“…the human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing…it’s not about what goes on in a computer, it’s about what goes on in here (pointing to the heart)!”
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
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 I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
Wednesday, October 5th 2011 marks the day that Steve Jobs, co-founder, and former CEO of Apple Computers.
I bought my first mac in the summer of 2005. It was a 15″ Powerbook G4. It was shiny, and amazing. So amazing that even after the screen died, and the power cord was lost I still have it. Sitting on shelf. Reminding me that I can do anything I put my mind to. It does this by being something that cost two thousand dollars, and something that I saved for almost a year to buy. This taught me that I am capable of a lot if I put my mind to it.
It may seem kind of corny, but it is true. I have since only bought apple computers, and their iOS devices: iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Mr. Jobs will be missed, but I have faith and trust in the future of Apple, and the world that he inspired. We will being seeing things that has his prints on it for years to come.
Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011