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Comment by watmough | Hacker News Reader

The man seems to be an infinite source of eye-moistening stories.

Really nice, thanks.

I'm sure some employees from his early days would have less flattering stories to tell, but it wouldn't be classy for them to tell them now that he's gone. So the other side of Steve will be buried with history.

I don't understand what is "eye-moistening" about somebody failing to act like an asshole and doing what any normal person what have done.

I have a rather cold heart myself but still had no trouble seeing how a cute story like this told shortly after a tragic and untimely death could resonate in a heartfelt way.

No doubt it is a touching story. That was my reaction to it as well. But when you read hyperbovine's point, and think about it... it is also true. So touching story yes, but normal human behavior - yes.

Hyperbovine's point was "I don't understand what is "eye-moistening"". And very honestly, I'm not sure how normal it is for the guy who runs the most valuable company in the world to be walking out to his company's general parking lot by himself unrecognized.

That's just it, though. Any normal person would have done that.

The billionaire CEO of a worldwide, multi-billion-dollar company at the forefront of its industry is not a normal person. A normal one of those would be surrounded by assistants, walking fast, and brusquely brush off such an uninvited interruption by the hoipolloi.

Steve was not a normal billionaire CEO.

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