You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The Death of a visionary.
Today is a sad day for the world.
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., has passed away.
I was at dinner and fittingly, my son used his iphone in Alabama to text me the sad news in Nashville.
What an appropriate way to learn about the passing of a technological wizard.
It would be like Leonardo DaVinci dieing and other artists painting you this news.
I went on Facebook and every post was about Jobs’ death. Post after post.
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I don’t own an iphone or ipad or even an ipod.
But I still feel profoundly sad.
Jobs was a relatively young man.
He was only 56. He had so many more dreams to dream. He had so much more to accomplish. I wonder what was next in the blue print of his mind.
Then the cancer struck. Sadly, still no app for that.
I wondering if there is a soldering iron and tool bench in heaven, because if there is, I’m sure he’s tinkering with something.
Jobs had all the money in the world. While he said money didn’t mean anything to him, it did mean he could afford to buy a home near the Memphis hospital that was going to do his organ transplant surgery.
In the end, money can’t buy you more life and like every other human, he passed away.
In the end, money can’t buy you more life and like every other human, he passed away.
Now Jobs is walking in a celestial work shop with Galileo and Michelangelo and Davinci and Edison.
The world’s greatest dreamers all sitting in the pantheon of creation, dreaming the biggest dream that can be dreamed.
Jobs was a man who looked into the ether of life and within the molecules of darkness he saw possibility.
Unlike you and me, he took nothing and turned it into something the world could use, wanted to use, and use easily.
A published report calls Jobs a visionary an inventor and an entrepreneur.
Those words seem too ordinary for Apple’s mercurial, mysterious leader who completely changed how we interact with technology.
He made gadgets easy to use, gorgeous to behold and essential to own.
RIP Steve Jobs.
I can’t wait to see what you can make out of clouds and rainbows and shafts of sunshine.
Say hi to Leonardo for me.
Maybe I’ll get an ipad in your honor.
And that is crazy.™