Let Apple co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson, the last words of her genius brother shared the eulogy she delivered on its oct. 16 memorial service at Stanford University. The surprising last words that his job is dying uttered, "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow."
The riveting tribute in The New York Times, printed on Sunday, reveals the last days and moments of Jobs' life with his family in a Palo Alto hospital. It also brought to light a large part of the unique relationship between work and Simpson, which he first when she was 25 years old.
The eulogy, a transcript of Simpson's thoughts about her brother, entwines into words what she believed was the cornerstone of Jobs's genius his modesty and hard work, his love for learning and his family.
"I want to tell a few things I learned from Steve, during three different periods over the 27 years I knew him. They were not periods of the year, but the states are," she said . "His whole life of his illness. She died."
According to Simpson while she was writing her first novel in New York, she received a call from a lawyer informing her "long lost brother." The lawyer told her that her brother was rich and famous, and wanted to contact her.
Simpson said that since her father was an immigrant from Syria, she imagined her brother as an Omar Sharif look-alike. She held on to imagine: "I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than me, someone who is brilliant without trying."
"When I met Steve, he was a man my age in jeans, Arab or Jewish-looking summer and hand Omar Sharif."
Jobs described Simpson as a person who "work he loved." "He worked really hard. Every day," she said. "He was never ashamed to work hard, even though the results were failures."
Work was very sentimental and emotional inside, he was a person who spends much time talking about love. His love for his wife Laurene, whom he married in 1991, "it sustained him. He believed that love happens all the time, anywhere," she said.
"Steve is like a girl in the amount of time he talked about love love was his highest virtue, his God of gods. He followed and worried about the romantic lives of the people with him."
While you're talking about Jobs' pancreatic disease, Simpson has an apt description of his degrading health.
"After his liver transplant, once a day he would get on legs that seem too thin for him to bear arms, encamped on the back seat," she said. But still he "always tried, always with love at the heart of that effort, he was an intensely emotional man."
Work struggling with his health in the last hours of his life, but despite that, "There is sweet Steve's capacity for wonder, the artist's belief in the ideals, the more beautiful later," she said. "He was in this work, death happens to Steve, he achieved."
Work at the last moment of his life, watching his children and his wife Laurene for a long time, and then "uttered monosyllables, repeated three times" - "... Oh wow oh wow oh wow"
Currently working as a professor of English at the University of California, Simpson is a feminist. But still, she had her whole life waiting for a man to love and "Who can love" her. For decades, she thought the man might be her father. Eventually, when she with that guy, he was her brother.
