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With the passing of Steve Jobs, the Internet -- nay, the world -- has seen an outpouring of support usually reserved for the death of world leaders or beloved entertainers. Perhaps it's the ubiquity of products like the iPod that have led to this reflective moment, or it might have been Jobs' own story -- as that of a maverick and a self-starter, rising to incredible heights from the company he founded in a garage. While many are putting into words and images their emotions at this moment, like the incredible System 6 site design by BoingBoing seen above, it might be Steve's own words from the commencement speech he gave at Stanford in 2005 that are the most fitting:

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything-- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

Read on below to see what everyone else is saying about the tech titan's death, and some incredible images in his memory.

"The 3-D shows you a window into reality. The higher frame rate takes the glass out of the window. In fact, it is just reality." James Cameron on where he plans to take his Avatar movie franchise: To a bold, new frontier of a higher frame rate, rather than a bold new frontier of doing something other than a boring, high-budget version of FernGully, where the environment is ripped straight from Final Fantasy X and the Na'vi are actually the bad guys when you think about it. Yeah, I went there. (via The A.V. Club)

So we saw this ... And we got totally carried away with Photoshop. Problem, fans of dozens of geeky cultural institutions?

"'At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him.' - A guy who works at Twitter." --Designer Dustin Curtis, Twittering about Twitter. No idea if a) Curtis made up the quote with humorous intent or b) he really spoke to a Twitter employee who was joking or c) it is 100% totally real, but there is a grain of truth in any event. Update: Curtis has confirmed to Gizmodo that "that the tweet is not a joke, but it was told to him by the Twitter employee." Update2: Hah! Curtis again: "'Most of the popular users on Twitter have dedicated servers for their accounts.' -- The guy who works at Twitter." (via @dcurtis | Dustin Curtis' webpage)