Great Commencement address by Steve Jobs at Stanford
I liked this quote:
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards
And this Zen-like wording:
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
And this is cute:
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
And this reminds me of J. Bachar (the Rockclimber) saying “Death is a gift” (because you value life more):
..Death is very likely the single best invention of Life….
He ends with:
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish
The speech in MP3 and AAC formats.
He appears to have a web site on mac.com.
Some of his quotes.
His oral history from 1995.
