This is a commencement address to the
graduates of Stanford University by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer
and of Pixar Animation on June 12, 2005.
1. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I
dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months... Because I had
dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to
take a calligraphy class... Ten years later, when we were designing the
first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all
into the Mac. And since Windows just copied the Mac... If I had never
dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,
and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they
do... You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect
them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow
connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut,
destiny, life, karma, whatever.
2. My second story is about love and loss.
I
got fired [from Apple]. 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. 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. 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. I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I
hadn’t been fired from Apple. It awful tasted medicine, but I guess the
patient needed it. You’ve got to find what you love. So keep looking
until you find it. Don’t settle.
3. My third story is about death.
I
was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me this was almost
certainly a type that is incurable. [Later] I had surgery and I’m fine
now. No one wants to die. And yet death is the destination we all share.
It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the
new. Right now the new is you, but someday you will gradually become the
old and be cleared away. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living
someone else’s life. When I was young, there was an amazing publication
called The Whole Earth Catalog. On the back cover of their final issue
were the words: “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. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.
A Tribute from : Daryn weatherman
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