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