#dots

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#connect #destruction #dots #gun #happens

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#broad #broader #connect #design #diverse

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#dots #end #i #indescribable #myself

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#dots #i #my own #now #own

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#certain #certain things #collage #committed #dots

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bill #care #connect #dots #gotten

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#dots #generation #grandchildren #lines

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #develops #dots #drive #end

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. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#approach #backwards #connect #destiny #difference

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. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#backwards #connect #destiny #difference #dots