Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Steve Jobs has given a commencement speech at Stanford College for 2005 graduates. It is quite moving and inspiring. (You can watch it on YouTube or read the speech here. For those friends who don't have access to youtube, the audio and video are available but you need to have iTunes, I'm not sure if it works with other podcast softwares)

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

"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."

"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 let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

I have listened to it over and over and each time at the end, I felt a vacuum inside, kind of upset with myself for why don't I have the courage to "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish".