# Steve Jobs dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733 "2011-10-05T23:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/61 "2011-10-06T01:33:13Z")
☹ What a sad day. We have lost an amazing mind. RIP Mr. Jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/62 "2011-10-06T01:34:22Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > The “Think Different” ad campaign for the Mac was centered around a commercial in which Richard Dreyfuss beautifully delivered the following lines: > > Nobody in the world today embodied this more than Steve Jobs himself. Here’s to the crazy ones, indeed. That should be played at his funeral. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/63 "2011-10-06T01:36:12Z")
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/64 "2011-10-06T01:39:01Z")
I credit him with forging the PC market into what it was, is and will become. He’s up there, somewhere, in the iCloud now. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/65 "2011-10-06T01:40:24Z")
What a life. At the same time, I sense that he faced death a little differently than how most of us conceive it. He seemed very spiritual and his 2005 speech at Stanford tackled death head on Always innovating, that Steve. May the rest of the ride, wherever it takes you, be insanely great, Steve. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/66 "2011-10-06T01:42:27Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > Gods, only 56… that is just too damn young. _“Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started.”_ - Disney CEO Robert Iger ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/67 "2011-10-06T01:43:03Z")
As an Apple hater: RIP Steve. You were a genius and a visionary. 56 is too damn young. The world has lost a brilliant thinker and innovater. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/68 "2011-10-06T01:43:52Z")
Condolences. I wanted to be in this thread, ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/69 "2011-10-06T01:44:03Z")
Like all those who had a great impact, a complex person with flaws and faults that were sometimes inexcusable, along with the great achievements that could not be denied. For those of us who were able to live through the arc of this story it was sometimes puzzling, always fascinating. BTW - in an example of contributions beyond the obvious,Tim Berners-Lee wrote that his original development of the WWW browser [was eased by working in the NeXT system](http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html), a Jobs product. seems like one could paraphrase what he wrote there as saying “it just worked”… I had suspected Jobs’ withdrawal from CEO in August meant that he saw he was running out of time, so it’s not a shock. But it is a shame, one does wonder what would have been next. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/70 "2011-10-06T01:46:34Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > What a life. At the same time, I sense that he faced death a little differently than how most of us conceive it. He seemed very spiritual and his 2005 speech at Stanford tackled death head on Always innovating, that Steve. > > May the rest of the ride, wherever it takes you, be insanely great, Steve. [YouTube video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc) of his 2005 commencement address and [text](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html) of the same. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/71 "2011-10-06T01:46:55Z")
I’m more of a Woz fan, but I still feel a great loss. Here’s to the crazy ones indeed Brian ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/72 "2011-10-06T01:47:23Z")
When I set out on my latest adventure my girlfriend sent me this, in which Steve talked about mortality: > [@](#): > > 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. Full text: [Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html) Thank you for that Steve. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/73 "2011-10-06T01:50:44Z")
Rest in Peace, Steve. Apple was a big part of my childhood. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/74 "2011-10-06T01:52:02Z")
Very sad. I’m glad he was able to keep doing what he loved right up until the end. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/75 "2011-10-06T01:53:20Z")
Tributes: > **[Newegg – Shopping Upgraded](https://www.newegg.com/)** > > Newegg offers customers an awesome experience shopping for computers, hardware, electronics, networking solutions, and more. Upgrade your shopping experience today! > **[Boing Boing | A directory of mostly wonderful things](https://boingboing.net/)** > > Brain Candy for Happy Mutants! A story that, to me, epitomizes Mr. Jobs. Asking for the impossible, getting it, and being aesthetically correct. The Reality Distortion Field in action. [www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round\_Rects\_Are\_Everywhere.txt](http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/76 "2011-10-06T01:54:10Z")
I still remember all of us arguing over who got to use the computer with the _color!_ monitor in the school’s improvised computer lab when I was in second grade. Apple IIs. Classic machines. First computers I ever used. I expect this is true of an awful lot of people around my age. I don’t know why this surprised me so much, but it did. Thanks, Steve. All those hours playing Oregon Trail? Were _awesome_. As is my iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/77 "2011-10-06T01:56:54Z")
My first computer was the Mac, in 1984. What a marvel it was. RIP Steve Jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/78 "2011-10-06T01:59:45Z")
In the same vein as how rappers will “pour out a little liquor” to honor the dead, I propose that everyone delete an app from their phone today in memory of Mr. Jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/79 "2011-10-06T02:05:14Z")
The whole internet should go quiet for a minute of tribute. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/80 "2011-10-06T02:06:16Z")
1984, in Switzerland, teaching kids how to do BASIC on the lab full of AppleIIe computers. It was the future. Then the following year I bought the AppleIIc and thought it was the coolest, sleekest thing I had ever seen for the $1000 it cost me. I eventually moved over to the (cheaper) PC’s, but this walk down memory lane is thanks to Steve Jobs. He broke the ice, he made it accessable and he led the way. Thank you Mr. Jobs for changing everything. And thanks too for being a geek, but a geek with a true sense of style and design! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733.md?page=5)