Born February 24, 1955 · San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56) · Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Education Reed College (attended)
Spouse Laurene Powell (m. 1991)
Steve Jobs’ last words were about his admiration of his family, not a critique of wealth,
as a viral post claims. A post that has been circulating in different forms since 2015 claims the Apple founder and billionaire died disillusioned with his wealth.
“In other eyes, my life is the essence of success, but aside from work, I have a little joy.
In the end, wealth is just a fact of life to which I am accustomed,” the post claims Jobs said.
“At this moment, lying on the bed, sick and remembering all my life, I realize that
all my recognition and wealth that I have is meaningless in the face of imminent death,”
it goes on to say. “You can hire someone to drive a car for you, make money for you —
but you cannot rent someone to carry the disease for you. One can find material things,
but there is one thing that cannot be found when it is lost — life.
“Your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.
Whether you’re flying first class, or economy class — if the plane crashes,
you crash with it.”
The post, made by Sergio Cardenas, then goes on to talk about the importance of seeking happiness, health and love in how you live your life over material possessions.
Fact checks: Steve Jobs last words.
What did Steve Jobs say on his deathbed?
When Jobs died in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, his sister Mona Simpson
spoke about his last words as part of her eulogy.
She said, “With that will, that work ethic, that strength,
there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment,
the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.
Jobs’ final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.
“Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children,
then at his life’s partner,
Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them,” she continued.
“Steve’s final words were: ‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.’”
Where did the other speech come from?
No one who was close to Jobs has ever said the often-circulated essay was ever written or said by Jobs, according to a fact check by Snopes. Snopes found the speech didn’t start circulating until 2015, four years after his death.
The version being fact-checked in this article contains slightly different language than the one Snopes checked, but there are enough similarities that there is a clear thread between them.
Our rating: False
We rate this claim FALSE, because it is not supported by our research. There is no evidence Steve Jobs used his final moments to deliver a speech against materialism. Instead, a relative has recounted that he looked at those he loved for a long moment
before saying “Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.”
Our fact-check sources: Facebook post
Snopes, Nov. 8, 2015, “Steve Jobs Deathbed Speech”
New York Times, Oct. 30, 2011, “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs”
Seek Christ Not Self
Written by: Lydia Laird
I feel like so much of my life lately has been about self-promotion, making sure I’m measuring up to expectations from others or even myself… when the only One I should ever aspire to measure up to or please is Jesus. And in following Him, I am actually called to be humble, meek, a servant, okay with being offended, quick to forgive, etc.
Yikes, I have not been killing the game.
Today I feel like Paul in Romans 7… the good that I want, I do not do, but instead practice the very evil that I do NOT want and often preach against! “Wretched [woman] that I am! Who will set me free from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
It is really easy to have grown up in the church, professed Christ as Lord and then get
used to an appearance of godliness while actually focusing more on the things and focuses of this world than being a true disciple and follower of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
I realize today that it’s time to refocus myself and invite the Holy Spirit to do the work of transforming me into the likeness of Jesus in the areas that I have been conforming myself into the likeness of this world.
In and of myself, I have no strength, no courage, no ability to live a life like Jesus. It is only in Him and by taking on His yoke that we are able to be transformed. I keep catching my eyes looking at everything and everyone else but Him to tell me what my life is supposed to be, but I am asking for God’s help to keep my eyes FIXED on Him.
Daily, hourly, minute by minute, I need Jesus. I need the Holy Spirit to transform me.
I cannot do it on my own, and neither can you.
I am so grateful for the unending amount of grace and love that the father has for us. His mercies are new every morning, and God knows I need them. Father, help us realize that our purpose here as Christians looks so countercultural to what the world tells us. Help us to stop running this rat race of SELF, and instead make Your name and Your way GREAT above all else.
Apple founder Steve Jobs issued a “Final Prophecy.”
In his biography, just before he died, Apple founder Steve Jobs issued a “Final Prophecy.”
Steven Paul Jobs, an American business mogul, industrial designer, media mogul, and investor, Jobs first met Laurene Powell, his future wife, in 1989 when he spoke at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was a student.
