In a tableau not seen since the Prussians called a 24-hour time-out during the Franco-Prussian War out of respect when Marcel Marceau died (EDITOR: Got that off of Wikipedia. Does that sound right?) now, and . Google’s Eric Schmidt about Jobs that he hadn’t heard before:

I should tell you this story. We’re in a meeting at NeXT, before Steve went back to Apple. I’ve got my chief scientist. After the meeting, we leave and try to unravel the argument to figure out where Steve was wrong—because he was obviously wrong. And we couldn’t do it. We’re standing in the parking lot. He sees us from his office, and he comes back out to argue with us some more. It was over a technical issue involving Objective C, a computer language. Why he would care about this was beyond me. I’ve never seen that kind of passion.

We should all care about something so much.

Even former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam :

I just feel lucky I had the chance to tell a kind man that I was sorry for being an [expletive] before it was too late.