------ RIP Steve Jobs ------

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Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford University.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universitiesin the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gottento a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No bigdeal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in foranother 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduatestudent, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should beadopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by alawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that theyreally wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of thenight asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course."My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college andthat my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoptionpapers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I wouldsomeday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost asexpensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on mycollege tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted todo with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I wasspending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out andtrust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was oneof the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the requiredclasses that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, Ireturned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles acrosstown every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to bepriceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully handcalligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decidedto take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about

what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a waythat science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, whenwe were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it allinto the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in onthat single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces orproportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personalcomputer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on thiscalligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that theydo. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. Butit was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them lookingbackwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You haveto trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never letme down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parentsgarage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released ourfinest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I gotfired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hiredsomeone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first yearor so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually wehad a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. Andvery publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it wasdevastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generationof entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I metwith David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was avery public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But somethingslowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had notchanged that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to startover.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing thatcould have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by thelightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of themost creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar,and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to createthe worlds first computer animated feature film,
Toy Story
, and is now the most successfulanimation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returnedto Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's currentrenaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It wasawful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the headwith a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that Iloved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is foryour lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be trulysatisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to lovewhat you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of theheart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better andbetter as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was yourlast, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then,for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If todaywere the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And wheneverthe answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to helpme make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, allpride, 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 Iknow to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. Thereis no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and itclearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctorstold me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect tolive no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairsin order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everythingyou thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to makesure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It meansto say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck anendoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into mypancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told

me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because itturned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had thesurgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few moredecades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty thanwhen death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: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 itshould be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's changeagent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but somedaynot too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be sodramatic, 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' opinionsdrown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heartand intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else issecondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called
The Whole Earth Catalog
, whichwas one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand notfar from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made withtypewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and greatnotions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of
The Whole Earth Catalog
, and then when it hadrun its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On theback cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kindyou might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words:"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to beginanew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.

 RIP 

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