The above photo taken from www.wired.com
Thank you, Mr. Jobs.
For being a revolutionary. An innovator. A visionary. It is no understatement that many consider you a genius. You are our generation’s Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, A.G. Bell. You made it possible for us to carry a library of music on something smaller than the size of most wallets. You positioned your company at the forefront of the information technology industry – you didn’t just foresee trends, you set them. At your keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in 2007, you summed it up this way: “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.”
You changed the way that people look at design and technology together. You are the template that clients hold up when we ask what they want in a new website. “We want Apple,” they say. What they really want is not just your style, but your ability to bring to light the brilliance of simplicity. Other companies are not keeping up with the Joneses, but trying to keep pace with you.
It is not just the way you looked at technology that changed the world, but the way you looked at the world. You encouraged people to push themselves harder, to think differently, to consider the impossible, possible. You gave a voice to those that pushed the boundaries and questioned everything.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
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