A moving speech from Steve Jobs

Love it or hate it, Steve Jobs has changed all of our lives. It has been his sense of cool that drove Apple, and his demand for coolness in the products they make overrules every other consideration. I fear for Apple sans Jobs.

I have to thank the incomparable Dennis H. for directing me to the text of Steve’s 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. It has an eerie, sort of haunting quality, given that the death he had then recently escaped has come looming again. But this makes the message he speaks all the more clear: If you think you’ve got anything to lose, you’re a fool, because Death already has absolute claim on you; so go, go directly toward what you love and damn the criticism!

See it here at WSJ.com: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576520690515394766.html#ixzz1W6RusOKM .