Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country…. I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this…. 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 ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
