What are we going to do with it?
~ Seth Godin

R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you’re busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes…
~ Joe Satriani

Very surreal night … and a special thing to be a part of.
~ Adam Ostrow speaking of the night he heard the news

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
~ Bill Gates

Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now).
~ Sergey Brin

But we’ve gained a legend. He will inspire others to bring us great products. He will inspire others to bring us the future in the present.
~ Fred Wilson

I begged him to return to the house, noting that I didn’t know CPR and could visualize the headline: “Helpless Reporter Lets Steve Jobs Die on the Sidewalk.”
~ Walt Mossberg

Three weeks ago, I felt like I had had enough. I wrote my apology letter to Steve.
~ Brian Lam, Regrets of an A**hole

And it has been in every box since.
~ Bryce Roberts

One of Jobs’s many gifts was that he knew what to give a shit about.
~ John Gruber

Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don’t want any lessons to be lost or forgotten, so here is my list of the top twelve lessons that I learned from Steve Jobs.
~ Guy Kawasaki

Most people realize that the world has just lost a genius.
~ MG Siegler

Steve Jobs was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend and the guiding light of the Pixar family. He saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined.
~ PIXAR

We had no idea what we were doing. Fortunately, someone else did.
~ Panic

As a designer, I think it’s impossible to feel anything but pure, unadulterated joy that Steve existed at all.
~ John Lily

RIP Steve Jobs. Closest thing we had to Tony Stark.
~ @pattonoswalt