Dr. Randy Pausch passed away on July 25, 2008. He knew death was coming. Randy talks about the life lessons he learned. Randy wanted not to give a college lecture but to create a video for his kids to watch and remember dad, when they grew older.
Our hats go off...our hearts open up...to every Iron Man and Women that says,"Yes I Can."
If you haven't failed -you haven't lived.
It's not about how many times you get knocked down that matters ---it's about how many times you get back up that counts. -Rocky
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. -Rudyard Kipling
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin
After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.
In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter.
The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
Wow, in the summer of 1976 I had just graduated (B.B.A.) from Business School. Learn more about Bill Gates early years.
Steven Jobs, was born February 24, 1955 in California. You know Jobs as the CEO - I know Jobs the Freedom Fighter. You know him as the Co-founder and CEO of Apple and the CEO and Chairman of Pixar Animation Studios.
But I remember the brash and bold Steve Jobs from the 70's who fancies himself as the Che' Guevara of the PC Revolution. The Baby-boomers James Dean. The Rebel with a cause. The leader of the Anti-IBM movement. Steve was our Freedom Fighter. He fought against the powerful forces of the IBM Centralized Command and Control Mainframe. Againest white shirt and plain ties -Steve always hated business suits, most of us boomers did not. In the 80's he viewed himself as a Pirate againest the forces of IBM, Xerox, Hewett Packard and Microsoft. He would often ask employees, "are you a Pirate?" -not the kind of thing you learn in B-School.
Steve Jobs over night success with Apple Corp. and its IPO made him an instant millionaire at age 24. Today Steve Jobs has become one of the iconic leaders of the digital era.
You can relive the Apple Revolution at Window To Wall Street
