Applevolution

Apple computer over the decades, got to love the 98 iMac! changed the way people viewed computers forever

School...?

Today heralded the beginning of the end for my college days, as I start my final year in UCD I could not be more excited about what I am going to learn and experience over the next few months.

However as great as college has been for me, I still despair at the numbers of people who go to college and stay there because you are “supposed to”, and to not go or to leave would be against the norm so they just go through the motions and stay enrolled so they don’t look stupid.

I think that career councillors in schools need switch their approach from “What college course will you be doing” to telling students to think long and hard about whether college is right for them, and remind them that college is not the be all and end all of life.

Consider the following people:

the chances are that if you are reading my blog, you are using either a product made by one of the companies founded by the fine gentlemen below, all of them DROP OUTS from college... just thought I'd say.

When Steve met Bill

For those of you interested in computing in anyway shape or form, the recent joint interview at the "D: All things digital" between Mr. Apple, Steve Jobs and Mr. Microsoft, Bill Gates provides interesting viewing. Below is a compilation of the highlights form the interview, but the rest can be found on youtube.

I find the differences in personalities between the pioneers to be vast, Gates is a quiet and reserved well...nerd, and Jobs is a great speaker and storyteller, at one stage taking over a story being told by Gates half way, because he wasnt doing it justice.

Quizzed about the relationship between himself and Gates, Jobs recalls the line from a Beatles song

"You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead"

Steve Jobs - "stay hungry, stay foolish"

I really admire Steve Jobs, if you don't know him, he is the CEO and founder of both Apple computer and Pixar and has been recognised worldwide as a truly great innovator (Apple recently voted worlds most innovative company for the 3rd year running by Fortune magazine) and marketer. However his path to success wasn't always so clear, and in his speech to graduating Stanford students in 2005, he tells the story of how he got to where he is now.
If you have some spare time I really would recommend you watch this video, a great speech and a great life message to take away from it.