[font=verdana][color=gray] [b]This is the text by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.[/b] 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 tumor 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 tumor. 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 its 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 other's 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.[/color][/font]

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Hey ho Neo! Ich bin mir grad ne seite erstellen und wollte gern ein Banner vom GC einfügen... jetzt wollt ich fragen ob ich deine zustimmung habe und ob du mir vll eins hast... :lieb dann wünsch ich dir noch was! LG Angel

Hey tom erinner mich mal bitte daran(wennich on bin),dass ich dich um etwas bitten muss *g* :sorry luna

ja die pöse arbeit ... :tugly obwohl zur zeit echt nich viel zu tun is... WodkaRedBull :para Sehr Gefählich!!!!!!!!! :augly *vorallem für mich* :uprost von dem kann man ja nich genug kriegen naja aber diesen samstag wirds leider nix mit mille lg :lieb

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/20/111815/063 Reality goes Neuromancer :para

:chong naja...besser als nix. und net so teuer *g* sin die dvds angekommen :nanu

-Name ONE thing that your windows comp can do that my MAC cant -Right click. :ablach

arbeit net zu viel du dingsi :esmile :KISS

Hey cool! Erst gerade gesehen, dass Du nen Eintrag auf meiner HP hinterlassen hast! *Verbeugemich* Vielen lieben Dank Herr Neo! Freu mich... und : Jaja.... so klein ist die Welt! Gruss Wisdom

Ich kann mein Gästebuch nicht anstellen ... Es kommt immer nur Error ... Wo ist das Problem ??? Kannste mir mal helfen ? Vielen Dank

:augly da haste auch recht

Bedanke mich für den Eintrag! Das Teil ist auch deswegen eines meiner heiligsten! HAb da zwar noch n paar so seltenheiten im Schrank aber das ist inzwischen nahezu unschlagbar! Liebe Grüsse Wis

rofl....aber 550 oi das is schon net wenig. die hälfte vom pc :augly

kostenpunkt??? pro gramm ein euro? :augly

[pre] *hihi* na klaro muss ja sein... :lugly bist du auch oft dort? grüße zurück :uprost

:dugly :eugly [img]http://www.spirituosenworld.de/produkte/wodka/details/finlandia_vodka_gr.jpg[/img] :augly

hi neo! ich hab da mal ne frage. ich möchte meinen aliasnamen änder.muss ich mich da neu anmelden oder geht das auch anders. mfg plastique.1

[center]GROßE FRAGE [img]http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys2/cheer_icoon.gif[/img] sag mal kann man jetzt in der "eigenen" Galerie schon einzelne Bilder oder gar die ganze Galerie löschen? Bei mir sind so schnöde alte Bilder drin und ich würd die gern mal ersetzen... wäre lieb wenn du mir mal bescheid sagen könntest was ich da für möglichkeiten hab liebe grüße aus dem sonnigen Rostock Twiggy [img]http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys2/hat_3.gif[/img][/center]

[center][img]http://www.world-of-smilies.com/html/images/smilies/ugly/ugly4.gif[/img] [img]http://www.world-of-smilies.com/html/images/smilies/ugly/cugly.gif[/img] da haste n paar dolle (lustige?) smilies :esmile :gaga :augly[/center]

http://immortal.battlegrim.net/downloads/eng_call_of_the_wintermoon.shtml hier :flirt

O_o du hast einen eigenen Fanclub O_o http://www.thomasweber-fanclub.de/ :kiss:fick ( warum hab ich sowas net gegründet :augly )

hey :) dankö es hat geklappt. ich hatte wahrscheinlich nur nen seltsamen html-code, der nicht überall funktioniert =___=; aber jetzt geht es ja. darf man mal fragen, wie du auf die tolle idee gekommen bist, das gothic-chat hier zu gründen? ist doch von dir oder? :)

http://www.hackerrallye.de/ beim nächsten mal müssen wir mitmachen :flirt

Ey Chef ;-) Nix Gemaule, nur liebe Grüße! poisY :sweet