Graduation Speech: Steve Job's Stanford Commencement Speech
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech: http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/ (29.11.2016)
(1) I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.
(2) Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
(3) Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
(4) That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
(5) The first story is about connecting the dots.
(6) I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
(7) It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, …show more content…
(46) The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
(47) It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
(48) During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
(49) Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
(50) In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
(51) I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple.
(52) It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
(53) Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
(54) I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
(55) You’ve got to find what you …show more content…
(70) There is no reason not to follow your heart.
(71) About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.
(72) I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.
(73) I didn’t even know what a pancreas was.
(74) The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
(75) My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die.
(76) It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.
(77) It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.
(78) It means to say your goodbyes.
(79) I lived with that diagnosis all day.
(80) Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
(81) I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with
(1) I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.
(2) Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
(3) Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
(4) That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
(5) The first story is about connecting the dots.
(6) I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
(7) It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, …show more content…
(46) The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
(47) It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
(48) During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
(49) Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
(50) In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
(51) I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple.
(52) It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
(53) Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
(54) I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
(55) You’ve got to find what you …show more content…
(70) There is no reason not to follow your heart.
(71) About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.
(72) I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.
(73) I didn’t even know what a pancreas was.
(74) The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
(75) My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die.
(76) It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.
(77) It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.
(78) It means to say your goodbyes.
(79) I lived with that diagnosis all day.
(80) Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
(81) I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with