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Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The phrase is an instruction to stay curious and unembarrassed about not knowing, borrowed from the counterculture and handed on to a generation of founders. Jobs did not coin it; the Catalog's editors printed it first. Its afterlife is graduation cards, laptop stickers and start-up walls, and it is often credited to Jobs alone, a small case of a famous line being adopted so firmly that the original gets lost.
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Jobs closed his Stanford commencement address on June 12, 2005, with a memory from his youth: the Whole Earth Catalog, which he called one of the bibles of his generation. Its last issue, in 1974, carried a photograph of an early-morning country road on the back cover, with the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." as the editors' farewell. Jobs told the graduating class he had always wished that for himself, and now wished it for them.
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- Wikiquote: Steve JobsStanford University commencement address (12 June 2005)Reference checked
- Wikipedia: Whole Earth CatalogImpact and legacyReference checked
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