In a statement made shortly after the incident, he said that Laurene “was right there in the front row in the lecture hall, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of her… began losing my train of thought and started feeling a little euphoric.”
On October 5, 2011, at about 3 p.m. (PDT), at the age of 56. Jobs passed away at his Palo Alto, California, home from difficulties brought on by a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.
This was back in 2011.
At the time, Jobs’ prediction didn’t get much attention – in fact, I think few actually understood what he meant. But today, with so many digital technology stocks crashing
all around us, it’s becoming more and more clear that Steve Jobs’ “Final Prophecy”
is coming to life RIGHT NOW.
Keep in mind, this was the guy who accurately predicted the Internet, laptop computers, Siri and Alexa voice assistants, e-commerce, and cloud computing, just to name a few… long before these things were a blip on the radar.
As Walter Isaacson, Jobs’ biographer, says:
ENGISH SPEECH | STEVE JOBS: Stanford 2005 Speech (English Subtitles)
And that’s exactly why today I want to tell you about Steve Jobs’
“Final Prophecy” because it is coming to life right now…
And more importantly, I believe it will result in by far the biggest investment
gains in the world over the next decade. So… for the next few minutes…
forget the technologies dominating today’s headlines…
Forget cryptocurrencies, 5G, electric vehicles, and self-driving cars. Forget the blockchain, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Forget NFTs, apps, space exploration, and cloud computing.
Steve Jobs’ visionary status was built on reacting to and learning from the things around him… Growing up in Silicon Valley, Jobs was fortunate enough to have access to a computer in the NASA Ames Research Center. Starting with computers at such a young age led Jobs to spend his life dreaming about what computers could do.
His love of computers led him to cross paths with his future business partner at an incredibly early age. As teenagers, Jobs and his childhood friend Stephen Wozniak
began to build electronic devices together.
Computers were prohibitively expensive at the time. So, like many tech hobbyists,
they decided to build them from scratch for much less money.
From that passion project, the two Steves realized they might be able to build computers
at a reasonable cost for other people. Just eight years later, they later formed Apple.
The Apple I was the first computer that Jobs and Wozniak built.
It was a failure, selling only 200 units’ total.
However, a year later, they released the Apple II,
which became one of the first successful mass-produced computers.
Thanks to the popularity of the Apple II, Apple gained significant attention in the community. Between 1977 and 1980, Apple grew its sales by 252 times and quickly
became the leading computer manufacturer in the U.S.
Jobs knew how to make computers more accessible…He could see that most people would find computing inaccessible if the first thing
they saw when they turned it on was a green or white line of code on a blank screen.
Prompt-based operating systems expected too much knowledge from users just to get started in the system itself.
Jobs knew PCs weren’t yet at a point where it could see true mass adoption.
When he visited the Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC”) in 1979, he finally realized what was missing.
As soon as he booted up Xerox’s (XRX) new Alto computer, he didn’t have to enter any lines of code. Instead, it had a graphic user interface (“GUI”) operating system controlled by a mouse, which allowed users to navigate by clicking through icons instead of memorizing lines of code.
While he saw the potential for Alto’s GUI, Xerox never sold it as a commercial product. Convinced that it was destined to be an expensive workstation, Xerox executives only sold the Alto and its successor, the Xerox Star, to universities and research centers. In today’s money, it was priced at about $45,000, well out of the budget for most at-home users.
Jobs knew computers were bound to be ubiquitous at some point…But the only way they would be was if they were easy to use. So, he abandoned
Microsoft’s (MSFT) MS-DOS platform on which the Apple II had been built.
He developed Apple Lisa, naming the operating system after his daughter. In 1983, Apple Lisa was launched as the first GUI-controlled personal computer available to the masses.
Unfortunately, Apple’s Lisa was a commercial failure. In what would become a pattern for Jobs, he was so far ahead of the curve that it took the market years to catch up to him.
In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh, the first mass-production PC with a GUI-based system, a built-in screen, and a mouse. The Macintosh offered many new features for users: The icon-based GUI helped users navigate easily, the menu bar allowed easy access to apps, and the “Finder” helped find documents and applications.
