2011-10-06 スチーブ・ジョブズが死去(米国では10/5)

２００４年のすい臓がん手術から7年。
米国では毎年4万人がすい臓がんで死亡とか。
ガン死のうちの1割くらいがすい臓がんでは。
彼の残した遺産で最大のものはアップルの種々の製品ではなく
200５年6月12日のスタンフォード大での卒業式講演では。
stay hungry stay foolish
ですね。

１９５５年米カリフォルニア州に生まれる
1971年アップル創業者の同僚Steve Wozniakと出会う
1972年、リード大学を6ヶ月でドロップアウト

７６年友人らとアップルコンピュータを創業、アップルIを６６６．６６＄で売り出す

８０年アップルが株式上

８４年パソコンの「マッキントッシュ」発売

８５年アップルから事実上追放される

８６年アニメスタジオ「ピクサー」を設立

９６年アップルに復帰

９７年アップル暫定CEOに就任

９８年iMac発売

２０００年アッブルCEOに就任

０１年iPod発売

０３年ネット経由の楽曲販売開始

０４年初夏　膵臓がんの手術を受ける
05年スタンフォード大学での講演

０７年iPhone発売

０９年肝臓移植手術を受ける

１０年iPad発売

11年8月CEO退任

11年１０月5日死去

＜２００５年6月12日講演の一部＞

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, 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.

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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.