to my fellow trustees, the faculty of the university, the administrative teams, the parents, the guardians, significant others and friends, thank you for not only enabling this occasion, but also joining us to celebrate the fruits of your labor.

and to our honorary degree recipients, thank you for your incredible contributions and achievements. theresquo;s a reason you now hold squo;laudable blue devilsquo; status. give them some love, yasquo;ll.

now, isquo;m from the south, so wesquo;re going to offer a whole lot of gratitude today. and when i call you to respond to what isquo;m saying, do you have me, graduates?

i love it. i love it.

and most importantly, let me start with gratitude for the graduates, thank you for the work yousquo;ve put in and the contributions that yousquo;ve made to duke. we are absolutely thrilled that you had...and i quote… the courage to start, the strength to endure, and the resolve to finish.

somebody say amen.

and because of that, you are about to be awarded all the rights and privileges of minted blue devils. so, congratulations to you! isquo;m going to give you some love.

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below is cooksquo;s full speech from tulane university on saturday.

hello tulane! thank you president fitts, provost forman, distinguished faculty, other faculty [laughs], and the entire tulane family, including the workers, ushers, [and] volunteers who prepared this beautiful space. and i feel duty-bound to also recognize the hard-working bartenders at the boot. though they're not here with us this morning, i'm sure some of you are reflecting on their contributions as well. [the boot is a popular college bar right next to tulane's campus which has been around for decades.]

and just as many of you have new orleans in your veins, and perhaps your livers, some of us at apple have new orleans in our blood as well. when i was a student at auburn, the big easy was our favorite getaway. it's amazing how quickly those 363 miles fly by when you're driving toward a weekend of beignets and beer. and how slowly they go in the opposite direction. apple's own lisa jackson is a proud tulane alum. yes. she brought the green wave all the way to cupertino where she heads our environment and public policy work. we're thrilled to have her talent and leadership on our team.

ok, enough about us. let's talk about you. at moments like this, it always humbles me to watch a community come together to teach, mentor, advise, and finally say with one voice, congratulations to the class of 20xx!

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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 san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.

none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

my second story is about love and loss.

i was lucky – i found what i loved to do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. we worked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?

well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.

i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.

pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.

i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.

sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.

you've got to find what you love. and that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. if you haven't found it yet, keep looking. don't settle. as with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. and, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. so keep looking until you find it. don't settle.

my third story is about death.

when i was 17, i read a quote that went something like: "if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." it made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, i have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "if today were the last day of。

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distinguished leadership:

hello， i'm very glad to come to your company for an interview， i can't wait to want to sell you myself! my name is * * *， in june this year will be graduated from * * * * * university.

this four years， i always believe that good good study， take an active part in activities to enrich their lives， a former minister of school students * *， the class learning committee member， and has won the school outstanding director-general.

as a graduating college students， my social experience is insufficient， but at the same time i also is a piece of blank paper. i am committed to the professional work， because this is my hobby， i study hard on professional course， explore problems is often a bubble in the library all day long， though not very rich practical experience， but i hope his future job that i can give full play to my thoughts. on learning work， attitude to life， i adhere to the calm attitude， the principle of honest effort， i have a strong dedication and sense of responsibility， can make i can face any difficulties and challenges.

please believe positive i， perhaps i'm not the best， but i definitely is a member of the efforts to run. i believe that running can shine!

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our passion for change is why we are the nationsquo;s no. 1 public research university.

itsquo;s why the discovery process has been a foundational centerpiece of our michigan dna for more than 200 years.

itsquo;s why we strive, always, to extend our impact beyond the borders of our campus – to the communities we serve, and to the frontiers of human knowledge that now span galaxies.

itsquo;s why i hope you are asking, on the day of your graduation, what you can change next.

the challenges we face as a society are numerous and complex – from climate change to poverty to conflict between nations.

but these and many other challenges can unite us as we strive for change – if we choose the path of courage.

listen to different views.

trust one another.

find common ground.

and commit to the discussions and the discoveries that can produce a better world.

class of 20xx, our society is yours to change.

seek out new evidence, develop new methods, and consider many points of view.

and choose the path that will make ours a better world – as you go discover, go achieve, go serve, and go blue!

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