Dreamers, visionaries, doers

"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw.

Some men dream big and do little about them.
Some visionaries act and react to their dreams.
Some visionaries create models which are revolutionary.
Steve Jobs of Apple traveled to Xerox's research center in Palo Alto, Calif., in 1979 and saw the Alto, an experimental personal computer system which foreshadowed the modern desktop computer system.
"It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments," Jobs said. "I remember within 10 minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday."
In 1981 he joined a small group of Apple engineers who introduced the Macintosh in January 1984 on a Super Bowl commercial.
After designing the Mackintosh computer, Jobs had a falling out with the chief executive and he left for 12 years.
He acquired Pixar a struggling graphics supercomputer company owned by George Lucas.
Eventually the company with Walt Disney Pictures released "Toy Story."
He rejoined Apple and developed the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.
Unfortunately he contracted pancreatic cancer and had to have a liver transplant.
Nevertheless, Jobs was a dreamer and a genius who transformed the computer industry.
He dreamed things and modified and revolutionized electronics and communication.
Yesterday Jobs passed on with a legacy which touched the lives of most of us.
When I started out in journalism, we batted out our stories on a typewriter.
Eventually we used computers and then laid out our pages on the computer.
In our Sunday School class one of the members related how when he was going to seminary school to become a Methodist minister, one of the assignments was to write your own obituary.
So, how many of us could write that we were a revolutionary?
It would be humbling to try and enumerate our life's accomplishments.
I've dreamed of doing some illustrative creative endeavors.
Someday I hope to author a book.
In the mean time, I'll continue to blog.
Cheers to Steven Jobs for his prodigious accomplishments.
We all owe him for his visionary and magnificent achievements.