As a CEO, Steve Jobs will be remembered for many things--not just as a purveyor of innovative, landscape-changing products. He'll also be remembered as one of the most powerful and charismatic orators and marketers of our time. Today, changes in technology, changes in the way we perform work, and where and how we work are occurring at a rapid pace. Nowhere is the change more evident than in the use of computers. This new technology has brought on new demands for information as well as new and more sophisticated computing systems. Today, almost every one of us interacts with computers on a daily basis to create new things and ideas, to produce documents, to correspond with friends and associates, and to retrieve information. Along with the expanding
Bill Gates had access to so many different computers in a time when having access to just one was an anomaly, the opportunities he had were extremely rare but occurred because of when and where he was
Born October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was nurtured in a loving home that encouraged competition. He began to take interest in technology when his school presented its students with a computer terminal and teleprinter (“Bill Gates”). As Bill Gates was then happily immersed in a world of technology, programming, sourcing
The Steve Jobs commencement speech was a speech that was given by the former Apple Inc. CEO to Stanford University during the 114th commencement on 12th June 2005. The speech Steve Jobs gave Stanford University is a very effective speech, because of his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs especially use his background and childhood to play upon his rhetorical approach. In Steve Jobs, he tells several stories about love, detection, death, loss. The main part of the Speech is how Steve Jobs encourages the students to pursue their dreams, and do what makes them happy, even if it all doesn’t go after the plan.
He worked hard to create user friendly technology that the average Joe could access. At his time, computers were for the elite rich who had enough time on their hands to use the slow operating machines. Today, computers are right in the people’s hands with only a scan of a fingerprint to access a world of knowledge. Coco Chanel and Steve Jobs
The current day world is filled to the brim with technology. This technology continues to increase in complexity with time and causes the people who use these technologies to always be adapting to the changing times. However, this new technology has to have come from the brains of someone. These people who create these technologies are often praised and called heroes due to their achievements that improve society. One such hero is Steve Jobs.
Apple’s former CEO, Steve Jobs, in his speech, narrates his personal experience about success and failure. His purpose is to tell the new generation to do what they truly want to do. The audience of his speech is the students of Stanford University. Here, he adopts a sincere and sentimental tone in order to convince the new generation of the importance of doing what they want to do. This speech, which is entitled “Jobs summed up his life”, focuses on encourage new generation to do what their want to do.
Whether we like it or not, our day to day lives is surrounded, organized, and governed by computers. The cell phone that wakes us up every day (there could even be a chance that the phone you have in your pocket has some Microsoft patented feature), the car that carries us to work -if it is relatively modern-, and of course, the computer we use to work, or even the computer I’m using to type right now. All of this could not have existed without the wisdom and visionary minds of people like Bill
Throughout his speech, Jobs’ main goal was to connect with the audience on different levels and build trust so they believe him when he says if a person works hard and always follow their dreams, they will be successful. He establishes the connection through his style of writing by using ethos, pathos, diction, and repetition. Steve Jobs needed to prove to the audience that he was a credible person to talk about following dreams, and working hard. He used ethos to demonstrate how he is
In contemporary society, it is almost impossible to imagine someone who lives without a computer. The advancement of computer technology in all facets of the world substantially grew to the point where everyone needs a computer to carry out their everyday life. Computers have not only become a common accessory but a necessity as well. Computers have gained significance as they have improved the efficiency and productivity of work done. With the overwhelming demand for computers and their functions, the question ‘what kind of computer should I purchase?’ ripens.
What Steve Jobs Taught Me: 11 Lessons About Life and Business Steve Jobs had a complicated relationship with his business and with his partners--both intimate and professional. He was at the same time both innovator and thief, inventing new ways of doing things and sometimes taking credit for other people’s handiwork (even if only by not acknowledging the actual creator). A perfectionist and a shrewd business man in every sense of the word, Steve Jobs was the ultimate renaissance man. As tempting as it is to attempt to emulate every part of such an influential person’s life, most of us did not come from where Jobs came from nor do we have to walk the same path he walked to be successful. What we can do, though, is look at his life and take away lessons
Although this life story may seem like the day-to-day typical inspiring life story of most, if not all, “famous” individuals, Steve Jobs’s story has a deeper meaning behind it: If you do what you love, you will succeed. In fact, Steve mentions in his speech “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” (Jobs). Through the usage of argumentational skills, the overall organization, and the quality of information, Steve Jobs accurately and successfully get his message across to a multitude of people: Do What You Love.
The technology we have today can improve our way of life in many ways and we have a very important individual to thank for a special type of computer and many different consoles that amaze and excite our community. William Henry (Bill) Gates III has helped improve technology by creating multiple accounts of technology that will be mentioned in later paragraphs. The significance of Bill Gates will be concluded due to the advancement of technology he has created and the well being of microsoft and its new and old creations. William Henry (Bill) Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian and co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation along with Paul Allen. In 1975, Gates and
The world lost a creator, adventurer, and genius, five years ago. The Apple and Pixar animation CEO Steve Jobs, who was one of the most successful men, and one of the most inspiring persons until this time. As he never graduates from college, Steve Jobs delivered inspiring speech for a graduating class at one of the grates university in the world, Stanford University. He started his speech with pathos appeals by explain how honored he feel as he never graduated from college, but now he is giving speech to a graduating class at one of the finest universities. He said he was going to tell three stories, he didn’t want his audience to feel like it will be boring speech.
In the speech “Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford University, Class of 2005” , Apple CEO Steve Jobs provides his audience with personal experiences and the rough periods he went through in his early years before founding apple that helped him succeed. With the use of his stories Jobs creates a character that prevails through obstacles and manages to achieve his goals, which inspires his audience to look up to him and show that failure is sometimes necessary to succeed. At the beginning of his speech, Steve Jobs begins describing his life with a series of stories that helped him reach his success, this helps Jobs create ethos because his audience will understand the hardships he went through to be where he is today, instead of just thinking of Jobs as the founder of Apple and not really knowing about the struggles he had to go through.
A computer has already become an inseparable part of life. It helps a doctor in his diagnosis; it helps an engineer in his multifarious activities; guides a pilot or a navigator to safety; it helps a public or a private official or businessman in more ways than one. It is an important part of every institution, every office and every establishment public or private in several countries. Accept it or not, the computer has invaded the work place.