Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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

Meh, I preferred the old playboy interview with him in 1985, link Here's the Standford 2005 talk the article mentions this 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: this 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: this 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] this 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

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): this video

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]: this 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: this video

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. this video At around 13m10s.