Now famous for the Ridley Scott-produced 1984 inspired ad that marked its launch during Super Bowl XVIII, the Macintosh was a smash hit. It was termed “the first $2,500 impulse item” because of how it brought the GUI to the masses before everyone recognized they needed it.
For the rest of the 1980s, Apple continued to thrive on the back of Jobs’ vision with Macintosh… He had such foresight about what was needed that Apple was able to ride on the back of his innovation for almost half a decade after he was pushed out in 1985.
But without Jobs’ innovative vision to push the company forward, Apple’s profitability started to decline in the early 1990s. However, as we all know, this wasn’t the end of the line for Apple… And it also wasn’t the end of the line for Jobs on his amazing predictive power…
Jobs’ final ‘prophecy’ is now starting to play out…The inventor and business magnate’s final prediction came only months before he passed away in 2011. At the time, much like his original vision for PCs, Jobs’ prediction didn’t get much attention, and few people understood what he meant.
But today, with so many tech stocks crashing, it’s becoming clear that Jobs’
“Final prophecy” is coming to life right now. While the rest of the market is focused on cryptocurrencies, 5G, electric and self-driving cars, the blockchain, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, non-fungible tokens, space exploration, and cloud computing…
they’re missing the bigger picture.
These are all digital technologies, and although most investors don’t realize it, they are largely yesterday’s news.
In a brand-new presentation, I explain how Jobs’ final prediction will transform
the economy and your investments… how early investors are set to make a fortune…
and I even share the name and ticker symbol of my favorite way to invest in Jobs’
final prophecy (no e-mail address, credit card, or phone number required).
Here Are All the Things Steve Jobs Correctly Predicted 20 Years Ago About the Internet
Steve Jobs Prophecies: 10 Amazing Predictions of the Future (gunaxin.com)
So… for the next few minutes… forget the technologies dominating today’s headlines…
Steve Jobs’ visionary status was built on reacting to and learning from the things around him… He could see that most people would find computing inaccessible if the first thing they saw when they turned it on was a green or white line of code on a blank screen. Prompt-based operating systems expected too much knowledge from users just to get started in the system itself. Jobs knew PCs weren’t yet at a point where it could see true mass adaption.
When he visited the Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC”) in 1979, he finally realized what was missing. As soon as he booted up Xerox’s (XRX) new Alto computer, he didn’t have to enter any lines of code. Instead, it had a graphic user interface (“GUI”) operating system controlled by a mouse, which allowed users to navigate by clicking through icons instead of memorizing lines of code. While he saw the potential for Alto’s GUI, Xerox never sold it as a commercial product.
Convinced that it was destined to be an expensive workstation, Xerox executives
only sold the Alto and its successor, the Xerox Star, to universities and research centers.
In today’s money, it was priced at about $45,000, well out of the budget for most at-home users. Jobs knew computers were bound to be ubiquitous at some point…
But the only way they would be was if they were easy to use. So, he abandoned Microsoft’s (MSFT) MS-DOS platform on which the Apple II had been built. He developed Apple Lisa, naming the operating system after his daughter. In 1983, Apple Lisa was launched as the first GUI-controlled personal computer available to the masses. Unfortunately, Apple Lisa was a commercial failure.
In what would become a pattern for Jobs, he was so far ahead of the curve that it took the market years to catch up to him. In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh, the first mass-production PC with a GUI-based system, a built-in screen, and a mouse. The Macintosh offered many new features for users: The icon-based GUI helped users navigate easily,
the menu bar allowed easy access to apps, and the “Finder” helped find documents and applications. Now famous for the Ridley Scott-produced 1984 inspired ad that marked its launch during Super Bowl XVIII, the Macintosh was a smash hit. It was termed “the first $2,500 impulse item” because of how it brought the GUI to the masses before everyone recognized they needed it.
For the rest of the 1980s, Apple continued to thrive on the back of Jobs’ vision with Macintosh…He had such foresight about what was needed that Apple was able to ride
on the back of his innovation for almost half a decade after he was pushed out in 1985.
