Steve Jobs, you will be missed.

Yesterday Apple announced that Steve Jobs died. I would have wrote this that day, but I wanted to wait until I could gather my thoughts. Steve Jobs was a true visionary and he will be deeply missed. He changed the world, not just the world of computers, but the world of humanity as a whole. Steve Jobs has a way with words, he could sell anything to anyone, but the thing he was most successful in selling was a dream. A dream that the world could change for the better. He provided the tools to get the job done. The iPad changed the way doctors delivered care to their patients, and the way autistic children could communicate with their parents. Over the years the Mac computers became more and more environmentally friendly, the Mac mini uses the smallest amount of watts in any desktop computer and each computer is highly recyclable. Steve dared to think differently, and that's what set him apart from the rest. When others told him he couldn't do something, he tried even harder to do it.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not found of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or verify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.. Because they change things.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
– Steve Jobs