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Apple co-founder, Chairman Steve Jobs dies

Apple co-founder and Chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple said. He was 56.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."

Jobs had been suffering from various health issues following the seven-year anniversary of his surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in August 2004. Apple announced in January that he would be taking an indeterminate medical leave of absence, with Jobs then stepping down from his role as CEO in late August.

Jobs had undergone a liver transplant in April 2009 during an earlier planned six-month leave of absence. He returned to work for a year and a half before his health forced him to take more time off. He told his employees in August, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."

One of the most legendary businessmen in American history, Jobs turned three separate industries on their head in the 35 years he was involved in the technology industry.

Personal computing was invented with the launch of the Apple II in 1977. Legal digital music recordings were brought into the mainstream with the iPod and iTunes in the early 2000s, and mobile phones were never the same after the 2007 debut of the iPhone. Jobs played an instrumental role in the development of all three, and managed to find time to transform the art of computer-generated movie-making on the side.

By: CNET News staff October 5, 2011 4:41 PM PDT

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Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone 4 last year.

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Apple co-founder and Chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple said. He was 56.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."

Jobs had been suffering from various health issues following the seven-year anniversary of his surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in August 2004. Apple announced in January that he would be taking an indeterminate medical leave of absence, with Jobs then stepping down from his role as CEO in late August.

Jobs had undergone a liver transplant in April 2009 during an earlier planned six-month leave of absence. He returned to work for a year and a half before his health forced him to take more time off. He told his employees in August, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."

One of the most legendary businessmen in American history, Jobs turned three separate industries on their head in the 35 years he was involved in the technology industry.

Personal computing was invented with the launch of the Apple II in 1977. Legal digital music recordings were brought into the mainstream with the iPod and iTunes in the early 2000s, and mobile phones were never the same after the 2007 debut of the iPhone. Jobs played an instrumental role in the development of all three, and managed to find time to transform the art of computer-generated movie-making on the side.

Flowers sit near a sign at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)

The invention of the iPad in 2010, a touch-screen tablet computer his competitors flocked to reproduce, was the capstone of his career as a technologist. A conceptual hybrid of a touch-screen iPod and a slate computer, the 10-inch mobile device was Jobs' vision for a more personal computing device.

Jobs was considered brilliant yet brash. He valued elegance in design yet was almost never seen in public wearing anything but a black mock turtleneck, blue jeans, and a few days worth of stubble. A master salesman who considered himself an artist at heart, Jobs inspired both reverence and fear in those who worked for him and against him, and was adored by an army of loyal Apple customers who almost saw him as superhuman.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 to young parents who gave him up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs gave him his name, and moved out of the city in 1960 to the Santa Clara Valley, later to be known as Silicon Valley. Jobs grew up in Mountain View and Cupertino, where Apple's headquarters is located.

He attended Reed College in Oregon for a year but dropped out, although he sat in on some classes that interested him, such as calligraphy. After a brief stint at Atari working on video games, he spent time backpacking around India, furthering teenage experiments with psychedelic drugs and developing an interest in Buddhism, all of which would shape his work at Apple.

Wozniak handled the technical end, creating the Apple I, while Jobs ran sales and distribution. The company sold a few hundred Apple Is, but found much greater success with the Apple II, which put the company on the map and is largely credited as having proven that regular people wanted computers.

It also made Jobs and Wozniak rich. Apple went public in 1980, and Jobs was well on his way to becoming one of the first tech industry celebrities, earning a reputation for brilliance, arrogance, and the sheer force of his will and persuasion, often jokingly referred to as his "reality-distortion field."

The debut of the Macintosh in 1984 left no doubt that Apple was a serious player in the computer industry, but Jobs only had a little more than a year left at the company he founded when the Mac was released in January 1984.

By 1985 Apple CEO John Sculley--who Jobs had convinced to leave Pepsi in 1983 and run Apple with the legendary line, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"--had developed his own ideas for the future of the company, and they differed from Jobs'. He removed Jobs from his position leading the Macintosh team, and Apple's board backed Sculley.

Jobs resigned from the company, later telling an audience of Stanford University graduates "what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating." He would get the last laugh.

He went on to found NeXT, which set about making the next computer in Jobs' eyes. NeXT was never the commercial success that Apple was, but during those years, Jobs found three things that would help him architect his return.

