Apple Co-founder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs lived a life that read like an epic novel, so it’s probably no surprise that his very last words on this temporal plane would be just as dramatic.
And they were: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
That’s according to his sister Mona Simpson, whose moving euglogy was published in the New York Times today. It’s well worth a read, given what a gifted writer Simpson is — she is a much respected novelist — and the amazing subject.
Simpson opens with her desire for her estranged father to return to her life and be the be all and end all. Instead, it was Jobs.
“Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me,” she wrote. “For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.”
A fitting legacy, among many.
