should all be so lucky, and blessed.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (65a0b7)

  23. I haven’t been this sad since the Beatles broke up.

    * * *

    “Barack Obama, where he admits receiving an Apple iPad 2 before it was released to the public.”

    Has he figured out how to use it yet? I hope he gave it to one of his daughters.

    ErisGuy (7ba3f6)

  24. Windows Scrolling Through The Valley,
    Lead the hackers off on a GUI tide.
    There’s blood on the chips
    Down at HP, DEC, and MIPS
    But the heart of the Apple Lisa never died.

    Jordin Kare

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  25. Millions more, at a younger age, have died so that Jobs could live to 56, doing what he loved.

    Really? In what way did anyone else’s premature death, let alone millions of them, contribute one minute to Jobs’s lifespan? I didn’t think even Marxists went that far.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  26. Here’s a fun game: let’s compare and contrast the number of jobs Mr. Steve created with the number of jobs the little president man created.

    ok go

    The President’s number is bigger. Waitaminnit. What do you mean “reverse the sign”?

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  27. jobs quote is nice… until you remember there are alot of idiots who not only want to die, but want to kill others as they do. kind of taints what was otherwise a pretty good thought.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  28. Damn millhouse I don’t think he was talking about the presidents juniors.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  29. FYI: Media reports Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic Cancer, which is the 4th most common cancer worldwide. It tends to strike around age 60 but can occur anytime, usually after about 40 years old.

    Pancreatic cancer is considered a death sentence, and it often strikes without warning. Early symptoms are mild and difficult to identify, consequently pancreatic cancer is usually well advanced prior to detection. Most victims, 4 out of 5, don’t survive the first year following diagnosis, and only 1 out of 20 stay alive for 5 years.

    The cancer begins in the pancreas, metastasizes to the lymph nodes, and eventually spreads to the liver. In some cases it also attacks the lungs and can spread to the bones and the brain. Treatment is expensive and in advanced stages consists largely of attempts to make the patient comfortable.

    ropelight (c9f959)

  30. There is an interesting article at Powerline noting that Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, as his parents were unmarried and not in a stable financial situation (I’m going to assume young, also). Being 1955, abortion was not an easily available option.

    Pancreatic cancer is usually “silent”/without symptoms until it has significasntly advanced; the one exception is if it is in the “head” of the pancreas close to the common bile duct. In that case, it can push on the outside of the bile duct and cause bile to back up causing jaundice (skin and whites of eyes turning yellow) while still relatively small, when treatment may be possible.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  31. I remember years ago, in high school, I read one of the first books about Apple and Jobs, it was around
    the time of the movie ‘Amadeus’ and hence the author
    compared him to Mozart, his brilliance, his unorthodox style,

    ian cormac (ed5f69)

  32. I hate pancreatic cancer

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  33. Jobs epitomizes what the “occupy Wall street” cretins hate and they don’t know it.

    Thanks for raising this point Mike K.

    First, I see that all the liberal media is making a big deal about Mr. Jobs. So my first reaction is that his political views must have been the same.

    But on the other hand, his success through the free market, NOT GOVERNMENT, benefited society in many ways.

    Like Edison, his inventions made life better. They also make business more efficient. This is how we achieve growth, the real way wealth is spread around.

    So I get back to the question, why is the liberal media going so crazy over someone who did something so opposite the liberal narrative?

    AZ Bob (ffd720)

  34. I hate pancreatic cancer.

    Why it must be like a Palin Presidency.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  35. More like an Obama Presidency.

    ropelight (c9f959)

  36. I was just joshing Crappyfeet.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  37. Steve Jobs. He made locked down, proprietary devices the latest fashion item needed to keep up with the Jones. Cool! Then, he figured out a way to get a cut of every app purchase made by his followers. Awesome! And if he didn’t like something, well then you couldn’t run it — no matter that you owned it and paid through the nose after waiting in line for a day to get it. Not that the sheep minded; after all, he knew best… What a guy! Yes, he will be missed. Now who will tell the masses what to do and think?

    Anila Khan (633a55)

  38. that’s ok Mr. Biden hey did you know Columbus Day is on Monday?

    I have to travel so I won’t get to do any festivities. That sucks.

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  39. Wasn’t Columbus an angry white tea bagger?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  40. btw, if you decide to buy his official biography, i think it would kind of be an insult to buy it on Nook or Kindle, instead of iBooks. 🙂

    Aaron Worthing (b1db52)

  41. I’m surprised they didn’t have a moment of silence at the opening of the Nasdaq today. If you’ve owned AAPL the last 10 years it made you rich.

