"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...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."
- Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Computer and
of Pixar Animation Studios, in a June 12,
2005 commencement address to Stanford
University.
"My first computer was an apple. It had a huge ass keyboard, and used those huge 5 inch floppy disks. It had a black screen and the letters were all in green - very matrix. LOL. In either case, it truly is a sad day to know that Steve Jobs has passed away, but his legacy will live in the hearts and souls of many for thousands of years. He was the Einstein of our generation, and I can't name one person in this era who has done more to change the world, than he. R.I.P. Steve." - Blade 7184 aka Peter
