Muhammad R. Kamal While playing Atari in our childhood, most of us would have never thought of the person whose brain was behind its development to the ultra new stage of its time. That was just his beginning. The college dropout technological guru was about to be chosen by destiny for digital revolution of shrinking the world virtually to a human palm - Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Incorporation, a giant in business and technology. Historians of today and tomorrow wont be able to move forward, even a bit, without paying homage to the person, who changed the way people work, entertain, communicate and think, across the globe; who turned household tools into objects of desire and reinvented modern communication. Jobs stands high as a source of inspiration and an icon for many young entrepreneurs; he was a spiritual leader, teacher, guide, coach and mentor for them. He advises young entrepreneurs to be highly passionate of what they are doing. The reason is because its so hard, and if they dont, any rational person would give up. Its really hard and they have to do it over a sustained period of time. So, if they dont love it and not having fun doing it, they are going to give up, and thats what happens to most of the people actually. The technological intellectual and business tycoons great impact is his philosophy of Connecting the Dots, which he describes as one cannot connect the dots looking forward, rather can only connect them looking backwards. Trust that dots will somehow connect in future. One has to trust in something - God, destiny, life, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give the confidence to follow the heart, even if it leads off the well worn path and that will make all the difference. Jobs lost his battle to the deadly pancreatic cancer he fought eight years so gallantly. Speaking about death - the brazen reality - he once said: Remembering that all be dead soon was the most important tool he had ever encountered to help him make big choices in life, because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment of failure - these things just fall away, in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. His latest work is putting the virtual world on the fingertips, which he himself attributed the name 'iPad. He is truly credited to bringing the digital renaissance to a whole new level. The visionary who founded the technological giant in a garage at 20, was sure of bringing the power of computing from the garage to your lab, and today everyone knows, that was only a beginning of a whole new world. On the business front, Apple grew from scratch to a $2 billion company with around 4,000 employees, within a short span of 10 years. Jobs had to quit his own company in 1986 - which he founded himself, worked for so relentlessly and whose Board of Directors he chaired himself - losing the power struggle to the board. Telling his story of getting fired from his own company, which he loved so much, he said: At 30, I was out and very publicly out. What has been the focus of my entire adult life was gone and it was devastating. I really didnt know what to do, for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down.I was a very public failure and I even thought of running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn upon me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events that Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love.It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. At 30, he founded another computer company Next and an animation company Pixar Animations changing animation forever. In 1996, he was again in Apple as a major shareholder and then CEO, when Apple bought his company Next. After his return, Apples stock price grew up to 7,000 percent. From $5.48 per share in 1997 when he took charge as Apples CEO to $378.18 on the day he resigned in 2011 - and that shows no signs of slowing down. As CEO of Apple, he kept his annual salary as low as $1 about which he used to joke that he got 50 cents a year of showing up and another 50 cents were conditional to his performance. Also, Jobs said that he used to walk seven miles on Sundays to get one fine meal from a temple, returned used coke bottles for 5 cents to buy food with and slept on floor for that he was not having a dormitory room. Goodbye Steve Jobs. Man is born to die, but those can be counted on fingers, who changed the human course, thought, life and imagination in so effective and in a positive manner. Your legacy is bound to live an immortal life and continue to haunt your spiritual pupils and all those who are inspired by you. The writer is a freelance journalist and business researcher. Email: mrkamals@hotmail.com