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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Steve Jobs, speaking without a degree at a graduation, uses three episodes of his own life to argue that meaning is only visible in retrospect — and that you have to act anyway.
- “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
- I couldn't see the value in college, had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life — so I dropped out and trusted it would all work out.
- “Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
- It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture — and it had not even a hope of any practical application in my life.
- “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.”