Apple Without Steve...

Yesterday when I heard that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple, like so many others that have come to count that company to deliver products and services that make our day to day life with technology better, I started to think about what the future will hold… I’ve only been a Apple convert for a relatively short time (a few years…) but in that time I have come to count on his leadership of Apple to make my life better…

Then today, I got this article on a newsfeed, and it says it better than I could (gee, what a surprise…)

No, Apple Won’t Be the Same Without Steve Jobs

Pretty much sums up what I have been thinking… I also read an article with some of the best Steve quotes… Here are my favorites:

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” [Speaking to John Scully, 1983]

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” [The Wall Street Journal, 1993]

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” [Stanford, 2005]

And the one that I think is my favorite…

“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.” [NBC Nightly News, 2006]

We can only hope that Apple will continue to be as brilliant as it has been in the past…

But we’ll miss Steve…