In memoriam

Today while in class I opened Safari to google something, but when the apple webpage

 (my homepage ever since I bought my mac) when I suddenly bumped into a picture of a

 round-glasses-wearing man in black and white and a leyend reading: 

Steve Jobs 

1955 - 2011  

Steve Jobs was truly a visionaire.

 He not only revolutionized communication, but changed life as we knew it. 

About three years ago when I was about to graduate from high school I watched for 

the first time this speech he gave in Stanford University back in '05 and I remember 

myself watching it in awe, trying to drink in all of the lessons we can learn from him. 

And learning what until today is one of my favorite mottos...

"Stay hungry, and stay foolish." 

His hunger for learning new things, even unconventional ones pushed him further and further. 

Also, knowing that there is nothing to lose and the importance of recognizing opportunity in crisis, 

not taking things too seriously, because in the end, life is fleeting 

and we will all, someday, pass away. 

At least for me, this is one lesson I learned from him and his work. 

So thank you, Steve Jobs. 

Rest in Peace. 

Stay hungry, and stay foolish.

xx, em. 

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
- Steve Jobs