Bodh-e-

verse
An ezine every fortnight When I'm working on a
problem, I never think
about beauty. I think only
how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished, if
the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is
wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
June 2008 beta issue (1895 - 1983)

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 Some Last Minute Suggestions!!!
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Sports Buff
Friday The 13th
Magic Revealed
Apple facts
Discovery News
Geeky Gadgets
Love is in the air
Who was Pancho Villa?
Ambigrams
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The Official resume of into 2002 and beyond. We create computers that
are fun, powerful, and easy to use.
Steve Jobs Pixar Animation Studios 1986-Present
Discovered a little animation company
that needed a vision. Liked the product so much I
bought the company. Pixar is now "the" digital
Personal Information 1 Infinite Loop animation studio.
Cupertino, CA 95014 We have created and produced half of the
(408) 996-1010 top grossing animated films of all time, including:
(408) 996-1010 Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters,
(408) 996-1010 Inc.
(408) 996-1010 NeXT Software Inc. 1986-1997
steve@mac.com Founded NeXT Software Inc., which
created really cool hardware that exploited the full
potential of Object Oriented technologies. NeXT
Objective I'm looking for a fixer- technologies made programmers' (and users') lives
upper with a solid foundation. Am willing to tear down a whole lot easier, thus giving them more leisure
walls, build bridges, and light fires. I have great time to go catch the latest Pixar release. Sold NeXT
experience, lots of energy, a bit of that "vision thing" to Apple in 1997.
and I'm not afraid to start from the beginning.
Education Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Work Experience Apple Computer, Inc. 1997-Present Studied Physics, Literature, Poetry...
Helped company to once again create
phenomenal products such as iMac, iBook, G4,
PowerBook, iTools, iMovie, Mac OS X, iTunes, iPod, Skills That "vision thing", public speaking,

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iPhoto, etc... motivating teams, and helping to create really
Part of the team that positioned amazing products.
company to trailblaze (once again) onto the Internet,
 Bits From NatGeo “ Bathrooms in
Singapore are so
small, that u cant
even 'change' ur
“
mind ! !

We think you should be

knowing this

Government of India is trying to introduce

first ever genetically engineered Bringal
(BT bringal) all across India. This is the
first ever genetically engineered crop in
India. This is done to have the vegetables
a longer crop life, pest
resistance and higher nutritional values.
But the NGOs working In this field
including greenpeace and WHO says it is
like an untested new drug which might be
Snug outpost, Old Harbor—population 298—nestles beneath sheltering peaks. On having many side effects. And once in
Kodiakslan] nearly everyone fishes, including the island's huge brown bears, which roam market consumers won’t have any choice
in selecting between a natural bringal
a renowned wildlife refuge.
—From "Kodiak: Alaska's Island Refuge," November 1993, National Geographic
and a BT bringal.

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 k
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A doctor of psychology was doing his normal
morning rounds when he entered a patient's
room. He found Patient #1 sitting on the
floor, pretending to saw a piece of wood in half
feet.
The doctor asked patient number 1 what he
was doing. The patient replied, "Can't you see
I'm sawing Crazy people talk
Patient #2 was hanging from the ceiling,
by his this piece of wood in half?" The doctor
inquired of Patient #1 what Patient #2 was
doing. Patient #1 replied, "Oh. He's my friend,
but he's a little crazy. He thinks he's a
lightbulb." The doctor looks up and notices
Patient #2's face is going all red.
The doctor asks Patient #1, "If he's your
friend, you should get him down from there
before he hurts himself"
Patient #1 replies, "What? And work in the
dark?"
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1. X is successful businessman who controls a 4000 crore enterprise. Amongst his various interests he is the
owner of Fashion TV (FTV) in India. He also sits on the board of Godfrey Phillips, a tobacco company.
However he has quite a controversial background and amongst other things he has been accused of drug
traffiking and other offences in the US. Currently he is one of the most powerful persons in India. Identify him.
Hint you hear about him (and see him too) almost everyday for the past month or so.
2. The character of ghost rider is based on this dare devil. He also holds the record for having the maximum
number of broken bones (40) throughout his life. He held various jobs including working in copper mines,
insurance salesman, opening a motorcycle dealership etc. before becoming famous (or should i say infamous)
in his current line of work. He took to his famous screen name when he was once put in jail and his cellmate
was called "Awful Knofel" (awful rhyming with Knofel) so the jailer referred to him as X. His original name is
Robert. Identify him.
3. This word was introduced by the 1960 film La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in
the film is a news photgrapher named ______.Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word for a
particularly noisy,buzzing mosquito. Many people consider them to be a nuisance and many celebrites share a
love-hate relationship with them.
4.He was one of the nominees for the Best Beard of the Year? in 2006. The award was eventually won by
Monty Panesar.He had earlier made his fortune by launching an adult site called BOMIS in 1996. The money
earned thus helped him set up his pet project. That project is a household name today. Who are we talking
about/what is this project?
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 Word meaninig - The Bodhi Way
It’s Beautiful Mosquito, n., an insect that
makes you like flies better.

