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In 2005, Steve Jobs delivered one of the most famous commencement speeches of all time

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement speech has been viewed over 120 million times and is quoted to this day .

The Steve Jobs Archive , an organization founded by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs , is unveiling an online exhibit with a remastered video, interviews with some witnesses.

Jobs: "This is the closest thing I’ve ever come to graduating from college, and I should be learning from you".

Michael Hawley was a polymath associated with the MIT Media Lab.

Jobs recruited his old friend to help him out of giving a Stanford speech.

Hawley 's contribution to the speech has been somewhat of an open secret for years .

Jobs had been kicking around the idea of giving the students “ three pieces of advice as you leave college”.

Jobs woke up on the morning of the 12th riddled with anxiety.

Jobs was about to give a speech that could have qualified as the downer of all time.

Jobs read the speech to his whole family at dinner before the ceremony.