"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." This was part of his commencement address to Stanford University graduates back in 2005 and yet the visionary in him never fails.

Steve Jobs has embraced his death even before his final day as he battled with his illness for more than three years. He shared during that close to 25-minutes speech how he has lived amidst the adversaries including his illness.

Jobs recalled how he dropped out of Reed College that almost had the same status as Stanford, "slept on the floor in the rooms of different friends, returned coke bottles for 5 cents deposits for him to be able to buy food and walk 7 miles on Sunday nights just to get a decent meal at the Hare Krishna temple."

He confessed that he left college after 6 months after realizing that he did not see any value in it.

Since Reed College offered one of the most excellent calligraphy courses in the U.S. at that time, Jobs revealed that this was where he learned all about serif and sans serif typefaces when he enrolled in a lettering class after dropping out.

Ten years later, they were designing the first Macintosh computer and Jobs' heritage included the Macintosh, Apple II, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

In his speech, Jobs evoked memories of how the Mac became the first computer with beautiful topography.

"If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do," he stated in that classic speech.

He emphasized the virtue of hard work which he said was instrumental in his effort to transform Apple from s two-man operations in a small garage to a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees in just 10 years. "We had just released our finest creation, the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30," he proudly exclaimed.

Jobs exhorted his audience not to 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," Jobs said.

This was a very good advice to the younger generation.

However, what was so moving about the remarks of Jobs was his revelation to the students about his cancer illness.

He appropriately mentioned death is the destination that all people 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."

Steven Jobs is gone but what he has achieved and the milestones in technology that he institutionalized will forever be etched in the minds and memories of millions of people all over the world forever.

Steve shared: "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."

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