乔布斯演讲稿英文版

1、最新资料推荐thank you. im honored to be w it h you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. truth be told, i nevergraduated from college and this is the closest ive ever gotten to a college graduation.today i want to tell you three stories from my life. thats it. no bi

2、g deal. just three stories. the first story is about connecting the dots.i dropped out of reed college after the first six months but then stayedaround as a drop-inforanothereighteenmonths or so beforeireallyquit.so why dididrop out? itstartedbeforeiwas born.my biologicalmotherwas a young, unwed gra

3、duate student, and she decided to put me up foradoption. she felt very strongly that ishould be adopted by collegegraduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by alawyer and his wife, except that when i popped out, they decided at thelast minute that they really wanted a girl.

4、so my parents, who were ona waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, weve gotan unexpected baby boy. do you want him? they said, of course. mybiologicalmother found outlaterthatmy mother had nevergraduated fromcollege and that my father had never graduated from high school. sheref

5、 used tosignthe finaladoption papers.she onlyrelenteda few monthslater when my parents promised that iwould go to college.this was the start in my life. and seventeen years later, i did go tocollege, but i na?vely chose a college that was almost as expensive asstanford, and all of my working-class p

6、arents savings were being spenton my college tuition. after six months, i couldnt see the value in it.ihad no ideawhat i wanted todo withmy life,and no ideaofhow collegewas goingtohelpme figureitout, and here iwas, spendingallthemoneymy parentshad saved theirentirelife.so i decidedtodrop outand trus

7、tthat itwould allwork outok. itwas prettyscaryatthetime,but lookingback, it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i droppedout, icouldstoptakingtherequiredclassesthatdidntinterestme andbegin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.itwasntallromantic.ididnthave a dorm

8、 room, so islepton thefloorinfriendsrooms. i returnedcoke bottlesforthefive-centdepositstobuy food with, and i would walk the seven miles across town every sundaynightto getone good meal a week at thehare krishna temple.ilovedit.and much of whati stumbledintoby following mycuriosity and intuitiontur

9、ned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example.reedcollege at that time offeredperhaps thebestcalligraphyinstructioninthecountry.throughout thecampus everyposter,everylabelon everydrawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. because i had dropped out and1最新资料推荐didnthave to take the norma

10、l classes, i decided to take a calligraphyclass to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and sans-seriftypefaces, about varying the amount of space between different lettercombinations,about what makes greattypographygreat.itwas beautiful,historical,artisticallysubtlein a way that sciencecantc

11、apture,andi found it fascinating.none ofthishad even a hope ofany practicalapplicationinmy life.butten years later when we were designing the first macintosh computer, itall came back to me, and we designed itallintothe mac. itwas the firstcomputer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped i

12、n on thatsinglecourse in college,the mac would have never had multiple typefacesor proportionally spaced fonts, and since windows just copied the mac,its likely that no personal computer would have them.if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on thatcalligraphy class and personals

13、computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when iwas in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 yearslater. again, you cant connect the dots looking forward. you can onlyconnect them looking backwar

14、ds, so you have to trust that the dotswillsomehowconnectinyour future.you have to trust insomething-yourgut,destiny, life, karma, whatever-because believing that the dots willconnect down the roadwill give youthe confidence tofollow your heart,even when it leadsyou offthewell-wornpath, and thatwillm

15、ake all thedifference.my second storyisaboutloveand loss.i was lucky.ifoundwhat ilovedto do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage wheni was twenty. we worked hard and in ten years, apple had grown from justthe two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000emplo

16、yees. wed justreleasedourfinestcreation,themacintosh,a yearearlier, and id just turned thirty, and then i got fired. how can youget fired from a companyyou started? well, as apple grew, we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for thefirst year or so, things w

17、ent 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 thirty, i was out, and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,and itwas devastating.i reallydidntknow

