“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”

– Steve Jobs:

Smart developers steal their product announcement styles from the Steve Jobs Keynote:

"Novelty was not Steve’s highest value. Beauty was."

"Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance."

"As a young seeker in the ’70s, Jobs didn’t just dabble in Zen, appropriating its elliptical aesthetic as a kind of exotic cologne. He turns out to have been a serious, diligent practitioner who undertook lengthy meditation retreats at Tassajara — the first Zen monastery in America, located at the end of a twisting dirt road in the mountains above Carmel — spending weeks on end “facing the wall,” as Zen students say, to observe the activity of his own mind."

RT @gruber: Sprint ad on back cover of the new Rolling Stone:

Story features my friend Mike Evangelist who worked closely with Steve Jobs for a time (and is written by my friend Julio Ojeda-Zapata).

Beatrix and I were featured in a @kare11 news segment on Steve Jobs this evening. Check it out:

"Apple’s product releases have helped to shape and mould the goals of my best friend Myke and I. We stated a podcast because of it, we have met some wonderful people because of it, and eventually, we will be able to spend our days doing what we love because it it."

"Steve Jobs was a human, who had a divine vision of how we could better relate to one another and our world. He then influenced the actions necessary to make that vision a reality. And it became reality."

Cancer takes people like Steve Jobs and our little friends at St. Jude too soon. It may take our son. Fuck cancer. Fuck it right in the eye.

We lose time when we check our phone every time it beeps and bings, especially if someone we love is sitting beside or across from us. We lose time every time we turn on the glowing box instead of pursue our future visions and goals. We throw away time every time we agree to an hour meeting when 20 minutes will do. We lose time chasing that extra six cents a gallon we heard they were getting for gas across town, not stopping to think that we’re only getting back $1.30 for that effort.

You and I are on the same team. We all are. We may link to the same articles, review the same products, develop apps for the same market, and design with the same intense perfectionism, but we are a community. Let’s continue to fight for each other, encourage each other, and work together to make amazing things.

After seeing the Macintosh and then reading this issue of Macworld, I had an important realization in my young life: people made this.

More so than I expected. RT @imyke: Me & @patrickrhone have recorded a special episode of Enough today. It's emotional

Typically stellar. – Steve Jobs 1955-2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic:

"I have written about many lessons we should learn from Steve Jobs and how he ran Apple, but the single most important lesson I learned from him is this: be genuine."

"Steve Jobs invented very little, but he bent the line of history, of the possible. And because he did, I, and virtually everyone I know, now have an example of how the best, the amazing, and, yes, the special, can be wildly successful."

The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

"When I see this photo, I see a man who bent every fiber of his will toward a goal so lofty, so seemingly unattainable that no one thought it was possible, and at the end of that race, with the task completed, he closed his eyes and rested."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. "

"I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate."