Being An Imperfect Connoisseur...

         Its been inescapably twined around, so that every mankind makes it as a duty to duly misjudge the persona of any individual.  What makes them judge others? It would not have been ages or so since they met . They reckon that they need just a bit of second. But the facets they count on is so derisive. Judge at first sight.
  
         A person's semblance , their costumes not only screen their flesh, but sometimes their primary character before some sightless souls. There is no point ruing  after misjudging. All those unwise comments are being prated like, "I can delineate a person in the very first look only. Are you sure?? Think once again. Oh! Have you got entrancing power to interpret other's mind??  Come on, You gotta be kidding me. 

       It is not as easy as you think to get the words back. Whatever you speak , will be tattooed on your own head. So that whenever they see you, they will happen to read it. It cannot be forgotten. 
If you still say you are good at  it, then teach me too.  

World superstitiously -2

            This post is the continuation as the nation never stops being superstitious. People stop the people who started thinking.You do not need huge mass to ignite the superstition. Just one spark is more sufficient. We can't blame the people even who get to believe blindly what others say. Because it makes anyone get indoctrinated for a second when it comes to their case. Even the rational being might be a prey one day. 

        A preposterous conviction: If a human being expires on Saturday, myth says that his spirit will take one more soul with him. Why? To enjoy the weekend in his paradise with that soul? So, what our nation  cleverly does here is , kill either a goat or chicken  to evade the needless lose of one more human life. This persists. (no joke). I am securely sure that the person who rumored this absurdity would not have had non veg for ages. So with his lifeless tongue he must have spread  this. World is so big as well as human's mouth too.Yes! bigger than hippo's. But there are lots to point about his wee brain. Go ahead.

       

       Stepping on others' bed. What can it possibly cause other than soiling it? Yes it causes. It causes body pain for the person who snores on it. 

      

       If a person is on my way lying on the floor , I should not tread over his body, even if I do not have path. So what should I do? Your supernatural being did not give me wings to fly!Anyway I am stepping him. You should be happy about that. 

      Besprinkling water from your barely wet hands on others. I agree. It is a bad wont. But anything else? There is. But I have not been given a valid sarcastic answer to state here.

      It is something more than an offense if you ask people ,"Where are you going?" when they are heading out somewhere.  Yes! This will ruin their business contract worth $1bn. Sorrowful!

Carried on.
      1. Do not stand in your one feet inside your house.  

      2. Exchange  things with outsiders but make sure that you are outside your doorway. Else your riches will be transferred to the person before you.
      3. Placing onion or nail or red chilly or stone in the tiffin box which is stuffed with ghost-loved recipes. It is  to safegaurd  the person from the evil spirit. Well how come you know what dishes do ghosts like?  On the top, have you seen them? atleast smelled? Oh yeah!. I forgot that ghosts are  your figment of the fantasy. So you must be knowing about it.

       In Vedic denomination, there is a practice of lighting up the wick which is kept over a big pumpkin and doing Aarti before people , automobiles, of course animals are not excluded.It is to get rid of the bad omen that are cast on the above mentioned. Worst part is shattering it right in the middle of the  regularly used road.

       There are lots  I can say to revile you my world. Getting out of this raveling thoughts is very much difficult. There is no dot criticizing  you.You've been brought up like that. People are scared to break all these creeds. Sorry, they are threatened as their conventional personification will come down to earth just to dig out their eye balls. Grief Condolences!. 

Stepping into terra incognita!

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Infinitude Indeed !

        Imprimis when you throw the "Dare to affront" word God (and "dare to transcribe" because "G" should always be in caps ), into someone's retina or tympanum, and ask them ,"Who created him?" . What will you perhaps get from them?   " Yeah dude!!!, Come on. He is everything!!!. No one could have created god. Oops "G"od !!!. He created everything. "


    Okay. I comprehend. It is an immemorial interrogation that has persecuted all those who like to think about the big questions. Having grown up as an agnostic , it equipped  me with a eventual reason why there might not be any God. Miscellaneous denominations look after to unravel the problem in different directions. 


      Here is one more. Presume you are right.(i.e) God is there. Sorry everywhere,  as you people stated. The God whom we are explicable had a father god, (F>>K it! I am not using "G"  anymore), then grew up on a planet as a man , and had headway to become a god himself. Many other creeds claimed that gods beget gods. Of course the problem with this idea is how did the first god get here? This problem of unbounded recession nullify such religions.


