Steve Jobs: Stepped down as CEO of Apple today. We must suppose, now, that it is only a matter of time. Poor man, he's younger than I. If I were some day to assemble a pantheon of heroes who died during my lifetime, even if I were to limit their number to ten, Steve Jobs would undoubtedly be among them. Mad genius, insanely great, an adopted child, a self-made man and a gentle soul, he would make a near-perfect role model for any of my children. That, in my opinion, is the very definition of hero. ...