Steve Jobs Stanford Speech
Thank you.
I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement
from one of the finest universities in the world.
Truth be told, I never graduated from college.
And 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.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months,
but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
So why'd I drop out?
It started before I was born.
My biological mother was a young unwed graduate student,
and she decided to put me up for adoption.
She felt very strongly that I should be adopted
by college graduates, so everything
was all set for me to be adopted at birth
by a lawyer and his wife.
Except that when I popped out,