Text of Steve Jobs Commencement address 2. Go to the web site to view the video. Video of Steve Jobs Commencement address on June 1. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Bluetooth Driver For Linux Mint there. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop in for another 1. YLMYLXVP2SHFwarqPCnSBs=/fit-in/600x588/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1321944-1371670543-2860.jpeg.jpg' alt='I Got My Mind Set On You' title='I Got My Mind Set On You' />Christopher Meloni Mariska Hargitay Have Super Sweet Law Order SVU Reunion Taylor Swift Rehearses For Jingle Ball In A Very Festive Sweater. 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Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking We have an unexpected baby boy do you want him They said Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 1. 7 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 1. 0 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 1. Again, you cant 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 2. We worked hard, and in 1. Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion company with over 4,0. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 3. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 3. 0 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didnt know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down  that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. Format Factory Gratis Portugues Windows 7 32 Bit. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didnt see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named Ne. XT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought Ne. XT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at Ne. XT is at the heart of Apples current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. Im pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Dont settle. My third story is about death. The Free Dictionarymindmnd n. The faculty of a human or other animal by which it thinks, perceives, feels, remembers, or desires studying the relation between the brain and the mind. A person of great mental ability the great minds of the century. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection Ill bear the problem in mind. Opinion or sentiment He changed his mind when he heard all the facts. Desire or inclination She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert. Focus of thought attention I cant keep my mind on work. A healthy mental state sanity losing ones mind. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group psychological makeup the criminal mind the public mind. Philosophy The phenomena of intelligence, cognition, or consciousness, regarded as a material or immaterial aspect of reality. To pay attention to Mind closely what I tell you. To be careful about Mind the icy sidewalk To heed in order to obey The children minded their babysitter. To take care or charge of look after We minded the children while their parents went out. See Synonyms at tend. To be concerned or annoyed by care They dont mind that their guests are arriving late. To object to dislike I dont mind doing the chores when I dont feel rushed. Regional To bring an object or idea to mind remember. To become aware of notice. Upper Southern US To have in mind as a goal or purpose intend. To take notice give heed The back door tends to slam in the wind, mind. To behave obediently I dont want to go shopping if the children wont mind. To be concerned or troubled care Not minding about bad food has become a national obsession Times Literary Supplement. To be cautious or careful Youll slip on the ice if you dont mind. Idioms a mind of ones own. A capacity or inclination to think or act independently a reporter with a mind of her own. A tendency to be unresponsive to human will The car had a mind of its own and seemed to start only when it felt like it. To be in agreement about something. To have mixed feelings or be undecided about something. To remember something tried to bring to mind their happy times together. To cause something to be remembered or thought of evoke The countys flight from creditors brings to mind a restaurant diner who declines to pay for a meal because he overate Roger Lowenstein. Neil Strauss. never mind. Used to tell someone not to be concerned or worried. Middle English minde, from Old English gemynd see men 1 in the Appendix of Indo European roots. Psychology the human faculty to which are ascribed thought, feeling, etc often regarded as an immaterial part of a person. Psychology intelligence or the intellect, esp as opposed to feelings or wishes. I have a mind to go. Philosophy in Cartesian philosophy one of two basic modes of existence, the other being matter. Recreational Drugs to cause someone to have a psychedelic experience. I smoke I dont mind. Scotand. English to remember do ye mind his name Scot to remind that minds me of another story. Dogs are nice. Mind you, I dont like all dogs. Old English gemynd mind related to Old High German gimunt memorymind mand n. Psychol. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities. The party put me in mind of my college days. He cant keep his mind on his studies. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U. S. notice attention When hes like that, just pay him no mind. Rom. Cath. Ch. a commemoration of a persons death, esp. Requiem Mass. 1. 6. Christian Science. God the incorporeal source of life, substance, and intelligence. Mind what you say. I hope you dont mind the interruption. Dont mind his bluntness. Dial. a. to perceive or notice. Mind now, I want you home by twelve. Mind if I go 3. 1. You mustnt mind about their gossiping. Idioms 1. back of ones mind, ones memory or recollection. Middle English mynde, aph. Old English gemynd memory, mind, c. Old High German gimunt recollection, Gothic gamunds memorysyn mind, intellect, brain refer to that part of a conscious being that thinks, feels, wills, perceives, or judges. His mind grasped the complex issue. These words may also refer to a person of great mental ability or capacity a great mind of our age a fine scholar and intellect the brain in the family.