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26-year old iconoclast Steve Jobs' address to the Academy of Achievement in 1982

1 points by tuxguy 15y ago

#steve #jobs steve-jobs #wisdom #advice #brilliant #innovative #audio #academy_of_achievement #26-year-old-steve-jobs #apple http://soundcloud.com/ashish007/26-year-old-iconoclast-steve Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 is widely known, but this short 7 min audio of 26-year old Jobs, when he addressed the Academy of Achievement in 1982 is not that known, but full of his trademark brilliant insights, wisdom , humour, wit & even some self-deprecation. It just blows my mind that even at 26, before having kids, he was so wise & almost sage like in his insights, but also was witty, funny & self-deprecating At ~ 5:30, he comes across like a true humanist & world citizen, with concern not for a company, country, but for the entire world as a whole A must listen... listening to his address is probably the best 7 minutes i have spent in my life :) What does it mean to be intelligent & creative 1. Get different experiences & make new connections among those unique experiences 2. Ability to zoom out 3. Going to Paris & be a poet for a few years 4. Go to a 3rd world (developing) country & see (suffering) lepers 5. Fall in love with two people at once :) 6. Try LSD ? [a] 7. Sit down & talk with a Zen Buddhist 8. We "take" from a giant pool of things (food, clothes, language, math) .. to be able to put something back in that pool is the most ecstatic feeling in the world 9. Being a guardian of (Mother) Earth for future generations I am sad like everybody else, but i believe Jobs' spirit will continue to live on & inspire millions of people world over, for generations to come. RIP Steve My thoughts & prayers are with your family & loved ones. ( Source : http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/brochure/p3.html http://www.achievement.org/newsletter/audio/jobs-aud.mov came to know about it via padmanabhan01's comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947325 )

tuxguy 15y ago
Just saw another brilliant Jobs quote, circa 1991, via my svlug friend Rick Moen. I think one of the things that really separate us from the higher primates is that we are tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometre,and humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list. It wasn't too proud of a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn't look so good -- but somebody at _Scientific American_ had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle, and a man on a bicycle -- a human on a bicycle -- blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts. And that's what a computer is to me. A computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. -- Steve Jobs, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c

1 points by tuxguy 15y ago

tuxguy 15y ago

Just saw another brilliant Jobs quote, circa 1991, via my svlug friend Rick Moen. I think one of the things that really separate us from the higher primates is that we are tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometre,and humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list. It wasn't too proud of a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn't look so good -- but somebody at _Scientific American_ had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle, and a man on a bicycle -- a human on a bicycle -- blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts. And that's what a computer is to me. A computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. -- Steve Jobs, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c