     Christianity claims that god has always subsisted.Is this idea even possible? Does our available science answer issue? It kind of does. When I started to find answers for all my queries about this invisible man, this is what I got. God exists in more than one dimensions of time. Things that exist in one dimension of time are restricted to time's arrow and are confined to cause and effect. However, two dimensions of time form a plane of time, which has no beginning and no end and is not restricted to any single direction. A being that exists in at least two dimensions of time can travel anywhere in time and yet never had a beginning, since a plane of time has no starting point. This leads one to the conclusion that God has no need of having been created. 

     Okay! What do i try to say here? If a creator god needs to have been made by a creator, that creator would also need a creator who needs a creator .. its an infinite chain as that, which is insupportable for a tiny brain like me. 



An atheist like me, Mr Richard Dawkins thinks ," I have the ultimate proof that God doesn't exist. If God created a complex universe, wouldn't it take even more complex entity to have created  God? However, such logic assumes that time has always existed, rather than being merely a construct of this universe.

      Hence here is my undone conclusion. The answer will be  metaphysical in nature but scientific. Its is simple as that. 

Plastered Patriotism!!!

           
        "Vandhare valavekkum Tamil Nadu da" , "Idhu India da" , "dae, ellaarum en akka thangachi madhiri da", " !@#$%^&*(*&^*&^%$#@", "beeeeep, idhu enga ooru da", "nee yaara keeke" "beeep","beeep", ...  


         Well, Yeah! Its hard to understand a baby's language and a drunkard's  tongue as well. All those quoted words are uttered by none other than my nation's  patriotic citizens. If you want to know what makes them so patriotic then the answer will be "liquor".
Drama with plenty of episodes, with disparate characters in,  is coming about everyday.  


         The following day morning, all these dramas would awfully ,interestingly sound comical.An alcoholic will forget everything before the next dawn.


          A Slender  boozer would even dare and fight a sturdy, notwithstanding his own measurement. If he happens to see any person from other state or even higher status, he will advertently  pull him for the fight. During the time he is high, he needs some one to spew all his heartache, misery , sorrows, love towards his street, area, city , state and even country. Except one factor, that is  his home.


         They don't heed annoying others while they are drunk. Their damned dipsomania always undoubtedly disturbed others. Nation   
stood irresolute about this matter ever. Because if you butt in ,then sot would not hesitate to offend you before your nation. 


        People always give weight to some good-for-nothing stuff. The sixth  and seventh day of the week, that particular shop would not have seen such a big crowd in front of it during the rest of the week. "Our Citizens", in this matter will have overflowing patience. They would even be ready to wait for hours to get their desired beverage. Half of the men's population would be contending  for it. Oh my gosh!!!. Its nonsensical. 


      You self-confessed addicts, please stop fighting for the ruinous drinks. Stop being prone on the roadside. Stop being smelt by a stray dog. Stop being cursed by your own nation. Stop being self-destructive. There is nothing much you are reckoned to do for your country. Be a citizen!.

சாத்தியம்?

பகலை காணாத இரவுகள், சாத்தியம்?

என் இதயம் துடிக்காத கணங்கள் ,சாத்தியம் ?
           
காற்று இல்லா கண்டம் ,சாத்தியம்?

உறக்கம் இல்லா நாட்கள், சாத்தியம் ?         

மறுபிறவி, சாத்தியம்?  

தோழ்வி இல்லாத வாழ்கை ,சாத்தியம் ?

காதலை சுவைதிடாத இதயம், சாத்தியம்?

உன்னை நினைக்காத நொடிகள், சாத்தியம் ?


நீ சூற்பையில் மிதக்க ஆரம்பித்த நொடிகள் முதல் .


பகல், உதிக்கிறது உன்னை காண .
         
இதயம், துடிக்கிறது உனக்காக.

காற்று, வீசுகிறது உன்னை வருட.

உறக்கம், காண்கிறது உன்னை கனவுகளில் .

மறுபிறவி , ஒரு பிறவி போதவில்லை .

தோழ்வி , வருகிறது உனது ஆருதல்களுக்காக .

காதல் , எதிர்பார்கிறது உன் காதலை .

நொடிகள் , உதவுகிறது நீ உனது நாட்களை வாழ்வதற்கு .
   
            

காதல் கடிதமல்ல !!!