TALLEST RIDEABLE
MOTORCYCLE

What to do
Knowing this?
"Almost" is the longest
word in the English
language with all the
letters in alphabetical Gregory Dunham (USA) has
order.
constructed a rideable
Calvin, of the "Calvin and motorcycle that is 3.429 m
Hobbes" comic strip, was (11 ft 3 in) tall to the top of
patterned after President handlebars, 6.187 m (20 ft 4
Calvin Coolidge, who had a
Star-Birth Clouds in M16: Stellar "Eggs" Emerge from Molecular Cloud pet tiger as a boy. in) long and weighs 2.948
tonnes (6,500 lb). It is
powered by a 8.2 litre (502
cu in) V8 engine and has tyres
that are 1.88 m (74 in) tall.
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 Magny-Cours Circuit France
Sporty bumps Weird sports #1
Almost a hundred years ago France was the location for the first automobile race to
be called a Grand Prix. On 26th June 1906 32 cars set-off at 90 second intervals on
the circuit, which was formed of public roads. The race lasted for two days over a
distance of 1,238 km.
Last American in Paris

The race, which was staged near Le Mans, was won two years later
by Christian Lautenschlager, clinching the first Mercedes victory in the event.
On March 11, the
Nighthawks started the meet Chessboxing, a pointless sports. It's
tallest lineup in what one might imagine — wherein opponents
n t s professional basketball square off in alternate rounds of boxing and
Gi a history, according to the chess. Played exclusively in Europe, the sport
A , T he is organized to the point where there's a
Guinness Book of World world champion, and devotees claim that it's
NB d Of Records: Sun Ming Ming headed to the U.S.
n
La (7-foot-9), former
Washington Bullet
"Last American in Paris" could be the title of a summer Gheorghe Muresan (7-6),

ICC test ratings

blockbuster movie. The star? Robby Ginepri, the sole Ayo Adigun (7-1), Deng Rank Team Points
American survivor in both the men's and women's D'Awol (7-0), and Barry 1 Australia 141
Mitchell (6-8). If stacked on
singles events till fourth round at the 2008 French 2 India 111
top of each other, they
Open. Ginepri would have been an unlikely candidate
stand 36 feet tall, and yet 3 South Africa 109
for this particular casting after entering this year's the Nighthawks finished 4 England 108
French Open with a career 0-5 mark at Roland with a losing record this 5 Sri Lanka 106
Garros. season .
 Friday The Thirteenth cover story

Does anybody believe that What the story goes?

Friday the 13th is necessarily a word derived from the According to one
a bad luck day anymore? Get concatenation of the interpretation, the
over it. Superstitions make Greek words Paraskeví number 13 is unlucky
great copy and distill fear, (meaning Friday), and because it is the
the key element in our reality dekatreís (meaning number of full moons in
upon which most storylines are thirteen), attached to a contemporary year,
based. They control those who phobía (meaning fear). but two full moons in a
would allow themselves to be The term is a specialized single calendar month
controlled, or more to the (mistakenly referred to

13
point, are programmed to that as a blue moon in a
end and need to awaken and move magazine article of the
beyond conditioning. In the 1940s) only happens
21st (3) century, for most about every 5 years.
adults ... it's just another The last Grand
day in the life.The number 13 Master of the once-
is probably the most common of powerful Order of
all superstitions, considered a form of triskaidekaphobia, Knights Templar,
bad luck day . a simple phobia (fear) of Jacques DeMolay,
the number thirteen suffered his betrayal
So what the fear is called? appearing in any case. into the hands of the
The fear of Friday the 13th is
called paraskavedekatriaphobia,
Church on Friday 13,

