The Man Behind Apple

This blog is about the CEO of Apple Computers and PIXAR Animation Studios Inc.There's lot to be learnt from his life.This blog will be useful to all nerds who are always with their books and being regular and sincere with the curriculum(Doesn' mean nerds should change).He is an adopted child.He was a drop out of REED college.It was as costly as STANFORD.He didn' like the ususal classes.He then took a course in calligraphy.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Because he had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, he decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. He learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and he found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in his life. But ten years later, when his company was designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to him. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If he had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If he had never dropped out, he would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do(You enjoy now). Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when he was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, 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. Whatever you are interested in do it .It will surely help you some where.Don't be carried away by other's words.Listen to thyself.