Posted in Thoughts on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford.
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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For TV, you turn it on when you want to hear it talks; and you turn it off when you feel bored or annoyed. People don’t work that way.
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I never think it’s a good idea to hang out with people just because it’s convenient. For friends, you’d like to exert at least some effort to meet. When you catch up with old friends whom you haven’t seen for a while, two things can happen. You either find you don’t have much to say to each other anymore, [...]
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Posted in Thoughts on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. –Aristotle
DAY 0:
I am in the very last stage of my student life, writing up thesis. Life in the last two weeks has totally changed. I hate lazy, sloppy, and I thought I am far [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I am in California, I feel happy. Weather is perfect, people are ambitious and energetic, even flowers have more variety and more vivid colors – I almost think that one should feel guilty if s/he doesn’t feel happy. However, it’s not real. The unreal happiness, in my term. I wish life were this [...]
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Posted in Thoughts on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“How to do more” was emphasized in the 60s. “How to do it cheaper” became important in the 70s. “How to do it better” was certainly the theme of the 80s. But “How to do it quicker” will be key in the 90s.” —— Cyril Charney, 1991.
I am wondering: how about now?
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Posted in Events, Touch on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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I think it should not be deleted. It sets a bad example, as if we can only present pleasing issues here. However, we all know that those pleseant things are only one side of the life. What is more important, is the comlementary side. No matter how unconvenient [...]
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Posted in Events, Touch on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My heart rate increased to 150 the second he talked into my cube. Not because he is our VP, but because I had such a huge crush on him last summer. He told me how sorry he was when he learned the series of incidences happened to me lately. Also, he said, although he knew [...]
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