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. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
- - Steve Jobs in his 2005 Stanford Commencement address.
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 6, 2009 » The Daily Parr said
am July 6 2009 @ 4:41 am
[...] Carey, Momentum Magazine In early 2008, Victoria activist Chris Johnson was homeless and looking Geek Quote of the Day – thegreatgeekmanual.com 07/06/2009 You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only [...]
liz said
am July 6 2009 @ 12:27 pm
I like this quote a lot. Back in school I had to listen to this speech in its entirety and write an article about its most salient points as an exercise in my news writing class. Steve Jobs has led a very interesting life and based on traditional standards, one would never expect him to be as successful as he is today.