Steve Jobs v Rishi Sunak

"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 sans 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 practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I 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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

"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 - because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you

the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference."

Steve Jobs 

Universities in England offering courses with poor employment prospects and high student dropout rates will be subjected to stricter regulatory controls under plans unveiled on Monday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

“Too many young people are being sold a false dream and end up doing a poor quality course at the taxpayers’ expense that doesn’t offer the prospect of a decent job at the end of it.”

What do you think this government's attitude to studying calligraphy would be?

The ungodly procession of David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak all have Oxford degrees in PPE BAs with the exception of Johnson who did Classics. Hardly vocational degrees.

You see a lot, Dr. Lecter. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? How about it...?