Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder Passed Away

Steve Jobs, the long-time CEO and co-founder of Apple, passed away today (5/10/2011) after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.

I still remember my first computer was an Apple II. Well not exactly. It was a cheaper clone, but still it was from there that I picked up my computer skills. Anyway, the world would mourn for such a visionary. Condolense messages not only from Apple, but also from Microsoft, Google, including President Obama and many others paid tribute to this visionary.

Passing of life is never easy and always rather sudden and a shock to your system whenever a person you know moves on. This year with the passing of my dad-in-law and brother-in-law, news of such things tends to take you aback.

Steve Jobs on mortality

In his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, after he had just came back from cancer the first time, Jobs said:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”