We all have the opportunity to speak somewhere, a meeting, a presentation, externally or internally.  Courtesy of Todd Bishop at the SeattlePI Microsoft blog, here is something you might find interesting.

This analysis compares Jobs, Gates, and Dell’s keynotes using tags and English analysis.

On average Jobs sentences are precisely half the length of Gates!  Gates talks in more generic terms, while Jobs speaks of products and brand names.  Check it out … and make your own observations on which is better.

At the suggestion of a reader, we ran the text of both speeches through the tag-cloud generator, a program that displays the most commonly used words in varying sizes, depending on how often they’re spoken. For further comparison, we did the same thing with Dell Chairman Michael Dell’s Consumer Electronics Show keynote

Source: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Keynote text analysis