RIP Steve Jobs

Everyone knows Jobs and his commercial and cultural success but what kind of person helps create such a legacy? I read these quotes today and I think they show this clearly.

Jobs on -not- following the crowd:


"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."


Jobs on charity... and the importance of failure:


"And that's the problem with most philanthropy-- there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation. So if you can't succeed or fail, it's really hard to get better."


Jobs on careers:


"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. . .  As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. . . So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."


Jobs on making it count:


Most of the time, we're taking things. Neither you nor I made the clothes we wear; we don't make the food or grow the foods we eat; we use a language that was developed by other people; we use another society's mathematics. Very rarely do we get a chance to put something back into that pool. I think we have that opportunity now. And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.


Jobs on [the blue screen of] death:


"[D]eath is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

excerpt taken from an article by Simon Black:
http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/if-you-want-more-jobs-look-to-steve-jobs/