death is very likely the single best invention of life. it's life's change agent. it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now the new is you. >> steve jobs speaking at stanford university in 2005. this is how the front page of the brilliant website boingboing.net is honoring steve jobs tonight. if you sat down to write at the keyboard of an early macintosh computer as i did many times, this tribute will look forward to you. joining me, jenny of boingboing.net, one of the best intellectual writers on technology i know. thanks for being with us. >> thank you, rachel. >> you've written about steve jobs as an influence on technology. looking at that stanford address and thinking about his career and contributions on the occasion of his death tonight, what do you think he meant to the country broadly?