. . . actually- way too many people- don't know this- but we are all headed to the same place and "the best health care system in the world" or not is no match for the man with the scythe.

. . . we are going to die and be dust and so will everything we built and accumulated in our lives. All that is left behind are the effects of our actions on other people still alive. Was the sum total of our lives a positive for those left behind or a negative? That is the only question in the end and the only thing that remains of us.

Great Man...

By Christopher Birch on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:04am.

Being a Great Man has nothing to do with Good or Evil. It has everything to do with Changing the World.

Stalin was a Great Man. Ghandi was a Great Man. Mother Theresa was a Great Man.

Steve Jobs, agree or disagree with him, was a Great Man.

"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."
-Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

Dormas Pace, Steve...

Mother Theresa was a great

By Jenny on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:29am.

Mother Theresa was a great man? Really? C'mon now.

Yes she was

By Jeff F on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:20pm.

<etymological>
You seem to be taking issue with the use of 'man' to describe a human that was biologically female. In point of fact, the word has been used to denote a single human or group of humans - regardless of gender/sex - for centuries (cf The Cantebury Tales, etc). In the last few decades, this use has met with some objection, and is arguably declining. However, whether this is a temporary shift from the original common usage or a longer term trend remains to be seen.
</etymological>

So he was a CEO?

By J. Dunne on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:33am.

Who cares what his position was? Albert Einstein was a patent clerk. I certainly don't go around thinking of him as some government hack.

To say Jobs "changed the world" might be overly dramatic, depending on what your conception of changing the world should entail. However, there is zero question that he changed the way we communicate. The fact that you posted your thoughts on a message board only serves to prove that point. From where? A personal computer? Laptop? Mobile device of some kind?

Also, I thought the general conclusion was that his liver transplant was pretty much on the level. As I understand, median wait nationally for a liver transplant for acutely ill patients is 20 days. Now I would agree that number may be skewed by patients who aren't diagnosed "acutely ill" who probably should be, but that's another problem with the system in general.

You know who's not great?

By Kaz on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:25am.

Anonymous hitmen.

He didn't game the system. The system is rigged. Organs can only be flown so far before they are useless and transporting them is by the same low tech it's been for quite a while (saline and ice). This sets up a geographic quiltwork to organ waiting lists. A man needing a liver in Tennessee will get it while a man waiting in California will die in the same amount of time without seeing one. Jobs used the system as it's given. He signed up in Tennessee because the wait was shorter and so he was more likely to get a liver before his old one would kill him. Anyone can do this. There are, in fact, many people who do and they are not rich. The AMA says so.

If you've got a better organ transplant/waiting list idea that nationalizes the organs, I'm sure the entire medical profession would be all ears.

And who among us

By Brian Riccio on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:48am.

if they had the resources Jobs had, would not have done the same thing? If your vast wealth could buy you more time, who wouldn't do it?

My brother is one..

By Brian Riccio on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:44pm.

of the top 15 Apple execs you never heard of. Steve Jobs made him rich beyond the dreams of avarice. A stern taskmaster, my Dad told me that one time he could hear Steve yelling at my brother through his cell from the other room at a family dinner once.

I only met him once, at the campus in Cupertino. My brother and I were lunching in the famed cafeteria when my brother asked me if I wanted to meet Steve. I said sure, but I cautioned I didn't want to meet him if it was a hassle. he said it wouldn't be and then we got up and walked over to the line of people waiting to pay for their lunches. It was in that line I met Steve Jobs.

He was holding a tray and waiting to pay for his lunch with the rest of his employees. He said how nice it was to meet me and asked me to hold on a sec while he paid for his lunch. He put his lunch down and shook my hand. He then asked me about the business I was in at the time, which said to me he actually listened to my brother when they talked family. He then said he loved Boston and how he wished he had more time to spend there, and I offered to give him the A tour if he could ever find the time to come back.

That's not the capper, though. One of my brother's kids fell victim to leukemia when she was younger. Steve told my brother that he would not be alone and that the entire resources of Apple were at his disposal. Steve had my niece treated at Stanford Medical Center by the best doctors he could find. My niece has been in full remission for years now. That's not it, though. On Christmas Eve, while my niece was going through treatment at the hospital, Steve showed up, alone, with presents for my niece. A class act, for sure.

I have been in service for over 26 years to CEO's, hedge fund managers, Saudi royalty,rock stars, studio heads and the like, and I have yet to meet one who impressed me the way Steve Jobs did. RIP, Steve.

Enjoyed reading . . .

By Chris Dowd on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:36am.

. . . of your experiences with Jobs.

Agreed

By Allstonian on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:29pm.

Yes - that was really personal and moving. Thank you for posting.

you should send this to [email protected]

By Luba on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:04pm.

you should send this to [email protected]

I find that be somewhat sad

By anon on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:37pm.

I find that be somewhat sad and pathetic.

Bad grammer be

By Brian Riccio on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:06am.

also sad and pathetic.

I hate to sound cynical...

By anon on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:24am.

...but seems odd that it announced right after the iPhone4S. Is this the 'one more thing?' A friend of mine in PR suggested that it was kept under wraps at Jobs' request, because he didn't want his sharp decline in health to interfere with the launch of a new iPhone.

With a bit of gallows humor, we report Steve Jobs' last contribution to Apple - iDied.

is it possible?

By bostnkid on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:18am.

that steve jobs actually died last week? would the timing have been poor to launch the new iphone if the companies ceo had just passed away?

i have also heard the "god hates fags" people plan to protest mr job's services.( the spokeperson issued the statement from her iphone.lol)perhaps the services have already been held, privately, as im sure mr jobs would have wished?

could this have been a brilliant mans last brilliant move?

Outside the Boylston Street Apple store

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