Steve Jobs last words were oh wow
Steve Jobs last words were oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. The man who all probability was the greatest visionary of our generation, had one last revelation, it apparently overwhelmed him with its beauty. He could only respond to it with these three times repeated exclamation of amazement.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Hope, Not Fear by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
In the book
Heschel, who understood this better than anyone, confessed that we should be shocked not only by the weakness of our awe but by the weakness of our shock at how little awe we feel. And do not wait for the deathbed to learn it: Steve Jobs, perhaps the great visionary of my era, spent his final breaths on three words — oh wow, oh wow, oh wow. Whatever he saw, it overwhelmed him with its beauty. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)