Love him or hate him, he was one of the most important people to live in the past 50 years. The world would be a completely different place without him.

RIP

Love him or hate him, he was one of the most important people to live in the past 50 years. The world would be a completely different place without him.

Jobs is really not like Edison. Edison was a inventor/scientist. Steve Jobs was a businessman/entrepreneur. He's more similar to Henry Ford than Edison.

Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies

CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen. "This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." Obama added that if anyone could fill the void left by Jobs it would probably be himself, but said that at this point he honestly doesn’t have the slightest notion what he’s doing anymore.

He was a genius, our generations Thomas Edison. He made a huge impact on the world in the last 20 years, and life would be very different if he hadn't lived. He will be missed.

Patton Oswalt, comedian and comic book writer

"RIP Steve Jobs. Closest thing we had to Tony Stark."

I can see the Henry Ford comparison and ultimately can see the final line as well.

However, just to be nit-picky, I want to say that the assembly line can also be credited to Fredrick Taylor. After all, the nickname for the assembly line process was called Taylorism.

Here's an excerpt:

"Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol, Disney didn’t invent animation, the Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger, Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory, neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel and D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making. Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse. But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish.

I once heard George Melly, on a programme about Louis Armstrong, do that dangerous thing and give his own definition of a genius. “A genius,” he said, “is someone who enters a field and works in it and when they leave it, it is different. By that token, Satchmo was a genius.” I don’t think any reasonable person could deny that Steve Jobs, by that same token, was a genius too."

Stephen Fry (who will sadly be in The Hobbit, but is perhaps better known as a general humorist in Britain)

And a not-so-flattering recollection of his days at Atari.

http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.p ... ail&id=395