Apple co-founder Steve Jobs amazing speech at Stanford University 2005 commencement address. .

This is the speech where he made the famous revelation of how he used to walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to the Hare Krishna temple for prasadam, which he describes as his "one good meal of the week. I loved it!"

Jobs starts his speech with a quip: "Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation" and goes on to tell the audience three stories that reflect his life's experience, from having shot to name and fame early in life, and then getting kicked out of the company he had co-founded, and then having to claw his way back to the top again.

Jobs tells the graduating class of Stanford that one of the best decisions he ever made in his life is to drop out of college and explains the reasons why by way of a personal story that he calls "Connecting the dots", giving a retrospective view of his early rise to prominence.

His second story is how he dealt with the failure that followed on the heels of his early success when he got fired from Apple at the age of 30. He explains how that rejection turned out to be one the best things that had ever happened to him.

His third story is how he frequently uses the principle of the certainty of death as a life-guiding tool. Jobs is now struggling against cancer, but years from now, even after he has departed, both materialists and spiritualists are likely to be quoting extracts from his speech for motivational and preaching purposes.

-from Goloka Candra Das