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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” — Steve Jobs, at a Stanford University commencement ceremony in 2005.
Time and time again, Jobs lived up to these words. He was an innovator, a phenomenon of the personal computing revolution. Jobs was a driving force behind bringing the PC into the home, and became the man to shrink it down and make it portable.
A true purist at his core, Jobs endlessly strove for product perfection in order to deliver exactly what consumers wanted. And as he <ahref></ahref>once famously said, “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
To try and understand what made Steve Jobs a visionary, Wired.com takes a look back at the life of Steve Jobs, the man.
