10 stellar commencement addresses

Of the 700 or so commencement speeches Cristina Negrut estimates she has found on the Internet, only about one in 20 “is really inspiring,” she says. Those are the select few that make it onto a website she created three years ago called Graduationwisdom.com. Combing the web for “little treasures” is a hobby for Negrut, 39; by day, she works in product development for a medical equipment company in Madison, Wis.
2. Jerry Zucker, film director/producer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. “It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.”