"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. 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. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs.
The words of a visionary. An ambitious, crazy one. And as in "Think Different":
"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 quote them, disagree with 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."
And I think he did exactly that. He truly changed the world and the way we interact in our everyday life. Think of it for a moment, how the world would be if, say, the mouse was never invented. Would we still be using UNIVAC's ? Would the world be controlled by robots ? Who knows. Nevertheless, I think we owe so much to Steve for what he has done and the legacy he is leaving at Apple.
Steve has many more inventions to unveil to the world. The Apple Campus 2, iCloud, and countless secret projects in the works. Steve is gone but he always ends with one more thing.
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