On Steve Jobs
October 6, 2011 at 4:24 pm Ryan Jones 1 comment
Of the many obituaries today for Steve Jobs, two of the most relevant and (I’d imagine) widely read were written by Penn Staters. Ted Anthony ’95 was given the task of summing up Jobs’ life by the Associated Press, and it’s a great read. He leads with a memory of the day the Apple co-founder introduced the Macintosh to the world. “In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker—eyebrows bouncing, hands gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It’s as if he’s on his first date with an entire generation of consumers. And, in a way, he is.” If you haven’t already, you can read the AP obit here.
Then there’s Steven Levy ’74g, who has spent much of his career documenting the innovation that made Jobs a tech icon and Apple one of the wealthiest companies—and arguably the most influential—on the planet. Levy now writes for Wired, and his obit gets right to the point: “It had taken a while for the world to realize what an amazing treasure Steve Jobs was. But Jobs knew it all along.” Levy’s piece is here.
Ryan Jones, senior editor
Entry filed under: Penn Staters in the news media. Tags: AP, Apple, Associated Press, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Ted Anthony, WIred.
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1. Anonymous | October 7, 2011 at 10:38 am
“No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there,” he (Steve Jobs) told the Stanford graduates.
“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’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new … Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
From the Wired article