One of my Facebook friends posted this phrase tonite. I dunno where he got it, but I thought it was PERFECT:
Three Apples changed the world.
The first one seduced Eve.
The second one fell on Newton.
The third one passed away on Wednesday....
Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday. In the unlikely case that you might not know who he was (it can happen), he started Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak in his parent's garage 1976. The man has changed technology, created it as we know it today...
"A college drop-out and the son of adoptive parents, Jobs changed the technology world in the late 1970s, when the Apple II became the first personal computer to gain a wide following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which built on the breakthrough technologies developed at Xerox Parc and elsewhere to create the personal computing experience as we know it today.
The rebel streak that's central to his persona got him tossed out of the company in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a few years began the rollout of a troika of products -- the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad -- that again upended the established order in major industries."
But what he will ALWAYS be known for is his attitude toward life. He had said he "wanted to leave put a ding in the universe." (ya THINK???)
Six years ago, Jobs had talked about how a sense of his mortality was a major driver behind that vision.
"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 something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
Steve, you made a CRATER in the universe, and left a ding in the hearts of millions... 
R.I.P.
CG
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