But without Jobs’ innovative vision to push the company forward, Apple’s profitability started to decline in the early 1990s.However, as we all know, this wasn’t the end of the line for Apple… And it also wasn’t the end of the line for Jobs on his amazing predictive power… Jobs’ final ‘prophecy’ is now starting to play out…The inventor and business magnate’s final prediction came only months before he passed away in 2011.
At the time, much like his original vision for PCs, Jobs’ prediction didn’t get much attention, and few people understood what he meant. But today, with so many tech stocks crashing, it’s becoming clear that Jobs’ “final prophecy” is coming to life right now. While the rest of the market is focused on cryptocurrencies, 5G, electric and self-driving cars, the blockchain, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, non-fungible tokens, space exploration, and cloud computing… they’re missing the bigger picture.
Did Steve Jobs Seek Swiss Cancer Treatment?
Experts say experimental treatment is expensive and possibly effective.
By KIM CAROLLO, ABC News Medical Unit January 19, 2011, 12:44 PM
Founder Steve Jobs was not just the CEO but also the heart of the company.
Jan. 20, 2011– Recent media reports have begun to shed lighter on Steve Jobs’
medical condition and the treatment he’s believed to have sought overseas. According to Fortune magazine, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, Inc, who is currently on medical leave, flew to Switzerland in 2009 to receive a treatment for neuroendocrine cancer that isn’t yet approved in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported Jobs also had a liver transplant that year.
Fortune said it learned about the unpublicized trip to Switzerland from former Apple director Jerry York, who died in 2010.In 2004, doctors found that Jobs had a pancreatic neuroendocrine islet cell tumor, which is very different from the more well-known pancreatic cancer that took the life of actor Patrick Swayze in 2009.”They are slower-growing tumors than typical pancreatic cancers. The survival rate for more typical cancers is much lower,” said Dr. Alejandro Ayala, associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine.
“Some people have described them as cancer in slow motion,” said Dr. Jonathan Strosberg, attending physician at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. “Patients tend to live longer, even if it’s in its later stages. The average survival is six years from diagnosis. “Neuroendocrine cancers affect cells throughout the body that secrete hormones.
The tumors can cause the secretion of either too much hormone or not enough. They are relatively rare, but more and more new cases are being diagnosed, and experts attribute that trend to better recognition of these tumors. Experts say the treatment Jobs underwent is an experimental procedure called peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT).
It involves delivering radiation to tumor cells by attaching one of two radioactive
isotopes to a drug that mimics somatostatin, the hormone that regulates the entire
endocrine system and the secretion of other hormones.
Specialists who treat neuroendocrine cancers say PRRT is very effective, but because
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn’t yet approved it, patients who want the treatment typically to head to Europe for it. “It shrinks tumors in about a third of cases significantly, and it lasts on average about two to three years,” said Strosberg.
“Even though you get tumor shrinkage, you mostly get disease progression that stabilizes,” said Dr. Thomas O’Dorisio, professor of medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Experts believe the FDA will eventually approve PRRT.”
The data is coming out slowly.
There’s never been a phase 3 clinical trial, and that’s why it’s not okayed yet,” said O’Dorisio.”It’s a new, experimental treatment, and it has to go through the same approval process as all drugs,” said Ayala. A company called Excel Diagnostics Imaging Clinics, based out of Houston, Tex., was approved by the FDA to begin an investigational new drug trial for PRRT.
However, O’Dorisio said it’s cheaper to get the therapy at University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland, where Jobs is believed to have received his. “It’s $4,200 per treatment at Basel,” said O’Dorisio. He said patients generally receive four treatments. He estimates the cost of treatment in Texas at $15,000 per treatment, which may or may not be covered by health insurance.
He also said he’s sent about 400 of his patients to Basel because of the cost, and because the hospital there offers the best treatment. Other treatment options include surgical removal of the primary tumor, and a drug called sandostatin that mimics the action of somatostatin and other drugs that are FDA-approved for kidney cancer that have also shown promise against pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Experts say there are also other radiotherapeutic agents currently in development. Pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer often spreads to the liver, which experts believe happened to Jobs, but liver transplants are generally not an option for people with neuroendocrine cancers.
