Stay hungry, stay foolish. Marking the 20th anniversary of Steve’s Stanford address
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Steve’s commencement address at Stanford, we are sharing a newly enhanced version of the video below and on YouTube. It is one of the most influential commencement addresses in history, watched over 120 million times, and reproduced in media and school curricula around the world. The talk even helped inspire an unlikely NBA title comeback for the Cleveland Cavaliers when LeBron James played a clip from it in the locker room before a critical game three against the Golden State Warriors in 2016.
The most relevant quotes:
"You will gradually become the old and be cleared away.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“People sometimes forget that they are very unique and that they have very unique feelings and perspectives. The whole computer industry wants to forget about the humanist side.”
“stay hungry, stay foolish”
In the weeks leading up to commencement, Steve emailed himself speech ideas:
