"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma"

[Ellipsis]

Yes it's the speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford...


http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/video-steve-jobs-2005-stanford-commencement-speech/


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.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you 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 begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

[Sherman A1]

1. One of the best commentaries on life I have ever

read.

[mattclearing]

2. Sounds remarkably like the rationale he gave for school vouchers.

It's great to have an open mind and all, but Steve Jobs didn't seem to have much of a problem with the business dogma of using uber-cheap foreign labor overseas to enrich himself over here, and his ideas circa 96 on education reform were straight out of a right-wing nightmare.

edit: over here currently means Australia for me, fyi, but it holds everywhere.

[cutlassmama]

3. Good advice. Make yourself happy

[Kolesar]

4. None of that "advice" would have improved my life

Death is very likely the single best invention of Life
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

[pipoman]

6. No advice will improve anyone's life..

study of the meaning and application of advice may..

[Ikonoklast]

5. Billionaires giving advice....yawn.

Most succesful toy maker the world has ever seen.

[HughBeaumont]

7. Didn't he fire someone he happened to be riding on the same elevator with?

[Logical]

8. Only the 5th post of this! Thanks!