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史蒂夫·乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲

史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）2005年6 月在斯坦福大学的演讲,这位苹果电脑公司（Apple Computer）和皮克斯动画公司（Pixar Animation Studios）首席执行官在演讲中谈到了他生活中的三次体验，这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

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.

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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业，说实话，这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也不讲大道理，就讲三个故事。 The first story is about connecting the dots.

another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

Itcollege.

─当时他们还在登记册上排队等著呢─半夜三更接到一个电话: “”“当然要”他们回答。但是，我的生母后来发

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 parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't 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 pretty 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

17 年后，我真的进了大学。当时我很天真，选了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学校，当工人的养父母倾其所有的积蓄为我支付了大学学费。读了六个月后，我却看不出上学有什么意义。我既不知道自己这一生想干什么，也不知道大学是否能够帮我弄明白自己想干什么。这时，我就要花光父母一辈子节省下来的钱了。所以，我决定退学，并且坚信日后会证明我这样做是对的。当年做出这个决定时心里直打鼓，但现在回想起来，这还真是我有生以来做出的最好的决定之一。从退学那一刻起，我就可以不再选那些我毫无兴趣的必修课，开始旁听一些看上去有意思的课。

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I

returned coke bottles for the 5¢ 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 later on. Let me give you one example:

那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶，用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那头的黑尔－科里施纳礼拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一举个例子:

当时，

it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是，十年之后，我们在设计第一台 Macintosh 计算机时，它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是，我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课，Macintosh 计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。要不是退了学，我决不会碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。当然，我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看，两者之间的关系就非常、非常清楚了。

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.

你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来；只有回头看时，才会发现它们之间的关系。所以，要相信这些点迟早会连接到一起。你们必须信赖某些东西─直觉、归宿、生命，还有业力，等等。这样做从来没有让我的希望落空过，而且还彻底改变了我的生活。

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 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had 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 20 岁时和沃兹（Woz，苹果公司创始人之一 20 4,000 名员工的大企电脑─ 30 岁。可后来， 30 岁那年，我离开了公司，而

—─因为我扔掉了交到自己手David Packard，惠普公司创始人之一─译注）和鲍勃;诺伊斯（Bob Noyce─译注），想为把事情搞得这么糟糕说声道歉。这次失败弄得沸沸扬扬的，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是，渐渐地，我开始有了一个想法─我仍然热爱我过去做的一切。在苹果公司发生的这些风波丝毫没有改变这一点。我虽然被拒之门外，但我仍然深爱我的事业。于是，我决定从头开始。 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 lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of 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 create the worlds 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, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

虽然当时我并没有意识到，但事实证明，被苹果公司炒鱿鱼是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。尽管前景未卜，但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。这使我进入了一生中最富有创造力的时期之一。 在此后的五年里，我开了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我还爱上一位了不起的女人，后来娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画片《玩具总动员》（Toy Story），它现在是全球最成功的动画制作室。世道轮回，苹果公司买下 NeXT 后，我又回到了苹果公司，我们在 NeXT 公司开发的技术成了苹果公司这次重新崛起的核心。我和劳伦娜（Laurene）也建立了美满的家庭。

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful brick. Don't lose faith. I'm 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 your work as it is for your lovers. keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

17 岁那年，我读到过这样一段话，大意是:“如果把每一天都当作生命的最后”我记住了这句话，从那时起，33 年过去了，我每天早晨都对著镜子自问: “”如果一连许多天我的回答都是“不”，我知道自己应该有所改变了。

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these 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 to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

让我能够做出人生重大抉择的最主要办法是，记住生命随时都有可能结束。因为几乎所有的东西─所有对自身之外的希求、所有的尊严、所有对困窘和失败的恐惧─在死亡来临时都将不复存在，只剩下真正重要

的东西。记住自己随时都会死去，这是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已经一无所有了，还有什么理由不跟著自己的感觉走呢。

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 doctors 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 doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 your family. It means to say your goodbyes.【乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿】

了一个瘤子，可那时我连胰腺是什么还不知道呢！医生告诉我说，几乎可以确诊这是一种无法治愈的恶性肿瘤，我最多还能活 3 到 6 个月。医生建议我回去把一切都安排好，其实这是在暗示“准备后事”。也就家人留麻烦；也就是说，去跟大家诀别。

surgery and I'm fine now.

it is quite true.

