Steve Jobs had No Respect for the Status Quo October 6, 2011
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Here’s an old Apple “Think Different” ad with Steve Jobs as the narrator. Steve himself is obviously one of the “crazy ones”:
I was fortunate enough to live in the world as computers changed from room-sized boxes of blinking electronics costing millions of dollars, to tiny, personal wireless devices that people carry with them everywhere. It’s been wonderful and exciting to work in an industry that moves so quickly and effects people’s lives so deeply.
Countless engineers and programmers have worked to develop computer technology to point where it is today, but no one has had more influence and impact than Steve Jobs. He saw so clearly how things should be and he got everyone to make it so. Life will go on without Steve Jobs, but his leadership and vision pointed the way for all of us and changed the world for the better.
In his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs discusses our mortality and inspires our next generation: