The person who helped Steve Jobs write the Stanford speech is gone. Goodbye, Professor Michael Hawley.
Perhaps many people will find it strange: Is this not Steve Jobs’ own classic speech? On June 12, 2005, Jobs was invited to give a speech at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University. With his personal experience of dropping out of school, entrepreneurship and illness, he encouraged students to grasp the short life and strive to change the world.
This speech left too many classic quotes, especially quoting the sentence “Stay Hungry, Stay modest” in the magazine “The Whole Earth Catalog” in the 1970s (Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish).
That speech was indeed written by Steve Jobs himself. He did not find someone to write for him, but a friend of Steve Jobs also provided a lot of help. Professor Holley, who has just died this week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, helped Steve Jobs revise the end of the speech, refining the finishing touches of the sentence, perfectly summing up Steve Jobs’ lifelong pursuit and dream.
The part of “Jobs” about this speech did not mention Holly, and the outside world still does not know the story behind it. The well-known American screenwriter Anron Sorkin later recalled that Jobs had wanted to find himself to write a speech, but he let Jobs write it himself. Jobs didn’t decide to write it by himself until the last week, and then sent it to Sorkin for a look. Sorkin did not know that Jobs had asked Horley to polish the manuscript.
Over ten years have passed, and extremely low-key Holly has never disclosed relevant information to the outside world. It wasn’t until last year that Steward Brand, the editor-in-chief of Global Encyclopedia mentioned in Steve Jobs’s speech, revealed that in fact Holly helped Steve Jobs write this great speech, including modifying the final part of the speech.
After being questioned by the media, Hawley admitted that he did participate in the speech. But he asked the media not to report too much, “I don’t want to say this publicly. This is just to help good friends, he needs someone to give some advice.” (This is a Cult Of Mac reporter who recalled after Holly’s death Of last year’s interview).
Professor Holly, 58, died of colon cancer this week at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his youngest son is under three years old. At the last moment of his life, his friends organized an event online to say goodbye to Professor Holly. Brand, who is 81 years old, once again mentioned Stanford’s speech, saying it was Holly’s least-known but probably the most influential piece of work.
The 28-year-old Reed Jobs, Jobs’s youngest son, also said goodbye to Hawley online, confirming once again that Hawley was very helpful to that speech. Reed personally read the email Jobs wrote to Horley five days before the speech, “It’s really embarrassing. I’m really not good at this kind of speech, I have never done a graduation speech. I will send you something I wrote, Don’t vomit.” (I’ll send you something. But please don’t puke.) Holly humorously replied, “It seems that Stanford undergraduates are not the only people who stay up late.” (Grumpy Jobs Being able to write emails in this tone shows how close the two are.)
After reading the first draft, Holly told Jobs, “Like a great comedian telling a joke, an outstanding composer composer, you need to have a finishing touch at the end. I think you need to think more The end part. I really like the mention of “Global Overview” magazine in your first draft, I also looked at thisThe magazine grew up. Hungry Foolish’s mantra actually came from a Hindu myth. I tried to rewrite this part…just some ideas. good luck! “
At the end of the email interaction between the two, Steve Jobs replied, “God, I don’t have much time, there are still many things to do.” (Gosh, I have far to go and not much time.) said Here, Reed seemed to think of his father who passed away nine years ago and Holly, who was about to say goodbye, and said sadly to Holly, “I just want to tell you that we all love you. The time we used to get along has been beautiful, thank you You have always been such an incredible person.”
In fact, Holly not only helped Steve Jobs to write a Stanford speech, but also helped his friend Google co-founder Larry Page to write a speech at the University of Michigan in 2009. However, Holly has brought more than a few exciting speeches to the world.
The talented Hawley is like the best interpretation of “the intersection of humanities and technology”. He is one of the few people in the world who possesses both high artistic and computer skills. His hobbies and interests are so extensive, but they are similar to others. He also has many identities such as university professors, software programmers, pianists, photographers, travellers, climbers, etc. He also foresaw and personally created e-books, electronic dictionaries, things Networking and many future technology trends.
Holly’s father is a famous Bell Labs engineer. As early as a teenager, Holly practiced at Bell Labs. In the early 1980s, he received a dual degree in music and computer science from Yale University. After graduation, Holly went to France, joined the Pompidou Center for Acoustic Music Research Collaboration (IRCAM), and helped the music master Pierre Boulez (Pierre Boulez) to create the world’s earliest music editing software; then he came to San Francisco Bay The district joined Lucasfilm, the film master George Lucas, to participate in the creation of the audio studio SoundDroid.
Jobs met Holly at Lucasfilm. After he left Apple, he founded NeXT, a computer startup in the education industry, and brought Hawley here. During his work at NeXT, Holly helped Steve Jobs build the world’s first digital library, making many masterpieces such as Shakespeare and Darwin into electronic versions; his work also included creating the first electronic version of the Webster’s dictionary.
Isaacson’s “Jobs Biography” based on Jobs’ dictation also contains records of Holly. “Jobs wants to add valuable content to the NeXT computer. Engineer Holly created a book for himSubdictionary. Holly also learned from friends at Oxford University Press that they were reordering Shakespeare’s works, and he immediately thought of putting Shakespeare’s works into the memory of the NeXT computer. Holly called Steve Jobs about the matter, and the latter was very interested in it. The two then flew to Oxford, England, where Jobs offered a high price and negotiated copyright. After that, they went to the bar where British great poet Byron frequented to drink and celebrate. “
Jobs is so esteemed that he has both artistic and computer talents, and even once let him live in his own home. Jobs particularly admired the artistic atmosphere and good taste, and also admired Jonathan Ive, the former chief designer of Apple.
