Thursday, 17 August 2006

Steve Job's speech at Stanford

I happened to receive this e-mail from a friend I made here in the US. He's a Stanford graduate student and he sent me this speech. I'm not allowed to forward this to anyone, though, so I'll take a few quotes out of it.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. 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. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. "

"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."



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