Ukrainian politician plagiarizes Steve Jobs’ Stanford speech almost word for word

“Steve Jobs is a legendary orator with a conversational but magnetic style that is so impressive that books have been written about how to emulate his style,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TNW.

“Recently, the Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense, Raisa Bogatyreva, decided that she loved Steve Jobs’ speech to Stanford in 2005 so much that she would just copy it outright, reports Focus Ukraine,” Panzarino reports. “The apparent plaigarism was outed by the site Ukranian Truth, which has published a set of excerpts from both Jobs’ speech and Bogatyreva’s.”

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Panzarino reports, “We spoke to a translator, Alexander Mankuta, who verified that the speech did in fact bear an uncanny resemblance to the Apple CEO’s. Enough to make it completely obvoius that it was a duplicate.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Raisa, you’re from the Ukraine, not Taiwan, South Korea, or Redmond.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]

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45 Comments

        1. No dude, you got it all wrong. The Old Testament Period before the Coming of Our Lord and Salvation Jesus Christ lasted 4000 years. So the world is in FACT 6011 years old.

          [I’m joking, of course]

        2. Disciple, not only were Jesus’ miracles invented, they were invented centuries earlier for other man/gods: Attis, Mithras, Osiris, Tammuz, etc, etc., then in another case of plagiarism, attached to the biography of Jesus.

  1. If I were Ukrainian I’d plagiarize Seinfeld instead…”You know what the Ukraine is? It’s a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It’s feeble. I think it’s time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.”

  2. I think steve is Adam. He is the one who took the bite out the apple and originated the sin of free thinking. Eat. Yum. Oh my god, we run by a bunch of fascists pretending theyre running a democracy.

  3. “…Steve Jobs is a legendary orator…”

    We all love Jobs and are Apple fans. Jobs is a great
    speaker,communicator,and salesman. A “legendary
    orator”? Don’t think so. Abe Lincoln,George Washington,
    Winston Churchill,Martin Luther King Jr.,Mahatma Gandhi,
    Theodore Roosevelt,Demosthenes,William Jennings Bryan
    were all legendary orators in my view.

  4. Well, Steve has been quoted as saying, “…great artists steal.”. And she didn’t steal some rubbish.
    The Stanford gradulation speach ,it’s one of his best talks, and if it gets spread more widely as a result, that’s a benefit to all those who would have otherwise not even heard of it.

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