乔布斯斯坦福大学的演讲

1、乔布斯斯坦福大学的演讲感谢大伙儿。专门荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参 加毕业典礼。老实讲，我大学没有毕业，今天可能是我一生中离大学毕业最近的 一次了。Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天我想告诉大伙儿来自我生活的三个故事。没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而 已。The first story is about connecting the dotsI dropped out of Reed College a

2、fter the first six 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, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption She felt very strongly that I should

3、 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 of the night asking,

4、HWe ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, HOf course.M My biological mother found out later 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 a few months

5、 later when my parents promised that I would go to college我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，然而在18个月之后-我真正退学之前，我 还常去学校。为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前讲起。我的生母是一个 年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定让不人收养我。她有一个专门强烈的信仰，认 为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。因此，一对律师夫妇讲好了要领养我，然 而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。然后我排在收养人名单中的 养父母在一个深夜接到电话专门意外，我们多了一个男婴，你们要吗？杠因 此要！ ”然而我的生母后来乂发觉我的养母没有大学毕业，养

6、父连高中都没有毕 业。她拒绝在领养书上签字。儿个月后，我的养父母保证会让我上大学，她妥协 ToThis was the start in my life. 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 my working-class paients* savings were being spent on my college tuition After six mon什is, I could

7、n't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 pretty s

8、cary 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 didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting 这是我生命的开端。十七年后，我上大学了，然而我专门无知地选了一所差不多 和斯坦福一样贵的学校，儿乎花掉我那蓝领阶

9、层养父母一生的积蓄。六个月后， 我觉得不值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么也不晓得大学会如何样帮我指点迷 津，而我却在花销父母一生的积蓄。因此我决定退学，同时相信没有做错。一开 始专门吓人，但回忆起来，这却是我一生中作的最好的决定之一。从我退学的那 一刻起，我能够停止一切不感爱好的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends1 rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent

10、 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 later on. Let me give you one example 情况

11、并不那么美好。我没有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房间的地上。为了吃饭，我收集 五分一个的旧可兀瓶，每个星期天晚上步行七英里到哈尔克里什纳庙里改善一 下一周的伙食。我喜爱这种生活方式。能够遵循自己的好奇和直觉前行后来被证 明是多么的宝贵。让我来给你们举个例子吧。Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, eveiy label on every drawer was beautifully hand

12、-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typo

13、graphy great. It was beautiful historical artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.当时的里德大学提供可能是全国最好的书法指导。校园中每一张海报，抽屉上的 每一张标签，差不多上漂壳的手写体。山于我已退学，不用修那些必修课，我决 定选一门书法课上上。在这门课上，我学会了"serifs和”sansserif”两种字体、学 会了如何样在不同的字母组合中改变字间距、学会了如何样写出好的字来。这是 一种科学无法捕捉的微妙

14、，楚楚动人、充满历史底蕴和艺术性，我觉得自己被完 全吸引了。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 came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had neve

15、r dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraph

16、y class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.要不是退了学，我决可不能碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能可不能有现在 这些漂亮的版式了。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 Again, you can't

17、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 somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whateverbecause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the co

18、nfidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.因此，我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与今后的关系。十年之后再回头看， 两者之间关系就专门、专门清晰了。你们同样不可能从现在那个点上看到今后； 只有回头看时，才会发觉它们之间的关系。因此你必须相信，那些点点滴滴，会 在你以后的生命里，以某种方式串联起来。你必须相信一些东西你的勇气、 宿命、生活、因缘，随便什么因为相信这些点滴能够一路连接会给你带来循 从本觉的自信，它

19、使你远离平凡，变得与众不同。My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found 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 ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 emp

20、loyees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned 30, and then I got fired How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first ye

21、ar or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at 30, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating I

22、 really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and

23、 I even thought about ninning away from 什le Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over第二个故事是关于爱与失的。我专门幸运，专门早就发觉自己喜爱做的情况。我 二十岁的时候就和沃

