[From the Steve Jobs Archive]
"This e-mail by Steve Jobs to himself right before his death [above] ... is NOT an 'I didn’t build that'' message of any kind.... Jobs is expressing rational gratitude to the many achievers upon whose shoulders he was enabled to do the great things he did. Indeed, no one could ever accomplish what Jobs did by any means other than his own initiative, effort, risk-taking, and thinking. We, all of us, inherit the legacies of those who came before us. But everyone doesn’t automatically become Steve Jobs, or anyone, other than what we make of ourselves. Jobs hits on something we should all remember and take to heart....
"While we all individually DID build that, however great or modest our productive achievements, it is also important to recognise that, while doing our building, we stood on the shoulders of the prior achievements of many many other productive people, both living and long dead--and we should be grateful to them..."~ Mike LaFerrara, from his post 'Steve Jobs' Rational Gratitude'
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