Across on the Ririan project there’s this great post.
Steve Jobs is a really inspring character. You get the impression he just loves what he does in life and he’s so creative! I’m a mac convert over the last 18 months or so. I had used Windows pcs for years and years – yep, right back to those earliest of Windows years and up to XP, but then my wife bought me an iPod for Christmas 2005 and I couldn’t get it to work with my ageing Sony Vaio with its USB 1.1 ports so I went out in the January sales and bought an iMac. Oh my! Did I love it right out of the box! Not only did it set itself up without a hitch but it found my internet connection and configured itself without a problem and when I pressed the button that said “add printer” well, blow me, it just went ahead and did exactly that! I had NEVER had such an easy straightforward experience with Windows pcs. And the machine was just lovely to look at. A friend called and asked “where’s the box?” – he meant, where’s the tower that the computer lives in! There isn’t one! Elegant, that’s the word. Anyway, I started using iTunes and soon got into the get all my CDs onto the computer project. Just under 7000 tracks later they’re all there and new ones getting added as soon as I get the wrapping cellophane off the boxes (hey, that’s another story entirely! Packaging rage!!). The iPod goes EVERYWHERE with me. I completely love it. Next up I got into iPhoto hooking up my new digital camera and you know its just that everything works so easily experience that gets to me. It still amazes me. So when it came time to upgrade the ageing Vaio (OK, it was well past time) I bought a Powerbook. I just cannot imagine wanting to use Windows ever again.
For me, the mac is my creativity tool. For words, for pictures and for music, and I have barely scratched the surface with them so far.
So for me, Steve Jobs counts as a hero.
Here’s the summary of the quotes the Ririan project used to collect their “10 golden lessons”
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
- “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you
haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters
of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
- “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes
other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We
use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly
taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something
that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
- “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
- “We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off,
and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”
- “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”
- “I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
- “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of
other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown
out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to
follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you
truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
I got that summary from Lifehack, a blog I read regularly and thoroughly recommend.
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