There are some real nuggets of wisdom in this Commencement speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford University.

His comments about his encounter with death are particularly illuminating.

This is well worth watching, but you can give the introduction by the President of Stanford a miss (it takes up about seven minutes at the beginning of the video.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish"? Steve was quoting the back page of the last print edition of the Whole Earth Catalogue.