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Stay hungry stay foolish

Postby shivanimt » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:52 pm

I want to know the meaning of the following:

Stay hungry stay foolish

It is the punch line used by Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computers in his speech.

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Re: meaning of an expression in English

Postby Josef » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:25 pm

This is not a common expression. It was the tagline of The Whole Earth Catalogue and was quoted by Steve Jobs, though there seems to be some debate as to its meaning:
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