This is Steve Jobs, speaking at Stanford's graduation in 2005.
He had no college degree, and that day was the closest he ever came.
I left school after six months and sat in on the classes I actually loved.
One was calligraphy, a beautiful subject with no use for my future at all.
Ten years later, that class returned while we were building the first Macintosh.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward."
At twenty I built Apple with a friend, working out of my parents' garage.
Ten years on it was a huge company, and then the board pushed me out of it.
"Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."
For thirty-three years I asked my mirror the same question each morning.
When the answer kept coming back no, day after day, I knew I had to change something.
He closed that speech with four words. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
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