“The memorial for Steve Jobs on the Stanford University campus Sunday night featured an intimate series of tributes from friends, colleagues and family,” Nick Wingfield reports for The New York Times.
“According to someone present at the service, one of Mr. Jobs’s daughters read the script from the Apple television commercial known as ‘The Crazy Ones,’ part of an advertising campaign that saluted iconic figures like Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner and John Lennon,” Wingfield reports. “Mona Simpson, Mr. Jobs’s sister, spoke of being present during the last moments of his life.”
Wingfield reports, “Joan Baez sang ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.’ Bono, the U2 frontman, performed a Bob Dylan song, ‘Every Grain of Sand.’ …Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president for industrial design, spoke about working with Mr. Jobs. During brainstorming sessions, Mr. Ive said, Mr. Jobs would often come up with a lot of ‘dopey ideas,’ along with good ones too.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]