<p>"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it," Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, had said in his commencement address on June 12, 2005.<br /><br />In what is listed as one of the best commencement addresses ever, Jobs told the graduating students that their "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."<br /><br />He urged the students not to 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."<br />He told the students, and in a sense the rest of the world to "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." "And I have always wished that for myself." Telling the students a "story" about death, Jobs had said he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004.<br /><br />A scan had showed a tumour on his pancreas, which "I didn't even know what a pancreas was."<br /><br />"The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months," he said.<br />"My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die," Jobs said.<br /><br />He said the doctors had started crying because his was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.<br /><br />"I had the surgery and I'm fine now," he had said.<br />"This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades.<br /><br />"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.</p>
<p>"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it," Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, had said in his commencement address on June 12, 2005.<br /><br />In what is listed as one of the best commencement addresses ever, Jobs told the graduating students that their "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."<br /><br />He urged the students not to 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."<br />He told the students, and in a sense the rest of the world to "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." "And I have always wished that for myself." Telling the students a "story" about death, Jobs had said he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004.<br /><br />A scan had showed a tumour on his pancreas, which "I didn't even know what a pancreas was."<br /><br />"The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months," he said.<br />"My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die," Jobs said.<br /><br />He said the doctors had started crying because his was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.<br /><br />"I had the surgery and I'm fine now," he had said.<br />"This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades.<br /><br />"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.</p>