what you carry in the first part is the speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford recently 's inauguration of the academic year. The second and third party, no less beautiful and exciting, not only carry merely for reasons of space. "I am honored to be here with you today at your commencement from one of the best universities in the world. I did not ever graduate. Indeed, to say the truth, this is the closest thing to a college graduation I've ever gotten. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Everything here, nothing exceptional: only three storie.La first story is about the puntini.Ho dropped out of Reed College after the first half, but then I continued to attend so for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? E 'started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, and made sure everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. But when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So who then became my adoptive parents and who were on the waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "Is there a baby boy, not provided. do you want him?" They said: "Certainly." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never finished high school. He refused to sign the final adoption papers. Then he relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.Diciassette years later I went to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all the savings of my parents ended up paying me for the tuition. After six months, I could not see any real opportunities. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and how college could help me understand. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire working life. So I decided to drop out and trust that everything would be fine. It was very difficult time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute that I let go out I could stop taking the courses that did not interest me and begin to occur in classes that I found most interessanti.Non was all roses, though. I did not have a dorm room, and I slept on the floor rooms of my friends. Earned money to the seller bringing the empty bottles of Coca Cola for five cents deposits to buy food. Once a week, on Sunday evening, I walked for seven miles across town to finally have a good meal at the Hare Krishna temple, the only one of the week. But much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and my intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you a esempio.Il 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 hand written with beautiful calligraphy. Because I had dropped the normal classes, I decided I would then take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif, the difference between the spaces that separate the different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great text. It was wonderful, in a way that science can offer, because it was artistic, beautiful, historical, and I found it affascinato.Nessuna of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But then, ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And it all into the Mac . It 'was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped out of college and then I had not in on that single course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or the possibility of proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it is likely that there would be any personal computer with those capabilities. If I had not dropped out of college, I could never in on this calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Certainly at the time when I was in college it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. But it became very, very clear ten years later, when I was able to look back. Again, you can not connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that somehow, in the future, the dots will. You must believe in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This type of approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. "
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