call me naive but i first learned about Steve Jobs only last aug when the news of him stepping down from being apple's CEO came on fire and thats about it. 3days ago and the news break out that he has passed. news everywhere is all about him.. the blogs, net, news locally and globally. i came to know he is the man behind everything people are enjoing nowadays.. ipod, iphone, ipad, itunes.. trying to know him abit i stumble on a clip of him in Stanford University giving one if not the most memorable, heart-felt, inspiring speech i have ever heard. Interestingly, his life story is somewhat like a novel. I came to know that his biological father is Syrian. He was born out of wedlock so biological mother decided to put him for adoption, first couple refused him so the 2nd couple became his adoptive parents, met his biological sister only after 30yrs. His start is not a far cry from Facebook's founder M. Zukerberg being a college drop-out who decided to put fate in the palm of his hand creating on something where tuition fee&diploma is not a must but only his passion, a greatmind & self ideas and the next thing we know.. we have his creation right in front of our bare faces. he is a true inspiration, a genius, the graham bell of this generation. we all are lucky enough we live in his time as we are the first to enjoy the art he introduce to the world. i wouldn't know what we would be doing in this moment without his innovative creations. the world became smaller because of him..thank you sir Steve Jobs.. you have done something wonderful. mission accomplished.
Some memorable / inspiring quotes of him to live by:
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
“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.”
“you have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect in the future will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference”
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
"I’ve always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I’m sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn’t work very well because it didn’t make room for the young. It didn’t know how the world was fifty years ago. It didn’t know how the world was twenty years ago. It saw it as it is today, without any preconceptions, and dreamed how it could be based on that. We’re not satisfied based on the accomplishment of the last thirty years. We’re dissatisfied because the current state didn’t live up to their ideals. Without death there would be very little progress."
“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."
“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.”
