"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 or 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… have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
— Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement 2005 Speech
Uh, Steve, hate to be the one to point this out, but not everyone can drop out of Stanford, build a computer, then charge everyone else $2500 for a piece of aluminum and silicon so that eight generations down the line, Steve the Ninth can still have enough trust fund cash to build another Dubai on Mars and tuck dollar bills in g-strings at clubs with names like “Booze Crooze.” Oh yeah, and $200 for extra RAM.
Asshole.