Tuesday, October 7, 2008

What nonsense is this - hungry and foolish?

I tried for many names, some crazy such as 'osama', 'obama', 'boku', some meaningful such as 'life', 'journey', some philosophical such as 'back2basics', 'mondai-nai', but could not find one available. Afterall blogger was creater 9 years back, so absolutely no chance of finding something meaningful, but I have no qualms for finding something perfectly crazy as 'hungry-and-foolish'. The idea is stolen from Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford. So all rights reseved for Steve.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

So everyone around who is hungry, foolish, and crazy is welcome at this blog. Happy blogging!


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Good!! keep going.... you will surely find something to feed yourself and satisfy your appetite ;-)

Someone special (You-Know-Who)!

Vijay said...

Thankyou Ms Special!

Rai Umraopati Ray said...

Hey...

Good you are venting it out...u will surely find something good in the process...