Steve Jobs' Last Words - Polidicks

[quote] [B](CNN)[/B] -- The last minutes in the life of Steve Jobs were still filled by the epiphanies and moments of inspiration that fed his inventor's mind, according to an intimate portrait provided by Jobs' sister in a eulogy published Sunday in The New York Times. Mona Simpson's eulogy -- originally read during Jobs' memorial service on October 16 -- is a sister's celebration of a brother she knew only later in life, and a lament of losing a best friend. It weaves in words what she believed were the foundations of Jobs' genius: his humility and hard work, his love of learning and his family. "I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him," said Simpson in her eulogy. "They're not periods of years, but of states of being. His full life. His illness. His dying." Simpson, a writer, and Steve Jobs did not meet until they were adults. Their early family history was fragmented, but set the stage for what later became a deep-rooted friendship between two estranged siblings. After Steve Jobs' birth, his parents gave him up for adoption. Simpson was born later, and the parents subsequently divorced. One day, Simpson said in her eulogy, when she was living in New York and writing her first novel, a lawyer gave her a call to inform her that her "long-lost brother" was rich and famous and wanted to contact her. "Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like (actor) Omar Sharif," said Simpson. "The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name and my colleagues started a betting pool," said Simpson. "The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James -- someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without trying," she said. The man who came to meet her -- her brother -- was Steve Jobs. "Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother," Simpson said in the eulogy as published in the Times. "When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif," she said. When they first met, Simpson said, she told her brother she had considered buying a computer but had waited. "Steve told me it was a good thing I'd waited. He said he was going to make something that was going to be insanely beautiful," she said. Jobs' life was not always a smooth ride, his sister said in her eulogy. He skidded through volatile times with Apple executives and eventually was ousted from the company he had founded. "When he got kicked out of Apple, things were painful. He told me about a dinner at which 500 Silicon Valley leaders met the then-sitting president. Steve hadn't been invited," said Simpson. "He was hurt but he still went to work ... Every single day," she said. Simpson said Jobs was sentimental and he spent much time talking about love. He found a partner in life, Laurene Powell, whom he married in 1991, his sister said. "His abiding love for Laurene sustained him. He believed that love happened all the time, everywhere," she wrote. When Jobs' struggle with pancreatic cancer took a turn for the worse, he called his sister and asked her to hurry to his Palo Alto, California, home. His tone, Simpson said, was "like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us." Even as he struggled physically in his last hours, his sister said, "there was also sweet Steve's capacity for wonderment, the artist's belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later." "He was working at this, too. Death didn't happen to Steve, he achieved it." With his family surrounding him, Simpson said, Jobs' last words were: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. "[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/30/us/steve-jobs-eulogy/index.html?hpt=hp_c1[/url] I know there's a lot of backlash against the media attention paid to Jobs right now, but the story is pretty emotional and worth reading for the personal aspect.

[quote][B]The last minutes in the life of Steve Jobs were still filled by the epiphanies and moments of inspiration that fed his inventor's mind[/B], according to an intimate portrait provided by Jobs' sister in a eulogy published Sunday in The New York Times. "He was working at this, too. Death didn't happen to Steve, he achieved it." With his family surrounding him, Simpson said, [B]Jobs' last words were: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. [/B]"[/quote] ... What?

Those were the very last words, silly.

Surprised he didn't steal someone else's last words.

I would of said "KEEP ON SUING!"

[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;33053863]Unlike the movies last words rarely make sense.[/QUOTE] Maybe the writer of the article shouldn't have wrote it out like his last words were a final nugget of ultimate wisdom that would lead mankind out of suffering and into a new era.

[QUOTE=Jasun;33053845]Surprised he didn't steal someone else's last words.[/QUOTE] I want to rate funny, but that would really be heartless.

Even if he is dead people still think the laugh of the media. Assholes

[QUOTE=darth-veger;33053884]Even if he is dead people still think the laugh of the media. Assholes[/QUOTE] what

[QUOTE=Supacasey;33053910]what[/QUOTE] That people still shit on him, he might was an ass but without Jobs you had no Android or a decent tablet market

He was a douche and a thief, just because he died doesn't change that fact.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;33053920]That people still shit on him, he might was an ass but without Jobs you had no Android or a decent tablet market[/QUOTE] Here we go.

[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;33053925]He was a douche, just because he died doesn't change that fact.[/QUOTE] Post above [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Supacasey;33053928]Here we go.[/QUOTE] I know, this happened alot of times when people defend him. But thank god we can rate dumb, otherwise there would be a shitstorm of comments on my post

[QUOTE=Supacasey;33053928]Here we go.[/QUOTE] Don't you just love the same old arguments?

Are we really going to start fighting about Jobs again please don't

Complain about the company, not the man.

"And hereby... I patent... dying."

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;33054029]Complain about the company, not the man.[/QUOTE]Why not? Why does death somehow make people immune to criticism?

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;33054088]Why not? Why does death somehow make people immune to criticism?[/QUOTE] Apple is the shitty bit dishing out crap products, not him. And I doubt he was responsible for every awful decision and a crappy attitude on the companys part.

Trust Facepunch to completely miss the point about an article and start threadshitting.