Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs gave the commencement address @ Stanford this past week and he ended with these parting words of wisdom from the Whole Earth Catalog - "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." He also shared 3 stories about events that helped to shape him, and I found these to be very interesting.
A buddy of mine had e-mailed the text of Jobs' speech to me. I then found the link in this post's title while reading another blog called Anecdote. And, here's a link to video of the last few minutes of that speech.
From Jobs' address: "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."
Love him or hate him, you have to respect Steve Jobs for his accomplishments. I happen to be a fan. As an undergrad @ Cornell some 14+ years ago, I had the opportunity to hear Jobs speak and give a demo of the NeXT computer / NeXTStep OS. It was an amazing experience.
Just found this Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs circa '95, listed under an Oral History Archive (featuring leaders of the IT revolution) that's hosted by the Computerworld Honors Program. These quotes from Steve Jobs are of note:
"Apple was this incredible journey....The thing that bound us together....was the ability to make things that were going to change the world....and the greatest joy was that we felt we were fashioning collective works of art much like twentieth century physics. Something important that would last, that people contributed to and then could give to more people."
"I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest caliber. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it."
"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight so they can get some of the advantage of that insight that makes them feel a certain way or allows them to do a certain thing."
"In the 70's and the 80's the best people in computers would have normally been poets and writers and musicians. Almost all of them were musicians. A lot of them were poets on the side. They went into computers because it was so compelling. It was fresh and new. It was a new medium of expression for their creative talents. The feelings and the passion that people put into it were completely indistinguishable from a poet or a painter."
Stay passionate. Stay creative. For all life is art direction....
A buddy of mine had e-mailed the text of Jobs' speech to me. I then found the link in this post's title while reading another blog called Anecdote. And, here's a link to video of the last few minutes of that speech.
From Jobs' address: "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."
Love him or hate him, you have to respect Steve Jobs for his accomplishments. I happen to be a fan. As an undergrad @ Cornell some 14+ years ago, I had the opportunity to hear Jobs speak and give a demo of the NeXT computer / NeXTStep OS. It was an amazing experience.
Just found this Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs circa '95, listed under an Oral History Archive (featuring leaders of the IT revolution) that's hosted by the Computerworld Honors Program. These quotes from Steve Jobs are of note:
"Apple was this incredible journey....The thing that bound us together....was the ability to make things that were going to change the world....and the greatest joy was that we felt we were fashioning collective works of art much like twentieth century physics. Something important that would last, that people contributed to and then could give to more people."
"I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest caliber. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it."
"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight so they can get some of the advantage of that insight that makes them feel a certain way or allows them to do a certain thing."
"In the 70's and the 80's the best people in computers would have normally been poets and writers and musicians. Almost all of them were musicians. A lot of them were poets on the side. They went into computers because it was so compelling. It was fresh and new. It was a new medium of expression for their creative talents. The feelings and the passion that people put into it were completely indistinguishable from a poet or a painter."
Stay passionate. Stay creative. For all life is art direction....
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