This speech summarizes three stories from Steve Jobs' life that were pivotal moments. The first story is about how he dropped out of college after six months because he couldn't see the value in it and was spending all his parents' savings. This ended up being a good decision as it allowed him to take interesting classes like calligraphy without restrictions. The second and third stories were not included.
This is the prepared text of the address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, who spoke at commencement on June 12, 2005.
This is the prepared text of the address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, who spoke at commencement on June 12, 2005.
1 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERStephen Chbosky.docxoswald1horne84988
1
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Stephen Chbosky
2
Published by: POCKET BOOKS, Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, NY 10020.
Copyright 1999 by Stephen Chbosky
BOOK JACKET INFORMATION
standing on the fringes of life ... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it
looks like from the dance floor.
This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a
provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks Of Being A WALLFLOWER
This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Char-
lie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We
may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying
to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory.
The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs,
and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect
drive to feel infinite.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, powerful
novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
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stephen chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of
Southern California’s Filmic Writing Program. His first film, THE FOUR CORNERS OF NO-
WHERE, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature
honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky
Screenwriting Award for his screenplay EVERYTHING DIVIDED as well as a participant in the
Sundance Institute’s filmmakers’ lab for his current project, FINGERNAILS AND SMOOTH
SKIN. Chbosky lives in New York.
the perks of being a wallflower is his first novel.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
For my family
acknowledgements
I just wanted to say about all those listed that there would be no book without them, and I
thank them with all of my heart.
Greer Kessel Hendricks Heather Neely Lea, Fred, and Stacy Chbosky Robbie Thompson Chris-
topher McQuarrie Margaret Mehring Stewart Stern Kate Degenhart Mark McClain Wilson David
Wilcox Kate Ward Tim Perell Jack Horner Eduardo Braniff
And finally ...
3
Dr. Earl Reum for writing a beautiful poem and Patrick Comeaux for remembering it wrong
when he was 14.
4
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
PART ONE
August.
Ellery 1 Anrique Ellery Professor Berrier CORE 110, G04 My .docxMARRY7
Ellery 1 Anrique Ellery Professor Berrier CORE 110, G04
My Origins
I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to find an origins story when I’m one myself. When I get older and have kids of my own it will come to me more natural because now I’m still young and trying to grasp ahold of the things that have carved me. It’s hard to put these things into words because most are memories now and many things that have impacted me are gone but never forgotten. It could be the smell of peppermint that reminds me of my granny or seeing a cowboys to remind me of my uncle; It’s really crazy that one small thing can be with you forever and many don’t even realize these things will affect you but I do. Some of these is what drives to be the best person I can be to my friends and family and I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have a part of them in me.
My name is Anrique Gerard Ellery; born in Lebanon Kentucky on January 11, 1997. My parents are Richard Ellery and Ann Thomas. I was the youngest out of 2 sisters; my oldest sister Niya; I never got the chance to live with because she moved out when she was 15 so I wasn’t born yet. My parents split up when I was 3 because of my dad’s drug addiction. Being that young nobody tells you what’s going on because they know you would understand. Being that age the only thing I was worried about was cartoons and pancakes. We moved in with my grandparents in Springfield Kentucky where I attended Head-Start and later my mom found a boyfriend that later became her husband a couple years later. We moved to Danville Kentucky, with my mom and sister(Simone). At the time I hated it because this wasn’t our choice, we didn’t want to leave everyone we knew and live with a man we didn’t know at all. My second oldest sister Simone is 7 years older than me and was in high school when I was in elementary school so she would always walk me to school because my mom worked nights since before I was born that lead to her not being around much. So I needed a baby sitter which was my Granny Luddie (Dads Mother).
My favorite lady women in the world was my granny so every weekend I would get dropped off at her house because I didn’t like being in Danville because the kids I went to school with didn’t like me and I felt out of place. So I stayed in my hometown a lot, my mother’s parents lived down the street and family lived all of the place so if I did something bad you already know my granny would know about it. Before I got back home. She was a very religious women, she went to church on Wednesday and stayed late on Sundays to count the money. I could remember playing the drums until she got done and the smell of the peppermint in her car. She had 9 kids; 2 of my uncles died during before she did and one after she died. My uncle Sammy impacted is such a way that i couldn’t thank him enough, he taught me to smile and laugh no matter what. He knew he wasn’t living the right life but he would always make time for family and that was number 1. T ...
1 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERStephen Chbosky.docxoswald1horne84988
1
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Stephen Chbosky
2
Published by: POCKET BOOKS, Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, NY 10020.
Copyright 1999 by Stephen Chbosky
BOOK JACKET INFORMATION
standing on the fringes of life ... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it
looks like from the dance floor.
This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a
provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks Of Being A WALLFLOWER
This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Char-
lie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We
may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying
to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory.