“People with liver tumors can live for very long. They are very slow-growing, and they are not candidates for liver transplants,” said O’Dorisio. It’s difficult to predict how long Jobs will survive, since survival depends on a number of factors, and Jobs has kept details about his condition private. “Survival depends on the aggressiveness of the tumor and if it’s malignant,” said Ayala. ABC News’ Lara Salahi, Kristina Fiore, Becky Bielang and Scott Dunbar contributed to this report.
Steve Jobs’ Cancer Treatment Regrets
Alice G. Walton Senior Contributor
Oct 24, 2011,11:29am EDT
This article is more than 10 years old.
Which treatments did Steve Jobs seek for his cancer treatment
Steve Jobs Lived Longer Than Most Patients with His Type 0f Cancer”:
Not many people — just 4.4 percent — of people with pancreatic cancer survive longer than five years, USA Today reported. Jobs lived for seven years after it first became known that he was diagnosed with cancer.
On Steve Jobs’ Cancer Treatments (drgily.com)
Jobs’ “magical thinking” may have defined his business brilliance, but it could have been his downfall in his fight against cancer.
According to Steve Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, the Apple mastermind eventually came to regret the decision he had made years earlier to reject potentially life-saving surgery in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices. Though he ultimately embraced the surgery and sought out cutting-edge experimental methods, they were not enough to save him.
Jobs’ cancer had been discovered by chance during a CT scan in 2003 to look for
kidney stones, during which doctors saw a “shadow” on his pancreas. Isaacson told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night that while the news was not good, the upside was that the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured.
But Jobs refused surgery after diagnosis and for nine months after, favoring instead dietary treatments and other alternative methods. Isaacson says that when he asked Jobs why he had resisted it, Jobs said “I didn’t want my body to be opened…I didn’t want to be violated in that way.” His early resistance to surgery was apparently incomprehensible to his wife and close friends, who continually urged him to do it.
But there seemed to be more to his resistance than just fear of surgery.
“I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something,” Isaacson told CBS, “If you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. And it had worked for him in the past.”
It worked in business, anyway – and brilliantly. Jobs’ employees had joked that surrounding him was a “reality distortion field,” which allowed him to make his own rules, and conjure up new products for which there was no precedent or apparent market. His capacity to create the reality he envisioned – and convince others of it – was a large part of his business success.
Another element of Jobs’ decision-making process was, according to Isaacson, his trust
of his own instinct. Jobs had spent time studying Buddhism in India, and he felt it served him in his work. “The main thing I’ve learned is intuition, that the people in India are not just pure rational thinkers, that the great spiritual ones also have an intuition.”
But however well his intuition and “magical thinking” may have worked for him at work, Jobs’ postponement of surgery in favor of alternative means was a bizarre executive decision. “We talked about this a lot,” says the biographer. “He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it. … I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner.”
Steve Jobs Regretted Delaying Cancer Surgery 9 Months, Biographer Says
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By the time Jobs finally opted for surgery, the cancer had spread. He had an under-
the-radar liver transplant and began putting a lot of energy into researching the most sophisticated experimental methods, making a complete about-face from how he began his treatment years before.
According to the New York Times, Jobs was one of the few people in the world to have
his genome sequenced. Collaborating researchers at several institutions sequenced his DNA in order to develop a treatment that would target his specifically mutated cell pathways. He went for an experimental treatment in Switzerland in 2009, which involves using a radioactive isotope to attack the faulty hormone-producing cells of the body.
These treatments may well have extended his life, but nine months is a long time to wait
in cancer time. And while there’s truth to the notion that food and supplements can aid a body’s repair mechanisms, there’s a limit to what they can do. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most insidious forms of cancer and has few survivors.
Isaacson says Jobs started talking about an afterlife more and more towards the end.
On one of the interview recordings, Jobs says, “Maybe it’s because I want to believe in
an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear.
The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on.”
But he adds, “Yeah, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch.
And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.”
It’s impossible to know what went into Jobs’ decisions at work and at home, and whether his unexpected medical decisions were in spite of or because of his business brilliance.
But for a man who revolutionized the way we work, communicate, and play,
it’s certain that his life was cut too short.
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