[FreeKeys]

Hey, a good inspirational, non-pc commencement speech for a change. And a good story too.

[meowmeow]

Every year we tread once upon the moment of our death.

That was a very good speech.

[anniegetyourgun]

Maybe it's just me....I thought it was trite, bromidic, and middling.

[theFIRMbss]

>"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish"

[Reconray]

I agree, very inspirational but it is pc..You've got to do what you Love? This is the lie that we have been teaching our children..the reality is that you must pay the bills..it's very expensive to live in the U.S.A. today..We should teach our kids to make yourself marketable, learn a trade or a choose a vocation that is in demand, a small percentage may end up doing something they love. The rest they can do what they love as a hobby.We should teach reality not pipe dreams..There is a need for nurses engineers, plumbers all very hard jobs,that require years of training...but the kids won't go into them because they're wasting time looking for a job that they LOVE..by the time they realize that most jobs are work and nobody loves work it's too late..they're stuck, bills and family ,no time for going back into training..

[Freebird Forever]

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Even rats can be right once in a while.

[GVnana]

The Whole Earth Catalog

I have a lovely first edition in a box ready for the dump. Should I keep it?

[GVnana]

we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography

I spent many years in the publishing industry where Macs were the standard platform. I had always wondered how it came to be that Macs so easily adapted to expert typography -- never dreaming it came from calligraphy!

[Ciexyz]

So he was one in a billion who dropped out of college and made it big. Certainly not something to emulate. Certainly not something to brag about to an auditorium of courageous young people who stood the course.

If Jobs thought his college tuition was too expensive at the time, why didn't he try a state college? Nothing wrong with a state college...it worked for me.

[NHResident]

Typical 'from the heart' PC mush - I'll guarentee that no one who works at Apple or Pixar that 'follows their passsion' in a way that doesn't directly contribute to company profits is out the door very, very quickly. One doesn't make it to the top of ANY corporation without a lot of personal sacrifice - if they are married - their kids and wife pay the price, if they are single - the price is paid in personal relationships - financial and professional success doesn't come easy, anyone claiming otherwise is lieing. That said, everyone has the opportunity to decide what is most important to them - just don't pretend that there are tradeoffs - yes, Rush says he loves his work - whick I don't doubt. His career has paid off for him tremendously in terms of wealth and influence but at least part of the personal price has been three marriages. Jobs is just massaging the mush in those skulls to make sure there are plenty of corporate employees to choose from.

[Age of Reason]

Life's a tale told by idiot.