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ELEMENT II Stay Hungry Stay FLINE

ELEMENT II Stay Hungry Stay Foolish定期テスト対策

Element II Lesson2 Part1&2 Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
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I am (     ) to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big (     ). Just three stories.

The first story is about (     ) the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the (     ) six months. I couldn’t see the point in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do (     ) my life and no idea how college was going to help me (     ) it out, so I decided to drop out and believe that it would all (     ) out OK. It was pretty scary at that time, but (     ) back it was one of the best decisions I ever (     ). The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the (     ) classes that were not interesting to me, and begin dropping in (     ) whatever class looked interesting.

I decided to take a calligraphy class. I learned about serif and san-serif typefaces, about (     ) the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, and artistically subtle in a (     ) that science can’t explain. I found (     ) fascinating.

(     ) of this had even a hope of any practical use in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it (     ) come back to me. And we designed it (     ) into the Mac. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in (     ) this calligraphy class, and personal computers would not have the wonderful typography that they (     ). You can’t connect the dots looking (     ); you can only connect them looking (     ), so you have to trust that the dots will (     ) connect in your future.