这是我和死神离得最近的一次，我希望也是今后几十年里最近的一次。有了这次经历之后，现在我可以更加实在地和你们谈论死亡，而不是纯粹纸上谈兵，那就是: 谁都不愿意死。就是那些想进天堂的人也不愿意死后再进。然而，死亡是我们共同的归宿，没人能摆脱。我们注定会死，因为死亡很可能是生命最好的一项发明。它推进生命的变迁，旧的不去，新的不来。现在，你们就是新的，但在不久的将来，你们也会逐渐成为旧的，也会被淘汰。对不起，话说得太过分了，不过这是千真万确的。

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 follow your heart and

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乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿 第二篇

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲

史蒂夫•乔布斯（Steve Jobs）今年 6 月在斯坦福大学的演讲中谈到了他生活中的三次体验，这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。尤其The Whole Earth Catalog提到的话，作为杂志，这是一种精神，一种气质。

“好学若饥、谦卑若愚”

很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业，说实话，这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也不讲大道理，就讲三个故事。

第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院（Reed College）只读了六个月就退学了，此后便在学校里旁听，又过了大约一年半，我彻底离开。那么，我为什么退学呢？ 这得从我出生前讲起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚在校研究生，她决定将我送给别人收养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交给一对律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那间，那对夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。就这样，我的养父母─当时他们还在登记册上排队等著呢─半夜三更接到一个电话: “我们这儿有一个没人要的男婴，你们要么？”“当然要”他们回答。但是，我的生母后来发现我的养母不是大学毕业生，我的养父甚至连中学都没有毕业，所以她拒绝在最后的收养文件上签字。不过，没过几个月她就心软了，因为我的养父母许诺日后一定送我上大学。

17 年后，我真的进了大学。当时我很天真，选了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学校，当工人的养父母倾其所有的积蓄为我支付了大学学费。读了六个月后，我却看不出上学有什么意义。我既不知道自己这一生想干什么，也不知道大学是否能够帮我弄明白自己想干什么。这时，我就要花光父母一辈子节省下来的钱了。所以，我决定退学，并且坚信日后会证明我这样做是对的。当年做出这个决定时心里直打鼓，但现在回想起来，这还真是我有生以来做出的最好的决定之一。从退学那一刻起，我就可以不再选那些我毫无兴趣的必修课，开始旁听一些看上去有意思的课。 那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶，用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那头的黑尔－科里施纳礼拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜欢这样。我凭著好奇心和直觉所干的这些事情，有许多后来都证明是无价之宝。我给大家举个例子: 当时，里德学院的书法课大概是全国最好的。校园里所有的公告栏和每个抽屉标签上的字都写得非常漂亮。当时我已经退学，不用正常上课，所以我决定选一门书法课，学学怎么写好字。我学习写带短截线和不带短截线的印刷字体，根据不同字母组合调整其间距，以及怎样把版式调整得好上加好。这门课太棒了，既有历史价值，又有艺术造诣，这一点科学就做不到，而我觉得它妙不可言。

当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是，十年之后，我们在设计第一台 Macintosh 计算机时，它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是，我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课，Macintosh 计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。要不是退了学，我决不

会碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。当然，我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看，两者之间的关系就非常、非常清楚了。 你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来；只有回头看时，才会发现它们之间的关系。所以，要相信这些点迟早会连接到一起。你们必须信赖某些东西─直觉、归宿、生命，还有业力，等等。这样做从来没有让我的希望落空过，而且还彻底改变了我的生活。

