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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。

人為什麼覺得心累呢？

人之所以會心累，就是常常徘徊在堅持和放棄之間，舉棋不定。

生活中總會有一些值得我們記憶的東西，也有一些必須要放棄的東西。

放棄與堅持，是每個人面對人生問題的一種態度。勇於放棄是一種大氣，

敢於堅持何嘗不是一種勇氣，孰是孰非，誰能說的清道的明呢？

如果我們能懂得取捨，能做到堅持該堅持的，放棄該放棄的，那該有多好。

別讓自己心累！應該學著想開，看淡，學著不強求，學著深藏。

別讓自己心累！適時放鬆自己，尋找宣泄，給疲憊的心靈解解壓。

人之所以會煩惱，就是記性太好。該記的，不該記的都會留在記憶裡。

而我們又時常記住了應該忘掉的事情，忘掉了應該記住的事情。

為什麼有人說傻瓜可愛、可笑，因為他忘記了人們對他的嘲笑與冷漠，

忘記了人世間的恩恩怨怨，忘記了世俗的功名利祿，忘記了這個世界的一切，

所以他活在自己的世界裡隨心所欲地快樂著，傻傻的笑著。

所以人們寧願讓自己不快樂，也不願意去做傻瓜。如果可以記住應該記住的，

忘記應該忘記的。或者是忘掉從前，把每天都能當成一個新的開始，那該有多好。

可是，說起來容易，做起來卻是那麼的難。

人之所以會痛苦，就是追求的太多。人生在世，不可能事事順心，不要常常覺得自己很不幸，

其實世界上比我們痛苦的人還要多。明知道有些理想永遠無法實現，有些問題永遠沒有答案，

有些故事永遠沒有結局，有些人永遠只是熟悉的陌生人，可還是會在苦苦地追求著，等待著，幻想著。

其實痛苦並不是別人帶給你的，而你自己的修養不?，沒有一定的承受能力。

你硬要把單純的事情看得很嚴重，把簡單的東西想的太複雜，那樣子你會很痛苦。

學會放下，放下一些所謂的思想包袱，坦然面對一切，讓一切順其自然，這樣你才會讓自己輕鬆自在。

人之所以不快樂，就是計較的太多。不是我們擁有的太少，而是我們計較的太多。

不要看到別人過得幸福，自己就有種失落和壓抑感。其實你只看到了別人的表面現象，

或許他過的還不如你快樂。人的慾望是無止盡的，人人都在追求高品質的生活，

人人都想得到自己想要的東西，人人都在為了自己的目標，整天裡忙碌著，

奮鬥著，得到了，開心一時，得不到，痛苦一世。 世界上沒有完美無缺的東西，

不完美其實才是一種美，只有在不斷的爭取，不斷的承受失敗與挫折時，才能發現快樂。

人之所以不知足，就是有著太多的虛榮心。俗話說知足者常樂，但又有幾個人能達到這樣的境界。

人不是因為擁有的東西太少，而是想要的東西太多。大千世界無奇不有，有著太多太多的誘惑，

我們不可能不動心，不可能不奢望，不可能不幻想。 面對著諸多的誘惑，有多少人能把握好自己，

又有多少人不會因此而迷失自己？但話又說回來，有了知足心，哪會有上進心？

時代在發展，生活在繼續，我們需要不斷地去努力，去追求，如果只滿足於現狀，

一味地沉浸在自己的知足裡，那還有什麼遠大的理想和追求了？

人之所以不幸福，就是沒有知足心。每個人對幸福的感覺和要求都不相同，

一個容易滿足、懂得知足的人才更容易得到幸福。曾經看到過這樣一句話：

「幸福就如一座金字塔，是有很多層次的，越往上幸福越少，得到幸福相對就越難。

越是在底層越是容易感到幸福；越是從底層跨越的層次多，其幸福感就越強烈。」

幸福其實就是一種期盼，是一種心靈的感受。只要我們用心去發現，用心去感受，

你就會發現幸福其實就在我們身邊，只是這樣的幸福常常被我們忽略。

人之所以活的累，就是想的太多。身體累不可怕，可怕的就是心累。心累就會影響心情，

會扭麴心靈，會危及身心健康。其實每個人都有被他人所牽累，被自己所負累的時候，

只不過有些人會及時地調整，而有些人卻深陷其中不得其樂。在這個充滿競爭壓力的社會裡，

生活有太多的難題和煩惱，要活得一點不累也不現實。 不同時代的人有著不同的精神狀態，

以前，我們的物質生活很貧窮，但精神狀態卻很好; 如今，我們的物質生活提高了，

可精神生活卻匱乏了。不要逢事就是喜歡鑽牛角尖，讓自己背負著沉重的思想包袱，

把事情考慮得太周全，這就造成了我們活的累。

為了尋找幸福，我們會許下一些諾言。可當真正去做的時候，卻發現有些諾言是虛偽的謊言。