24、茨在父母的车库里开创了苹果公司。我们工作得专门努力， 十年后，苹果公司成长为拥有四千名职员，价值二十亿的大公司。我们刚刚推出 了最好的创意，Macintosh操作系统，在这之前的一年，也确实是我刚过三十岁， 我被解雇了。你如何可能被一个亲手创立的公司解雇？情况是如此的，在公司成 长期间，我雇佣了一个我们认为专门聪慧，能够和我一起经营公司的人。一年后， 我们对公司以后的看法产生分歧，董事会站在了他的一边。因此，在我三十岁的 时候，我出局了，专门公布地出局了。我整个成年生活的焦点没了，这专门要命。 一开始的儿个月我确实不明白该干什么。我觉得我让公司的前一代创建者们败兴 7,我把传给我的权杖给弄丢了

25、。我与戴维德帕珂德和鲍勃诺埃斯见面，试图 为这彻头彻尾的失败道歉。我败得如此之惨以至于我想要逃离硅谷。但有个东西 在慢慢地叫醒我：我还爱着我从事的行业。这次失败一点儿都没有改变这一点。 我被逐了，但我仍爱着我的事业。我决定重新开始。I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the

26、lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to c

27、reate the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story/* and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissa

28、nce, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.在一系列的成功运转后，苹果收购了 NeXT,我乂回到了苹果。我们在NeXT开 发的技术在苹果的复兴中起了核心作用，另外劳琳和我组建了一个幸福的家庭。I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life

29、s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Pm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the on

30、ly way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it

31、just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking Don't settle我专门确信，假如我没有被苹果炒掉，这些就都可不能发主。那个药的味道太糟 了，然而我想病人需要它。有些时候，生活会给你迎头一棒。不要丧失信心。我 确信唯独让我一路走下来的是我对自己所做情况的热爱。你必须去找你热爱的东 西，对匸作如此，对你的爱人也是如此的。工作会占据你生命中专门大的一部分， 你只有相信自己做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。假如你还没有找到，那么 就连续找，不要停。全心全意地找，当你找到时，你会明白的。就像任何真诚的 关

32、系，随着时刻的流逝，只会越来越紧密。因此连续找，不要停。My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like HIf you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.H It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror

33、every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been HnoM for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that Pll be dead soon is the most important thing Fve ever en

34、countered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know t

35、o avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose You are already naked There 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 morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The do

36、ctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors1 code for Hprepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything

37、 you thought yoifd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes大约一年前，我被诊断出患了癌症。我早上七点半作了扫描，清晰地显示在我的 胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不明口胰腺是什么东西。大夫们告诉我这儿乎是无法 治愈的，我还有三到六个

38、月的时刻。我的大夫建议我回家，整理一切。在大夫的 辞典中，这确实是“预备死亡叩勺意思。确实是意味着把要对你小孩讲十年的话在 儿个月内讲完；懸味着把所有东西搞定，尽量让你的家庭活得轻松一点；意味着 你要讲“诀不”了。I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got

39、 a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine n

40、ow我整日都想着那诊断书的情况。后来有天晚上我做了一个活切片检查，他们将一 个内窥镜伸进我的喉咙，穿过胃，到达肠道，用一根针在我的胰腺肿瘤上取了儿 个细胞。我当时是被麻醉的，然而我的妻子告诉我，那些大夫在显微镜下看到细 胞的时候开始尖叫，因为发觉这难道是一种专门罕见的可用手术治愈的胰腺癌 症。我做了手术，现在，我痊愈了。This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades Having lived through it, I can

41、now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it shoul

42、d be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. Its life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it*s qui

43、te true Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others* opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to foll

44、ow heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become Everything else is secondary.这是我最接近死亡的时候，我也期望是我以后儿十年里最接近死亡的一次。这次 死里逃生让我比以往只明白死亡是一个有用而纯粹书面概念的时候更确信地告 诉你们，没有人情愿死，即使那些想上天堂的人们也不情愿通过死亡来达到他们 的L1的。然而死亡是每个人共同的终点，没有人能够逃脱。也应该如此，因为死 亡专门可能是生命最好的发明。它去陈让新。现在，你们确实是“新S然而有一 天，不用太久，你们有会慢慢变老然后死去。抱歉，这专门戏剧性，但却是确实。 你们的时刻是有限的，不要白费在重复不人的生活上。不要被教条束缚，那意味 着会和不人摸索的结果一块儿生活。不要被其他人的喧嚣观点掩盖自己内心真正 的声音。你的直觉和内心明口你想要变成什么模样。所有其他东西差不多上次要 的。When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth C