Steve Jobs

Before — what was asked or happening

Jobs closed his Stanford commencement address with three personal stories covering his college dropout, being fired from Apple, and his cancer diagnosis. The words were not originally his own — he borrowed them from the back cover of the final issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, a counterculture publication from the 1970s that he described as one of the bibles of his generation. He told the graduating class: the last issue had a farewell message on the back cover — a photograph of an early morning country road, beneath which were the words Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.