STEVE JOBS’ WISDOM

The other day I’ve read Steve Jobs’ Commencement address which he delivered at the Standford University in 2005.

For those who should not know it, he was CEO and co-founder (together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne) of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar

Animation Studios but he had never graduated from college.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, posted with vodpod

What he said impressed me and I, therefore, would like to quote some sentences and I also add the link to my grammar exercise (reported speech)

which you can correct online. Just click on your trackpad and a variety of sentences will appear and you have to look for the one in reported speech 

that goes together with the one in direct speech.

http://langedi49.ch/REPORTEDSPEECH.htm

I’ve also prepared cards where the question words have to be filled in by the learner. The cards can also be cut out and students  may discuss the questions

in small groups by also deciding about the question words to use and the answers to give. STEVEJOBSQUESTIONS2

Ich versuche hier unten auch einige Zitate auf Deutsch und Italienisch zu übersetzen.

Cerco anche di tradurre alcune citazioni in italiano.

- „You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.“. (Referred to life)

Übersetzung auf Deutsch:

„Du kannst die Punkte nicht vorwärtsschauend  (im Blick auf die Zukunft)  verknüpfen, sondern nur rückwärts. „

Traduzione in italiano:

„Non puoi vedere i punti di collegamento guardando al futuro, ma soltanto guardando al passato.“

Pirates of Silicon Valley

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This is the link to the whole film:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIC5wxT_zOU

For more exercises see at the bottom of this site.

You can also download the film with torrent (http://torrentz.eu/319e4a1d7c40a943633f9101a1af0e843b77f3d8) on your computer and then download the subtitles as well. 

To watch the film with subtitles is, of course, much easier. (Subtitles are free.)

The Pirates of Silicon Valley-summary

This highly interesting video informs us about the breathtaking steps

made by Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Anthony Ballmer and others in order to make a dent in the Universe or to create a new consciousness as Steve Jobs says.

Computers are the big passion for this group of young people and, as we know, Bill Gates is now the richest man in the world.

As the video is quite long, I’ve tried to summarize it and you can maybe only watch it in parts, according to your interests.

At approx. 3.20 minutes

Steve Jobs is standing on a stage in Boston with Bill Gates (big brother) in his rear, where he says that the competition between him and Bill is over and that the world will become a better place. This speech seems weird. (This scene refers to the end of the story.)