Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

An oldie but a great speech (old HN discussion here: [LINK] ). For anyone who's interested, here are some other extraordinary commencement speeches: Steve Jobs: [VIDEO] Bill Watterson: [LINK] David Foster Wallace: [LINK] There is a lot of good advice and numerous great sound-bytes from all of these; but one of my personal favorites comes from Bill Watterson, who makes a point that I feel often gets overlooked at HN in our relentless pursuit of success: Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential ― as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them. To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Reminds me of the Stanford address where Jobs claims that computers may not have had typography if he'd not done a calligraphy course. [VIDEO] I'm sure the Parc guys that founded Adobe would beg to differ.

Watch these videos [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK] I do it whenever i lack motivation. It helps me a lot, I hope it will help you in same way. And you if you really think you want to take a break, Come to Nepal, Its a nice place to be. However its landlocked so you wont find beaches.

Meh, I preferred the old playboy interview with him in 1985, [LINK] Here's the Standford 2005 talk the article mentions [VIDEO]

I think davidw was referring to Steve Jobs, who was registered for just one semester at Reed in the 70s and then hung around for a few more semesters sitting in on whatever classes interested him (including a course on typefaces, which came back into his life when he was working on the Macintosh). He talks about it in the Stanford 2005 graduation address: [VIDEO] Also, your comment Can't say the same for Yale graduates I've met, most who contribute little to society and are for the most part ignorant seems unnecessarily harsh.

Generally it's not a good idea to say things like that to large audiences, due to exactly what you're pointing out here -- it will misunderstood, and taken literally. For the correct individual, all of those statements drive home the importance breaking of mental constructs -- literally. That's the root point. Again, everything GK was talking about, SJ tries to explain the root of it here: [VIDEO]

There is two links to steve jobs' talks [1][2] that are not rendered because of some kind of typo. the opening tag of which i believe is intended to be an anchor tag is "nota" instead of "a". [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

I almost feel as though it was a kind of Steve Jobs's "Connect The Dots" thing for me. [1] Let's see, I can say that the earliest I was ever exposed to programming was when I was 12 years old. The online game Neopets was huge between a few friends and I, and I wanted more Neopoints (currency) than them. So, through tooling around on the internet I found a message board with a small user-base that wrote programs to take advantage of Neopets and the way their HTTP handling was done (that's how the game worked back then, this is circa 2002/2003). But, by just joining and registering you weren't given full access to some of the best programs, specifically one known as an autobuyer. This autobuyer would refresh the marketplace shops and, through a text file of known high-value objects, refresh and buy those items that you could resell for up to 10,000x markup. But the only programs I had access to were low-hanging fruit ones - ones that let you play some of the games without opening your browser. The only way to access the coveted autobuyer was through contributing to the community, both through posts and your own programs. So I downloaded Visual Basic and wrote a program that went to several pages within Neopets, that just by going and submitting an HTTP request returned Neopoints, sometimes netting in randomly high amounts. I called it "Dailies." By doing this I was granted access to the holy grail of Neopets cheating. Needless to say I abused the autobuyer, and a few months lat

Mostly not blog posts, but for the last years I tend to revisit the same resources over and over again for inspiration: - "You and your research" by Hamming, and his video lectures which expand on topics in the original talk: [LINK] [LINK] - "On teaching mathematics" by V. I. Arnold: [LINK] - "Undergraduation" by Paul Graham [LINK] - "Learn and relearn your field", and many others in the same category, by Terrence Tao [LINK] - Steve Jobs Stanford commencement address: [VIDEO] - All articles on programming by Peter Norvig: [LINK]

when you want to watch a video tagged as 18+ only (because for that you need to log in). You don't need to log in if the video is embedded on a page, or if you open the player directly like this (/v/<id> in URL): [VIDEO]

You're smart, healthy, and 24 years old? There are a lot of older "successful people" that would trade everything they have to be you. Motivation is based on momentum. You're at a standstill now, so you'll have to build up that momentum. Start off with small challenges (sleep, exercise, diet, or whatever) and then take on your big goals once you've got some speed. You may also find Steve Jobs' speech helpful, as a reminder that even people like him were just as confused at times. [VIDEO]

Came here to post this Larry Smith link :) Even though Jobs gets some hate on HN, these interviews/speeches have never failed to inspire me. If you don't ask, you don't get - [LINK] On a very formulaic life - [LINK] (I couldn't find one without the bad bg music) Stay hungry, stay foolish - [VIDEO] I do realise, on some levels, he was not a good person, or atleast came off as an ass, but listening to these interviews and speeches, I feel I can relate to him and his struggles.

Just looking at the title and having known about the initial years of Apple is enough to know what this article may be about. Taking a quote that would be relevant here — Steve Jobs said in his famous Stanford commencement address of 2005 [1]: “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.” Looks like the trust wasn't there at that time. Without a time machine, such regrets are unproductive. [1]: [VIDEO]

Or how Steve Jobs put it: "Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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." Text: [LINK] Video: [VIDEO]

This was from the commencement speech he gave at Sanford (starts at about 9:10). Not originally his quite, he was paraphrasing something he heard. Great speech, very worth watching for those who haven’t seen it. [VIDEO]

I watched this speech some 10 years ago and that quote has stuck with me. And particularly the subsequent sentence: "It (death) clears out the old, to make way for the new." This is from Steve Jobs' Stanford 2005 commencement address - [VIDEO] (at 12:03)

Great article. It is necessary to be reminded of this some time. I always like to remind myself of Steve Jobs' famous speech where he says something like: "As with all matters of the heart, you know when things are right". Which implies you damn well know when things are not right too. (source: [VIDEO] ) Not sure if Steve Jobs is a devil according to this guy.

“…for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ’If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address [VIDEO]

I ran this on steve jobs 2005 video in stanford. It gave me wrong summary. The summary says Jobs gave 3 speeches at Stanford, in 2005, 2006, 2007. Please don't trust the chatGPT blindly. It has limitations as of now. Video - [VIDEO] Summary below: >>. Steve Jobs delivered three speeches at Stanford University: one in 2005, one in 2006, and one in 2007. The 2005 speech is about trusting that the dots will connect in one's future, and how that gives confidence to follow one's heart. The 2006 speech is about how one's life destiny is something that can be trusted, and how that leads to happiness. The 2007 speech is about death, and how remembering that one will be dead soon allows one to make the biggest decisions in life with less fear.

Yes, those were the last words of Steve Jobs' commencement speech which I quoted above, and he said he quoted it from the Whole Earth Catalog, which he mentioned just prior, in the talk. He had read one of the original editions, since he grew up in that area in those days. And the video of Steve's talk was shared with me soon after it happened, by an older relative, who, ironically, was a top exec at a very large company, which was kind of the antithesis of what Steve was advocating that day. [VIDEO] At around 13m10s.