[columns count=’2′][column_item]The speeches and wisdom of personal computing pioneer Steve Jobs are as inspirational today as they were when the Apple co-founder first spoke them. And if you have a Mac, they are only a few keystrokes away.
Apple has hidden one of Steve Jobs’ best known speeches on your Mac (at least those with Mavericks so far). Here are the revealed steps to the left. The iCEO’s spirit happily lives on, even if it is as an Easter egg within OS X.[/column_item][column_item][testimonials user=” email=” name=’Command Instructions’ position=’Do this in Finder’ photo=’http://images.apple.com/support/assets/images/products/mac/mac_2x.png’]While in Finder click Command + Shift + G and then type in /Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Resources/ and look for Apple.txt[/testimonials][/column_item][/columns]
You might already be aware of the transcript or even have heard it before, it is of Steve Jobs’ commencement speech to the graduating Stanford Class of 2005. Jobs tells three stories, each a significant chapter in his own life, he first tells of his biological mother and father who gave him up for adoption, and how it led to the life he lived up until he and Woz went out into the world with the Apple I. The second story is about love and loss at the end of his first term with Apple when he was thrown out of the company he had loved. The third story is Jobs’ own self created meaning on the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer that he had been given that sadly would eventually end his life.
Apple fan or not, the speech should be read by any tech enthusiast – it provides a window (pardon the pun) into the mind of a pioneer that has (for better or worst) shaped the world in many ways than others in the industry. For what it’s worth, his and Woz’s founding of Apple Computers as one of the most successful companies on the planet which has changed the way people interacted with computers and internet enabled devices.