“Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was laid to rest Friday at the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California, according to a death certificate obtained from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department,” Brian Caulfield reports for Forbes.
“He will be surrounded by some of the artists he loved, the technologists who inspired him, and a former U.S. Secretary of the Interior for good measure,” Caulfield reports. “Jobs, 56, died Wednesday, October 5 at 3 pm of respiratory arrest. His occupation was listed as ‘entrepreneur.’”
Caulfield reports, “The leafy cemetary in the Palo Alto foothills is the final home for a wide range of artists and technologists, according to web site Find-A-Grave. They include country singer country singer ‘Tennessee’ Ernie Ford and Grateful dead member Ronald ‘Pigpen’ McKernan. Technologists buried nearby include Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard.”
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rest in peace dear friend
Steve, we miss you.
Need to plant an apple tree there.
I agree
It should say on his gravestone……”One more thing”.
Didn’t Jesus Christ already do that?
Yes RIP to our own technology savior. His story IS almost Biblical, having been adopted, then tossed out to the tech wilderness only to come back in glory and save technology and put it on a much better path. If all those things hadn’t happened to him we might not have had the end result we did.
Only problem is would have been so much trouble to have just let him live to a ripe old age? Huh, would it? Sheesh…
Steve, thank you for your caring, your passion, and your vision – you changed my life, and the lives of those around me in so many wonderful ways –
God speed.
I sense a Jim Morrison-like Pere Lachaise shrine for Steve.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I went to visit Jim’s grave in France when I was in Paris a few years ago… They had stolen the head off his bust …. Not sure if it was ever replaced…anyone know?
Yeah I’ve been there too and seen Jim’s grave and Hendrix’s in Renton, WA and yeah the Palo Alto Alta Mesa cemetery won’t know what hit it if Steve’s gravesite is marked. The hordes will keep coming to visit and pay their respects forever.
Apple should erect a statue of Steve at the campus.
Nah, too literal, too tied down. Follow the spirit of the man, not his form.
+1
As was said here last week, the best tribute Apple can do is to have the middle seat at all events; empty, but reserved.
The best legacy for Apple would be to continue innovating and leading the way, and not settling for “good enough.” Hang onto the sense of when to move away from something everyone already takes for granted, and create the next paradigm… that uncanny vision Steve had isn’t something that can be found in decisions by committee. When the next visionary emerges, take heed, Apple. It will happen as long as the top brass don’t get their egos in the way. There should be a quiet, unpublicized search for a certain intangible talent as a matter of ongoing policy. People should be encouraged to take chances and make mistakes… to own projects, whether they succeed or not. Over time it shouldn’t be too hard to see where the real potential for that Steve-like leader lies. He’ll never be replaced, but there is so much that can be learned from how he thought, and what was important. Steve did leave a huge legacy, and it’s up to Apple to protect it, and use it.