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"As web users, tech luminaries and President Obama publicly mourn the death of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, many of us at Mashable are privately revisiting Jobs's June 2005 commencement address to Stanford University graduates.\nIt's a simple, humble, narrative-driven speech, touching on his adoption, his decision to drop out of Reed College, getting fired from and then returning to Apple, and being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. It's also packed with oft-quoted advice, many pieces of which have appeared in our Twitter feeds since news of his passing was announced.\n\nSEE ALSO: 15 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes\nBut what we predictably find most impactful watching the speech today is the parts that touch on death. \"No one wants to die,\" Jobs acknowledges. \"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.\"\nAnd later, he advises, \"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.\"\nHe closed with a quote from Stewart Brand, founder of one of Steve Jobs's favorite publications growing up, The Whole Earth Catalog: \"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.\"\nMore Coverage of Steve Jobs's Death\n\nNEWS:\nSteve Jobs Has Died\nSteve Jobs: 1955 \u2013 2011\nSteve Jobs Authorized Biography Release Date Bumped Up\nNewspapers React to the Death of Steve Jobs [PICS]\nSteve Jobs\u2019s Other Amazing Companies: NeXT and Pixar\nGALLERIES:\nSteve Jobs, 1955-2011: The Web Remembers\n15 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes\nMourners Create Impromptu Memorials for Steve Jobs at Apple Stores [PICS]\nIn Memoriam: Letters to Steve Jobs\nVIDEOS:\nSteve Jobs Remembered: 10 of His Most Magical Moments [VIDEO]\nSteve Jobs\u2019s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech [VIDEO]\nSteve Wozniak on Steve Jobs [VIDEOS]\nCONDOLENCES :\nApple\u2019s Board of Directors on Steve Jobs\nApple Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs\nJobs Family Statement: \u201CSteve Died Peacefully\u201D\nMark Zuckerberg Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs\nGoogle Founders: Steve Jobs Was an Inspiration\nDisney CEO: \u201CJobs Was Such an Original\u201D\nBill Gates: \u201CI Will Miss Steve Immensely\u201D \nPresident Obama on Steve Jobs: \u201CThe World Has Lost a Visionary\u201D\nGoogle\u2019s Homepage Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs\nOTHER:\nRIP Steve Jobs: Share Your Condolences [OPEN THREAD]\nMemories Of Steve Jobs: Interviews &amp; Inspiration\nSteve Jobs: Goodbye to an Icon\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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