Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named to TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of The World’s Most Influential People and is also featured on TIME’s extended cover.
The 2010 TIME 100 list is divided into the following categories:
• Leaders: Sarah Palin, Manmohan Singh and other global movers and shakers
• Heroes: The inspiring feats of an urban farmer, an air-traffic controller in Haiti and icons like Bill Clinton
• Artists: Lady Gaga, Conan O’Brien and others who make us dance, giggle and retweet
• Thinkers: Steve Jobs plus scientists, statesmen and a Supreme Court Justice
• Social Networking: An in-depth look at who on our list holds the most influence in our interconnected world
TIME’s entry on Steve Jobs is written by artist Jeff Koons: Apple’s core ideal has always been to make people’s experience of computing as accessible and pleasurable as possible. As a young man, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, decided to be the Beatles of computing. I once said that I make what the Beatles would have made if they made sculpture, and I can appreciate how Steve, 55, applies their ethos of optimism to his work. The tools he has given us, from the Macs at my studio to the iPhone in my pocket, are like clean, new windows, fitting between our selves and our work elegantly, naturally and unobtrusively.
It’s great to see Steve stay true to his vision. I can imagine some young artist saying today, “I make what Steve Jobs would make if he made sculpture.”
TIME’s full list is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
It’s only fitting that Steve is on the left from Sarah’s perspective and Sarah is to the right from Steve’s perspective.
Congrats to Sarah and Steve!
I can’t argue with that at all.
The mobile wars have just begun, and Apple has already won.
Sent from Gregg’s iPad
Those jeans and tennis shoes standing next to the two suits, that’s classic Steve, I love it!
(Not wanting to make any remarks on her beliefs)
The Governor who just quit and walked away (her right to do so) is named for her Leadership?!?!?
Who is the other guy?
Cue the Sarah Palin attacks in 3….2…..1….
Time has a policy of recognizing people whether you like them or not. This was evident at the end of the century when Hitler was named as a possibility for Person of the Century. Odd but if you think about it, it’s about the impact these people had on the world. I cannot agree more about Steve, of course in the most positive way. Look what he’s pulled off and what he continues to accomplish? Go Steve!
Sarah also had an impact on the world. No Hitler, of course, but certainly not my cup of tea. If she ever manages to make her way into the White House, the only thing I can say about her is one thing –
PILF!!!!
Sorry in advance for the crudeness, but she is one hot mama.
But I digress. Steve deserves all the accolades he’s getting and then some. I only hope that the visionaries like Jonathan Ive and others will continue his vision if god forbid the unthinkable happens. He is truly the Einstein of Technology. If anyone in Redmond thinks they can beat that, they are completely delusional.
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From my iPad 3G
Being on a magazine cover with Sarah Palin is like . . . well like uh . . . Okay, it’s just not right to do that to Steve.
I am going to try very hard to forget the image of Steve Jobs standing with Sara Palin and the leader of Turkey. Wow what in inappropriate picture.
I cannot wait until that stupid, miserable woman becomes a footnote in history. Seeing her and Steve Jobs together in the same image is giving me hives.
Sarah Palin??
ROFL
Sarah Palin “Most Influential” Bwahahaha!
With the tin foil hat crowd, I guess.
No wonder print is dying.
7 schools in 6 years to get a 4 year degree, runner up in Miss Alaska, and half term governor. “Most Influential”. That’s rich. Gotta hand it to Time, they are either seriously stupid or have a great sense of humor.
“Drill baby Drill” ROFLMAO.
Do you think she even knows who he is?
(Okay, sorry, I couldn’t resist that one)
Congrats to Steve and Sarah.
Amazing to see so many pussies scared of a woman.
OK, maybe not….
No disrespect to either but, Sarah is on the cover for the same reason that Steve is –
They both will sell (a bunch) of magazines.
Other Steve
That is why our President has been on magazines constantly.
I see Steve bought a new outfit for the photo shoot. I like the new look!
How is he able to afford new duds on $1.00 a year?
@The Other Steve
Dude, Steve is on the cover for way more reasons than that it will help the magazine to sell!
I saw Heroes and Thinkers but where on the lis do the put Quitters?
Just remember, influential does not mean right or wrong. One can have loads of influence, even if it is from a different angle/perspective than you see things from. While I personally laugh at all things Sarah Palin, I’ll be the first to admit that she has a great (quantity, not necessarily quality) amount of influence on the conservative wing of politics.
@ TowerTone:
If the woman is a fucking dimwit, then yeah, I’m scared. We should all be.
George Bush with tats.
It’s frightening that she’s actually “influencing” people. Probably in the same way Anne Coulter is.
Palin on the same cover as Jobs? Ludicrous. An absolute insult. If I were Steve I’d be furious.
Compare what Steve has given us to what Palin has given us:
Jobs: Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, OS X
Palin: “Drill Baby Drill,” “I can see Russia from my backyard,” “Death Panels,” “God made dinosaurs 6,000 years ago”
Utterly laughable.
Hahaha! Jeff Koons! I wonder if Jeff’s artwork if made into an app would make it into the AppStore? Of course, it’s supposed to be art, but I’m not always sure.
How’s that whole Drill, Baby Drill thing workin’ out fer ya?
Leadership my arse. 4 x college dropout, political quitter, panderer to the lowest common denominator and purveyor of half-truths, misrepresentations, outright lies, and Luntz approved talking points.
So many let the popular media do their thinking for them.
Try Googling sometime.
Found Example: “In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other.”
Also… If we were developing our own resources in Alaska, we wouldn’t need to depend on the Middle East for oil during our energy transition period. So, we should be drilling responsibly.
Use your brains people… and stop being puppets of the press.
People, this is TIME friggin’ magazine–not exactly a bastion of conservative dogma. And Palin MADE THE COVER, because, without political power, she has changed and continues to alter the political landscape. Not to mention that she SCARES THE HELL out of pseudofeminists and Guilty White Men
How influential is Palin? Well, just look at this blog. We’re not talking about Time magazine, there is only an occasional mention of Steve Jobs, and noody EVEN KNOWS OR CARES who the hell that guy to the left is.