我的第二个故事是关于好恶与得失。幸运的是，我在很小的时候就发现自己喜欢做什么。我在 20 岁时和沃兹（Woz，苹果公司创始人之一 Wozon 的昵称─译注）在我父母的车库里办起了苹果公司。我们干得很卖力，十年后，苹果公司就从车库里我们两个人发展成为一个拥有 20 亿元资产、4,000 名员工的大企业。那时，我们刚刚推出了我们最好的产品─ Macintosh 电脑─那是在第 9 年，我刚满 30 岁。可后来，我被解雇了。你怎么会被自己办的公司解雇呢？是这样，随著苹果公司越做越大，我们聘了一位我认为非常有才华的人与我一道管理公司。在开始的一年多里，一切都很顺利。可是，随后我俩对公司前景的看法开始出现分歧，最后我俩反目了。这时，董事会站在了他那一边，所以在 30 岁那年，我离开了公司，而且这件事闹得满城风雨。我成年后的整个生活重心都没有了，这使我心力交瘁。 一连几个月，我真的不知道应该怎么办。我感到自己给老一代的创业者丢了脸─因为我扔掉了交到自己手里的接力棒。我去见了戴维•帕卡德（David Packard，惠普公司创始人之一─译注）和鲍勃•诺伊斯（Bob Noyce，英特尔公司创建者之一─译注），想为把事情搞得这么糟糕说声道歉。这次失败弄得沸沸扬扬的，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是，渐渐地，我开始有了一个想法─我仍然热爱我过去做的一切。在苹果公司发生的这些风波丝毫没有改变这一点。我虽然被拒之门外，但我仍然深爱我的事业。于是，我决定从头开始。

虽然当时我并没有意识到，但事实证明，被苹果公司炒鱿鱼是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。尽管前景未卜，但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。这使我进入了一生中最富有创造力的时期之一。 在此后的五年里，我开了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我还爱上一位了不起的女人，后来娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画片《玩具总动员》（Toy Story），它现在是全球最成功的动画制作室。世道轮回，苹果公司买下 NeXT 后，我又回到了苹果公司，我们在 NeXT 公司开发的技术成了苹果公司这次重新崛起的核心。我和劳伦娜（Laurene）也建立了美满的家庭。

我确信，如果不是被苹果公司解雇，这一切决不可能发生。这是一剂苦药，可我认为苦药利于病。有时生活会当头给你一棒，但不要灰心。我坚信让我一往无前的唯一力量就是我热爱我所做的一切。所以，一定得知道自己喜欢什么，选择爱人时如此，选择工作时同样如此。工作将是生活中的一大部分，让自己真正满意的唯一办法，是做自己认为是有意义的工作；做有意义的工作的唯一办法，是热爱自己的工作。你们如果还没有发现自己喜欢什么，那就不断地去寻找，不要急于做出决定。就像一切要凭著感觉去做的事情一样，一旦找到了自己喜欢的事，感觉就会告诉你。就像任何一种美妙的东西，历久弥新。所以说，要不断地寻找，直到找到自己喜欢的东西。不要半途而废。 我的第三个故事与死亡有关。17 岁那年，我读到过这样一段话，大意是:“如果把每一天都当作生命的最后一天，总有一天你会如愿以偿。”我记住了这句话，从那时起，33 年过去了，我每天早晨都对著镜子自问: “假如今天是生命的最后一天，我还会去做今天要做的事吗？”如果一连许多天我的回答都是“不”，我知道自己应该有所改变了。

让我能够做出人生重大抉择的最主要办法是，记住生命随时都有可能结束。因为几乎所有的东西─所有对自身之外的希求、所有的尊严、所有对困窘和失败的恐惧─在死亡来临时都将不复存在，只剩下真正重要的东西。记住自己随时都会死去，这是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已经一无所有了，还有什么理由不跟著自己的感觉走呢。

大约一年前，我被诊断患了癌症。那天早上七点半，我做了一次扫描检查，结果清楚地表明我的胰腺上长了一个瘤子，可那时我连胰腺是什么还不知道呢！医生告诉我说，几乎可以确诊这是一种无法治愈的恶性肿瘤，我最多还能活 3 到 6 个月。医生建议我回去把一切都安排好，其实这是在暗示“准备后事”。也就是说，把今后十年要跟孩子们说的事情在这几个月内嘱咐完；也就是说，把一切都安排妥当，尽可能不给家人留麻烦；也就是说，去跟大家诀别。

那一整天里，我的脑子一直没离开这个诊断。到了晚上，我做了一次组织切片检查，他们把一个内窥镜通过喉咙穿过我的胃进入肠子，用针头在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些细胞组织。当时我用了麻醉剂，陪在一旁的妻子后来告诉我，医生在显微镜里看了细胞之后叫了起来，原来这是一种少见的可以通过外科手术治愈的恶性肿瘤。我做了手术，现在好了。

