"And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

"None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography."

"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

"My second story is about love and loss."

"The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over."

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."

"I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

"I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love."

"My third story is about death."

"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."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"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."

"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. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much."

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"Today I want to tell you three stories from my life."

"My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student,"