Vale Steve.
Promise this will be the last Apple-related post for now, but couldn’t let this one pass without reflecting on Steve’s comments about death in his famous Stanford commencement speech:
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“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.”
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Our thoughts are with Laurene and the Jobs family, and I imagine everyone who has had the opportunity to somehow benefit (directly or indirectly) from his influence feels the loss of a visionary today. Vale Steve, and thanks for everything.
