乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿

1、Tliree Stories in My LifeToiiVe got to find what you love/ Jobs saysUlis is tlie text of the Conunencenient address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at yoiir coiiuneiicement from one of the finest luiiv

2、ersities in the world I never graduated from college, Tliitli be told, this is tlie closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you tliree stories from iny life. Tliats it No big deal. Just three stories.Tlie first story is about coimectiug tlie dots.I dropped out of Reed C

3、ollege after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, luiwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoptioii. She felt veiy stro

4、ngly tliat I should be adopted by college graduates、so everytliing was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and liis wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my pareiits, who were on a waiting list, got a call iu the middle o

5、f the iiiglit asking: We have an uiiexpected baby boy; do you want him? Tliey said Of course/* My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from higli school. She refiised to sign the final adoptioii papers. She only rele

6、nted a few mouths later when my parents pl oiuised tliat I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of iny working-class parents savings were being spent OU my college tiiition. After six mouth

7、s. I couldnt see the value in it. 1 had no idea what I wanted to do witli my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money iny pareiits had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and tnist that it would all work out OK- It was pr

8、etty scary at tlie time、but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Hie luinute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin drop ping in on the ones tliat looked interesting.It wasiil all romantic. I dicbil have a donn room, so 1 slept

9、on the floor in friends* rooms, I retiinied coke bottles for the 50 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk tlie 7 miles across towii every Sunday niglit to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krislma temple, I loved it And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition hi

10、nied out to be priceless later on. Let nie give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instniction iu the country. Tlirougliout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifiilly hand calligraphed Because I had dropped out and didnt have to

11、 take the normal classes. I decided to take a calligraphy class to leani how to do tliis. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great It was beautifiil, liistorical, artistically subtl

12、e in a way tliat science cant capture, and I foiuid it fascinating.None of tliis had even a hope of any practical application in luy life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh coxnputei; it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer

13、 with beautifiil typography If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportioiially spaced fonts, Aiid since Wudows just copied the Mac, its likely tliat no personal computer would have tlienr If I had never dropped out, I would

14、have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers miglit not have the wonderfill typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to coiuiect tlie dots looking forward when I was iii college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years laterAgain, you cant conne

15、ct tlie dots looking forward; you can only connect tliein looking backwards. So you have to tnist that tlie dots will somehow coimect in your future. You have to tnist in sometliiiig yom gut. destiny, life, karma, whatever Tliis approach has never let me down, aiid it has made all the difference in

16、my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky I foimd what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company witli over 4000 employees. We

17、 liadjust released oiir finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just tunied 30. Aiid then I got fired How can you get fired from a com pany you started? Well, as Apple grew we liired someone who I thouglit was very talented to nm the company witli me, and for tlie first year or so ti

18、lings went well. But then our visions of tlie future began to diverge and eveiihially we had a falling out. Wlieii we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. Aiid very publicly out Wliat had been the focus of iny entire adiilt life was gone, and it was devastating.I really di

19、dnt know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entiepreiieiirs down - that I had dropped tlie baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packaid and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly I was a very public failure, and I even tho

20、uglit about nuuiiiig away from the valley. But soinetliing slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. Tlie tiini of events at Apple had not changed tliat one bit. I had been rqected, but I was still in love. Aiid so I decided to start over.I di dllt see it then、but it himed out that gettin

21、g fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Tlie heaviness of being successful was replaced by the liglitiiess of being a begiimer again, less sure about everything. It freed me to entei one of the most cieative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started

22、 a coinpany named NeXT, anotlier company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film. Toy Story, and is now the most siiccessfiil animation stiidio in the world. Iii a remarkable him of events,

23、Apple bouglit NeXT, I retimed to Apple, and the tecluiology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple*s current renaissance. And Laureiie and I have a wonderfill family togetherrm pretty sure none of tliis would have happened if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awfiil tasting medicine, but

24、I guess tlie patient needed it. Sometimes life liits you in tlie head with a brick. Doul lose faith. Pm convinced that the only tiling that kept me going was that I loved what I did. YouVe got to find what you love. And that is as tnie for your work as it is for yoiir lovers. Yoiir work is going to

25、fill a large part of yom life, and tlie only way to be hiily satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. Aiid the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haveiVt fomid it yet, keep looking. Doni settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it. And. like

26、any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Dont settle.My tliird story is about death.When I was 17,1 read a quote that went soiiietliiiig like: *If you live each day as if it was yom last, someday youll luost certainly be right It

27、 luade an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the minor every moniing and asked myself: If today were the last day of iny life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? Aiid whenever the answer has been for too many days in a row, I know I need to change

28、something.Reineinbering that III be dead soon is the most important tool IVe ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everytliing all external expectatioiis all pride, all fear of enibarrassiueiit or failiu e - these tilings just fall away in the face of death, leavin

29、g only what is tnily huportant. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of tliinkiiig you have something to lose. You are already naked. Tliere is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 7:30 in the mornin

30、g今 and it clearly showed a tiinior on my pancreas, I di chit even know what a p ancreas was. The doctors told me tliis was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable and tliat I should expect to live no longer tliaii tliree to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs i

