While not a MAC head, I respect and admire Mr. Jobs. He, to me, represents the best of human kind - an entrepreneurial capitalist. He had an idea that he turned into billions of dollars. He created employment where none had existed before. He created wealth were there was nothing before. He made a profit doing it. He was truly a great person and he will be missed.
BWS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond E. Feist" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 21:35 Subject: Steve Jobs To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> > I'm a Mac head, and writing this on a PowerMac QuadCore that has > many times more power than what NASA used to put men on the moon. > > I've got an iPhone 4. I've got an iPad. I've used mostly Apple > computers since the days of the Apple ][e and the Mac SE. > > Steve Jobs was more than merely a really smart guy who invented > stuff. There are lots of very smart men and women in many fields. > Jobs never won the Nobel Prize, right. Or a McArthur Grant. > > Genius is a word often tossed around. But Jobs didn't cure > cancer. He didn't bring an end to international violence. He > didn't end hunger in the world. > > Let me tell you what he did. > > He changed how we see our world, interact with it, and did it in a > way we take for granted. > > When you flip on the lights, do you think of Edison? When you > pick up the phone, do you think of Bell. When you flip on the > radio, do you think of Marconi? When you go for a drive, do you > think of Ford? > > When you turn on your computer, do you think of Steve Jobs? > > No, but that's who he was. > > Best, R.E.F. > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained > away by stupidity. > > > > > > >