这是我和死神离得最近的一次，我希望也是今后几十年里最近的一次。有了这次经历之后，现在我可以更加实在地和你们谈论死亡，而不是纯粹纸上谈兵，那就是: 谁都不愿意死。就是那些想进天堂的人也不愿意死后再进。然而，死亡是我们共同的归宿，没人能摆脱。我们注定会死，因为死亡很可能是生命最好的一项发明。它推进生命的变迁，旧的不去，新的不来。现在，你们就是新的，但在不久的将来，你们也会逐渐成为旧的，也会被淘汰。对不起，话说得太过分了，不过这是千真万确的。

你们的时间都有限，所以不要按照别人的意愿去活，这是浪费时间。不要囿于成见，那是在按照别人设想的结果而活。不要让别人观点的聒噪声淹没自己的心声。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感觉和直觉走的勇气。无论如何，感觉和直觉早就知道你到底想成为什么样的人，其他都是次要的。

我年轻时有一本非常好的刊物，叫《全球概览》（The Whole Earth Catalog），这是我那代人的宝书之一，创办人名叫斯图尔特•布兰德（Stewart Brand），就住在离这儿不远的门洛帕克市。他用诗一般的语言把刊物办得生动活泼。那是 20 世纪 60 年代末，还没有个人电脑和桌面印刷系统，全靠打字机、剪刀和宝丽莱照相机（Polaroid）。它就像一种纸质的 Google，却比 Google 早问世了 35 年。这份刊物太完美了，查阅手段齐备、构思不凡。

斯图尔特和他的同事们出了好几期《全球概览》，到最后办不下去时，他们出了最后一期。那是 20 世纪 70 年代中期，我也就是你们现在的年纪。最后一期的封底上是一张清晨乡间小路的照片，就是那种爱冒险的人等在那儿搭便车的那种小路。照片下面写道: 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。那是他们停刊前的告别辞。

求知若渴，大智若愚。这也是我一直想做到的。眼下正值诸位大学毕业、开始新生活之际，我同样愿大家: 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。

乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿(中英)
乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿 第三篇

名人演讲>>乔布斯演讲 总结自己的一生

这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。

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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. 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最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。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情,只是三个故事而已。

The first story is about connecting the dots.

第一个故事是关于“因”和“果”。【乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿】

I dropped out of Reed College 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?

我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——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 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 of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" 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 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来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。但是在几个月以后,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 expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.

After

six months, I couldn't 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 pretty 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 didn't 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。但是我很天真的选择了一个几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，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 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，我几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,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最明智的一个决定。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来有点意思的课程。

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ 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 later on. Let me give you one example:

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美分的可乐瓶子，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——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,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand 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 san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't 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, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 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字体, 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 came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never 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, its likely 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.

当时看起来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家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。因为微软就是苹果的山寨版，可以说世上所有PC都不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我当时不可能预知这事事之间的“因”“果”，但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。

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.

再次说明的是,没人可以未卜先知，事事的因果往往只在回首时显现，你得相信，种什么因，得什么果。人总要有些信仰才行，直觉也好，命运也罢，因果轮回，不管什么。去相信因果的联系，会给你信心去跟从自己的意愿，哪怕离经叛道，也绝不止步。只有这样，才能有所成。

My second story is about love and loss.

我的第二个故事是关于爱和得失的。

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 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had 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 year 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. 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.

我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。Woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被当众扫地出门。在而立之年，我一生的追求突然不见了, 这真是沉重的打击。

I 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 I even thought about running away from the 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 had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

在最初的几个月里，我不知所措。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光, 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。【乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿】

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 lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。

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 create the worlds 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, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

在接下来的五年里, 我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司, 还有一个叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar 制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“”玩具总动员”,Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。峰回路转,Apple收购了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。

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 hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm 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 your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only 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. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。良药苦口利于病，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我坚信，唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我对自己事业的热爱。你必须去寻找自己所爱。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将是此生命的主题之一。要获得真正的满足感，就要对它的价值深信不疑，也只有热爱，才可能开创伟大的事业。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找, 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像你找到注定的伴侣， 岁月的流逝只会令你们的感情愈发深刻。所以千万不要气馁，不要放弃。

我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror 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 "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始,过了33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these 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 to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. “记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都那么微不足道。只需考虑那些真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西,“记住你即将死去”可以有效杜绝我们的侥幸心理。既然将一无所有, 还有什么理由违背自己的意愿。

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 doctors 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 doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查, 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症, 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完.；那意味着把每件事情都搞定, 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说“再见了”。

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 and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got 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 doctors 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 I'm fine now.

