10-05-2011, 08:02 PM
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt:
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Today is very sad for all of us. Steve defined a generation of style and technology that?s unlikely to be matched again. Steve was so charismatically brilliant that he inspired people to do the impossible, and he will be remembered as the greatest computer innovator in history.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger:
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Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an ?original,? with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era.
Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes:
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The entire Time Warner family mourns the loss of Steve Jobs. The world is a better place because of Steve, and the stories our company tells have been made richer by the products he created. He was a dynamic and fearless competitor, collaborator, and friend.. In a society that has seen incredible technological innovation during our lifetimes, Steve may be the one true icon whose legacy will be remembered for a thousand years.
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RIAA CEO Cary Sherman:
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Like all music fans, we are saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was a larger-than-life personality ? passionate about music and one of its biggest fans and advocates. He was a true visionary who forever transformed how fans access and enjoy music. With the introduction of the iTunes software and other platforms, Steve and Apple made it once again easy and accepted to pay for music. His legacy will live on, long past his all-too-short time on earth.
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New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg:
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Tonight, America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein, and whose ideas will shape the world for generations to come. Again and again over the last four decades, Steve Jobs saw the future and brought it to life long before most people could even see the horizon. And Steve?s passionate belief in the power of technology to transform the way we live brought us more than smart phones and iPads: it brought knowledge and power that is reshaping the face of civilization.
In New York City?s government, everyone from street construction inspectors to NYPD detectives have harnessed Apple?s products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively. Tonight our City ? a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius ? joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping Laurene and the rest of the Jobs family in our thoughts and prayers.
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Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz:
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It?s the ultimate sadness?He was a very special person, and he didn?t get to where he was by having people like him all the time. He got to where he was because he had a vision and a purpose. It?s easy to try and please everyone, but he kept to his principles.
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Think Different:
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Over the 25 years Jobs worked at Apple, the company was an extension of himself and his vision for computing, industrial design, and a digital lifestyle.
Jobs more lasting legacy will be his impact on disrupting entire industires, bringing the music business kicking and screaming into the 21st century and transforming the mobile device landscape.
He was not an inventor in the classic sense, tinkering with program code to create the Worldwide Web or tinfoil to reproduce sounds on a phonograph.
Jobs was more of an orchestral conductor, charismatic and dictatorial, assembling the people and pieces of existing and emerging technology to craft an object of desire that reflected his personal aesthetic and vision for how people and machines should interact.
It was an expression of American individualism, buoyed by the kind of self-confidence that insists on pursuing a personal vision regardless of the risk.
Steve Jobs thought different. In his time on earth he pursued with intense focus his vision to create ?insanely great? products for what he called ?mere mortals.? He changed the world and pushed the human race forward.
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