Steve Jobs to grads: "Don't waste your time living someone else's life"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11882227.htm

One of the world's most famous college dropouts spoke to Stanford graduates on Sunday, telling tales of lessons learned far outside classroom walls.

Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple Computer at age 21 while his former classmates at Reed College were dutifully typing term papers, urged the roughly 5,000 students at Stanford Stadium to seek a path less traveled.

``Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life,'' Jobs said in his commencement speech to the crowd. ``Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.''

The CEO of Apple Computer, which he co-founded in 1976, described his personal crises: quitting school, getting fired from Apple and being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, when he was only 49. Each failure led to a later success, he said. ``You can't connect the dots, looking forward. . . . You have to trust that the dots will all connect in the future,'' said Jobs, who wore sandals and jeans under his robe.

[Seabiscuit]

1. Dot, dot, dot, dot....com!

Jobs kind of lots me with all those dots connecting or not connecting.

Trust in "dots"?

[DS1]

4. dots = points

Thousand points of light.

[Seabiscuit]

5. And what exactly are those? GHW Bush's eyeball hallucinations?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. When that man talks I listen

courage he has in huge amounts

[Wapsie B]

3. Excellent advice.

We would all do better taking it to heart.