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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there and yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it and that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic but it is quite true


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary

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In many ways a story that is worth well reading

http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/steve-jobs-speech-2005.html

by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios


Cecil Rhodes:

It is dreamers that move the world. Practical men are so busy being practical that they cannot see beyond their own lifetime. Dreamers and visionaries have made civilisations. It is trying to do things that cannot be done that make life worthwhile. The dream of today becomes the custom of tomorrow

Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident



Windows NT has crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams - Peter Rothman

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Very inspiring, thanks for sharing.

Great read. Thanks.

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Great speech. Thanks for posting that..

I find it very inspiring to listen to Steve Jobs speaking it himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

And thanks for the link to transcription!

Edited by c0ff (27/08/11 08:10 PM)

Inspiring read, thank you for sharing that! A friend of mine whom I worked with for over 10 years passed away recently He was 3 months into his retirement when he was diagnosed with cancer. The guy used to work nearly every Saturday and Sunday and was so looking forward to his retirement!! Moral of the story; don't wait to do anything, if circumstances allow do it NOW! Time wait's for no man, RIP Bob

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The actual complete quote reads....

'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, Don't worry about asking any manufacturers to make any Thunderbolt peripherals and lets pretend Mobile Me and Final Cut X never happened'.

An inspiration to us all.

... and leave bars with pockets MT

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To be honest, before I am not an Apple fan, but since I listened to his speech in Standford, I began to use Mac. What he said is pretty cool.

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It's a great speech, I really enjoyed it. What I find particularly interesting is that all he's really coming out with is fairly clichéd hippy era West Coast psycho-babble ... and then you remember that this is a guy who built a company that has more cash than the US government and you have to think to yourself, "hold on a minute! That's pretty good going for a load of fairly clichéd hippy era West Coast psycho-babble!"

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a company that has more cash than the US government

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Most SOS readers have more cash than the US government..

If ever a bump was justified..

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Thanks for the bump Paul - Very sad news on Steve Jobs passing away, took the wind right out of my sails as we are both about the same age, also my eldest brother passed away a few days ago... in fact the funeral is tomorrow. There were a few things that would have been nice to have added to what Steve Jobs said, but I did not feel at the time it was worth labouring the point

We all have plans and ideas, sometimes our dreams are like pointers and you never really get there but they keep you busy and on the right path, and sometimes we should be doing what we want to do but never seem to get around to it

The other day the wife posted a link on Facebook about a nursing sister talking about people's regrets when they were ill, the one thing that struck me is that she said people do not realise the independence and freedom you have with good health, if you are sick and in bed you cannot go out for a walk and see things on the way, we tend to take these things for granted and you might be able to do things but not with the fire and passion you would normally have. Bit like the song, you don't know what you got till its gone

So the way I see it is maybe its time for all of us to read what Steve Jobs said, draw up a timetable and a plan and get on with the things we want to do, because you never know when your number is up, and when that time comes that's it, you can't say wait a sec there's a few things I need to do, its game over. If you look at the number of summers you have left it gets a bit scary... maybe 15 – PANIC – maybe less, maybe more (not so bad) but you are not on the top of your game... then you relax a bit because there are also winters, autumns and springs

Congratulations Steve Jobs on a life well lived

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Reminds me of a piece I was just reading in the Guardian.

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Shechtman said: "People just laughed at me." He recalled how Linus Pauling, a colossus of science and a double Nobel laureate, mounted a frightening "crusade" against him. After telling Shechtman to go back and read a crystallography textbook, the head of his research group asked him to leave for "bringing disgrace" on the team. "I felt rejected," Shachtman said.

The existence of quasicrystals, though controversial, was anticipated much earlier, but Shechtman was the first to see them in nature.

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His discovery of these "impossible" crystals just won him a Nobel prize.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/05/nobel-prize-chemistry-work-q uasicrystals

Worth remembering that both Jobs and Gates were lucky enough ...

- to be the right age

- with the right skills

- at the right time

- in the right place

Without all those things in place, you can be as hungry and foolish as you like, but the chances are, you'll stay that way. Not denigrating either, and they both worked [ ****** ] hard to achieve what they did- but they were also, damn, damn, lucky.

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Worth remembering that both Jobs and Gates were lucky enough ...

- to be the right age

- with the right skills

- at the right time

- in the right place

Without all those things in place, you can be as hungry and foolish as you like, but the chances are, you'll stay that way. Not denigrating either, and they both worked [ ****** ] hard to achieve what they did- but they were also, damn, damn, lucky.

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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

So,you were lucky to be born. No, all things being equal, Jobs was a one of a kind and a great human being! R.I.P.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there and yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it and that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic but it is quite true


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary

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In many ways a story that is worth well reading

http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/steve-jobs-speech-2005.html

by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios

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Wow. Everybody should read this

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