John Link Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freestyle Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RationalBiker Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 That's just too sad. Wow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 (edited) Yes, it is very sad. I just heard. One heroic, great man. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for having been the man you were. "Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him." - Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), Gladiator (2000) Edited October 6, 2011 by Trebor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotan Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianleepainter Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 His own achievement made the world so much brighter. Thank you Steve Jobs, you will be remembered and greatly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wotan Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Killy McGee is still on the job, I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianleepainter Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Recent comment(via Facebook) by Yaron Brook, in regards to the passing of Steve Jobs: "Well done, Steve Jobs" Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged lionizes the great wealth creators--the men and women whose thought, creativity, and drive has lifted mankind from the cave to the glistening skyscrapers of New York City. As the president of the Ayn Rand Institute, I regularly speak about Atlas and there is one living person who, more than anyone else, I reference as embodying those traits: Steve Jobs. The news that Jobs is no longer with us leaves me truly heartbroken. What Jobs has always represented to me is someone who devoted his life to creating great values--who pursued his own vision, his own dreams, his own happiness. The results of his life's work are truly astounding: the Apple II, the Macintosh, Pixar, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, and much, much more. He set out to change the world. He succeeded, and by all accounts took deep joy in his career and his achievements. He deserved it. Ever since I heard the news that Steve Jobs died, a certain passage from Atlas Shrugged keeps running through my head, although only readers of the novel will understand the full impact of the scene. Toward the end of the novel, when heroine Dagny Taggart is reunited with several men she had thought she would never see again, she says that the meeting is like a childhood dream "when you think that some day, in heaven, you will see those great departed men whom you had not seen on earth, and you choose, from all the past centuries, the great men you would like to meet." One of the men replies: "And if you met those great men in heaven…. There's something you'd want to hear from them. [Y]ou'd want them to look at you and to say, 'Well done.' … All right, then. Well done, Dagny!" If there were a heaven, filled with the great men of history, I have no doubt that they would say, "Well done, Steve Jobs." Yaron Brook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninth Doctor Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Zap ahead to 8:45. I always heard that Jobs was into Eastern mysticism, this is the first Ayn Rand reference I can think of related to him. This is a new upload to YouTube, but I gather the interview comes from just after Jobs died. Strange if no one in Randland picked up on it until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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