1、喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)的演講感謝大伙兒。專門榮幸能和你們，來自世界最好大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)生們，一塊兒參 加畢業(yè)典禮。老實講，我大學(xué)沒有畢業(yè)，今天可能是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)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.今天我想告訴大伙兒來自我生活的三個故事。沒什么大不了的，只是三個故事而 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我在里得大學(xué)讀了六個月就退學(xué)了，然而在18個月之后-我真正退學(xué)之前，我 還常去學(xué)校。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前講起。我的生母是一個 年輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，她決定讓不人收養(yǎng)我。她有一個專門強(qiáng)烈的信仰，認(rèn) 為我應(yīng)該被一個大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。因此，一對律師夫婦講好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然 而最后一秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個女孩兒。然后我排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的 養(yǎng)父母在一個深夜接到電話專門意外，我們多了一個男嬰，你們要嗎？杠因 此要！ ”然而我的生母后來乂發(fā)覺我的養(yǎng)母沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)

6、父連高中都沒有畢 業(yè)。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書上簽字。兒個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會讓我上大學(xué)，她妥協(xié) 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 這是我生命的開端。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了，然而我專門無知地選了一所差不多 和斯坦福一樣貴的學(xué)校，兒乎花掉我那藍(lán)領(lǐng)階

9、層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。六個月后， 我覺得不值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么也不曉得大學(xué)會如何樣幫我指點迷 津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。因此我決定退學(xué)，同時相信沒有做錯。一開 始專門嚇人，但回憶起來，這卻是我一生中作的最好的決定之一。從我退學(xué)的那 一刻起，我能夠停止一切不感愛好的必修課，開始旁聽那些有意思得多的課。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 情況

11、并不那么美好。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。為了吃飯，我收集 五分一個的舊可兀瓶，每個星期天晚上步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一 下一周的伙食。我喜愛這種生活方式。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺前行后來被證 明是多么的寶貴。讓我來給你們舉個例子吧。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.當(dāng)時的里德大學(xué)提供可能是全國最好的書法指導(dǎo)。校園中每一張海報，抽屜上的 每一張標(biāo)簽，差不多上漂殼的手寫體。山于我已退學(xué)，不用修那些必修課，我決 定選一門書法課上上。在這門課上，我學(xué)會了"serifs和”sansserif”兩種字體、學(xué) 會了如何樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會了如何樣寫出好的字來。這是 一種科學(xué)無法捕捉的微妙

14、，楚楚動人、充滿歷史底蘊(yùn)和藝術(shù)性，我覺得自己被完 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.要不是退了學(xué)，我決可不能碰巧選了這門書法課，個人電腦也可能可不能有現(xiàn)在 這些漂亮的版式了。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，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點上看到它與今后的關(guān)系。十年之后再回頭看， 兩者之間關(guān)系就專門、專門清晰了。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在那個點上看到今后； 只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)覺它們之間的關(guān)系。因此你必須相信，那些點點滴滴，會 在你以后的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來。你必須相信一些東西你的勇氣、 宿命、生活、因緣，隨便什么因為相信這些點滴能夠一路連接會給你帶來循 從本覺的自信，它

19、使你遠(yuǎn)離平凡，變得與眾不同。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第二個故事是關(guān)于愛與失的。我專門幸運(yùn)，專門早就發(fā)覺自己喜愛做的情況。我 二十歲的時候就和沃

24、茨在父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我們工作得專門努力， 十年后，蘋果公司成長為擁有四千名職員，價值二十億的大公司。我們剛剛推出 了最好的創(chuàng)意，Macintosh操作系統(tǒng)，在這之前的一年，也確實是我剛過三十歲， 我被解雇了。你如何可能被一個親手創(chuàng)立的公司解雇？情況是如此的，在公司成 長期間，我雇傭了一個我們認(rèn)為專門聰慧，能夠和我一起經(jīng)營公司的人。一年后， 我們對公司以后的看法產(chǎn)生分歧，董事會站在了他的一邊。因此，在我三十歲的 時候，我出局了，專門公布地出局了。我整個成年生活的焦點沒了，這專門要命。 一開始的兒個月我確實不明白該干什么。我覺得我讓公司的前一代創(chuàng)建者們敗興 7,我把傳給我的權(quán)杖給弄丟了

25、。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見面，試圖 為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。我敗得如此之慘以至于我想要逃離硅谷。但有個東西 在慢慢地叫醒我：我還愛著我從事的行業(yè)。這次失敗一點兒都沒有改變這一點。 我被逐了，但我仍愛著我的事業(yè)。我決定重新開始。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.在一系列的成功運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)后，蘋果收購了 NeXT,我乂回到了蘋果。我們在NeXT開 發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個幸福的家庭。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我專門確信，假如我沒有被蘋果炒掉，這些就都可不能發(fā)主。那個藥的味道太糟 了，然而我想病人需要它。有些時候，生活會給你迎頭一棒。不要喪失信心。我 確信唯獨讓我一路走下來的是我對自己所做情況的熱愛。你必須去找你熱愛的東 西，對匸作如此，對你的愛人也是如此的。工作會占據(jù)你生命中專門大的一部分， 你只有相信自己做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得。假如你還沒有找到，那么 就連續(xù)找，不要停。全心全意地找，當(dāng)你找到時，你會明白的。就像任何真誠的 關(guān)

32、系，隨著時刻的流逝，只會越來越緊密。因此連續(xù)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大約一年前，我被診斷出患了癌癥。我早上七點半作了掃描，清晰地顯示在我的 胰腺有一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時都不明口胰腺是什么東西。大夫們告訴我這兒乎是無法 治愈的，我還有三到六個

38、月的時刻。我的大夫建議我回家，整理一切。在大夫的 辭典中，這確實是“預(yù)備死亡叩勺意思。確實是意味著把要對你小孩講十年的話在 兒個月內(nèi)講完；懸味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點；意味著 你要講“訣不”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我整日都想著那診斷書的情況。后來有天晚上我做了一個活切片檢查，他們將一 個內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過胃，到達(dá)腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了兒 個細(xì)胞。我當(dāng)時是被麻醉的，然而我的妻子告訴我，那些大夫在顯微鏡下看到細(xì) 胞的時候開始尖叫，因為發(fā)覺這難道是一種專門罕見的可用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌 癥。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)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.這是我最接近死亡的時候，我也期望是我以后兒十年里最接近死亡的一次。這次 死里逃生讓我比以往只明白死亡是一個有用而純粹書面概念的時候更確信地告 訴你們，沒有人情愿死，即使那些想上天堂的人們也不情愿通過死亡來達(dá)到他們 的L1的。然而死亡是每個人共同的終點，沒有人能夠逃脫。也應(yīng)該如此，因為死 亡專門可能是生命最好的發(fā)明。它去陳讓新?，F(xiàn)在，你們確實是“新S然而有一 天，不用太久，你們有會慢慢變老然后死去。抱歉，這專門戲劇性，但卻是確實。 你們的時刻是有限的，不要白費(fèi)在重復(fù)不人的生活上。不要被教條束縛，那意味 著會和不人摸索的結(jié)果一塊兒生活。不要被其他人的喧囂觀點掩蓋自己內(nèi)心真正 的聲音。你的直覺和內(nèi)心明口你想要變成什么模樣。所有其他東西差不多上次要 的。When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth C