Here is a famous commencement speech that was given by Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, at a Stanford graduation ceremony.

- "You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards".

- "Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

- "Remembering you are going to die, is the best way I know, to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

Jobs, who incidentally never graduated from college, offers these and a number of other observations to the graduating students.