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October 1307. He was but happily not until the Baldur was killed and the
imprisoned and later year 4772. Earth was plunged into
executed by King Phillip In numerology, the darkness and mourning as a
the Fair, the French king number twelve is considered
who had conspired with the number of completeness, result
the Vatican to remove as reflected in the twelve
DeMolay. Phillip and Pope months of the year, twelve Accord
Clement V had concluded recognized signs of the ing to
that the Templars had zodiac, the twelve tribes some,
become altogether too of Israel, the twelve the
powerful. Apostles of Jesus, etc., sinist
Jacques DeMolay whereas the number thirteen
suffered betrayal on was considered irregular, er, ominous date
transgressing this combination is related to
Friday completeness the Bible - Jesus Christ
October 13 Friday the 13th
and superstitions originated in
according a Norse myth about twelve
to the gods having a feast in
Mayan Valhalla. The mischievous
Calendar, Loki crashed the party as
the end of an uninvited 13th guest and
the Age arranged for Hod, the blind
has been crucified on
will come god of darkness, to shoot
Friday, while Judas - the
on Friday Baldur, the god of joy with
alleged Christ betrayer is
October 13, mistletoe-tipped arrow.
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the 13th Apostle. are so paralyzed by fear and smashed. The lucky
that they avoid their couple won $17 million.
Friday the thirteenth in normal routines in doing
old Literature: business, taking flights But what do we do?
In ancient literature or even getting out of You really cannot do

13
many a time reference to bed. "It's been estimated anything. Every month
the fear of friday the that US$800 or $900 that starts on Sunday
thirteenth has been million is lost in will have a Friday the
found.Some are listed business on this day". 13th. Really you cannot
here. do anything. If you do
Now Friday came, Friday the Thirteenth a not hold the superstition
you old wives say, Of Lucky Day? you can go out for work.
all the week's the If you were born on And if you are too
unluckiest day." (1656 Friday the thirteenth superstitious to go out
A.D) then it is allegedly on Friday the 13th then
your lucky day. we suggest you to sit and
Practical Impact: Some people win large home and watch “Friday
According to the Stress amounts of money through the thirteenth” movie and
Management Center and the lottery or buy lucky it's sequels!!!.
Phobia Institute in lottery tickets on Friday
Ashevellie,North 13. According to CNN.com,
Carolina an estimated 17 one British couple bought
to 21 million people in
the United States are
their winning ticket on
Friday 13 shortly after a
FRIday 13th
affected by a fear of
this day. Some people
mirror at their home fell
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M agic Revealed
David Blaine and Balducci Levitation
Effect : The magician raises his arms up by his sides
and slowly appears to rise a few inches off the
ground for a little while before returning to earth
quickly.
Balducci Method : The Balducci method involves
positioning audience about 8 to 10 feet away at a
45 degree angle..
The Balducci levitation involves
pretending to float off the ground by going on to
your tip toes on just one foot ( the one furthest from
their view ) while the nearest foot is raised a little
off tthe ground. The picture here shows the
beginning on the left and the climax of the trick
on the right.
Th
David Blaine Version : David Blaine used various
camera shots in his TV special with the audience
reaction being filmed close up and linked to other
clips of him in mid air with some of the angles
showing the Balducci levitation .The view that
shows him rise a good few inches in the air and
does not show the audience and would have been
done with a bar attached to a pivot like a seesaw.
The end of the pivot would have had a
hook which clipped onto a harness attached to his belt and a member of the
crew would have pushed down on the other side of the bar lifting David up in
the air. The camera angle would have hidden the props.This film would have
been mixed in with the audience clips in the studios later.
Apple Inc.
The "forgotten founder" Apple Ron
Wayne illustrated the first Apple
logo and wrote the Apple I manual.
He also wrote their partnership
agreement.
Named after the McIntosh apple,
Say
Its God's responsibility to the original Macintosh was released
ey forgive the terrorist on January 24, 1984. It was the first
commercially successful personal
organizations
computer to use a graphical user
such as Jaish, Lashkar etc. interface (GUI) and mouse instead
Its our responsibility to of the then-standard command line
interface.
arrange the meeting
Apple wasn’t started in a garage, it
between them was started in a bedroom at 11161
and god." Crist Drive in Los Altos.
------ Indian Armed Forces
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Ohio.
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 Shikva nahi khuda se koi,
bas shikayat hai to us yaar se, WOULD YOU
kuch bhi na kaha,kuch bhi na suna,
nazro se kah gaya vo kuch pyaar se,
andaz-e-bayan is kadar tha unka,
ki soye nahi ham,na jane kitni raat se,
dua hai ab yahi,ki mil jaaye vo kahi,
aur ishq shuru ho kisi meethi takrar se....

