The Dots Only Connect Looking Backwards
You can't connect the dots looking forward — only looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple and visionary of consumer technology.
All moments: Steve Jobs
- Fate and Death — Steve Jobs
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- Three Stories of Life — Steve Jobs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Connecting the Dots Looking Backward — Steve Jobs
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
- Design and Purpose — Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Computers for Everyone — Steve Jobs
The computer is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with.
- Failure as Advantage — Steve Jobs
The important thing is that we have the freedom to do what we want.
- Hunger and Rebellion — Steve Jobs
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Stay young.
- The World Was Made Up by People No Smarter Than You — Steve Jobs
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. And you can change it.
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