Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, left an indelible mark on the world with his uncanny ability to marry hard-core technology with an understanding of human nature. In a rare personal moment at one of his last press events, he displayed a huge picture of street signs showing the intersection of "technology" and "liberal arts," saying that it was there that Apple was trouncing rivals. Jobs was known for a perfection-driven personality so fierce that it was the heart and soul of the firm.

Steve Jobs stands beneath a photograph of him and Apple-co founder Steve Wozniak from the early days of Apple during the launch of Apple's new "iPad" tablet computing device in San Francisco, California, January 27, 2010.
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Steve Jobs at the grand opening of the new Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York May 19, 2006.
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Steve Jobs explains iMovie digital video editing during a keynote speech at Macworld Expo in Makuhari, east of Tokyo February 16, 2000.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs sits next to the new Apple iPod Hi-Fi which he introduced at an event for press and industry analysts at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, February 28, 2006.
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Steve Jobs smiles at the grand opening of the new Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York May 19, 2006.
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Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone at the Apple store in central London, September 18 2007.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows the new MacBook Air during the Macworld Convention and Expo in San Francisco, California January 15, 2008.
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Steve Jobs arrives with the team from the best picture nominate film "Up" at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood March 7, 2010.
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Steve Jobs demonstrates video conferencing with Apple Senior Vice President for Industrial Design Jonathan Ive at the unveiling of the iPhone 4 in San Francisco, California, June 7, 2010.
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Steve Jobs shows an iPhone 4 to Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to Silicon Valley in Cupertino June 23, 2010.
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Steve Jobs speaks during a special event in Tokyo August 4, 2005.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd R) joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, on February 17, 2011.
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Steve Jobs' last launch.The launch of the iPad 2 in San Francisco, California March 2, 2011.
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