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Very nice tribute to Steve Jobs

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1. I am not a fan of his; I can’t forgive him for jumping ahead of the line for his donor liver; a liver that should never have been given to any patient suffering abdominal cancer in the first place.
   His Syrian birth father might forgive him one day for not answering his calls to make peace (his American birth mother put him up for adoption because her father did not approve of her marrying a Syrian, so she did this alone against the birth father’s wishes).
   Although the child he denied having out of wedlock for all those years apparently has forgiven him.
   Steve Jobs talked the talk but in my book he did not walk the walk where it mattered most.

   

   Zach

   6 October 2011 at 11:27 am
2. Quite often it seems that people who have an enormous public impact—even for the good—have complex and sometimes disastrous personal lives. I was thinking of how many millions he touched through his work, and generally for good. An amazing reach, and many people find the products more an integral part of their lives than they ever expected. I do recognize his personal failings, but his public life was highly significant and generally for the good. People’s private lives… well, they’re often messy and thus better private.

   I doubt that I would have liked him personally myself: he strikes me as arrogant and abrasive, the sort of person who arouses my ire immediately. But still I have to stand in awe of his lifetime impact.

   

   LeisureGuy

   6 October 2011 at 12:54 pm
3. Very well stated; I was reacting to all the references of his future canonization by a bunch of people who must really like their phones.

   

   Zach

   6 October 2011 at 4:02 pm

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