it is in other countries. you could be a steven spielberg, you can be a bill gates. you can get out there and if you believe in yourself and you ve got a heart for something you can do something historic. yeah, we used to call it, chris, up from the tinkerer s bench in the 19th century. that you can invent anything. we were a nation of mechanics. people that had an idea and would take it all the way to the top. it wasn t necessarily horatio alger stories but just people that believed in products. henry ford being the great example of the model t. he had failure after failure, but he knew that cars weren t just for rich people, they were going to be for everyday people. and it s the same with steve jobs. he didn t think that computers were just for the defense department or for a huge corporation, but people were going to carry them in their pocket. and those types of american entrepreneurs are really the large figures in u.s. history. thomas edison and henry ford rank up there with w
but he knew that cars weren t just for rich people, they were going to be for everyday people. and it s the same with steve jobs. he didn t think that computers were just for the defense department or for a huge corporation, but people were going to carry them in their pocket. and those types of american entrepreneurs are really the large figures in u.s. history. thomas edison and henry ford rank up there with washington, with lincoln, as great americans. and steve jobs for our generati generation, baby boomers, he s the man, and history along with bill gates will be treating him as a seminal figure. walter isaacson is writing a book on him right now. it s the same spirit as i saw in the movie moneyball, a guy with an idea, a hunch and just carries it into action. here s steve jobs speaking at stanford in 2005 after he d first been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is a killer. let s listen. your time is limited.