In 1982 Time magazine called him “the most famous maestro of the micro.” Earlier this year, he was voted Best Business Entrepreneur on Earth. On Wednesday, Steve Jobs passed away, leaving a permanent place in the history of technology.
Delivering the commencement speech at Stanford University on June 12, 2005, he said:
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’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new … Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
No one could say with certainty that Steve Jobs wasted his life. The question is: have you done what is most important in your life?
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 October 2011. You can read the full Stanford speech here.
