“The kids watching their dad spring past them in the same kind of trance he’d sometimes enter in the days before MacWorld. Jobs wrote the speech himself and walked around the house for days, reciting it over and over. The authors reveal new information about Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement address, one of the most quoted commencement speeches in modern history.
“I mean, his whole thing of knowing exactly what he’s going to say, but up on stage saying it in such a way that he is trying to make you think he’s thinking it up right then… ” Gates said before he trailed off and laughed as he recalled the moment. Steve Jobs made presentations look effortless because he put in a lot of effort to get everything right.