Born: February 24, 1955, San Francisco, CA
Died: October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, CA
Yesterday was third anniversary of his death…
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.
– Stephen Jobs
君の時間には限界がある、だから他から押し付けられた人生を送るなど、無駄にするな。ドグマ、定説・常識などに囚われるなーそれはただ他からの考えにまどわされ生きているだけ。他の者の目を気にして他の者の意見などにおぼれず自分の内からの声を聞け。一番重要なのは勇気をもって自分の心と感に従え。自分の声は真の自分がどうなりたいのか（どうしたいのか）知っている。他は皆（雑音だ）どうでもよい。
One of Steve Jobs’ last gifts was left in a brown box and handed out at his memorial service.
Inside the brown box was a copy of “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Hindu guru Paramahansa Yogananda. The book was about self realization, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Mark Benioff told an audience at annual tech conference TechCrunch Disrupt. Benioff, who wrote some of the first code for the Macintosh, was one of Jobs’ closest friends and colleagues.”That was his message,” Benioff said. “Actualize yourself…. He had this incredible realization that his intuition was his greatest gift, and he needed to look at the world from inside out.”
Benioff emphasized the spiritual side of Jobs’ personality, a trait he says is often lost in the books and movies recounting Jobs’ legacy.
Before Jobs passed away in October 2011 , the Apple founder knew the people who would attend his memorial. Known for his vision and precision, Jobs organized the speakers, the attendees, and the performers, Bono and Yo-Yo Ma would play at a memorial service as planned, Benioff recounted. On the way out, each guest received the gift.
“I knew that this was a decision that he made that everyone was going to get this,” Benioff, said. “Whatever this was, was the last thing he wanted us to all think about.”
– excerpt from CNN Money & News 9/2013
U-2’s Bono …”I already miss him…one of a very small group of anarchic Americans who through technology literally invented the 21st century. We will all miss the hardware software Elvis.”
…ehh, more than “Hardware Software Elvis”, actually,
Stephen Jobs was a Yogi… practicing Karma Yoga.
He just needed to practice more Restorative style yoga iThink… at least he had the time to read this book and gift the book to some 500 of his family and friends. That is a wonderful gift…a message in a bottle (Sting’s song?), a message in a book. There was a time I worked in Palo Alto and frequented a hole in the wall down to earth (i.e., very reasonable) place called Homma’s Brown Rice sushi – where Stephen Jobs often came to get lunch – it’s a strange feeling. Our time is limited.
