Steve Jobs and Calligraphy

Today we had a session on "Windows Presentation Foundation" and "Silverlight" as part of the monthly Kolkata .NET User Group meet.While discussing about various graphics related stuff and fonts somebody pointed out about Steve Jobs contribution about the fonts in PC based software and his inclination on calligraphy.I was not at all aware about this.So coming back home first thing I did was googling with Steve Jobs and Calligraphy.




I found mention about this in the commencement speech he delivered on June 2005 in Stanford University.After dropping out of college he took classes in calligraphy where he was first introduced about different typefaces,techniques and subtle artistry of calligraphy.This was apparant useless course to take up at this point in time.But 10 years later this ideas became the foundations of the typography design of first Macintosh computer.As windows follows the same thing we can say Steve Jobs calligraphy lessons forms the founding stone of today's PC fonts and typography.
You can find the entire speech in the location
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
The following part of the speech has really touched my soul:

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.

You can watch the video of the speech as well: