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 fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world…
are the ones who do.
are the ones who do.
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This gave me goosebumps. They need to add him now.
I chuckle...dating Joan Baez and embracing LSD as an inspiration for his genius. iSAD
I know I will be there one day because I am crazy as hell!
The packaging and branding of Jobs went hand in hand with the Apple products. I'm amazed at how many photos there are of him with the light coming in from behind his head; all of the employee meetings with the lights down, but glowing on him. With every photo, you expect to hear a chorus of angels in the background. Brillant. However, the company may well be better off without him.
Personally, I'm not a Jobs fan, but I am a fan of the product: 3 Macs, 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, 2 iPods, 3 iPod Shuffles, 1 iPod Shuffle mini.
From Gawker...
"It's the dream of any entrepreneur to affect change in one industry. Jobs transformed half a dozen of them forever, from personal computers to phones to animation to music to publishing to video games. He was a polymath, a skilled motivator, a decisive judge, a farsighted tastemaker, an excellent showman, and a gifted strategist.
One thing he wasn't, though, was perfect. Indeed there were things Jobs did while at Apple that were deeply disturbing. Rude, dismissive, hostile, spiteful: Apple employees—the ones not bound by confidentiality agreements—have had a different story to tell over the years about Jobs and the bullying, manipulation and fear that followed him around Apple. Jobs contributed to global problems, too. Apple's success has been built literally on the backs of Chinese workers, many of them children and all of them enduring long shifts and the specter of brutal penalties for mistakes. And, for all his talk of enabling individual expression, Jobs imposed paranoid rules that centralized control of who could say what on his devices and in his company.
I didn't know much about Jobs before his death. Then I heard all the accolades after his death. Then I read Emerge's comments and then I heard the same negatives on a radio program Sunday morning. "So let it be with Caesar, the evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their
bones." Of course, Antony, in this speech, was seeing to it that the people would indeed remember the good, so it is with the press with regard to Jobs. Those who came in contact with the other side of Jobs will have their own memories. I just don't like hearing stories about how the powerful treat those who work for them. Why does success so often seem to come only by stepping on others. Can't one be a genius and care about people, too? Of course, I am hearing other stories about Jobs--and there are always the other stories about the childhood of people like Jobs that help explain who they became--their own demons. Anyway Jobs was a genius and we all have benefited from his genius.
An excerpt from the following:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786.html
"Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year."
I'm surprised Lathan hasnt added her picture on this...lol
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