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Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
Transcript of Steve Jobs’ address:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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america scum ? America is made up of all immigrants. Its only be america for like 300 hundred years. So every so called “American” quickly dates back to a different ethnicity.. euro, indian, british, arab, etc….
In time of “purifying” ameria from ameria scum, this man must be saved, for the future of mankind!
Definitely, he is nice exception from other american scum!
best speech ever
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agree with you.
That was really inspiring! We all have one chance to live, one chance to do what we really want to do, one chance to follow our dreams, so why waste our precious little time in this universe with others opinions and choosing to do something we are not passionate about? Life is a extremely rare phenomenon in this universe and to be born as a human is even more rare……….. that is why i feel life is a precious gift, and wasting this gift is not a good idea.
Much as this is an interesting talk Jobs continually fails in many highly egocentric areas, primarily crediting the SUBSTANTIAL sources of his inspiration ( Xerox PARC amongst many many others - including Windows and Linux )
You have a point. The world sees success mostly in material terms. But there’re people who succeed, though they didnt own much - Jesus. & some people who acquire a lot of material things are unhappy. And that is why we must try not to follow the world. Else we lose the real values. True wealth comes from doing the things you would really do if your days were cut short. Some people make money in the process. Others dont.Tnx 4 ur feedback
Nop I don´t think so because if you don’t have success then you are not recognize if steve jobs didn’t became millionaire and succesful then he would not be there giving that speech, so yess money and success is pretty much everything in this materialist world….
If you ask me: this speech is not really about Steve Jobs, but about us asking ourselves if the things we do are driven by values that are not real. The lesson is that to be successful in life has nothing to do with material possessions and academic or secular achievements. It has more to do with have a positive impact on the world, which starts with the man in the mirror and the one next to you.
Be good to yourself and to all!
I would rip my diploma up if steve jobs was my commencement speaker, in fact, i’d make sure everyone of my friends who are graduating computerscience/EE/ECS to throw copies of linux at him
You must be thinking of Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Nice try kid. I don’t have a preference for any operating system. You’ll have to go start your geeky argument with someone else.
You must be a Windows fan. Everyone I’ve ever met who were Windows/PC fans got all butthurt whenever someone mentioned Apple.
I understand exactly what he’s trying to say and I don’t buy it. He’s making it seem like it was his destiny and like it was precisely the things that he did that are responsible for computers having nice font types. Computers would have evolved to the point they are now just fine without him being an academic failure.
He says that if he never “dropped in” on a typography class that it is likely that no personal computers would have nice fonts. Like there is some dramatic connection between his failure to graduate from college and the way computers are today?
No, BECAUSE he dropped out of college, he was able to do that. If you pay attention to his speech, he says doing such “foolish” things like just taking classes he thought were interesting, when most people would just focus on what was necessary for getting a job, gave him ideas that set his products apart when he entered the industry. He summarized this in the last two lines he spoke. This really isn’t that tough of a concept, I don’t see what you’re having such difficulty with it.
Nothing HAD to happen that way….but it did. Had it not….we may well never have had the good fortune of the resulting tech & art that we do.
He took basic and beautiful principles and applied them to an uncommon science….computers. Remember, back then computers were way more obscure, conceptually speaking. It was the beginning,he was there,.and due to his choices, we have what we have today.
Someone else surely could have, but no one else did.
And he had to drop out of college and take a typography class to do that?
He merged art with science. If he hadn’t, the computer wouldn’t have appealed to anybody other than basement geeks.
so what?
go pick on somebody else…
dude this guy denied his child saying that he was sterile. later on he accepted his daughter.
He is soo Blessed from HARE KRISHNA.Watch it at 3:16 where he used to have his every Sunday Night Meal!
How come the really cleaver people.never seem to go to a university. I do believe the masonic guru Albert pike did not go to one either I see a patten forming, might be they just new they was not sheep but under stood the value of good knowledge and as long as you are looking you will find it. allcingeye