“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.”
Said Steve Jobs in a Stanford university commencement speech in 2005, which many of us read, watched and debated but not many realized what it would mean for the technology world when Steve Jobs is gone. Unfortunately today is the day, the entrepreneur who defied business logic of his time, the innovator who redefined creativity, the apple of every technologist’s eye, their heartthrob, Steve Job is no more. Steve co-founded Apple a pioneer personal computer maker in late 1970s with Steve Wozniak and turned around the struggling company in late 1990s into world’s most desired and creative brand through his sheer vision and marketing acumen. It’s a great loss not just to the technology fraternity but to the whole world. Our heart goes out to his family and friends at the time of this irreparable grief. May God give them courage to weather the storm.