Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address · 2005

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

~15 minutes · delivered 2005-06-12

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Three stories — connecting the dots, love and loss, death — delivered on June 12, 2005 to Stanford graduates. The first viral commencement address of the YouTube era, and still the most-quoted.

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