    Gerald A (7d960d)

  42. He made locked down, proprietary devices the latest fashion item needed to keep up with the Jones.

    And, apparently, held a gun to everyone’s head, forcing people to buy Apple products.

    In a free market, he found something that sold very well.

    Chuck Bartowski (4c6c0c)

  43. Anila Khan hasn’t quite got the spirit of the moment.

    Icy Texan (539177)

  44. the one exception is if it is in the “head” of the pancreas close to the common bile duct. In that case, it can push on the outside of the bile duct and cause bile to back up causing jaundice (skin and whites of eyes turning yellow) while still relatively small, when treatment may be possible.

    That’s what happened to my grandfather, but at the time the only treatment he was offered was chemo, which he was told had only a 2% chance of success, and he decided that wasn’t worth it. He lasted about 18 months from diagnosis, which at the time was rare; the doctor who diagnosed him told him he had only 6 months.

    I hate pancreatic cancer.

    Me too.

    Milhouse (f1e4d7)

  45. “I hate pancreatic cancer.”

    I hate pretty much all types of cancer, I reckon.

    Especially now. I’m over in Hawaii nursing my mom through her last few days, thanks to kidney cancer, and it sucks big time.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  46. I’m so sorry, Dave. I bet she’s glad you’re there.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  47. #48

    Thanks, DRJ. And, she was real glad that all her children were around her while she was in California getting treatments, and that we were all able to come over to Hawaii and be with her to the end. At least that’s some comfort.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  48. Comment by Milhouse — 10/6/2011 @ 4:12 am

    I was talking about those who have defended and protected Freedom & Liberty, so that we all may “Live long & Prosper”, cretin.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (49563e)

  49. ‘I was talking about those who have defended and protected Freedom & Liberty, so that we all may “Live long & Prosper”…’

    That went right over my head the first time you said it too.

    Probably ’cause I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in days.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  50. I’ve been where you are today Dave, and it’s not easy. You have my sympathy and support.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (49563e)

  51. Thanks, Drew. I appreciate your kind words.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  52. Steven Jobs stood for everything the Wall Street protesters hate:

    –Apple makes most money from outside the United States;

    –Apple does all manufacturing from outside the US;

    –Apple pays less taxes than oil companies.

    AZ Bob (7d2a2c)

  53. Dave Surls: i’m sorry to hear about your mother, but I’m glad you are able to be there for her .

    aphrael (a0f788)

  54. Mr Surls – our condolences, and prayers.

    JD (318f81)

  55. As to the topic of the original post: I don’t know anything about Steve Job’s politics. But … the original incarnation of Apple was the epitomy of the Silicon Valley dream, and Jobs’ resurrection of Apple when it was dying was incredible. The man stands with Hewlett and Packard as one of the great titans of *my* industry. Even though we all knew, when he resigned, that this day was coming, it’s still a huge loss.

    aphrael (a0f788)

  56. Simon Jester – someone last night, I don’t remember who, commented that 100 years from now, Gates will be remembered for his philanthropy, while Jobs will be remembered for his technology.

    I think that’s probably true.

    Bill Gates’ philanthropic work has made him a hero, and is not to be sneered at.

    aphrael (a0f788)

  57. I’m sorry for what you’re going through, Dave.

    Dustin (b2fb78)

  58. Steve Jobs did not rely on government subsidies to help his company survive. He dreamed dreams that resulted in products that people wanted.

    Steve Jobs was a once in a generation genius. Steve Jobs was adopted. His mother was in grad school and she decided she could not keep him when he was born in 1955. The laws were different then. How many other Steve Jobs have been lost to abortion since the 1970’s? What all might the world have lost? When one considers the many contributions of Jobs, once an unwanted baby, it is impossible not to think about this, no matter how one feels about Roe V. Wade.

    elissa (09e8c5)

  59. The implied message of Elizabeth Warren and various other liberal lunatics is that the only benefit to society of Jobs’ life was the taxes he paid.

    Gerald A (9d78e8)

  60. Warren and those who would politicize Jobs’s death deserve to have their face broken.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  61. Leftards complaining about Cains contmept for the middle class is rich since they demonize middle class workers who are conservative.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  62. Again, thanks to all. And, yacking with you guys is a god stress reliever, so y’all are performing a valuable service for nurse Dave.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  63. Take care, Dave, and you and your family will be in my prayers.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  64. I meant “good” stress reliever, not “god” stress reliever!