The first was Pixar. Jobs snapped up the graphic-arts division of Lucasfilm in 1986, which would go on to produce "Toy Story" in 1995 and set the standard for computer-graphics films. After making a fortune from Pixar's IPO in 1995, Jobs eventually sold the company to Disney in 2006.

The second was object-oriented software development. NeXT chose this development model for its software operating systems, and it proved to be more advanced and more nimble than the operating system developments Apple was working on without Jobs.

The third was Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA student who attended a talk on entrepreneurialism given by Jobs in 1989 at the university. The two wed in 1991 and eventually had three children; Reed, born in 1991, Erin, born in 1995, and Eve, born in 1998. Jobs has another daughter, Lisa, who was born 1978, but Jobs refused to acknowledge he was her father for the first few years of her life, eventually reconciling with Lisa and her mother, his high-school girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan.

Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, having convinced then-CEO Gil Amelio to adopt NeXTStep as the future of Apple's operating system development. Apple was in a shambles at the time, losing money, market share, and key employees.

By 1997, Jobs was once again in charge of Apple. He immediately brought buzz back to the company, which pared down and reacquired a penchant for showstoppers, such as the 1998 introduction of the iMac; perhaps the first "Stevenote." His presentation skills at events such as Macworld would become legendary examples of showmanship and star power in the tech industry.

Jobs also set the company on the path to becoming a consumer-electronics powerhouse, creating and improving products such as the iPod, iTunes, and later, the iPhone and iPad. Apple is the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world, surpassing ExxonMobil?'s market capitalization in August. He did so in his own fashion, imposing his ideas and beliefs on his employees and their products in ways that left many a career in tatters. Jobs enforced a culture of secrecy at Apple and was an extremely demanding leader, terrorizing Apple employees when he returned to the company in the late 1990s with summary firings if he didn't like the answers they gave when questioned.

Jobs was an intensely private person. That quality put him and Apple at odds with government regulators and stockholders who demanded to know details about his ongoing health problems and his prognosis as the leader and alter ego of his company. It spurred a 2009 SEC probe into whether Apple's board had made misleading statements about his health.

In the years before he fell ill in 2008, Jobs seemed to soften a bit, perhaps due to his bout with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004.

In 2005, his remarks to Stanford graduates included this line: "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. Because 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."

Later, in 2007, he appeared onstage at the D: All Things Digital conference for a lengthy interview with bitter rival Bill Gates, exchanging mutual praise and prophetically quoting the Beatles: "You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead."

Jobs leaves behind his wife, four children, two sisters, and 49,000 Apple employees.

献给正在打拼的朋友！

（1） 穷人缺什么：
表面缺资金，本质缺野心，脑子缺观念，
机会缺了解，骨子缺勇气，改变缺行动，事业缺毅力..

（2）世界上最聪明的人是 借用别人撞的头破血流的经验 作为自己的经验，
世界上最愚蠢的人是 非用自己撞得头破血流的经验才叫经验..

（3）不要抱着过去不放，拒绝新的观念和挑战..

（4）每个人都有退休的一天，但并不是每个人都能拥有退休后的保障..

（5）生命不在于活得长与短，而在于顿悟的早与晚..

（6）人生的成败往往就在一念之间，但大多数都是一念之差..

（7）年轻是本钱，但未必值钱，不努力就不值钱了..

（8）天上最美的是星星，人间最美的是真情..

（9）舍得有限，赢得无限..

（10）
人往往拿着书籍的东西来 判断无知的事物，
人往往拿着错误的推论 当正确的结论..

（11）与其战胜敌人一万次，不如战胜自己一次..

（12）给人金钱是下策，给人能力是中策，给人观念是上策..

（13）富就富在不知足，贵就贵在能脱俗。贫就贫在少见识，贱就贱在没骨气..

（14）当你将信心放在自己身上时，你将永远充满力量..

（15）计较眼前的人，会失去未来..

（16）罗斯福总统：当时间的主人，命运的主宰，灵魂的舵手..

（17）富人靠资本赚钱，穷人靠知识致富..

（18）我们人这一辈子不是别人的楷模，就是别人的借鉴..

（19）别人看不起您，很不幸.. 自己看不起自己，更不幸..

（20）我们穷人要翻身，没有理由讲辛苦.. 很多时候也没有理由讲兴趣..

