“Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, who died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, was an inspiring speaker,” BBC News reports.
“In 2005 he made speech to Stanford University in which he said his mortality was what helped him to make the big choices in his life,” BBC News reports.
The full text of the 2005 Stanford University Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005 can be found here
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Nick” for the heads up.]
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I can’t stop crying. He was so right, about so many things.
To lose someone that we appreciate so much is a heavy load; I am in a fog today.
I’m with pr. I’ve cried a lot today. But it is somehow making me understand that life is precious.
Rest in peace Steve, you died far too young.
RastaMouse. X
Yep, if we didn’t have finality, we’d take life for granted and miss out on all the joy! We savor what’s fleeting; we ignore what seems permanent; we hold tight only when we know it will end. Brilliant man gone far too young.
If ever a man lived in the present, it was Mr. Steve Jobs.
A true expression of Zen.
Yes, Buddhism has some wisdom and it good that Jobs promoted these deep, eternal concepts.
I agree that death is life’s greatest invention and that it makes room for the new, but Steve wasn’t “the old” yet. Really shows you the limitations of wealth. $8 billion can’t buy you health and life. What an incredible loss. The world will never the same.
Reboot the Time Machine App and bring Steve back!
Bullshit. Life is life’s best invention.
A guy that see he is going to be dead in a couple years starts getting flakey about a lot of things.
He also said to ‘be foolish’. No, idiot, be smart and wise.
Let’s call bullshit by it’s name.
I call it “X”
He gave that speech in 2005, and since that time led Apple in developing the iphone and ipad among other things and thus make Apple the most valuable company on the planet. He was far from flakey.
You, on the other hand appear to be.
My graduate school advisor, who reminds me a lot of Steve Jobs in his accomplishments, view of work/life, and appearance, had a saying that applies to X:
“They’re SO naive!”
Not that you are ill intentioned, but if you don’t get what Jobs meant by quoting the “foolish” part, then you are just naive. Sometimes in life you should be so foolish as to do what dogma says you should not. Apple is so successful because they are so foolish.
Imagine how different things would be if Steve Jobs had never been born.
Now imagine how things might have changed if Steve Jobs had another twenty years to live.
Way too soon.
Steve returned to his home planet. He will watch us from there.Thanks for everything Steve. You are one of a kind.
Life finds a way. And there are myriad ways to the final destination. Jobs let us enjoy more of the view on the way.