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This reminds me a Steve Jobs quote: "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that
by madh 16y ago
This reminds me a Steve Jobs quote:
"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."
from http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/What-are-the-best-Steve-Jobs-quotations http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/What-are-the-best-Steve-Jobs...
- rguzman 16y agoThis is also known as hindsight bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
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- catechu 16y agoI don't think Jobs is concerned about retrospectively predicting the successes he had. Rather, I think he wants to emphasize their inherent unpredictability, together with the assertion that such unpredictability doesn't matter. So it's not quite hindsight bias.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoActually, Jobs is paraphrasing Kierkegaard, who wrote "Livet skal forstås baglaens, men leves forlaens" (Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards), and then advocated "Springet" (the Leap, usually translated as "the Leap of Faith".)