Magical act in branding & miniaturization. Charistimatic builder of great business with attitude. Sony Walkman, Sony Handycam. "It's a Sony" slogan. Build Sony from scratch, turning the tiny setup into the crown jewel of Asia, and the darling brand of the world.
Dedication, tinkering persistence, passion & strong vision to make horseless carriage a reality. "Car for the people". "Assembly manufacturing concept". Years of consistent dedicated act, tinkering and passion. One of the greatest, finest and bravest tinkerer of all time. Modern mobile society as the result.
Passion for excellence & master of continous magical act. Make things happen greatly with style. Leaders with strong sense of vision and with "no limit" nor "no boundary" for next great cultural possibility to explore. Mac. Next. iPod. iPhone. Apple. Next. Pixar. Think Different. Mix innovation & culture at its best. Modern digital culture is born, and consistently turns greater under his act. 
The greatest people manager and most charismatic people-centric business leader of all time. Think. Respect to individual. People first. Under his great leadership turns the tiny IBM into a mighty organization of its time. The "king" in the annal of "business kingdom". A rare business person with great business persona and legendary people-centric attitude of our time.
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Today is special because today is the day Apple Leopard -- the most advanced operating system on the planet, and probably the O/S that will redefine the look, behavior and feel of future generation OSes that is about to come -- being premiered.
Leopard being released - Awesome!
Oh that look! ... those sense of perfection, wonderful creativity, ingenuity and awesome beauty!
Today is also special because soon it is also going to be the birthday of Bill Gates, a day when the Ballmer's Microsoft troops perhaps would gathered, and being proud a bit (or a lot ?) about the great result of "Vista & Desktop System Sales" (which was skyrocketing like Microsoft never experienced before), at a time when the real look and behavior of the "latest Vista OS" still look (and oddly feel) like this:
"Vista": Mixed reincarnation that is not yet "fully done"! -- half Apple-Leopard half Microsoft-Longhorn today -- half Linux Berryl 3D later on?? -- How would it be at the end?? ...
Bill Gates birthday, at the point where Vista got "skyrocketing sales numbers" ... but does it already come with "real great engine + solid UI capabilities" too? -- (May be not)
Today is also probably special because today is the day the possible shapes of the "future of internet and work" is being explored, defined and refined. Everybody is conferencing [or "unconferencing"] about Web 2.0, "WebNext" and the future of "work". As the result, something that is so much fascinating, cool and fun for our future; something that would -- probably -- one day would change society for the better is being invented. Next leap innovations will flourish because of that.
With all that, within 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 20+ years from now probably it would be interesting for us all to look back across history, relook and see once again the significance of "simultaneous things" that is coincidentally happening this day, and nostalgically wonder how many great things that might have happened in the future that day might not have happened at all if its not because of series of events that is happening simultaneously around the world -- sometime, somewhere around today.
That's what makes today is so special.
That day (Oct 27) was also a very special day for me and for my very best friend, because it's our birthday.
Happy birthday, bro! You're always inspiring.
Posted by: Syarif | February 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM