An awesome list of awesome commencement speeches given by awesome people.
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Bill Gates at Harvard University in 2007 ( Transcript, Video )
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David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005: "This Is Water" ( Transcript )
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Elon Musk at California Institute of Technology in 2012 ( Transcript, Video )
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J. K. Rowling at Harvard University in 2008: "The Fringe Benefits of Failure" ( Transcript, Video )
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Mark Zukerberg at Harvard University in 2017 ( Transcript, Video )
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Oprah Winfrey at Harvard University in 2013 ( Transcript, Video )
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Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology in 1974 : "Cargo cult science" ( Transcript )
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Sheryl Sandberg at University of California, Berkeley in 2016 ( Transcript, Video )
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Steve Jobs at Stanford University in 2005: "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" ( Transcript, Video )