那张诊断书挥之不去。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静,因为我被注射了镇定剂。

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿
乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿 第四篇

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿

2005年6月12日，在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上，苹果公司ceo史蒂夫•乔布斯(steve jobs)发表了精彩演讲。已被确诊身患癌症的乔布斯对在场学子讲述了自己经历的三个故事，与学子们分享自己的创业心得，并以此激励年轻一代勇敢、积极、快乐地面对人生。这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。尤其the whole earth catalog提到的话，作为杂志，这是一种精神，一种气质。乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿。乔布斯对操场上挤的满满的毕业生、校友和家长们说:“你的时间有限，所以最好别把它浪费在模仿别人这种事上。” --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。乔布斯朴实而真诚的演讲不但赢得了全场数次热烈鼓掌和尖叫，也成为近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇。时至今日，这一演讲仍然对广大学子和创业者产生着深远影响。以下为乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲全文:

you've got to find what you love，' jobs says

jobs说，你必须要找到你所爱的东西。

this is the text of the mencement address by steve jobs，ceo of apple puter 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2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿。

i am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world。 i never graduated from college。 truth be told， this is the closest i've ever gotten to a college graduation。 today i want to tell you three stories from my life。 that's it。 no big deal。 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最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。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情，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来。

i dropped out of reed college 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?

我在reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后——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 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。

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。

so my parents， who were on a waiting list， got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" 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 a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college。

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来的男婴，你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。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 expensive as stanford， and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition。 after six months， i couldn't 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。

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几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，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后， 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。

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 pretty 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 didn't interest me， and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting。

但是在这里，我几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，我当时确实非常的害怕， 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来有点意思的课程。

it wasn't all romantic。 i didn't have a dorm room， so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms， i returned coke bottles for the 5¢ 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 later on。 let me give you one example:

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美分的可乐瓶子，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——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，此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧:

reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country。 throughout the campus every poster， every label on every drawer， was beautifully hand 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。

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， 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了， 没有受到正规的训练， 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。

i learned about serif and san serif typefaces， about varying the amount of space between different letter binations， about what makes great typography great。 it was beautiful， historical， artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture， and i found it fascinating。

我学到了san serif 和serif字体， 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 puter， it all came back to me。 and we designed it all into the mac。 it was the first puter with beautiful typography。 if i had never dropped in on that single course in college， the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts。

当时看起来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家伙全都设计进了mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。

and since windows just copied the mac， its likely that no personal puter would have them。 if i had never dropped out， i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class， and personal puters 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。

如果我当时没有退学， 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程， mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来，但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候，真的豁然开朗了。

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。

再次说明的是，你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西:你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望(let me down)，只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。

my second story is about love and loss。

我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。

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 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a billion pany with over 4000 employees。 we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier， and i had just turned 30。

我非常幸运， 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力， 十年之后， 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我们刚刚发布了最好的产品，那就是macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。

and then i got fired。 how can you get fired from a pany you started? well， as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the pany with me， and for the first year 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。 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。

在那一年， 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯，在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司， 在最初的几年，公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧， 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候， 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候， 我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去， 这真是毁灭性的打击。

i 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。

在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了， 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和david pack和bob boyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。

i was a very public failure， and i even thought about running away from the 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 had been rejected， but i was still in love。 and so i decided to start over。

我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光， 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些， 一点也没有。我被驱逐了，但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。

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 lightness of being a beginner again， less sure about everything。 it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life。

我当时没有觉察， 但是事后证明， 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由， 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。

during the next five years， i started a pany named next， another pany named pixar， and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my wife。 pixar went on to create the worlds first puter animated feature film， toy story， and is now the most successful animation studio in the world。

