I have read a good set of great articles this evening of Steve Job’s death.

John Siracusa’s article is definitively at the top. best quote? Referring to the first Macintosh as a lesson from Steve:

The Macintosh was the first thing in my life that I recognized as being wholly new. Everything I’d seen thus far in my eleven years had seemed like it already existed prior to my birth—perhaps like it had always existed. But here was something different, something amazing, and this magazine explained how it had been created by this small group of people.

The implications bloomed in my mind. We aren’t stuck with the things we have now. We can make new things, better things. And it doesn’t take many people to do it. The team that had created this mind-bending new machine were all up on my wall, their individual faces clearly recognizable.