       

                இது வாழ்கை அல்ல, வெறும் பிறப்பு என்று சிந்திக்க வைத்த இந்த
உலகத்தில் , அதே உலகத்தில் பிறந்த நீ ,மாற்றிவிட்டாய் என்று சொல்லி உன்மேல் பழி சுமத்த , நீ இருக்கும் என் இதயம் இடம் தரவில்லை .மாறிவிட்டேன் எனலாம் நான் உன்னை கண்டபின் .

              இது மறுபிறப்பல்ல. வாழ்ந்து முடித்த சந்தோஷம். நீ என்னை கண்டபின் 

             இது கடிதமல்ல நீ காண்பதற்காக அனுப்பப்பட்ட உண்மைகள். 

              இது சொற்களல்ல புதியதாய் மலர்ந்த வார்த்தைகள், உன் பார்வையினால் .

           இது எழுத்துக்களல்ல. புனிதமடைந்த வடிவங்கள். நீ உச்சரித்ததால்.

              இது எழுதப்பட்டதல்ல . செதுக்கப்பட்டது . உன் சுவாசத்தால் மட்டுமல்ல , சுனாமியால் கூட இதை கலைக்க முடியாது.

           இது காதலல்ல. ஓர் உன்னதமான உணர்ச்சி என்னுள் . நீ எனக்காகத்தான் என்ற ஆசையில்.

இப்பொழுது நான், நான் அல்ல.

இவை அனைத்தும் இல்லாமல்ளல்ல உன்னிடம் வந்து சேரும் வரை .


                                                                                                                                            -காதல் கடிதமும்மல்ல!!!

D-R-E-A-M

             An inevitable , unbounded spectacle that everyone has to endure in their day to day life is DREAM, which is construed as when someone seems to be unaware of their immediate ambient. Do you know the reason why we dream first of  all? Well, most presumably NO will be the reply.If you had started to seek and settle this hypothetical question down, I have to be sorry to you as you will end up in some age-old enigmas. 

                It is one of the most interesting matter that makes everyone go moonstruck. There are few individuals who upholds "night-book" about their every"night" dream. It rings laughable. But this practically augments your memory power.When you get up in the day-spring, you will be left only with many scenes that you dreamt. Comprehending the whole nights' dream from the time you slumbered till you woke up, is worrisome. Its like sneezing with your eyes open. If you have figured out one scene, then you  can enchain it with the previous scene by excavating  your brain out.You got to trust me, this way of catching up the entire movie from the very little scenes you remember out of you dream, would surely help you wax your memory might. This is a kind of exploitation of your mystic dreams. 


               Few nights have sometimes improbably come true. But you will not be knowing that it had come in  your dream.This is an unearthly feeling of familiarity with something unfamiliar. People summon it as  Deja vu.  But how can you relate it to the falsified  anterior existence?  Here just an instance that  happened once to me. My school gate and at a football ground distance, a class room of mine and I was walking on the still road with my hand held by my father. This situation was very much familiar to me. It was well-high the same vista. Hell yeah! It had come in my dream only.Where else can it be ?  Believe me.Not  a Fib. Strange!. Nothing more than that I could state. 
           
             If  anyone wants to rebut saying  that this situation must have been in you past earthly incarnation, then my doubt is even my class room and the same rusted gate would have been there in my previous birth? 


Few diverting  things, though not tasted.
False awakenings-You may wake up from the bed as usual and plod into your bathroom, and get dressed up, finish breakfast, and then be halfway to school when you suddenly realize, "Oh my gosh, I am still dreaming".

Lucid Dreaming- It was sermonized by one of my friend.The dream when one will be aware  that he is dreaming, where you can do anything your imagination desires such as jump in the air or walk through the wall. Gives you the ability to consciously alter the content and control the actions in your dreams.

These are merely sample. Interesting parts of dreaming do not end here. Its is a perpetual phenomena. A separate peaceful , dreadful world.  Some thing more than the ocean. More worthwhile than a treasure hinting book. 
Keep dreaming. 

Craziness !!!

Don't know if anyone thought this. If we happen to say, India sucks, India will win, India won, India is in the do or die situation, it does refer only the Indian cricket team. I can barely say, no one can help it.

Discounted Chennai

       This blog is about our start up # Discounted Chennai. 
This site gives you the details about the best offer and discounts available all around chennai. Not only about discounts. You can even find your desired shops  near your area. Any one can place their ad on this site. Actually the price for placing ad is much cheaper than anyother online marketing site on web. This is the common portal for all individual shops who wont be having any budget to face the advertising media. 

