It is a young industry. People who are involved with the gadgets you work with, technology you use, languages you program in, are all still around and continuously working and improving things to make the world an even better place. So when you want to write a tribute to a person who is no more around, it feels very odd as it is for the first time that you will attempt to do such a thing!
Apple ranks, for me, at the top of the best human-machine interfaces. It is a completely different experience working on apple gadgets. They just seem to understand what you want to do and transform accordingly to let you do things with ease. Everything seems so intuitive and perfect. Gadgets come, gadgets go. But when an Apple product comes out, it is the most desirable for one and all. And the one and only man behind all of that, the great Steve Jobs is no more. He has been the face of Apple for as long as anyone remembers and will continue to be, always. Such is the aura of the innovator, who made Apple what it is now.
It was a mail circulating back in 2005 about Jobs' Stanford commencement speech, that introduced me to the man and his experiences in life. The speech was, like all great ones, unique and inspiring. It had some of the best lines I ever read. As much as I want to quote a few of them here, I am running out of choice for which to pick among the many - they are all equally exceptional. I guess it takes a Steve Jobs, with his momentous highs and lows in life, to come up with such beautiful lines.
Here's a tribute to one of the best innovators who made working with gadgets a beautiful experience.
PS: And there was another such a couple of days ago, which we completely missed! RIP Dennis Ritchie, the man behind the C language.
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