The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs,
and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect
drive to feel infinite.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, powerful
novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
visit us on the world wide web _inghttpwhststwwwlessimonsayscom_wh _inghttpwhststwwwm-
tvcom_wh
stephen chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of
Southern California’s Filmic Writing Program. His first film, THE FOUR CORNERS OF NO-
WHERE, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature
honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky
Screenwriting Award for his screenplay EVERYTHING DIVIDED as well as a participant in the
Sundance Institute’s filmmakers’ lab for his current project, FINGERNAILS AND SMOOTH
SKIN. Chbosky lives in New York.
the perks of being a wallflower is his first novel.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
For my family
acknowledgements
I just wanted to say about all those listed that there would be no book without them, and I
thank them with all of my heart.
Greer Kessel Hendricks Heather Neely Lea, Fred, and Stacy Chbosky Robbie Thompson Chris-
topher McQuarrie Margaret Mehring Stewart Stern Kate Degenhart Mark McClain Wilson David
Wilcox Kate Ward Tim Perell Jack Horner Eduardo Braniff
And finally ...
3
Dr. Earl Reum for writing a beautiful poem and Patrick Comeaux for remembering it wrong
when he was 14.
4
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
PART ONE
August.
Ellery 1 Anrique Ellery Professor Berrier CORE 110, G04 My .docxMARRY7
Ellery 1 Anrique Ellery Professor Berrier CORE 110, G04
My Origins
I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to find an origins story when I’m one myself. When I get older and have kids of my own it will come to me more natural because now I’m still young and trying to grasp ahold of the things that have carved me. It’s hard to put these things into words because most are memories now and many things that have impacted me are gone but never forgotten. It could be the smell of peppermint that reminds me of my granny or seeing a cowboys to remind me of my uncle; It’s really crazy that one small thing can be with you forever and many don’t even realize these things will affect you but I do. Some of these is what drives to be the best person I can be to my friends and family and I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have a part of them in me.
My name is Anrique Gerard Ellery; born in Lebanon Kentucky on January 11, 1997. My parents are Richard Ellery and Ann Thomas. I was the youngest out of 2 sisters; my oldest sister Niya; I never got the chance to live with because she moved out when she was 15 so I wasn’t born yet. My parents split up when I was 3 because of my dad’s drug addiction. Being that young nobody tells you what’s going on because they know you would understand. Being that age the only thing I was worried about was cartoons and pancakes. We moved in with my grandparents in Springfield Kentucky where I attended Head-Start and later my mom found a boyfriend that later became her husband a couple years later. We moved to Danville Kentucky, with my mom and sister(Simone). At the time I hated it because this wasn’t our choice, we didn’t want to leave everyone we knew and live with a man we didn’t know at all. My second oldest sister Simone is 7 years older than me and was in high school when I was in elementary school so she would always walk me to school because my mom worked nights since before I was born that lead to her not being around much. So I needed a baby sitter which was my Granny Luddie (Dads Mother).
My favorite lady women in the world was my granny so every weekend I would get dropped off at her house because I didn’t like being in Danville because the kids I went to school with didn’t like me and I felt out of place. So I stayed in my hometown a lot, my mother’s parents lived down the street and family lived all of the place so if I did something bad you already know my granny would know about it. Before I got back home. She was a very religious women, she went to church on Wednesday and stayed late on Sundays to count the money. I could remember playing the drums until she got done and the smell of the peppermint in her car. She had 9 kids; 2 of my uncles died during before she did and one after she died. My uncle Sammy impacted is such a way that i couldn’t thank him enough, he taught me to smile and laugh no matter what. He knew he wasn’t living the right life but he would always make time for family and that was number 1. T ...
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Professor
My Origins
I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to find an origins story when I’m one myself. When I get older and have kids of my own it will come to me more natural because now I’m still young and trying to grasp ahold of the things that have carved me. It’s hard to put these things into words because most are memories now and many things that have impacted me are gone but never forgotten. It could be the smell of peppermint that reminds me of my granny or seeing a cowboys to remind me of my uncle; It’s really crazy that one small thing can be with you forever and many don’t even realize these things will affect you but I do. Some of these is what drives to be the best person I can be to my friends and family and I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have a part of them in me.
My name is Anrique Gerard Ellery; born in Lebanon Kentucky on January 11, 1997. My parents are Richard Ellery and Ann Thomas. I was the youngest out of 2 sisters; my oldest sister Niya; I never got the chance to live with because she moved out when she was 15 so I wasn’t born yet. My parents split up when I was 3 because of my dad’s drug addiction. Being that young nobody tells you what’s going on because they know you would understand. Being that age the only thing I was worried about was cartoons and pancakes. We moved in with my grandparents in Springfield Kentucky where I attended Head-Start and later my mom found a boyfriend that later became her husband a couple years later. We moved to Danville Kentucky, with my mom and sister(Simone). At the time I hated it because this wasn’t our choice, we didn’t want to leave everyone we knew and live with a man we didn’t know at all. My second oldest sister Simone is 7 years older than me and was in high school when I was in elementary school so she would always walk me to school because my mom worked nights since before I was born that lead to her not being around much. So I needed a baby sitter which was my Granny Luddie (Dads Mother).
