Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

…owing my curiosity and intuition turned out to be Priceless later on let me give you one example Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country throughout the campus every poster every label on every drawer was beautifully hand cigraph because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this I learned about serif and Sans serif type faces about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations about what makes great typography great it was beautiful historical artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture and I found it fascinating none of this had ev…

…of course my biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school she refused to signed the final adoption papers she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college this was the start in my life and 17 years later I did go to college but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford and all of my workingclass parents savings were being spent on my college tuition after 6 months I couldn't see the value in it I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how College was going to help me figure it out and here I was spending all the money…