iCame, iSaw, iConquered: RiP Steve Jobs

Contributing editor at large, Tess Lawrence is an Apple fan to the core — ever since she bought a second-hand Macintosh Plus last century. She don’t Twitter and she don’t Facebook. Yet. But for years, she’s had her nose pressed against the Apple shop window, pining for all things Apple, including Steve Jobs and the breathtaking digital technology that he inspired and gifted to the internet Galaxy. Here she pays homage to Jobs and Independent Australia is proud to present the full transcript of his famous Stanford Address and Video, with the kind endorsement of Stanford University.
iAm therefore iThink

It’s true that once you succumb to seduction and have bitten into that crisp unforbidden Apple fruit, you are forever held hostage in that Eden and all the flowers in the Garden.

When I first read the address that Steve Jobs made to the students of Stanford University on June 12, 2005, as a sometime lecturer and communications trainer, I felt, here’s a brother in thought.

Although I fell well short of his words and deeds, of course, Jobs had an extraordinary ability to narrow cast big picture aspirations to strangers around the world.

All good teachers remain perennial students. Socrates was onto something when he said that an unexamined life was not worth living.

I loved the rawness of Steve Jobs with those young hearts and minds starting University and the extraordinary personal honesty and heroism he displayed in confronting the reality that in Life, no one gets out alive.

I love that he did not begrudge the young their youth, as older people sometimes do. I saw the great care he took in crafting a speech that befits a true Master of the Universe unafraid of displaying both his passions, his loves and his failures.

True idealists I believe, are realists with vision.

In his Stanford Address, Steve Jobs acknowledges the sting of public humiliation and rejection, but used both as fossil fuels to drive the world and his ambition into a braver and new world.

No proper assessment can be made of the likes of the Arab Spring, or the enforced Autumn of WikiLeaks without acknowledging the impact of the iPhone and android clones on regime change and the body politic.

When Steve Jobs made the Stanford Address, he thought his pancreatic cancer had been curtailed and hoped he would live for a few more decades.

Read the rest here: including Jobs’ famous Stanford Commencement Address