When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

I liked it better than Ayn Rand said it. Her accent is funny.

I realized this at age 25 after making 100 million serendiptiously on my first invention. I have since assembled an army of 50,000 Chinese children who are good with tweezers and soldering irons.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you

Individually, maybe so, but people's collected wisdom over centuries IS "smarter" than you. Respect what has come before. Even the self-made man had to buy parts from someone.

Other than that, good speech Steve, love my iPod, try to treat people better wherever you are than you did from time to time while here.

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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you
Individually, maybe so, but people's collected wisdom over centuries IS "smarter" than you. Respect what has come before. Even the self-made man had to buy parts from someone.
Other than that, good speech Steve, love my iPod, try to treat people better wherever you are than you did from time to time while here.