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(Reblogged from minusmanhattan)
It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures.
[long pause]
But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch, click! And you’re gone.
[pause]
Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.
Steve Jobs on death and the afterlife. This is the last paragraph of Issacson’s biography. (via minusmanhattan)
For some reason the idea of the off switch and a fast goodbye is far more comforting.
