生死就像电脑开关 (On-Off Switch)

苹果之父- 乔布斯，是一位公认的科技界奇才，年轻时曾经远赴印度寻求人生真理，其产品也充满禅意，将一切复杂简单化与自然化，取得空前成功。

读乔布斯的传记是一种享受。通过文字，从他被亲生父母离弃被养父母领养，童年成人创业成家低潮高潮，直到他临死前的信念，深深觉得他的一生虽然只有五十六年，却远远超过许多人的一生的总和。

他述说在印度七个月的经历，让他深深领悟到在印度村落的人们，他们没有像美国人般理性处理问题，而是用一种直觉面对问题。这种直觉，不像学术性的知识，它是于生俱来并通过日常生活经验而练就的一种境界；这种直觉的境界，对他来说，比理智思考学得的知识更强而有力。

也许他就是在贯通中西后在众多电脑人才中脱颖而出。

他在临终前说，他对人死后有另一世界相信度有五十巴仙。他说这也许太高了些，但他觉得在人生旅程中经历了那么多并累积了一些智慧，突然间一切就这样消失，有点匪夷所思。

他也开玩笑地说，也许生死就像开关，一关机，就离开了。

I especially like the paragraph where Steve Jobs describes his experience in India:

“The people in the Indian country side don’t use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s has a big impact on my work.”

“Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learn it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That’s the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.”

On death, he said:

“I like to think that something survives after you die. It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and may be a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures.”

“But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch. Click! And you’re gone.”

“Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.”