Learn from the source
The best way to learn from great thinkers is to hear them out in full, in their own words, not through quote cards and secondhand summaries. Thinkers Archive collects their real talks, interviews and keynotes, transcribes every one, and organizes them by topic and year.
What's here
The first collection is Steve Jobs: 320 distinct recordings from 1980–2011, about 140 hours, with 301 full transcripts. We cataloged more than 24,000 YouTube videos and removed duplicates, re-uploads, clips of longer talks, dramatizations and AI-generated fakes, keeping the best available upload of each recording.
Since then the archive has grown to 1 people and 320 recordings: . For each, we searched YouTube for their talks, lectures, interviews, podcasts and meetings, removed duplicates, clips of longer recordings, commentary, compilations and AI-generated fakes, and kept the most substantial recordings where they themselves speak. Every one has a full transcript. Topic pages put what different people said about the same subject side by side.
Transcripts
Each recording has a full, readable transcript with timestamps that jump to that moment in the video. Transcripts come from speech recognition (Deepgram, OpenAI Whisper) or published captions. In interviews, speaker labels are assigned automatically. Summaries, key points and quotes are written by AI from the transcript. Transcripts can contain errors, so the video is always the source of truth.
Rights & removal
This is a non-commercial project, made for education and research. There are no ads and no cookies; the only measurement is anonymous, cookie-free page-view counts (Vercel Analytics). Videos aren't hosted here: they're embedded from YouTube and remain the property of their owners and uploaders. Thinkers Archive isn't affiliated with any person featured, their estates or companies. If you own a recording and would like it removed or credited differently, email arhamwani765@gmail.com and it'll be handled promptly.
Who made this
Arham Amin. Corrections, missing recordings and suggestions for the next thinker are always welcome.