Would you walk with me in magical rains..

Would you smile with me seeing pigeons to race..

Would you come hand in hand to see musical moonlight..

Lov would you allow me to see stars shining in your sparking eyes...

e is Would you see my dreams with your eyes..

Would you try to find out the reason for my cries...

in th air
e
Would you hear unuttered words beneath the silence..
Would you pray with me with uncaught tears rolling once or twice...
Would you continue to love me without any reason...
Better to have loved and lost, than to have Would you not allow your heart to change with the color of the
never loved at all. -Saint Augustine season...
words and painting by -Pragya,Mysore

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 crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then
Zoo Job one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion
he slips and falls. The mime is terrified.
The lion gathers itself and prepares to
One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run
attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As round and round the cage with the lion close behind.
soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help me, If you are still not receiving
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 Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary leader who
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 Whats in a name? Apple Inc.
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was
three months late in filing a name for the business, and he
Fog Lit night of Hong kong threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other
colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock..
 Book Shelf
A mysterious ceremony in an
unknown location has
unraveled their work and
triggered a catastrophic
countdown that will climax in
no less than the end of all life
on Earth. But there is one last
hope. If Jack and his team can
find and rebuild a legendary
ancient device known only as
the "Machine," they might be
able to ward off the coming
armageddon. The only clues to
locating this Machine, however,
are held within the fabled Six
Sacred Stones, long lost in the
fog of history. And so the hunt
begins for the Six Sacred
Stones and the all-important
knowledge they possess, but in
the course of this wild
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Washington Post’s Mensa
Invitational Word meanings
asked it’s readers to add, subtract any word
The 6 Sacred Stones taken from dictionary and create a new word
-- by Matthew Reilly
Abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Publisher Pocket
Books adventure Jack and his team will
Category Fiction discover that they are not the
Format Paperback only ones seeking the Stones and
Pages 578 that there might just be other
List Price Rs. 256/- players out there who don't want
to see the world saved at all.
From Stonehenge in England to
the deserts of Egypt to the
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of China, The 6 Sacred Stones
will take you on a nonstop roller-
coaster ride through ancient
history, modern military
hardware, and some of the
fastest and most mind-blowing
action you will ever read.
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 Ambigrams
-By Sunny P.
An ambigram is a form of wordplay where in the written word
appears the same/different word when viewed from a different
viewpoint.
These are classified broadly as Asymmetric and
Symmetric ambigrams.
Asymmetric ambigrams are those which appear as
different words when seen from the other viewpoint.
Symmetric ambigrams are those which appear as the same
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Based on the viewpoint the ambigrams are classified into
Rotational / Mirrored.
Example of Symmetric rotational Ambigram. (180º
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bus shelter ad with a 3M product called
Scotchshield, a see-through film that you can
apply to glass which makes it near
bulletproof, and filled the postersite with lots
of play money, and 500 real Canadian
dollars for good measure. This one reads Manali even when you turn it upside down
After that they could just sit back and watch (rotate it 180º).
An example of Asymmetric rotational Ambigram. (180º
.
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rotation.)
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 Amazing History
STONEHENGE
The stones we see today represent
Stonehenge in ruin. Many of the
original stones have fallen or been
removed by previous generations for
home construction or road repair.
There has been serious damage to
some of the smaller bluestones
resulting from close visitor contact
(prohibited since 1978) and the
prehistoric carvings on the larger
sarsen stones show signs of
significant wear.
Construction of the Henge
In its day, the construction of
Stonehenge was an impressive
engineering feat, requiring
commitment, time and vast amounts
of manual labor. In its first phase,
Stonehenge was a large earthwork; a
bank and ditch arrangement called a
henge, constructed approximately
5,000 years ago. It is believed that the
ditch was dug with tools made from
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the antlers of red deer and, possibly, wood. The
underlying chalk was loosened with picks and
shoveled with the shoulderblades of cattle. It
was then loaded into baskets and carried away.
Modern experiments have shown that these
tools were more than equal to the great task of
earth digging and moving.
The Bluestones
About 2,000 BC, the first stone circle (which is
now the inner circle), comprised of small
bluestones, was set up, but abandoned before
completion. The stones used in that first circle
are believed to be from the Prescelly
Mountains, located roughly 240 miles away, at
the southwestern tip of Wales. The bluestones
weigh up to 4 tons each and about 80 stones
were used, in all. Given the distance they had to
travel, this presented quite a transportation
problem.
Modern theories speculate that the stones
were dragged by roller and sledge from the
inland mountains to the headwaters of
Milford Haven. There they were loaded onto
rafts, barges or boats and sailed along the
south coast of Wales, then up the Rivers
Avon and Frome to a point near present-day
Frome in Somerset. From this point, so the
theory goes, the stones were hauled
overland, again, to a place near Warminster
in Wiltshire, approximately 6 miles away.
From there, it's back into the pool for a slow
float down the River Wylye to Salisbury,
then up the Salisbury Avon to West
Amesbury, leaving only a short 2 mile drag
from West Amesbury to the Stonehenge site.
 HANCOCK Meet Dave
In Theatres July 2
In Theatres July 11