18、 what to do fora few months.i feltthati had letthe previousgenerationof entrepreneursdown, thati 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.2最新资料推荐i was a very public failure and i even thought about runn

19、ing away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me. i still loved whati did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. id been rejected but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.i didntsee itthen,butitturnedout thatgettingfiredfrom applewasthebestthingth

20、atcouldhave ever happened to me. the heavinessofbeingsuccessfulwas replacedby thelightnessofbeinga beginneragain,lesssure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creativeperiods in my life. during the next five years i started a company namednext, another company named pixarand fellin

21、 love with an amazingwomanwho would become my wife. pixar went on to create the worlds firstcomputer-animated feature film, toy story, and is now the mostsuccessful animation studio in the world.ina remarkableturnofevents,apple bought nextand ireturnedtoappleand thetechnologywe developedatnextisat t

22、he heart of applescurrentrenaissance, and lorene and i have a wonderful family together.im pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadnt been firedfrom apple.itwas awful-tastingmedicinebut i guess the patientneededit.sometimes lifesgoingto hityou in thehead witha brick.dontlosefaith. im co

23、nvinced that the only thing that kept me going was that iloved what i did. youve got to find what you love, and that is as trueforwork as itis foryourlovers.your work is goingtofilla largepartof your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what youbelieve is great work, and the only wa

24、y to do great work is to love whatyou do. if you havent found it yet, keep looking, and dont settle. aswith allmatters oftheheart,youllknow when you findit,and likeanygreat relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.so keep looking. dont settle.my third story is aboutdeath . wh

25、en i was 17 i read a quote that wentsomethinglikeifyou liveeach day as ifitwas your last,somedayyoullmost certainly be right. it made an impression on me, and since then,forthepast33 years,ihave lookedin the mirroreverymorning and askedmyself, if today were the last day of my life, would i want to d

26、o whati am about to do today? and whenever the answer has been no for toomany days in a row, i know i need to change something. remembering thatill be dead soon is the most important thing ive ever encountered tohelp me make the big choices in life, because almost everything-allexternal expectations

27、, all pride, all fear of embarrassment orfailure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving onlywhat istrulyimportant.rememberingthatyou are goingtodie isthebest3最新资料推荐way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. you are already naked. there is no reason not to

28、 follow your heart.about a year ago, i was diagnosed with cancer. i had a scan at 7:30 inthe morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. i didnt evenknow what a pancreas was. the doctors told me this was almost certainlya type of cancer that is incurable, and that i should expect to live n

29、olonger than three to six months. my doctor advised me to go home and getmy affairsin order,which isdoctorscode forpreparetodie.itmeansto try and tell your kids everything you thought youd have the next tenyears to tell them, in just a few months. it means to make sure thateverythingis buttoned up s

30、o thatitwillbe as easy as possiblefor yourfamily. it means to say your goodbyes.i lived with that diagnosis all day. later that evening i had a biopsywhere they stuck anendoscope down my throat, through mystomach into myintestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from thetumor. i w

31、as sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when theyviewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, becauseitturnedout tobe a veryrare formofpancreaticcancerthatiscurablewith surgery. i had the surgery and, thankfully, i am fine now.this was the closestivebeen tofacingdeath,

32、and ihope itsthe closestigetfora few more decades. having livedthrough it, ican now say thisto you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purelyintellectual concept. no one wants to die, evenpeople who want to go toheaven dont want to die to get there, and yet, death is the desti

33、nationwe all share. no one has ever escaped it. and that is as it should be,because death isvery likelythe singlebest inventionof life.itslifeschange 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 graduallybecomethe old an

34、d be clearedaway. sorryto be so dramatic,but itsquitetrue.your timeis limited,so dontwaste itlivingsomeoneelseslife.dont be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of otherpeoplesthinking.dontletthenoiseofothersopinionsdrown out yourown innervoice,heart and intuition.they somehowalreadyknow what youtruly want to become. everything else is secondary.wheniwas yo