Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 5, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote: He was a Buddhist. Â Many a nutritionist and spiritual person have succumbed to cancer. Â He knew he was dying, but I'm guessing it was hard for him to let go, given the date which he resigned and the date that he died. Â Cancer is completely unpredictable I have decided and manifests where it can - I remember being particularly shocked that Dana Reeves died of lung cancer at 44, never having smoked in her life. Â I attributed it to stress and grief. Â Life is short. One cool thing I admire is how hard he ran his life till the end. He did what he loved till the last minute. Impressive human. Today I realize I have absolutely no problems. Thanks Steve. Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs, Apple Computers. Rachel Maddow played Job's 2005 commencement speech last night which he did shortly after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and it the best speech I've ever heard him give. “[Y]ou 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” “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. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 6, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Vaj wrote: Rachel Maddow played Job's 2005 commencement speech last night which he did shortly after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and it the best speech I've ever heard him give. “[Y]ou 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” “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. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Excellent. Where did he give it? Sal To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 6, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote: On Oct 6, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Vaj wrote: Rachel Maddow played Job's 2005 commencement speech last night which he did shortly after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and it the best speech I've ever heard him give. “[Y]ou 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” “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. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Excellent. Where did he give it? Stanford
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:58 AM, whynotnow7 wrote: Beautiful! Thanks for posting that Sal. Glad you enjoyed it. It's actually a quote from Kerouac that Apple used. My bad. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@ wrote: He was a Buddhist. Â Many a nutritionist and spiritual person have succumbed to cancer. Â He knew he was dying, but I'm guessing it was hard for him to let go, given the date which he resigned and the date that he died. Â Cancer is completely unpredictable I have decided and manifests where it can - I remember being particularly shocked that Dana Reeves died of lung cancer at 44, never having smoked in her life. Â I attributed it to stress and grief. Â Life is short. One cool thing I admire is how hard he ran his life till the end. He did what he loved till the last minute. Impressive human. Today I realize I have absolutely no problems. Thanks Steve. Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs, Apple Computers.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote: Dead at 56. What a shame. If only he had kept up with his TM and become a TM sidha. Then he could have had perfect health like we're all going to have soon and be immortal, like we're all soon going to be. A real shame. On a serious note, of course he'll be missed. He was a brilliant young guy who threw great concerts and contributed something to the computer boom. Not as much as a lot of people imagine, as the ideas of the fancy MMI was developed by a Xerox research lab. A great computer scientist, I'm not sure. A good marketeer, indeed. He really cut it close. He must have been in great pain and knew for years how close the end was and by the grace of God or perfect timing bowed out of Apple just in time. If only he had appointed a charismatic successor like me. Most likely Apple will quickly become a former company. So now we see if there's anything NeXT.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:20 PM, wgm4u wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Dead at 56. What a shame. If only he had kept up with his TM and become a TM sidha. Then he could have had perfect health like we're all going to have soon and be immortal, like we're all soon going to be. Perfect Health IS possible through TM but the devil is in the details, IT TAKES TIME and it probably won't be THIS lifetime!! A little detail MMY chose to overlook. Does that make the claim hyperbole??, No, it makes it a lie. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On 10/05/2011 05:07 PM, Tom Pall wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: Dead at 56. What a shame. If only he had kept up with his TM and become a TM sidha. Then he could have had perfect health like we're all going to have soon and be immortal, like we're all soon going to be. A real shame. On a serious note, of course he'll be missed. He was a brilliant young guy who threw great concerts and contributed something to the computer boom. Not as much as a lot of people imagine, as the ideas of the fancy MMI was developed by a Xerox research lab. A great computer scientist, I'm not sure. A good marketeer, indeed. He really cut it close. He must have been in great pain and knew for years how close the end was and by the grace of God or perfect timing bowed out of Apple just in time. If only he had appointed a charismatic successor like me. Most likely Apple will quickly become a former company. So now we see if there's anything NeXT. I saw him give a demo of distributed computing with the NeXT at a multimedia conference back in the 1990s. Of course he indeed was a pioneer in the field though had (just like Woz and Gates) a bit of quirky personality. But really the hyperbole needs to dial down a bit as too many commentators and talk show callers make it sound like he personally developed the iPod, the iPhone and the Mac though he mainly just ran the company that developed those. About a year from now we'll start hearing more of the real story not to say that some of that has been out there for years but mainly of interest to geeks like me.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Steve Jobs RIP
On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote: He was a Buddhist. Â Many a nutritionist and spiritual person have succumbed to cancer. Â He knew he was dying, but I'm guessing it was hard for him to let go, given the date which he resigned and the date that he died. Â Cancer is completely unpredictable I have decided and manifests where it can - I remember being particularly shocked that Dana Reeves died of lung cancer at 44, never having smoked in her life. Â I attributed it to stress and grief. Â Life is short. One cool thing I admire is how hard he ran his life till the end. He did what he loved till the last minute. Impressive human. Today I realize I have absolutely no problems. Thanks Steve. Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs, Apple Computers.