但細想一下，就是這些虛偽而善良的謊言讓我們對幸福充滿了希望和信心。

其實承諾並沒有什麼，不見了也不算什麼，所有的一切自有它的歸宿。

幸福是自己的感覺，需要自己細細去體會。幸福的距離，有時近，有時遠，

以為就在咫尺，轉眼卻還在天涯。平靜的生活就像一杯白開水，喝起來淡而無味，

卻不知道正是它的純淨無暇才讓我們的生命幸福，懂得生活的人才會在平淡中品出甘甜和幸福。

幸福就是這樣的飄渺不定卻也真實的存在著。對幸福開始漸漸的有所感悟，看看身邊的人，

有幸福的笑容，也有落寞的情緒。再看看自己，還不是如此，有開心的時候，也有落寞的時候。

人生數載，面臨著許多考驗，也會有很多的得到和失去，也有許多的成功和失敗。

人，永遠是矛盾的主體，經常處在猶豫和憧憬的困惑中，夾在世俗的單行道上，走不遠，也回不去。

人，真的是一個難以琢磨的生靈，最瞭解自己的永遠只有自己。生活不可能一帆風順，

開心是過一天，煩惱還是過一天，那為何不讓自己開開心心地過上一天呢？

男人和女人的区别

男人是用来靠的所以要可靠，女人是用来爱的所以要可爱。。。。。

人为什么活着

人为什么活着，为了是纪念，为了活下去，为了活更长，还是为了离开， 希望我还没到人生尽头的时候也可以像年轻时一样，尝试去找回当初那年轻的回忆和梦！！！！

夜店clubbing

以我孤僻的個性，每次去夜店的欲望都不會很強烈，可是當身體聽到充滿動感的音樂，就會不自覺地興奮起來，整個晚上不停地跳跳跳——毫不言累，而且散場時還會依依不捨：爲什麽那麽快就三點了？

你問我最近好嗎？我說，有點寂寞。

一直以來，我都認爲 [寂寞] 是個很卑微的形容詞，“他是個很寂寞的人”——仿佛那是充滿貶義的陳述句。

那是否意味著這個人沒有愛情，也沒有友情，所以寂寞？

有時候會有突然落寞或空虛的時候，心情不爲什麽、毫不防備地難過起來，做什麽事也提不起勁，感覺像是從高空下墜落。

有一段時間，我突然領悟原來那種情況有個名稱叫寂寞。想排遣孤獨的時刻，找個朋友聊聊天、逛逛街或喝茶看戯；可是寂寞，

它可以在三五成群的時候突然出現——當你靜靜地聆聽朋友們高談闊論的時刻、或是當你一個人開著車看著窗外閃爍的霓虹燈、

或是你關了燈躺在床上，房門外傳來大人們説話的聲音，電視機的聲音......一種感覺，破空而入，擊中你七分醒的腦袋，是寂寞。

你一定也有过这种感覺的。

当你心事重重，渴望找个人谈一谈的时候，那个人来是来了，但你们并没有谈什么。

当然，谈是谈了，可是他谈他的，你一开始你也试着谈谈你的，可是后来，你放弃了。

于是，你们的谈话成了两条七扭八歪的曲线，就那么凄凉地、乏力地延伸下去。

你敷衍着、笑着，假装做出很投机的样子。

但是，你心里渴望他离去，让你静下来，静下来啃啮那属于你自己的寂寞。

“倒不如自己闷着的好！”这是你的结论。
“希望别人来分担你的心事是多么的愚蠢！别人不会了解你，人人都只关心他们自己。”
于是，你领悟到，有些事情是不能告诉别人的，有些事情是不必告诉别人的，有些事情是根本没办法告诉别人的。

而且有些事情是：即使告诉了别人，你也马上會後悔的。所以，假使你够聪明，那么，最后的办法就是静下来，啃啮自己的寂寞

——或者反过来说，让寂寞来吞噬你。

于是，你慢慢可以感觉到，午后的日影怎么拖着黯淡的步子西斜；屋角的浮尘怎样在溟茫里毫无目的地游动，

檐前的蜘蛛怎样结那囚禁自己的网，暮色又怎样默默爬上你的书桌；而那寂寞的感觉又是怎样越来越沉重的在你的心上压下，压下。

直到你呼吸困难，心跳迟滞，像一辆超重的车，在上坡时气力不继地慢，渐渐地停下。

于是，你觉得自己涨的无限的大，大得填满整个宇宙的空間；

而这无限大的你的里面，所涨满的，只是寂寞，寂寞，无边的寂寞！
没有一声呼叫，没有一滴眼淚，没有一絲情感，没有一丝欲求；

没有动，没有静，只有一种向下沉落的感觉，沉落。向着那无底的黝暗之中沉落。

于是，夜色密密的涂满了宇宙，在上下前后左右都是墨一般的黝暗里，你不再知道自己是否仍在继续的沉落。

你所知道的只是——那沉重的,无边的,墨染的，死一般的寂寞。

我相信寂寞的力量，像個深淵的無底洞，大得可以摧毀一個人。

寂寞，拉近人與人之間的距離——或許彼此並不深愛，不過是爲了消遣寂寞的心靈。

寂寞，讓人平靜得快死掉——沒有快樂也沒有悲傷，可就覺得全身不對勁，欲罷不能。

你問我最近好嗎？我說，有點寂寞。