Jobs' speech was so inspiring, in fact, that its even been .

Apple iPad 2 Keynote, Special Event, March 2011

Jobs' unexpected appearance at the iPad 2 event in March 2011 caused a lot of stir. He had just taken an , and already people were wondering what Apple would look like post-Jobs.

His keynote didn't contain the flourishes audiences had grown accustomed to. In fact, Jobs seemed in poor health and spoke in a quiet, gravelly voice. But during his discussion of the post-PC world Jobs linked his long-held philosophy about the marriage of technology and the liberal arts -- an idea that Jobs espoused in when discussing how work computers needn't be dull: "If we can inject that liberal-arts spirit into the very serious realm of business, I think it will be a worthwhile contribution. We can't even conceive of how far it will go."

At the iPad 2 event, Jobs said: "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing."