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Life is beautiful.

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams...

Steve rocks

The restless frenzy is what is perhaps most disturbing of all about the never-ending obsessive death watch that has centered on Apple CEO Steve Jobs.What doesn’t make your skin crawl about it?The media and blogosphere pitifully arguing, as if it was the most important issue to face mankind ever, over who was right and who was a shill?Apple (AAPL) being frustratingly opaque and making the bad situation worse–first by saying nothing when Jobs appeared looking disturbingly gaunt to now releasing a series of confusing statements that don’t jibe, even if health diagnosis is always a moving target?The rumors and innuendo about Jobs’ fate and health status swirling everywhere, pretty much all of which is pure speculation and all probably wrong?The emotional dives in the stock, because of skittish investors, who should know by now that this is an uncertain situation–Jobs had cancer, for goodness sake–and therefore should probably tread very carefully?And, most of all, the needless tarnishing of the reputation of a man who is one of the technology industry’s greatest icons–if not the greatest–having positively impacted the whole culture with a style and elegance that is unmatched? That it comes at a time when he is sickly and trying to recover makes it even worse and quite sad.That’s why BoomTown thinks it is time to listen to the wise words Jobs delivered at a now legendary Stanford University commencement address in 2005.It was full of a lot of wonderful stories, including about his first bout with cancer. And the speech ended with some words Jobs saw on back of “The Whole Earth Catalog” when he was young, which impacted him greatly.They were: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”I think right about now, that foolish part has gone way too far for Jobs and the rest of us.So let’s slow things down, shall we, and get some much-needed perspective this speech surely has (in other words, the inevitable finger-pointing and ...

Steve Jobs is a great story teller, and he's proven that you can tell stories through computer hardware. This is a little less fluid than his normal delivery, but the story is fascinating.

Love what you do, and a lot of things will follow from there.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.One of my favorites speeches from recent times…Posted in Technology Tagged: commencement speech, inspiration, inspirational speeches, inspirational talk, motivational talk, steve jobs, steve jobs stanford 2005, steve jobs stanford speech

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams...