"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

A tous ceux que je croise en ce moment et qui se posent un tas de questions métaphysiques sur ce qu'ils sont en train de faire de leur vie (ce type d'interrogation doit sans doute être générationnel) je recommande la lecture du discours de Steve Jobs, CEO d'Apple Computer et des studios Pixar (et par ailleurs créateur des objets les plus addictifs du moment selon moi : le Macintosh PowerBook et l'iPod), adressé le 12 juin 2005 au cours de la cérémonie de remise des diplômes de Stanford University :

- I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world (...)

- I was lucky ? I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired (...)

- 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. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle (...)

- 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 (...)

- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 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.