MUST WATCH JULY

Amazing
Engineering
Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap
Kok opened on July 6, 1998. Ultimate design
capacity will be 87 million passengers and 9
million tons of cargo, making it one of the busiest
airports in the world. About 75 percent of the
1,248-hectare airport island was reclaimed from
the sea. About 347 million cubic meters of
material - roughly 10 tons a second - was moved
during the 31 months of site preparation.
In 2007, HKIA handled 47 million passengers
and 3.7 million tonnes of cargo
Director: Peter Berg
Written By: Vincent Ngo & Vince Gilligan
Cast: Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize
Theron
Genre:Action | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Plot:There are heroes… there are
superheroes… and then there’s Hancock (Will
Smith). With great power comes great
responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone,
that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic,
and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned
heroics might get the job done..A hard-living
superhero who has fallen out of favor with the
public enters into a questionable relationship
with the wife of the public relations professional
who's trying to repair his image.
Directed by: Brian Robbins
Written by: Bill Corbett and Rob Greenberg
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms,
Elizabeth Banks
Genre: Comedy
Official Site:
www.meetdavemovie.com/
Plot:Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy),
newly arrived in New York City, may be
the ultimate fish out of water. There's
something about him that's not quite
right – for starters, he seems
remarkably out of place and
uncomfortable in his own body. And for
good reason: Dave is not a man at all,
but a ship made in the image of its

20 miniature-sized captain. It's Eddie

Murphy in Meet Dave.

A speech by Steeve Jobs
At Stanford
This is the very inspirational speech given by Steve
Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation
Studios, to the graduating class of Stanford University
on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your
commencement from one of the finest universities in the
world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this
is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's
it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,
but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18
months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological
mother was a young, unwed college graduate student,
and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very
strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates,
so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth
by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out
they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a
girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got
a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have
an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They
said: "Of course." My biological mother later found
out that my mother had never graduated from
college and that my father had never graduated
from high school. She refused to sign the final
adoption papers. She only relented a few months
later when my parents promised that I would
someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I
naively chose a college that was almost as
expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class
parents' savings were being spent on my college
tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in
it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life
and no idea how college was going to help me
figure it out. And here I was spending all of the
money my parents had saved their entire life. So I
decided to drop out and trust that it would all work
out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking
back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the
required classes that didn't interest me, and begin
dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room,
so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned
coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with,
and I would walk the 7 miles across town every
Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the
Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what
I stumbled into by following my curiosity and
intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me
give you one example:
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 beautifully hand
calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and
didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided
to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
I 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 I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any
later, when we were designing the first 21
practical application in my life. But ten years
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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. This approach has never let
me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much. -- Steve Jobs

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