printRyan McMaken at Mises.org eulogizes Steve Jobs:
Steve Jobs, one of the most important entrepreneurs and innovators of both the 20th and 21st centuries, has died. Will he receive the sort of veneration reserved to politicians when they die? That’s unlikely, although Steve Jobs typically did more good for humanity every day before lunch time than any politician has ever done in his whole life.
Jobs should be considered a great American icon in the same way that Michelangelo is associated with Italy or Mozart with Austria.
When foreigners walk into “American-themed” gift shops in America, they should be greeted with commemorative plates bearing Jobs’s face.
Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen since we have to honor great humanitarians like nuker-in-chief Harry Truman instead.
And of course, Jobs did great things for all humans, and not just Americans.Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.
APPLE–Remembering Steve Jobs: “… Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built…”
Playboy before “The Girls Next Door”. Via LewRockwell.com, here is the definitive Playboy interview with Steven Jobs.
Jobs did more for the world in just the last 10 years than probably every federal elected office holder in that period of time did put together.
I sincerely hope APPLE will create some Memorials – physical, scientific research, and an historical record – so Steve Jobs will not be forgotten by future generations as was Nicola Tesla.
To me, he was the embodiment of individual genius, entrepreneurship, and capitalism.
Tom Oster, you are absolutely correct in your statement. All of us need more Steve Jobs ideas and initiative.
Never used a Apple anything, never ever sat on the seat of the biker innovator, a Harley either. That qualifier over, I can only say that Ryan McMaken’s quote sums it up very well. Steve Job’s concentration on building and giving the public something that is practical, useful, labor saving, with a standard of reliability and quality is almost unknown in today’s world today. I doubt if we will see many if any followers of his example in the future.
Correction: Steve Jobs did more good for the world than all of the world’s elected officials have done in a generation.
This says more about Jobs than any eulogy possibly could:
“Here’s a guy who’s a billionaire and lives in a regular neighborhood, not behind a gated estate with all the security guards,” said Bruce Gee, a former Apple employee who drove up to the house from his home a couple miles away. “On Halloween, people go trick or treating there like everyone else.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/06/bloomberg_articlesLSMVAP07SXKW.DTL#ixzz1a1UoUnfl
His adoptive father was a white, high school dropout, and a machinist by trade. Jobs learned much of his tinkering skills from his adoptive father. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/05/BUU013D45T.DTL&tsp=1
So, will those on the Left give any credit to his adoptive parents?
After all his adoptive father worked with his hands, and dropped out of high school. And his Armenian American adoptive mother had relatives who were victims of the Armenia holocaust. http://www.todayszaman.com/news-257345-report-steve-jobs-adoptive-armenian-mother-has-anatolian-roots.html