Release Candidate One with Chris Clark

I don’t think I, or anybody in our little Apple-orbiting community of designers, engineers, and journalists can overstate how much of an impact this one man has had on our lives. Steve Jobs wasn’t merely a man, he was a phenomenon, and he’ll be terribly missed.

The thing that makes me saddest about his absence going forward is knowing that every time we quote him, every time we invoke his name, it’ll be in posthumous reference. Like quoting Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr, or any of the misfitting, troublemaking, beautiful souls in Think Different, we won’t be quoting a titan whose taste and work ethic and personality still drive an industry. We won’t be quoting him like we might still have to face him backstage at WWDC and pretend not to be shitting our pants. Going forward, every time we mention Steve Jobs we’ll be remembering a great man passed. I hope his legacy never fades.

His approach to life, his approach to building things the world can fall in love with, is timeless.