    And, all prayers are greatly appreciated.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  65. Dave, you’re doing a good — and hard — thing. I lost my father-in-law-to-be to pancreatic cancer in 1976. I’ll never forget the look on his surgeon’s face when I met him in the hall between the OR and the patient waiting room; I’d made a wrong turn. He wasn’t expecting a family member there. My best wishes to you and yours, and the others who’ve suffered through such.

    Steve Jobs has changed the world. The “Mac Way” isn’t my way; I started in the computer industry when computers were built with transistors and diodes instead of integrated circuits. There can be many complaints about him, but he did understand human interface requirements, and used those to make machines that millions could use successfully. Well done. Fair winds and following seas, Mr. Jobs, rest in well-deserved peace.

    htom (412a17)

  66. Yeah we oppose illegals of all races.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  67. Dave,

    Very very sorry to hear about your mom. glad you are there for her, prayers

    EricPWJohnson (4380b4)

  68. @Dave Surls-

    May the prayers and good wishes from all be with you.

    Best-
    DCSCA

    DCSCA (9d1bb3)

  69. >>> What if your inner voice is an idiot or a permanent infant?

    And what if your name was Joe Biden…?

    …But we repeat ourselves… 😀

    IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (c9dcd8)

  70. >>>>> And they — and we — will be poorer for it. Of course, sadly this is lost on the Occupy people.
    ==========================

    “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this
    norm to be exceeded–here and there, now and then–are the work of an extremely small
    minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all
    right-thinking people.
    Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or, as sometimes happens, is driven out
    of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck’.”

    – Lazarus Long (R. A. Heinlein) –

    IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (c9dcd8)

  71. Does anyone remember the old series “Connections” by James Burke?

    Indeed, a great series. There was also a Connections 2 and 3 series done for The Discover Channel later on, but they weren’t the same. Not sure if that was the change in expectations (e.g., Connections, pre-MTV, seemed very fast paced. You look at it now and it’s almost “normal” in pacing) or just that the later series were less inspired than the first one.

    They aren’t bad, mind you, just not AS GOOD.

    IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (c9dcd8)

  72. Whats so great about Apples/Macs?
    In the old days, I LIKED having a computer that required attention, that you could tinker with and modify like a 69 Hemi Cuda’.
    Even the names were cool, 486SX, Pentium,
    and if you broke down and had to hoof it every once in a while, at least you werent drivin a Volvo down the Information Superhighway…
    Of course I only got my first computer so I could play “F-15 Strike Eagle III” and you couldn’t run it on a Mac…

    Frank

    Frank Drackman (da969f)

  73. First, I see that all the liberal media is making a big deal about Mr. Jobs. So my first reaction is that his political views must have been the same.

    They were. Jobs was very much a product of his generation, a true, unrequited liberal. I am pretty sure I correctly recall reading he did some promotion for the Obama campaign in SV.

    As you may have noticed, Liberals, in addition to remarkably low wisdom, retain in effective promotion of that lack of wisdom, a very compartmentalized brain which succeeds remarkably well in never, ever, under any circumstance putting two obviously conflicting facts together.

    Perhaps that is the subject for a prize winning psych or neurophysiology doctoral thesis.

    IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (c9dcd8)

  74. Now who will tell the masses what to do and think?

    That would be me… Al Franken.

    Al "The Man" Franken (c9dcd8)

  75. Take care, Dave, and you and your family will be in my prayers.

    Comment by DRJ — 10/6/2011 @ 8:23 pm

    Amen.

    Gerald A (9d78e8)

  76. Frank – I don’t use a mac (although i do have an ipod). But the genius of the mac UI – and Windows, which started as a copy of the mac UI – is that it makes computers accessible to the masses rather than the tinkerers. Even as a tinkerer myself, I have to respect that.

    IgotBupkis: Silicon Valley as a whole is very liberal when it comes to social issues and to environmental policy, but center-right when it comes to economic and labor policy. The reason it keeps voting for Democrats is that the California Republican party is extremely conservative when it comes to social issues (or, in the case of last year’s election, the Republican party made the mistake of nominating for Senate a candidate whom many in Silicon Valley loathe for personal, rather than political, reasons). Republicans like Tom Campbell have done very well there, but have a hard time with the rest of the state.

    aphrael (a0f788)

  77. Silicon Valley as a whole is very liberal when it comes to social issues and to environmental policy, but center-right when it comes to economic and labor policy. The reason it keeps voting for Democrats is that the California Republican party is extremely conservative when it comes to social issues

    So Silicon Valley as a whole must have voted for Whitman last year…

    Gerald A (9d78e8)


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