（21）世界上什么都可以失去，不可以失去希望，世界上什么都可以失去，不可以失去信心..

（22）智者创造机会，强者把握机会，弱者等待机会..

（23）人有二亩田，白天的一亩田是填饱肚子，晚上的一亩田是耕种自己的未来..

（24）陪孩子读书长大是个人，给孩子观念长大后是人才..

（25）一无所有是一种财富，它让穷人产生改变命运的行动..

（26）宁可被人笑一时，不可被人笑一辈子..

（27）不识货，半世苦；不识人，一世苦..

（28）我们可以失去童年，但是千万不可以失去童心..

（29）活鱼会逆流而上，死鱼才会随波逐流..

（30）
吃别人所不能吃的苦，忍别人所不能忍的气..
做别人所不能做的事，就能享受别人所不能享受的一切..

（31）一件事被所有人都认为是机会的时候，其实它已不是机会了..

I learn a lesson that borrow money from the future is a bad habbit.

有钱就要面，没钱就没面

You will always got your “Face” back when you have thick wallet! Pretending and ignorance will not.(有钱就要面，没钱就没面）

BANK PLAY THE TRICK!!!!

Why do some banks offer higher interest rate while some are lower (esp. foreign banks)? Higher interest rate means the bank need your money. Foreign banks are usually financially stronger and has strong backup from their mother company. So they are not worry about the money too much.

How do banks make money? Lim Goh Thong put $1,000,000 in the bank and the bank give him 4% interest. The bank then loan the money to Ananda Krishnan and charge him 7% interest. The bank make the difference 3%.

Let’s say now Ananda has a choice to get the loan from either AmBank or UOB. AmBank offer him 7% while UOB 6%, which loan do you think he will take? Foreign banks are smart, they want to get more customers. And customers are those who loan money and not those who deposit money! In order to lower the loan interest rate, the deposit rates must also be lower. Else they can’t make good money. This explains why foreign bank don’t offer good deposit rates but VERY GOOD loan rates.

So the moral of the story, you will put your fixed deposit in local bank and get a loan from oversea bank.

因為我們的一切都是顧客給予的

人性的尊重

一家生意很好的點心店門口來了一個乞丐。他衣衫襤褸，渾身散發著一
種怪味，當他畏縮著走到蒸點心的大爐子前時，周圍的客人都皺眉掩鼻，露出嫌惡
的神色來。

　　伙計急忙呵斥乞丐要他滾開。乞丐卻拿出幾張髒乎乎的小面額鈔票，說：“今
天我不是來乞討的，我聽說這裡的點心好吃，我也想嘗嘗。我已經想了好久了，好
不容易才湊到這些錢。”

　　店老闆目睹這一幕，他走上前十分恭敬地將兩個熱氣騰騰的點心遞給乞丐，並
深深地向他鞠了一躬，說：“多謝關照，歡迎再次光臨！”

　　在這之前，無論多麼尊貴的客人來買點心，店老闆都交給伙計們招呼；可今天
他卻親自招呼客人，對他畢恭畢敬，而這個客人卻是一個乞丐！

　　店老闆解釋說：“那些常來光顧我們店的顧客，當然應受到歡迎，但他們都是
有錢人，買幾個點心對他們而言，是一件很容易也很平常的事。今天來的這位客人
雖然是位乞丐，卻與眾不同，他為了品嘗我們的點心，不惜花去很長時間討得的一
點點錢，實在是難得之至，我不親自為他服務怎麼對得起他的這份厚愛？”

　　“既然如此，為什麼要收他的錢呢？”旁邊的孫子不解地問。

　　老闆笑笑說：“他今天是作為一個客人來到這裡的，不是來討飯的，我們應當
尊重他。如果我不收他的錢，豈不是對他的侮辱？我們一定要記住，要尊重我們的
每一個顧客，哪怕他是一個乞丐；因為我們的一切都是顧客給予的。”

　　這個店老闆就是兩次被《福布斯》評為世界首富的日本大企業家堤義明的爺爺，
他對乞丐的鞠躬之舉深深地印在了當時只有十歲的堤義明的腦海裡。後來堤義明曾
多次在集團的員工培訓會上講到這個故事，要求員工像他爺爺那樣，尊重每一個顧
客。