yeah

stay hungry stay foolish

every morning you wake up there are two
doors and there are thundering knocks

at each one of them

behind one lies your destiny

and living

behind the other

lies death

living is engaging your life with
intensity and passion

once you get through all the pages and
all the rules and all the principles and

all the formats and all the plans and
all the templates comes down to that do

the fucking work

start today

I don't care when your life clock started
ticking

start fucking right now. Today

by 6:16 you can change your fucking perspective of the world

and of your life

my advice

fucking do it dig fucking deep and get it done

do the workof your life

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

no matter what anybody tells you

words and ideas can change the world

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

I stand up on my desk to remind myself
that we must constantly look at things

in a different way

just when you think you know something
you have to look at it in another way

even though it may seem silly or wrong

you must try

boys you must strive to find your own
voice

because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are finding it all

Thoreau said most men lead lives of quiet
desperation

don't be resined to that

breakout

I suddenly had this kind of thing wash
over me where I thought imagine chasing

that and not getting it and getting it
finally in you're 80's or your 90's

with all of life behind you and
realizing what an unbelievable waste of

your

it can't fill you up it will never if
that's a hole that you have that won't fill it

I imagined

another one of me you know an old man
kind of going like oh my God where did

my life go what have I done

reed college at that time offered
perhaps the best calligraphy instruction

in the country throughout the campus
every poster every label on every drawer

was beautifully and Calla graft because
i had dropped out and didn't have to

take the normal classes

I decided to take a calligraphy class to
learn how to do this

I learned about serif and sans serif
typefaces about varying the amount of

space between different letter
combinations about what makes great

typography great

it was beautiful historical artistically
subtle in a way that science can't

capture and I found it fascinating

none of this had even a hope of any
practical application in my life but 10

years later when we were designing the
first macintosh computer in all came back

and we designed it all into the mac

it was the first computer with beautiful
typography

if I had never dropped in on that single
course in college

the mac would have never had multiple
typefaces are proportionally spaced

fonts

if I had never dropped out I would have
never dropped in on that calligraphy

class and personal computers might not
have the wonderful typography that they

do

of course it was impossible to connect
the dots looking forward when I was in

college but it was very very clear
looking backwards

ten years later

and if you don't bring your idea here
when you die all of us will suffer

because we've been deprived of your
genius because you allowed but to keep

you in the bleachers of not pursuing
your greatness you take it to your grave

with you

I was lucky

I found what I love to do early in life
waz (wozniak) and i started apple in my parent's

garage when I was 20

we worked hard and in 10 years Apple
grown from just the two of us in the

garage into a two billion dollar company
with over 4,000 employees

go confidently in the direction of your
dreams and live the life that you've

imagined

if you can't summon up the energy the
excitement the enthusiasm for something

your life every day is going to be a drag to wake up to

when you crawl out from underneath the covers every morning and you sit on the edge of

the bed

you have a choice before you

decide
whatever you want to do that you are now

going to become actively involved right
now exploring the possibilities for you

that you're going to look at it and do
just a little bit of it right now decide

decide to do it now

there's no guarantees you are going to
show up tomorrow

there are a lot of people who were here yesterday
that they're not here today there are a

lot of opportunities that were around
yesterday

they're not here today

oh you can wait but you know what abraham lincoln said well good things might

come to those who wait but only the
things that have been left over by those

who hustled

when I was young there was an amazing
publication called the whole earth

catalog which was one of the Bible's of
my generation

it was created by a fellow named Stewart
Brand not far from here in menlo park

and he brought it to life with this
poetic touch

this was in the late sixties before
personal computers and desktop

publishing

so it was all made with typewriters
scissors and polaroid cameras

it was sort of like Google in paperback
form 35 years before Google came along

it was idealistic overflowing with neat
tools and great notions

Stuart and his team put out several
issues of the whole earth catalog and

then when it run its course they put out
a final issue

it was the mid-nineteen seventies and I
was your age

on the back cover of their final issue
was a photograph of an early morning

country road

the kind you might find yourself
hitchhiking on if you were so

adventurous beneath it were the words

stay hungry stay foolish it was their
farewell message as they signed off

stay hungry stay foolish