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>>patric+(OP)
"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."

June 12th 2005 Stanford commencement speech

Text: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

>>donoho+l1
i wanted to link to that speech as well.

while the tech scene will miss him a lot, my thoughts go to his family who'll miss him most.

>>cies+T2
Steve's Most Enduring Legacy: inspiring generations of entrepreneurs, artists, etc. to "think different".

Right now, theres someone working on his own startup in their garage because he was inspired by Steve Jobs.

>>chugge+D6
Me too.

When I heard that commencement speech he gave, I just got the idea that he sincerely meant everything that he said. In a way that someone would when they were talking to you one on one. He had lived everything that he talked about.

And that speech is a big reason that I have made the leap into doing something on my own.

RIP Steve.