31、n order, wliich is doctors code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everytliing you thouglit youd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for yoiir family It means to say your g

32、oodbyes,I lived with that diagnosis all day Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, tlirougli iiiy stomach and into iny intestines put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tiuiior I was sedated, but iny wife, who was there, told me that when

33、 tliey viewed the cells midei a niicioscope tlie doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare fonn of pancieatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and Im fine now.This was tlie closest Pve been to facing death、and 1 hope its the closest I get for a few more dec

34、ades. Having lived tlirougli it. I can now say tliis to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a usefill but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there, Aiid yet deatli is the destination we all share. No one has ev

35、er escaped it. Aiid that is as it should be. because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Lifes change agent. It clears out tlie old to make way for tlie new. Riglit now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away

36、Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite tnie.Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Doiil be trapped by dogiua wliicli is living with tlie results of otlier peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others* opinions drown out your own iiuier voice. And most iiuportaut, have

37、 the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Tliey somehow already know what you tnily want to become, Everytliing else is secondaiyWhen I was young, there was an aiuazing publicatioii called Tlie AMiole Earth Catalog、which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named

38、 Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park、and he brouglit it to life with Ills poetic touch. Tliis was in the late 196Os、before personal computers and desktop publisliiiig, so it was all made witli typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback fonn, 35 yea

39、rs before Google came along: it was idealistic, and oveiHowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and liis team put out several issues of Tlie Wliole Earth Catalog, and then wheti it had nin its course, they put out a final issue. It was the inid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover o

40、f their final issue was a photograph of an early inoniing country road, the kind you iniglit find yourself liitcliliiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were tlie words: Stay Hiuigry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungiy Stay Foolish. Aiid I have alw

41、ays wished that for myself And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. stay Hungry. Stay Foolisli. 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。Tliaiik you all very much.乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿中英201103-14 1904.19乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿中英苹果计算机公司CEO史蒂夫乔布斯64 在斯坦福大学对即将毕业的大学生们进行演讲时说，从大学里辍学是他这一生做 出的最为明智的一个选择，因为它逼迫他学会了创新。乔布斯对操场上挤的满 满的毕业生、校友和家长

42、们说：-你的时间有限，所以最好别把它浪费在模仿别 人这种事上。一一同样地，如果还在学校的话，似乎不应该去模仿退学的牛人 们。Youve got to find what you love/ Jobs saysJobs说，你必须要找到你所爱的东西。This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005,这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于200

43、5年6刀12号在斯 坦福大学的毕业典礼上而的演讲稿。I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest ISze ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thafs i

44、t. No big deak Just three stories.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上故好的大学Z 一。我从來没有从大学中毕业。说实话，今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最 近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事悄, 只是三个故事而已。The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起來。I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 mon ths, but then stayed around

45、as a drop-in for ano th er 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?我在Reed大学读了八个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个刀以后我真正的作 出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very

46、strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle

47、of the night asking; We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?冃 They said: Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented

48、a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的，没有结婚的大学毕业生。 她决定让别人收养我，她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候， 她已经做好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她 没有料到,当我出生之后，律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父 母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在 这儿有一个不小心生出來的男婴，你们想要他吗？ ”他们回答道严当然！ ”但是我

49、亲 生母亲随后发现，我的养母从來没有上过大学，我的父亲共至从没有读过高中。 她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后，我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学, 那个时候她才同意。And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as exp ensive as Stan ford, and all of my worki ng-class parents savi ngs were being spent on my college tuition. After six months

50、, I could nt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was prett

51、y scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.在十七岁那年，我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个儿乎和你们斯坦福 大学一样贵的学校，我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们儿乎把所有积蓄都花在

52、了我的 学费上而。在丿弋个刀后，我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命 中做什么，我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。但是在这里，我儿乎花光 了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄.所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。 不能否认，我当时确实非常的書怕，但是现在回头看看，那的确是我这一生中最棒 的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻，我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起 丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起來有点意思的课程。It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends*

53、 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 50 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple, I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless la

54、ter on. Let me give you one exam pie:但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍，所以我只能在朋友房间的地板 上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶了，仅仅为了填饱肚子，在星期天的晚上，我需 要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙（注：位于纽约Brooklyn 下城），只是为了能吃上饭一这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。 我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到的很多东西，此后被证明是无价Z宝a让我给你 们举一个例子吧Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy i

55、nstruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I lear ned about serif a nd san serif ty

56、pefaces, about varying the amount of sp ace betwee n differs nt letter combi nations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that scienee cant capture, and I found it fascinating.Reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海 报，每个抽屉的标签上而全都是漂亮的美术字C因为

57、我退学了，没有受到E规的 训练，所以我决定去参加这个课程，去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了 san serif和serif 7体，我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度，还 有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、 真实的艺术精妙，我发现那实在是太美妙了。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

58、 came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If 丨 had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have n ever had multiple typ efaces or proportion ally sp aced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likel

59、y 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 backwards ten years later.当时看起來这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年 之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候，就不是那样了。我把当时我学 的那些