World Superstitiously!!!

       Aversion go past me at least once in an every single day,when I hear some person speaking about obscure things.Why do people  not realize  that? They of course know what is wrong and what not to do..? Since they were told  not to or to, they simply adhere to the words.The conception of this chain of words was because of the people those who fall in my eyesight .They are not ignorant to do or believe such beliefs.

      Superstition- Few instances of blaming other creatures. 1. If a black cat crosses your path, its a sign of bad luck.When the same black puss walks towards you, it brings good fortune and vice-versa . (sigh !)! 2.When a lizard falls on you,the result relies on which part did it fall on you. On the top, to know this result of falling lizard I have seen books peculiarly made for this purpose. 3.A bird entering a house is a sign of the death of some family member.4.If a crow makes sound from north east direction outside your house, its the sign of some relatives coming eye to your house. So that you can run out of your house before your relative comes. How absurd? Is that your sentry? or Homing Crow? 5.If you have had reverie where a snake bites you or  even chases you, its the sign of bad omen. C'mon, its not an exaggeration. 

    

      Few instances where you will be blamed. 1.Shaking your leg!!! Sounds good right? Yeah. That will end up in a money loss in your family.2. Spitting your bitten nail inside your house.Yeah I agree.That might prick others when they step on it. But how is that going to affect the economy of your family. 3.If you keep tapping your doors' latch, there will be some fight between your family members.Yeah! This is true.This happened to me once. Wait! Don't get shocked.Once I kept tapping the latch.A person warned me  not to  do that. I started digging to find  a good reason out of him.But I failed. But that went as an argument.Ended up in naming me an uncompromising. May be this is what they called FIGHT between family members.4.Putting your right foot first before entering your house or football ground or exam hall or where ever you want to shine.What did your left leg do to you?It will help you no where. 6.Throwing a pinch of salt on your shoulders would end your bad luck. 7.A boy should take head-bath only on particular days in a week. 8. Shirking Non-Veg on few days in a week.Okay!. They say those days are auspicious. Other days? Not thriving?!!!  Every new day is a distinct one in humanes' life.

         The apex of all these is the marriage between a donkey and a man. This does not stop here. To frog, to cow, and even with trees  have  men got married.Reason is so foreign.Its for downpour. Though these things fading away I wanted to adduce it. 10. Moribund for lucky color stones, lucky dress, lucky rupee note, lucky color, lucky number  and so on... 
          
         As a matter of fact, I grope compassion towards the people who are blindly  after these myths . What one can possibly do to stop people worrying about such fables other than jotting down? The one thing that makes me desperate is when I see even some  CULTURED folk are trapped into the so called Superstition... 

Some Cool creativeness

I found these cool photographs while surfing....















A Kid would definitely be scared to death if he was to 


play on this.



Hope you liked these wonderful photos

My Stairway and My Destiny...

                                                   
           
           The time in which an individual has to be cautious,the time in which a person has to be a liable one,the time in which a character has to be a provident, is during adolescent.People term this time as a turning point in one's existence.I consent and I have to...
         
          Because I perceive the events and their outcomes attested that. Nevertheless I merely have crossed my so called teenage I scarcely demand "On what an individual should suppose , Destiny or Sequel?"
          
          If I go for Destiny, I do not need to worry about anything.Is it not? It is not going to matter if I had chosen either a wrong path with plenty of obstacles or the right track with same number of obstacles.Because the path I had chosen is also predestination .So I mechanically would arrive at my destination.Is it not?


        If I stick to the statement that I will be facing the Sequel for things I do in my day to day life, I have to sarcastically be aware,which would probably make me woeful.And here I manually make my path either uneven or flawless.Then every mortal would start worrying about themselves,for every time the clock ticks.
         
        The Stairways that I had so far had always been skidding.This alarms me and makes me panic about my steps that are ahead of me.Would those be Destiny Stairs or Sequel Stairs???!!!


                       I put forth this query in your hand!!!

        

I regret ! ! !

A lie...... and I still regret...
             
