[["SteveJobs 2005 Speach at Stanford","0","UF8uR6Z6KLc",6,0,0],[[7470,10369,"This program is brought to you by Stanford University.","","",""],[10470,14443,"Please visit us at stanford.edu","","",""],[21214,29927,"Thank You. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement","","",""],[30020,32738,"from one of the finest universities in the world.","","",""],[35559,41047,"Truth be told I never graduated from college","","",""],[41350,45929,"and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.","","",""],[47980,51907,"Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it.","","",""],[51854,54849,"No big deal. Just three stories.","","",""],[55850,59569,"The first story is about connecting the dots.","","",""],[60864,63835,"I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,","","",""],[63737,65415,"but then stayed around as a drop-in","","",""],[65556,68728,"for another 18 months or so before I really quit.","","",""],[69410,71078,"So why did I drop out?","","",""],[72230,74369,"It started before I was born.","","",""],[75250,79034,"My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student,","","",""],[79240,81349,"and she decided to put me up for adoption.","","",""],[82360,85996,"She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates,","","",""],[85980,88161,"so everything was all set for me to","","",""],[88065,91098,"be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.","","",""],[91627,94149,"Except that when I popped out they decided","","",""],[93897,97549,"at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.","","",""],[97677,99957,"So my parents, who were on a waiting list,","","",""],[99961,104334,"got a call in the middle of the night asking: We got an unexpected","","",""],[104470,106919,"baby boy; do you want him?","","",""],[107177,112966,"They said: Of course. My biological mother found out later","","",""],[112874,115309,"that my mother had never graduated from college","","",""],[115310,118469,"and that my father had never graduated from high school.","","",""],[118928,122449,"She refused to sign the final adoption papers.","","",""],[123090,125012,"She only relented a few months later","","",""],[125050,132509,"when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.","","",""],[132540,139193,"And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college","","",""],[139205,141659,"that was almost as expensive as Stanford,","","",""],[142281,144131,"and all of my working-class parents'","","",""],[144057,146779,"savings were being spent on my college tuition.","","",""],[147443,150409,"After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.","","",""],[150402,152759,"I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life","","",""],[152760,156379,"and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.","","",""],[156392,160649,"And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.","","",""],[162282,166938,"So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.","","",""],[166939,168972,"It was pretty scary at the time,","","",""],[168876,172808,"but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.","","",""],[173794,176349,"The minute I dropped out I could stop","","",""],[176415,179484,"taking the required classes that didn't interest me,","","",""],[179562,183599,"and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.","","",""],[184507,187533,"It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room,","","",""],[187669,190320,"so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,","","",""],[190498,194179,"I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with,","","",""],[194456,197279,"and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night ","","",""],[197523,201079,"to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.","","",""],[201150,203079,"I loved it.","","",""],[203500,206911,"And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity ","","",""],[206912,209689,"and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.","","",""],[209689,214374,"Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time","","",""],[214500,217989,"offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.","","",""],[218064,222592,"Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer,","","",""],[222593,225108,"was beautifully hand calligraphed.","","",""],[225147,228889,"Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes,","","",""],[229455,232679,"I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.","","",""],[232901,236024,"I learned about serif and san serif typefaces,","","",""],[236079,237949,"about varying the amount of space between","","",""],[237977,239664,"different letter combinations,","","",""],[239651,242399,"about what makes great typography great.","","",""],[243187,245579,"It was beautiful, historical,","","",""],[245547,249179,"artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture,","","",""],[249367,251448,"and I found it fascinating.","","",""],[251946,256798,"None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.","","",""],[257327,258553,"But ten years later,","","",""],[258638,261440,"when we were designing the first Macintosh computer,","","",""],[261034,265469,"it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.","","",""],[265470,268939,"It was the first computer with beautiful typography.","","",""],[268999,272656,"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,","","",""],[272566,274993,"the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or ","","",""],[275091,277012,"proportionally spaced fonts.","","",""],[277017,279231,"And since Windows just copied the Mac,","","",""],[279317,283516,"it's likely that no personal computer would have them.","","",""],[287070,291139,"If I had never dropped out,","","",""],[291140,293753,"I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,","","",""],[293824,297149,"and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.","","",""],[297382,302282,"Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.","","",""],[302450,306649,"But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.","","",""],[306866,309777,"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;","","",""],[309756,312499,"you can only connect them looking backwards.","","",""],[312656,316126,"So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.","","",""],[316326,320729,"You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma,whatever. ","","",""],[322032,327478,"Beleiveing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart","","",""],[327706,333346,"Even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.","","",""],[338239,342699,"My second story is about love and loss.","","",""],[343766,347880,"I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life.","","",""],[348078,351519,"Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.","","",""],[351574,356154,"We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage","","",""],[355826,359579,"into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.","","",""],[359660,362524,"We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh","","",""],[362665,365639,"a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.","","",""],[365708,367949,"And then I got fired.","","",""],[368355,371899,"How can you get fired from a company you started?","","",""],[371985,376546,"Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented","","",""],[376757,378238,"to run the company with me,","","",""],[378103,380469,"and for the first year or so things went well.","","",""],[380335,382975,"But then