Thursday, October 6, 2011

"...but there's one more thing..."

I find myself, a day after learning that Steve Jobs has left the world short one genius, thinking that there has to be more. That he can't have made such a quiet exit. That he might be waiting, just out of the range of the spotlights, to make that last appearance to surprise and delight us all, waltzing back onto the stage in his jeans and his black turtleneck to say those words with a knowing smile.

"But there's one more thing..."

The truth, as Stephen King said so well, is that the world rarely finishes its conversations. There's always one more thing...but eventually, most of those things go unsaid, and we're lucky to have heard and learned as much as we did.

But still. That feeling lingers.

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
Are the ones who do.


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