“From now on, your ability to make a plan will matter a lot less than your ability to respond and adapt to unexpected new inputs, whether those new inputs come in the form of crisis or opportunity. If you should find your mind wandering a little bit in the two hours we have to go here, maybe spend a minute thinking about what kind of story you might like to tell when you’re back on the stagegetting your honorary Ph.D. in 10 or 20 years. Then get ready for it to all play out nothing like you expected.”
—Mikey Dickerson ’01 to the Class of 2015, after receiving his honorary doctorate