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"The background needs more texture."

— Steve Jobs is personally responsible for all the texture in iOS 5.

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We put a little tribute on Sencha.com to honor Steve Jobs.

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Steve Jobs as iconized by Susan Kare, 1984 versus 2011.

"One of Jobs’s many gifts was that he knew what to give a shit about."

— “Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot” by John Gruber

"I’ve been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I’m not happy with the icon. The second O in Google doesn’t have the right yellow gradient. It’s just wrong and I’m going to have Greg fix it tomorrow. Is that okay with you?"

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Steve Jobs

Fucking love this guy.

One of my favorite photos of Steve Jobs. (See more of my ridiculous treasure trove of Steve paraphernalia.)

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Steve Jobs circa 1984. Illustration by Matthew Phelan.

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991.

(Source: awesomepeoplehangingouttogether)

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Hate the cover. Hate the title. Pre-ordered.

I can’t communicate to you how awesome this is unless you use it. … carrying around these computers with tons of data in them is byzantine by comparison.

— Steve Jobs, WWDC 1997.

If you want to hear a bit of subject matter that Steve Jobs will reignite tomorrow, listen to his closing remarks at WWDC over fourteen years ago; a boisterous account of his networked life in which personal data is redundant and ubiquitous.

His story starts at 14 minutes, 10 seconds. For those who prefer not to watch the consummate showman, I’ve transcribed the most important words below:

I just wanna focus on something that is very close to my heart, which is living in a high-speed networked world (to get your job done every day).

How many of you manage your own storage on your computers? How many of you backup your computers, as an example? How many of you had a crash in the last three years, four years? Right, okay.

Let me describe the world I live in.

About eight years ago, we had high-speed networking connected to our (now obsolete) Next hardware running NextStep at the time. And because we were using NFS, we were able to take all of our personal data—our home directories we call them—off of our local machines and put them on a server. And the software made that completely transparent. And because the server had a lot of RAM on it, in some cases it was actually faster to get stuff from the server than it was to get stuff off your local hard disk because in some cases it would be cached in the RAM of the server if it was in popular use.

But what was really remarkable was that the organization could hire a professional person to backup that server every night. And could afford to spend a little bit more on that server so maybe it had redundant disk drives, redundant power supplies.

In the last seven years, you know how many times I have lost any personal data?

Zero.

Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer?

Zero.

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I know I’m a few days late on this, but happy birthday Steve!

Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall — Newsweek →

One of the best Steve Jobs interviews I’ve ever read.

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I like this photo of Tim Cook and Steve Jobs because it demonstrates the #1 Rule of Working with Steve: Never, ever look him in the eyes.

"[Steve] Jobs’s personal cure for relieving fatigue: massaging his feet in the flush of a toilet bowl."

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From Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz.

Well look at that, you learn something new every day.

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Put Stevey on your iPad. (Click through for super creepy 1024×1024 high resolution wallpaper.)