                  I found this can be the best way to explain how I perceive because of a lie, to my friends.
My life was smooth and sleek.All at once, I was unable to concentrate because my mind was preoccupied by an affair I had.I altogether can not blame my affair rather I blame my fate,locality,circumstances etc...
Those were the worst part of my life,where I became an agnostic.I lost all my hope towards my destiny.
There were really few,who understood my status and they did back me up.My friends circle shrank.
I was caught by a hurricane.The outset of the hurricane was quite horrible.It hit me very hard.I was ripped apart by that.I could not move.As I said, only few were ready to help me.Ultimately even the hurricane was one among the few I felt.Some sort of  good fortune had fallen on me, I should agree. 
                       The storm took me to another world,where I wanted to be.New world, new friends and everything was new.I did not want to lose all those.Only thing i could do was to maintain that dignity or rank or title or what ever, that I had among the NEW.All I did was a lie.I regret that lie was so idiotic, silly. But it mattered to me.
                     I conceive that lie was not at all necessary.I do not know how to get rid of that matter.
Some day you people will come to know, I was pretty sure about that.I want you , my friends ,not to ignore me and I hope you all will remit me, and take me out of this cage of lie.
                   I hurt ,hurts me a lot.I can see this matter would no way bother you.You will not even have time to consider this matter.But in case, If you feel disgusted on me,I would not be able to talk or face you.
And that is why this post is for.
                   I expect you all will understand my emotion and will forgive this poor  me rather than hating .

A mere note of a boy in my reverie...

          A dawn, I woke up in the thought of blogging because of an  aftermath of my dream i had that entire night. So far in my life I never had such a big reverie about a particular matter.

            Its all about a boy.I just wanted to inscribe those visuals left in my mind.He was from a family occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy.He actually had no ambition,attitude,stance or what ever about his life.He was on his own sleek life.The guy is known for his hush that he always had on any circumstance.He was so sociable with his neighbors.His only life was F-R-I-E-N-D-S, hide and seek game,some time studies, and full time telly.Lad was not matured enough to know the meaning of friends.A day came ,his father officially got transferred.That was the day , entire family was ready and packed up to move to their new place.

The guy was busy driving his old kids-cycle which was found on the top shelf,which he could not reach all those days.It was almost time to leave.A woman came to that boy and told him that one of his friend is crying.He asked "why?".But that women took  him to his friend.The boy realized the meaning of his friends' tears.Boy's eye started watering.This was the day he became fully aware of a word FRIEND and its significance.Our boy could not have any discourse.His cry overtook his words.He had no words for his friend.The last meeting went unvoiced but with those inestimable tears.He had nothing to give him except those memories that were left behind.

                                  These words are not  ample enough to explain those visuals  I had... 

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Computer Facts For You !!!

You might have read some interesting  facts in some older posts so, I thought why not write something about Computer. After all,  it’s computer which laid foundation of many technologies we use daily.

1. First ever microprocessor by Intel was “4004”.

2. Micral N was the first personal computer built on Intel processor 8008. This personal computer was built in 1972 and more than 90,000 units were sold.

3. First hard disk drive was introduced by Seagate in 1979, which could hold 5 M.B. of data.

4. First computer virus was written by Farooq Alvi brothers (Basit Farooq Alvi & Amjad Farooq Alvi) in 1986. Though some other people say that it was written even before. Alvi brothers wrote this virus to protect their research work.

5. First Computer Company to register domain name was “Digital Equipment Corporation”.

6. HP(hewlett packard)  was started at a garage in Palo alto in 1939.

7. QWERTY keyboard sequence is 129 years old.

8. Largest four software making Companies are:

• Microsoft
• Adobe
• Sap
• Computer Associates

9. 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced and stored per year.

10.of transistors on a chip are on nVidia GeFore 6800 Ultra, which contains 222 million of them.

11. First ISP was “CompuServe” which was set up in 1969. This ISP is now an acquisition of AOL.

12. “The Dirty Dozen” is the name of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC.

13. It could take more than the age of universe to crack a 128 bit SSL encrypted message.

14. Windows 95 can run on a 20 MHz 386DX and 4 MB of RAM.

15. [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] sequence was written by “David Bradley”.

There must be a lot of facts other than listed above and you are welcome to add anything you want.

Steve Jobs...

This post is dedicated for One of the World's Best CEO. May his soul Rest In Peace...


Below is  the speech given by Late.Mr.Steve Jobs.(1955-2011).(Co-founder Of Apple.Inc.).at Stanford University 2005...




I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2bn company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologise for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. 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. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

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.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumour on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. 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. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumour. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

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. 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. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.




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