在接下来的五年里， 我创立了一个名叫next的公司， 还有一个叫pixar的公司， 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。pixar 制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“”玩具总动员”，pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。

in a remarkable turn of events， apple bought next， i retuned to apple， and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance。 and laurene and i have a wonderful family together。

在后来的一系列运转中，apple收购了next， 然后我又回到了apple公司。我们在next发展的技术在apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和laurence 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。

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 hits you in the head with a brick。 don't lose faith。 i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did。 you've got to find what you love。

我可以非常肯定，如果我不被apple开除的话， 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候， 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西

and that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers。 your work is going to fill a large part of your life， and the only 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。 don't settle。 as with all matters of the heart， you'll know when you find it。 and， like any great relationship， it just gets better and better as the years roll on。 so keep looking until you find it。 don't settle。

。对于工作是如此， 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作， 你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到， 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找， 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系， 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来!

my third story is about death。

我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。

when i was 17， i read a quote that went something like: "if you live each day as if it was your last， someday you'll most certainly be right。" it made an impression on me， and since then， for the past 33 years， i have looked in the mirror 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 "no" for too many days in a row， i know i need to change something。

当我十七岁的时候， 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话，那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始，过了33年，我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天， 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢?”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候， 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。

remembering that i'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life。 because almost everything – all external expectations， all pride， all fear of embarrassment or failure - these 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 to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose。 you are already naked。 there is no reason not to follow your heart。

“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情， 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧，这些在死亡面前都会消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西，“记住你即将死去”是我知道的避免这些想法的最好办法。你已经赤身裸体了， 你没有理由不去跟随自己的心一起跳动。

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 doctors 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 doctor's code for prepare to die。 it means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 your family。 it means to say your goodbyes。

大概一年以前， 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查， 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症， 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家， 然后整理好我的一切， 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完。;那意味着把每件事情都搞定， 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活;那意味着你要说“再见了”。

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 and into my intestines， put a needle into my pancreas and got 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 doctors 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 i'm fine now。

我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去，通过我的胃， 然后进入我的肠子， 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静，因为我被注射了镇定剂。但是我的妻子在那里， 后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫， 因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症。我做了这个手术， 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 now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

那是我最接近死亡的时候， 我还希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来， 死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定一点地对你们说:

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 should be， because death is very likely the single best invention of life。 it is 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 bee the old and be cleared away。 sorry to be so dramatic， but it is quite true。

没有人愿意死， 即使人们想上天堂， 人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。 因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的， 但是从现在开始不久以后， 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很戏剧性， 但是这十分的真实。

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 other's opinions drown out your own inner voice。 and most important， have the courage to follow your heart and intuition。 they somehow already know what you truly want to bee。 everything else is secondary。

你们的时间都有限，所以不要按照别人的意愿去活，这是浪费时间。不要囿于成见，那是在按照别人设想的结果而活。不要让别人观点的聒噪声淹没自己的心声。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感觉和直觉走的勇气。无论如何，感觉和直觉早就知道你到底想成为什么样的人，其他都是次要的。

when i was young， there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog， which was one of the bibles of my generation。 it was created by a fellow named stewart brand not far from here in menlo park， and he brought it to life with his poetic touch。 this was in the late 1960's， before personal puters and desktop publishing， so it was all made with typewriters， scissors， and polaroid cameras。 it was sort of like google in paperback form， 35 years before google came along: it was idealistic， and overflowing with neat tools and great notion

我年轻时有一本非常好的刊物，叫<全球概览>(the whole earth catalog)，这是我那代人的宝书之一，创办人名叫斯图尔特•布兰德(stewart brand)，就住在离这儿不远的门洛帕克市(menlo park)。他用诗一般的语言把刊物办得生动活泼。那是 20 世纪 60 年代末，还没有个人电脑和桌面印刷系统，全靠打字机、剪刀和宝丽莱照相机(polaroid)。它就像一种纸质的 google，却比 google 早问世了 35 年。这份刊物太完美了，查阅手段齐备、构思不凡。

stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog， and then when it had run its course， they put out a final issue。 it was the mid-1970s， and i was your age。 on the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road， the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous。 beneath it were the words: "stay hungry。 stay foolish。" it was their farewell message as they signed off。 stay hungry。 stay foolish。 and i have always wished that for myself。 and now， as you graduate to begin anew， i wish that for you。