our visions of the future began to diverge","","",""],[382998,385345,"and eventually we had a falling out.","","",""],[385366,388426,"When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.","","",""],[388708,392729,"So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out.","","",""],[392730,395889,"What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,","","",""],[395890,397699,"and it was devastating.","","",""],[398180,400639,"I really didn't know what to do for a few months.","","",""],[400695,403869,"I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down -","","",""],[404210,407209,"that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.","","",""],[407210,410365,"I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce","","",""],[410476,413699,"and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.","","",""],[413908,415952,"I was a very public failure, and I even","","",""],[415840,418089,"thought about running away from the valley.","","",""],[418026,423389,"But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did.","","",""],[423590,427799,"The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.","","",""],[427800,430969,"I had been rejected, but I was still in love.","","",""],[431524,433839,"And so I decided to start over.","","",""],[434430,435963,"I didn't see it then, ","","",""],[435764,440319,"but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.","","",""],[440390,442526,"The heaviness of being successful","","",""],[442592,445695,"was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,","","",""],[445417,447159,"less sure about everything.","","",""],[447160,450899,"It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.","","",""],[451048,453999,"During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT,","","",""],[453770,455765,"another company named Pixar,","","",""],[455890,459079,"and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.","","",""],[459289,462609,"Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film,","","",""],[462617,469284,"Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.","","",""],[469263,473211,"In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT,","","",""],[473399,474342,"I returned to Apple,","","",""],[474353,478628,"and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the  heart of Apple's current renaissance.","","",""],[479356,483334,"And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.","","",""],[483476,487339,"I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.","","",""],[487713,491889,"It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.","","",""],[492802,497519,"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.","","",""],[497788,501209,"I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.","","",""],[501200,503943,"You've got to find what you love.","","",""],[503801,507469,"And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.","","",""],[507318,510099,"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,","","",""],[509976,512108,"and the only way to be truly satisfied","","",""],[512062,514430,"is to do what you believe is great work.","","",""],[514266,518457,"And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.","","",""],[518379,523119,"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. and Don't settle.","","",""],[523196,526695,"As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.","","",""],[526599,528422,"And, like any great relationship,","","",""],[528408,531536,"it just gets better and better as the years roll on.","","",""],[531489,536149,"So keep looking. 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There is no reason not to follow your heart.","","",""],[613179,616979,"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.","","",""],[616980,619479,"I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning,","","",""],[619703,622783,"and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.","","",""],[622689,625609,"I didn't even know what a pancreas was.","","",""],[625682,629040,"The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer","","",""],[629332,630169,"that is incurable,","","",""],[630246,635069,"and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.","","",""],[634886,639632,"My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order,","","",""],[639722,642909,"which is doctor's code for prepare to die.","","",""],[642840,646751,"It means to try to tell your kids everything","","",""],[646176,651169,"you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.","","",""],[651090,653560,"It means to make sure everything is buttoned up","","",""],[653432,656709,"so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.","","",""],[656543,659449,"It means to say your goodbyes.","","",""],[660840,663369,"I lived with that diagnosis all day.","","",""],[663564,665876,"Later that evening I had a biopsy,","","",""],[665571,668046,"where they stuck an endoscope down my throat,","","",""],[668038,670503,"through my stomach and into my intestines,","","",""],[670295,674479,"put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.","","",""],[674480,677763,"I was sedated, but my wife, who was there,","","",""],[677768,680921,"told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope","","",""],[680678,682758,"the doctors started crying","","",""],[682500,685925,"because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer","","",""],[686063,688011,"that is curable with surgery.","","",""],[687884,693116,"I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now.","","",""],[700105,702565,"This was the closest I've been to facing death,","","",""],[702412,705927,"and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.","","",""],[706046,707596,"Having lived through it,","","",""],[707278,708953,"I can now say this to you","","",""],[709002,714806,"with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:","","",""],[714853,717141,"No one wants to die.","","",""],[716993,721543,"Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.","","",""],[721490,725285,"And yet death is the destination we all share.","","",""],[725333,729543,"No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be,","","",""],[729114,733934,"because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.","","",""],[733613,735835,"It is Life's change agent.","","",""],[735692,739049,"It clears out the old to make way for the new.","","",""],[738819,743740,"Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now,","","",""],[743691,747430,"you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.","","",""],[747479,751008,"Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.","","",""],[751378,757003,"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.","","",""],[757199,759013,"Don't be trapped by dogma","","",""],[758884,762195,"which is living with the results of other people's thinking.","","",""],[761847,766189,"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. 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Stay Foolish.'","","",""],[852908,858450,"It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.","","",""],[858560,862729,"And I have always wished that for myself.","","",""],[862656,868038,"And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.","","",""],[868286,871020,"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.","","",""],[870863,874853,"Thank you all very much.","","",""],[896632,900075,"The preceding program is copyrighted by Stanford University.","","",""],[900029,903760,"Please visit us at stanford.edu","","",""]]]