As Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple – it’s amazing to think what he did for Personal Computers, Smart Phones, Tablets etc. We would certainly not be where we are today without Steve Jobs. Apparently it all happened when he dropped out of a course he was studying and sat in on a class on Calligraphy…
“If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
– Steve Jobs
An excerpt from Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement address about the creative value of dot-connecting and cross-disciplinary curiosity. You can watch the full 20 minute address HERE
I came across this letter from James Bond to Steve Jobs on Mrs Eaton and everybody’s wondering if it could possibly be authentic? (Find out HERE)