斯图尔特(stewart)和他的同事们出了好几期<全球概览>，到最后办不下去时，他们出了最后一期。那是 20 世纪 70 年代中期，我也就是你们现在的年纪。最后一期的封底上是一张清晨乡间小路的照片，就是那种爱冒险的人等在那儿搭便车的那种小路。照片下面写道: 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。那是他们停刊前的告别辞。好学若饥，谦卑若愚。(stay hungry，stay foolish)。这也是我一直想做到的。眼下正值诸位大学毕业、开始新生活之际，我同样愿大家:

stay hungry。 stay foolish。

好学若饥、谦卑若愚。

thank you all very much。

非常感谢大家。

乔布斯传读后感3000字
乔布斯演讲斯坦福演讲稿 第五篇

零零散散的时间里面，这两周读完了中信出版社出版的<乔布斯传>。这期间在微博上发了不少关于此书当中的细节，随身的记事本上也摘抄了不少自己喜欢的片段，但还是想趁热打铁，写篇读后感，把自己读到的一些有价值的东西以及个人的一些收获整理记录下来，一来起到一个梳理作用；二则是以免时间长了导致遗忘。

有时候读到一本好书，真得有那种?三月不知肉味?的感觉。到现在还能清楚地回忆起过去的一年里自认为读过的最有价值的两本书<世界因你不通>以及<明朝那些事儿>里面的一些场景。乔布斯传读后感3000字。2012年的读书计划里，<乔布斯传>开了一个好头，最近的这段时间里面，我脑子里面遍布乔布斯的生平履历，有时候为他的个人成就而感到欢饮鼓舞，有时候却又为他的英年早逝而倍感可惜。青春年代时的狂妄不羁，不惑之年重返苹果开创的新纪元，再到生命的最后两年里面的抗癌斗争以及2011年10月5日的猝然离世。人的一生可以活得如此的辉煌，中国人的哲学观里有一个词叫做?天妒英才?，上天嫉妒某个人的才华，因而让他命运坎坷，英年早逝。但从因果论的角度来看，乔布斯英年早逝的?果?我觉得恰恰便是他自己年轻时候种下的?因?。至少是折了30年的阳寿才打造出来这样一家举世无双的公司。

其实我并不是一个果粉，也绝对算不上是乔布斯的拥趸。乔布斯传读后感3000字。苹果的全线产品迄今为止我一个都没有买过，从来都没有过为它的股价而疯狂过，也没有对它发布新产品而狂热过，但这丝毫不影响我作为一个忠实的安卓用户在读完这本书后对乔布斯本人以及苹果产品产生的景仰和敬畏。在未读这本书之前，通过大大小小的媒体上，我也接收到了很多关于苹果产品的信息，但是其高昂的价格和其封闭的生态系统一直以来使我将其?排斥?在外。2011年可以说是苹果产品全线开花的一年，预算之内唯一买得起跟苹果有关的产品也就是这本<乔布斯传>了，可是最终也还是没买；去年11月份在我九妹被偷之后，那段时间里尽管也考虑过iphone4，但是最终还是选择又买了一部安卓手机。可见，我是典型的非苹果派。但这丝毫不影响我对苹果产品设计哲学的理解。我是一个爱读点小书的人，职业的使然加上对人物自传类书籍的偏爱，长期以来<乔布斯传>一直是列于计划阅读书籍排行榜的前三位。说到这里，要感谢那位借书与我一读的姑娘，这样的一本好书，压在你床底下跟捧在我手中是决然不同的两种反应，或许这也正好印证了我所信奉的?书非借不能读?的信条吧。?信条?，我一下子意识到我用了信条这个词，乔布斯在2005年斯坦福的演讲里面提到过叫我们不要盲从于信条，不要让他人的意见淹没了你自己内心的声音，因为那不是你自己思考的结果，活在别人的信条中是一件很可怕的事情。不好意思，这最后一句很有说教的意味，如你没有兴趣读的话，建议你读一下这里的stayhungry，stayfoolish原文演讲吧。我突然又想到了李开复的那句?followyourheart?，我很想问问他，这句话的知识产权最开始是不是属于乔布斯的。

