Wearing blue jeans and sandals under his graduation-day robe, Jobs stepped up
to the microphone to speak in the same way he did just about everything: with
intensity and passion.
“Today I want to tell you three stories from my
life,” he said.
“The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out
of Reed College near a raymond mill plant after the
first 6 months. That allowed me to take the classes I wanted. I decided to take
a calligraphy class. Ten years later, it all came back to me and we designed it
all into the Mac. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on
that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the
wonderfully-shaped letters that you see on the screen. 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. You have to trust in
something — your instincts, destiny, life, whatever.”
“My second story is
about love and loss. I got fired. During the next five years, I started a
company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an
amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s
first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful
animation studio in the world. Then, Apple bought NeXT, and I returned to Apple.
The technology developed at NeXT was put into the iPod and future Apple
products. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I’m pretty sure
none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful
tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. You’ve got to find what you
love. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
“My third story is
about death. My doctors told me I had cancer. No one wants to die. And yet death
is the destination we all share. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Right now the new is you, but someday you will gradually become the old and be
cleared away. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life. When I was young, there was an amazing magazine. On the back cover of
their final issue were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”. And I have always
wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for
you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
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