My favorite lady women in the world was my granny so every weekend I would get dropped off at her house because I didn’t like being in Danville because the kids I went to school with didn’t like me and I felt out of place. So I stayed in my hometown a lot, my mother’s parents lived down the street and family lived all of the place so if I did something bad you already know my granny would know about it. Before I got back home. She was a very religious women, she went to church on Wednesday and stayed late on Sundays to count the money. I could remember playing the drums until she got done and the smell of the peppermint in her car. She had 9 kids; 2 of my uncles died during before she did and one after she died. My uncle Sammy impacted is such a way that i couldn’t thank him enough, he taught me to smile and laugh no matter what. He knew he wasn’t living the right life but he would always make time for family and that was number 1. The first time I experiencing death was whe ...
Steve Jobs’ Commencemenddress at Stanford on June 12, 2005.I am .docxwhitneyleman54422
Steve Jobs’ Commencemenddress at Stanford 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.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space be.
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One of the greatest speeches ever
1. One of the Greatest Speeches Ever
today i want to tell you three stories
from my life
that's it no big deal just three stories
[
Music
]
the first story is about connecting the
dots
[
Music
]
i dropped out of reed college after the
first six months but then stayed around
as a drop in for another 18 months or so
before i really quit
so why'd i drop out it started before i
was born
biological mother was a young unwed
graduate student
and she decided to put me up for
adoption
she felt very strongly that i should be
adopted by college graduates
so everything was all set for me to be
adopted at birth by a lawyer
and his wife except that when i popped
out
they decided at the last minute that
they really wanted a girl
so my parents who were on a waiting list
got a call in the middle of the night
asking we've got an unexpected baby boy
do you want him they said of course
my biological mother found out later
that my mother had never graduated from
college
and that my father had never graduated
from high school
she refused to sign the final adoption
papers
she only relented a few months later
when my parents promised
that i would go to college this was the
start
in my life and seventeen years later
i did go to college but i naively chose
a college that was almost as expensive
as stanford
and all of my working class parents
savings were being spent on my college
tuition
after six months i couldn't see the
value in it
i had no idea what i wanted to do with
my life and no idea how college was
going to help me figure it out
and here i was spending all the money my
parents had saved their entire life
so i decided to drop out and trust that
2. it would all work out okay
it was pretty scary at the time but
looking back it was one of the best
decisions i ever made
the minute i dropped out i could stop
taking the required classes that didn't
interest me
and begin dropping in on the ones that
looked far more interesting
it wasn't all romantic i didn't have a
dorm room
so i slept on the floor in friends rooms
i returned coke bottles for the five
cent deposits to buy food with
and i would walk the seven miles across
town every sunday night
to get one good meal a week at the hari
krishna temple
i loved it and much of what i stumbled
into
by following my curiosity and intuition
turned out to be priceless later on
let me give you one example
reed college at that time offered
perhaps the best calligraphy instruction
in the country
throughout the campus every poster every
label on every drawer
was beautifully hand calligraphed
because i had dropped out
and didn't have to take the normal
classes i
decided to take a calligraphy class to
learn how to do this
i learned about serif and sans serif
typefaces
about varying the amount of space
between different letter combinations
about what makes great typography great
it was beautiful historical artistically
subtle
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![One of the Greatest Speeches Ever
today i want to tell you three stories
from my life
that's it no big deal just three stories
[
Music
]
the first story is about connecting the
dots
[
Music
]
i dropped out of reed college after the
first six months but then stayed around
as a drop in for another 18 months or so
before i really quit
so why'd i drop out it started before i
was born
biological mother was a young unwed
graduate student
and she decided to put me up for
adoption
she felt very strongly that i should be
adopted by college graduates
so everything was all set for me to be
adopted at birth by a lawyer
and his wife except that when i popped
out
they decided at the last minute that
they really wanted a girl
so my parents who were on a waiting list
got a call in the middle of the night
asking we've got an unexpected baby boy
do you want him they said of course
my biological mother found out later
that my mother had never graduated from
college
and that my father had never graduated
from high school
she refused to sign the final adoption
papers
she only relented a few months later
when my parents promised
that i would go to college this was the
start
in my life and seventeen years later
i did go to college but i naively chose
a college that was almost as expensive
as stanford
and all of my working class parents
savings were being spent on my college
tuition
after six months i couldn't see the
value in it
i had no idea what i wanted to do with
my life and no idea how college was
going to help me figure it out
and here i was spending all the money my
parents had saved their entire life
so i decided to drop out and trust that](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/oneofthegreatestspeechesever-210721205514/85/One-of-the-greatest-speeches-ever-1-320.jpg)
