This quote is from his graduation speech given to Stanford students in 05 -

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything ... all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs

Yes it was very sad news. My heart goes out to Steve Jobs' loved ones.

I grieve for his family and for all the things he did not live to imagine. He literally changed the way we communicate, read and listen to music. The Nobel prize should have been awarded to him YEARS ago - but what category does imagination fit into?

Steve Job was a visionary thinker who changed how we interact with our world. Obama's quote yesterday was poignant, to think that so many of us read of his death on a device that he helped to create..... I only hope that Apple can continue to change our world... he was such an instrumental component of Apple.... validated by how the company suffered when each time he left, and recovered with amazing change when he took the helm.. The iPhone and iPad.... I truly believe that these devices are going to change how our children learn....
Yes, he will be missed.

Our high school distributed IPads to all the freshmen this year instead of textbooks. Less expensive than textbooks! Non-school sites are blocked at school, and parents have received instruction re how to block sites, should they choose to do so. Amazing. No more overloaded backpacks! I hope this happens for elementary school, too!

Wow that is impressive. I do think this is the future. I think about my grandsons growing up interacting on an iPad rather than a book. My son is a software engineer in Silicon Valley and the iPad is a very comfortable device for my 4 year old grandson. As a retired teacher, I see a different way to interact with information really changing the way our children's brains work. That is the challenge our teachers need to meet.

Ditto, but we payed $3500, and still have it. No longer use it. I did plan my oldest daughter's wedding on it and that was over 23 yrs ago.

I guess I doubled clicked SORRY.

Yes! We have had Mac computers since the 1980's. We love them and follow new releases closely. He will be missed!

Mine cost $2,500 and I thought it would last forever. It was a great little computer. Thanks to Steve Jobs and his willingness to let others in the company create machines that were made from what he called a "liberal arts perspective." We are all richer for his genius. froggyintexas

I am very sad. Yes I cried too. My son knew him and it was very sad for him also. We will miss him. He was a wonderful man.

We're also an Apple family. DD's hub is the one who got us interested, now we all but one are Apple fans.Love my Mac Book & DD is in love with her iPad...LOL
he was quite a visonary.I enjoy reading about him.What a talent he had!.

I heard it said that Steve was our Einstein for our generation and he will be greatly missed.

His imac made it possible for a compu-dufus like me, to operate a computer. Thank you Steve. You will be missed.

Me too, that & being married to a techy, who loves anything Mac!...

my youngest dd was involved in FIRST robotics for all 4 years of high school...

Steve Jobs was a founder of that organization...she met him 3-4 times.. he was always great to the kids & interested in all they wanted to show him..

that kind of talent & generosity is rare.. he will be missed.

I bought my first Mac when my DD was at Stanford in '84, and students got a GREAT deal on them. They could buy one a year, so we inherited one the 2nd year she was there. That one went to my folks the next year - when they were in their 70s. They joined the local Mac club in Tucson, and the people there were very welcoming - delighted to have a couple of 70-year-olds learning to use a computer! All due to Steve Jobs! When email came along, my Mom quickly jumped on the bandwagon - got in touch with people she had not written to in years. Wrote letters and demanded that they learn how to do email! Some did - especially one of her sisters.

Ah yes, once an Apple/Mac fan, always an Apple/Mac fan. I would never buy anything else. I've had 5 of them and still love them. Not like I needed to buy a new one but kept getting talked into getting a new one because the computer was 7 years old. LOL He was such a visionary and will be sorely missed for all the innovative technological breakthroughs he developed for the world.

All my kids have the "I" products they are wonderful. (Never wanted to splurge, but sure was jealous) When seeing Steve on tv he always seemed like a very down to earth, nice guy. Such a shame his life was so short!

One has to wonder where the tech industry would be today without his vision. I write this from my MacBook Pro...

The only reason I don't have a Mac now is that my Pfaff embroidery machine is compatible ONLY with PCs - bummer because I prefer Mac!