Apple today honored company co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs on the tenth anniversary of his passing with a special commemorative homepage on its website. The site includes photos and a link to a short film, capturing some of his most memorable quotes, as well as his moments leading Apple.
The homepage also includes a statement from the Jobs family, which is as follows:
For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together.
Our gratitude has become as great as our loss.Each of us has found his or her own path to consolation,
but we have come together in a beautiful place of love
for Steve, and for what he taught us.For all of Steve’s gifts, it was his power as a teacher that has endured. He taught us to be open to the beauty of the world, to be curious around new ideas, to see around the next corner, and most of all to stay humble in our own beginner’s mind.
There are many things we still see through his eyes, but he also
taught to look for ourselves. He gave us equipment for living,
and it has served us well.One of our greatest sources of consolation has been our association of Steve with beauty. The sight of something beautiful — a wooded hillside, a well‑made object — recalls his spirit to us. Even in his years of suffering, he never lost his faith in the beauty of existence.
Memory is inadequate for what is in our hearts: we miss him profoundly. We were blessed to have him as husband and father.
In addition to the Apple site, Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive has written a remembrance of his friend and boss for the Wall Street Journal Magazine. Ive said he missed Steve desperately and will always miss not talking with him.
Steve’s last words to me were that he would miss talking together. I was sitting on the floor next to his bed, my back against the wall.
After he died, I walked out into the garden. I remember the sound of the latch on the wooden door as I gently pulled it closed.
In the garden, I sat and thought how talking often gets in the way of listening and thinking. Perhaps that is why so much of our time together was spent quietly.
I miss Steve desperately and I will always miss not talking with him.
