Steve Wozniak Comments On Jobs Resignation Announcement(cultofmac.com) |
Steve Wozniak Comments On Jobs Resignation Announcement(cultofmac.com) |
I worry about this. Brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work often do not take retirement well, or long. As in:
- A week before "Eyes Wide Shut" completed post-production, Stanley Kubric died.
- A week after ending 50 years of "Peanuts", Charles Schultz died.
Other examples exist.
Better indeed he remain on the BoD of Apple in a controlling role, and/or have some other deep involvement suitable for his health. Berkley Breathed has ended Opus' forum (under whatever name) at least four times; restarting has been good for him. May jobs continue to live and breathe Apple for a long time to come, as it is his air.
Or more probably, brilliant minds wholly obsessed with their work only retire when their health forces them to. This most often means the end is near.
I am not saddened by Steve resigning the CEO role at Apple. I am saddened by what I fear the reason for his resignation is.
Steve, does deserve "Steve time". I like how graceful Wozniak is, in his response.
With respect to this the good news is that Steve Jobs is still the Chairman of Apple, and thus would still have significant input if he so chooses.
"Steve was very fast thinking and wanted to do things, I wanted to build things. I think Atlas Shrugged was one of his guides in life."
My own personal experience is that there are some very powerful ideas in that book. It's gratifying to see that great people like Woz and Jobs also think so.
Edit: Why is this being downvoted? It is an actual quote from the interview with Woz, with attribution. It's on-topic, and it helps complete the picture of what he actually said. How is that a bad thing? Why bowdlerize Woz?
Someone who pisses off that many hipsters must have done something right. No one has ever received so much revulsion from the so-called intellectual elite without advocating genocide or other atrocities... and perhaps even then. Dangerous ideas are interesting.
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/news/personal-tech/table...
Sounds like Steve's team gets a tick of approval from the Woz, that bodes well for the future of the company.
I am a teacher. You keep going for the students, then suddenly there is silence, no work, the background noise comes up like a compressed audio channel. Strange embodied meat things we are.
Whenever I find myself reacting so defensively to an idea or concept, I try to force myself to look into the matter more closely. Put another way: if Ayn Rand can hold up a rhetorical crucifix and turn me into a puddle of fuming goo, that's my weakness, and not hers.
My philosophy professor (from undergrad) is a Nietzsche scholar, and I'm pretty sure he disagrees. What makes you think this?
It's obviously not precisely what ol' Fred had in mind.