Steve Jobs

This brief snippet from the Weekly Standard is interesting.

One of the special things about the passing of Steve Jobs is how articles about him, such as the one above, continue to appear, in contrast to most celebrities, politicians, artists, or captains of industry. After he died, obviously there was immediately a huge number of obituaries, profiles, "what next?" articles, and laundry lists of his contribution to society. But most of them focused on the Big Things. The little things, though, are also worth talking about too. It is impossible to imagine word processing without a choice in typefaces, and his commitment to the aesthetic as well as to the functional manifested itself in so many ways, we still need time to fully appreciate his departure. Some people are "details" people; some people have grand visions. Our culture tends to celebrate the grand vision -- it is one reason we are so enamored with the Presidency. We rarely see the amalgamation of vision and details in one person; we witnessed it in Mr. Jobs.