According to Reid, the youngest son of Jobs, the Jobs house in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley was bought by Holly with him in the 1980s. When Jobs met his future wife Laurene Jobs in 1989, he also consulted with Holly for advice. (Now Jobs’s widow has moved to a new mansion in downtown San Francisco.)
Holly later returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and his tutor was Professor Marvin Minsky, who was called the “father of artificial intelligence.” In 1993, Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, personally recruited Holly to the famous MIT Media Lab.
Holly’s research projects spanned journalism, psychology, video production, human-computer interaction, documentary photography, etc. while working as a special project director at MIT Media Lab. (Nigeropanti, 76, is also a pioneer in the Internet era. The book “Digital Survival” in the mid-1990s foresees the future lifestyle of the Internet era. I believe everyone who has lived a long time has read or heard of it. This book.)
In Holly’s own words, his research project at the MIT laboratory is dedicated to “creatively expanding the digital infrastructure, embedding intelligence into all artificial products, and promoting their communication.” He led MIT Lab to launch GO Expeditions, Things That Think, Toys of Tomorrow, Counter Intelligence and many other projects, anticipating the Internet of Things trend in the future. During his time at MIT Media Lab, Holly also created the world’s first heart rate detector.
Holly, who has left MIT for the past ten years, has served as a director of a technology company, while focusing on his own non-profit educational institution, Friendly Plane.t.
It is worth mentioning that Holly, a graduate of music major, is also a piano and organ player close to professionalism. He owns three expensive pianos in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2002, Hawley once won the third global amateur piano competition sponsored by the piano master Van Cliburn Foundation.
In addition, Hawley adapted the piano version of the music master Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side story” symphony. His ticketing experience also includes personally acting as a piano player in the orchestra and performing with cellist Ma Youyou at the wedding of musician Blair Tindall.
In addition to artistic talent, Holly is a traveler, marathon and mountaineering enthusiast. He has traveled to more than 60 countries on six continents and participated in many marathon competitions.The competition organized the scientific mountaineering of Mount Everest.
Holly is also quite accomplished in traveling humanistic photography. He has written articles and taken photos for many mainstream media such as National Geographic and Time Magazine. In 2003, he produced the world’s largest album for Bhutan. Due to his interest in digital photography, Hawley also served as a director of Kodak.
Although they are rich in life, Holly believes that his greatest sense of accomplishment comes from family life. His wedding was held in Qichu Temple, the oldest temple in Bhutan, and his wife was an Asian-born Cambodian lady. They have one child and one daughter, and their youngest son is less than three years old.
In October last year, Holly, who was diagnosed with colon cancer, said in a speech, “After having the child of our dreams, I was diagnosed with cancer. My body underwent surgical chemotherapy and lost 60% of my weight. Pounds (about 54 pounds). I think the best way to look at this life experience is thatIt is a gift because it will bring you empathy and let you know that some things are more important than you think. Your relationship with people is the most important. “
As mentioned above, due to the New Crown epidemic, at the last moment of Holly’s life, his friends could not come to say goodbye. Professor Negroponte therefore organized an online party to let Holly’s friends bid farewell to him one by one, including Leonard Kleinrock, one of the Internet creators, and Canadian architect Safdie (Moshe Safdie), the widow of Professor Minsky and old colleagues at the MIT Media Lab.
At the end of the farewell meeting, Holly, who has been ill, said, “I have always been a shy person. I have known you for a long time, and I love you. Thank you for organizing this farewell. I am sorry I don’t have much time. Thank you for your kindness. There are many places to play the piano, either in a noisy bar or in a grand concert hall. But my favorite occasion is a small indoor concert where 15-16 friends meet. The most important It’s not piano music, nor is it a pianist. The real music is people who meet, which makes our memories so deep and beautiful.”
Attach the last part of Jobs Stanford’s speech:
Your time is limited, so don’t live according to the wishes of others. This is a waste of time. Don’t be fooled by prejudice, it is to live according to the results of others’ ideas. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own voice. The most important thing is to have the courage to follow your own feelings and intuitions. In any case, feeling and intuition already know what kind of person you want to be, and the rest are secondary.
When I was young, I had a very good publication called “The Whole Earth Catalog”. This is one of the treasure books of my generation. The founder’s name is Stewart Brand. The city of Menlo Park is not far away. He used poetic language to make the publication lively. That was in the late 1960s, and there were no personal computers and desktop printing systems, all relying on typewriters, Scissors and Polaroid camera (Polaroid). It is like a paper Google, but it came out 35 years earlier than Google. This publication is too perfect, with complete access to and extraordinary ideas.
Stuart and his colleagues have produced several issues of “Global Overview”. When they can’t do it at the end, they have published the last issue. That was the mid-1970s, and I am your current age. On the back cover of the last issue is a photo of a country road early in the morning, the kind of road where adventurous people wait for a ride. The photo below writes: Educated, humorous, and humorous. That was their farewell before they stopped publication. If you are thirsty for knowledge, be wise if you are wise. This is what I always wanted to do.
As you graduate from university and start a new life right now, I would also like everyone to: Have to be eager to learn and humble to be foolish.