Thank You Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs resigned from Apple yesterday. Instead of being sad I decided to re-watch my favorite design show the Smithsonian's Genius of Design in honor America's greatest designer. As Steve said to John Scully when pitching him to work for Apple, "John, do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want to come with me and change the world." In others such a statement would be hubris and arrogance, but not for Steve Jobs. Steve made good on such a courageous promise. Those of us who've struggled to design anything (product, website, whatever) know how hard it is to create one cool, revolutionary thing. Steve created at least six (Apple II, Mac, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad). "Life is always either a Beatles or a Bob Dylan song," is another favorite Jobsian quote.




Thanks for changing our world Steve. We love you. Your fellow cancer survivors are thinking of you.

Martin Smith
Durham, NC

Here is another favorite Jobs moment, his 2005 Stanford University Commencement speech.



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