Great Intellectual Speakers

Joe · Sep 25, 2007

How does a person become a great speaker? Post your favorite speeches.

Here is one of my favorites.

Steve Jobs - Stanford Graduation (15 Min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Renegen · Sep 26, 2007

Great speech, I watched it again for motivation.

Warren Buffet at an MBA graduation ceremony. There's 10 parts I believe, click leizhg's name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuXKpMFUjc

Joe · Oct 5, 2007

A few mishaps in Apple product announcements.
http://www.break.com/index/guess_it_happens_to_macs_too.html

Matt24SPFL · Oct 5, 2007

Quote from Joe:

How does a person become a great speaker? Post your favorite speeches.

Here is one of my favorites.

Steve Jobs - Stanford Graduation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Wow! Thank you for posting that link. That was amazing.

I'm going to watch it a few more times.

Matt24SPFL · Oct 5, 2007

One of my favorite speeches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgJOQuDywB8

Booo-ya-kasha! Respek!

ElCubano · Oct 5, 2007

Quote from Joe:

How does a person become a great speaker? Post your favorite speeches.

Here is one of my favorites.

Steve Jobs - Stanford Graduation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

just saw it...fantastic...almost busted a tear..

Joe · Dec 17, 2007

Randy Pausch (Dying professor gives last speech)
WSJ Speech Preview (5 min)
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1199157902

Full Speech (1.5 hours)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en

I thought the speech was excellent. I will watch it again tomorrow.

Unknown Speech (1.5 hours) about time management by same professor Randy Pausch (I have not seen this yet).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

Joe · Dec 27, 2007

This speech is a little out of the norm for me, but I liked it and it had me laughing especially at the quote at the end.

Kevin Smith comments on Tim Burton (About 10 min)
http://www.livevideo.com/media/playvideo_fs.aspx?fs=1&cid=DC6B8EFCBD634D13BD9011C88DD57C23

William Rennick · Dec 28, 2007

Thanks for posting the Jobs speech, that really hit home. Good job Joe.

Joe · Jan 13, 2008

Cool Speech on leaving a little mystery in your life. (20 min)
From the creator of Lost, and Mission Impossible 3 etc...

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/205

Fyi I just found this website, it only has speech's from some of the most influential people.
http://www.ted.com