14 DAY TRIAL // An Airbus A320 belonging to Virgin America airlines has a Steve Jobs quote stenciled on it as a tribute to the visionary genius.
The timing was perfect, as Virgin just became the first airline company to offer fleet-wide Wi-Fi. It’s also the only airline company based in Silicon Valley, which made the Steve Jobs quote a no-brainer.
"The 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' aircraft name was actually submitted as a tribute to Mr. Jobs by one of our employees in an internal plane naming competition," Virgin America spokesperson Abby Lunardini told CNET.
"The idea behind Virgin America was to reinvent the travel experience by thinking differently about design and service--we are known for the tech-forward amenities we offer onboard," Lunardini said.
But some may ask what sparked the quote - “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”?
Well, Steve Jobs himself quoted it during his famous Stanford speech from the back cover of the final issue of The Whole Earth Catalog.
Just like with everything else he revolutionized, Jobs took two simple sentences and put a completely new spin on them, making the phrase ‘Stay hungry, Stay foolish” an inspiration for generations to come.
A transcript from Steve Jobs’ famous 2005 commencement address at Stanford University can be found below:
“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.”