Steve Job’s passion helped launch Apple Computer into it’s premier spot in the PC industry in the late 70′s early 80′s. His firing from Apple saw the company fall from it’s great heights – it’s soul having been removed. His return to Apple saw it’s fortunes change and today it has again risen to a place of technological leadership.

Jobs And Wozniak

Though a college dropout himself, Steve Jobs was chosen to give the 2005 Stanford University commencement address. It’s quite a speech, he talks about life and death, getting fired from Apple – the company he had co-founded in a garage with his friend Steve Wozniack, and the serendipitous way that great fonts found their way into first the McIntosh and later into all PC systems.

In the speech you get a taste of how little ideas turn into big ones when you mix in some passion. Job’s passion comes through in the speech. Think what you may of him – Job’ helped shape the technology of the latter part of the last century and is helping to shape it today.