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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
— Steve Jobs Contemporary

Apple co-founder

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Stanford Commencement Address

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2005

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Controversial

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https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/

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