Comments on: Steve Jobs (1955–2011)

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:29:22 +0000

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

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:17:22 +0000

Correction: Steve Jobs did more good for the world than all of the world’s elected officials have done in a generation.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:17:07 +0000

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.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:26:06 +0000

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.

By: Tom Oster

Tom Oster — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:31:43 +0000

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.