“Many who have met Steve Jobs describe their encounters, however brief or inconsequential, as magical–life altering, even,” Austin Carr reports for FastCompany. “A brush with Jobs can be overwhelming: as inspiring as a handshake from Neil Armstrong, as intimidating as a confrontation with Mike Tyson, as intoxicating as a tour from Willy Wonka. ‘So I just met Steve Jobs,’ recalled one New Yorker last year. ‘All I could muster is, ‘I love Apple.””
“A similar sentiment poured out across the web this week, as news of Jobs’s retirement made the rounds,” Carr reports. “On Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Facebook, fans and colleagues alike described some of their most memorable moments with Apple’s chief executive and visionary. [Here are], a collection of the better anecdotes out there, along with some stories sent to us directly, that show just how influential Jobs has been.”
Read them all in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Liran Drabski” for the heads up.]