This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.
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Author: onetusk
People That Come Into Your Life
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts,
and We are never, ever the same. Continue reading
Switzerland demands Powerpoint’s death – Politics has a new voice
Do you ever put your ideas into words?
I get annoyed with middle- and lower-level people who complain that top management is a bunch of idiots who don’t see the future and don’t think long-term. Continue reading
Alan Watts discusses Nothing
How Dialogue Becomes Action
The setting in which dialogue occurs is as important as the dialogue itself. The social operating mechanisms of decisive corporate cultures feature behaviors marked by four characteristics: openness, candor, informality, and closure. Continue reading
The Honeymoon that Never Ends
Love is not a relationship. Love relates but it is not a relationship. A relationship is something finished. A relationship is a noun; the full stop has come, the honeymoon is over. Now there is no joy, no enthusiasm, now all is finished. You can carry it on, just to keep your promises. You can carry it on because it is comfortable, convenient, cozy. You can carry it on because there is nothing else to do. You can carry it on because if you disrupt it, it is going to create much trouble for you… Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Continue reading
Albert Einstein – President of the State of Israel
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), one of the co-founders of the State of Israel, became its first president in 1948. He died on November 9 in 1952.
After Weizmann’s death Albert Einstein was asked to stand as a candidate for the presidency of Israel. Continue reading
Obliquity
” one key reason why the presidents of large corporations do not control the United States is that they do not control their own corporations…when implied organisational skill and power are deployed and the desired direct effect flows, all that we have witnessed is the same kind of sequence as to what we observed when a clergyman is fortunate enough to pray for rain just before the unpredicted end of a drought…”
– Alasdair MacIntyre
There is no reason not to follow your heart
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Continue reading
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