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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Steve Jobs uses three episodes from his own life to argue that meaning is only legible in retrospect — and that trusting the gap is the only rational response to uncertainty.
- “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
- “The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.”
- None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life — but 10 years later it all came back, and changed what a computer could look like.
- “Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
- “I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.”