读完这本书后，很大的一个收获是发现了自己思想观念的片面和主观臆想的可怕。比如，之前一直不能理解苹果公司坚持的封闭式生态系统策略，以为只是苹果的孤芳自赏，刻意摆高姿态不屑其它公司于一顾。，但在看完这本书之后才理解了乔布斯在制定战略时候的精心考虑和良苦用心，不授权操作系统给第三方公司是为了尽可能做到所有产品的一致性和协调统一，从而达到产品对用户的端到端控制，再在以工程学和艺术相结合的思想指导下，这才得以催生出如此具有革新性质的产品。乔布斯的控制欲望很强，他的理念就是牢牢地把产品的一切控制在自己手中。试看android系统里面的几大割据势力以及零散的地方军阀，这些机器人们共同占据了这么大的市场占用率，但是有哪款手机厂商敢胆说自己的产品做到了和iphone4一样的水准?现在不可能有，未来的几十年里面我敢说也不一定有。再比如在未读这本自传之前，我一直以为乔布斯当初是考不上好的大学才去念reedcollege的，看完自传之后才知道，原来上reedcollege是他自己坚持的选择，年轻时候乔布斯非常的众叛亲离和狂妄不羁，所以才特意选择了这所带有嬉皮士风格以及以独立自由精神著称的私立高校。

第二点收获则是对苹果产品设计哲学的理解。之前虽然在ifanr和其它网站上看到过很多关于苹果产品介绍和分析的文章，但是在了解乔布斯的生平经历之后，才知道是乔布斯的简约至上风格以及艺术与人文的理念给苹果的产品打上了多深的烙印。在设计macintosh电脑的时候，即使绝大多数消费者不会打开电脑主机的盖子查看主板上面的排线，但是乔布斯坚持要求工程师在设计主板电路排线的时候做到精简和整洁。在创建苹果零售店的过程中，乔布斯决意只为零售店设计一个门，并且使用螺旋形的楼梯甚至精心考虑过从一个顾客进门到机器体验再到最终刷卡消费的所有环节，尽最大程序地来精简零售店铺玻璃的使用块数，他崇尚?少即是多?的设计理念，越?少?就显得越?多?。

第三点则是佩服乔布斯对电子消费市场的商业远见。?并不是消费者想要什么，你就得去为消费者提供什么。这是很错误的观念，因为消费者通常都不知道自己想要什么?。他举例说福特汽车的创始人曾经这样说过一句话?如果我问消费者他们未来想要什么，他们应该会告诉我?一匹跑得更快的马??。所以你很难想像是在得知微软在研发带手写笔的平板电脑时，乔布斯觉得手写笔完全是累赘，因为他认为?上帝给人类创造的十根手指头就是最好的输入工具?，正是预见到了多点触控将来才是计算机产业的未来，从而才设计出来了iphone和ipad。()id公社上的这篇今日设计中的装饰文章上讲，不考虑iphone4手机的销量，单就一款手机的品质来看，iphone4应该可以进入人类工艺品设计史的舞台。

第四点收获则是这本自传里面提到的一些跟乔布斯个人相关的趣闻趣事，仔细地读一下，还是很值得玩味的一件事情。

当初苹果产品有一个广告叫做?thinkdifferent?以来彰显苹果计算机跟其它同类产品的不同，但是乔布斯停车的时候经常不按规矩而占用盲人停车车位，别人戏称他?parkdifferent?；

乔布斯曾经痛斥微软盗窃苹果的图形窗口技术，但其实苹果的macintosh桌面所用到的图形技术界面其实最初也是剽窃施乐公司而来；

乔布斯报仇adobe公司不准许ipad和iphone上面支持flash，因为当年在一次合作洽谈中adobe拒绝为苹果开发应用软件，这让乔布斯感觉到了背叛(乔布斯声称是他让adobe出名)；

乔布斯年轻时候崇尚禅修，19岁那年一个人前往印度进行了为期7个月的一次心灵旅程；

23岁的时候让第一个女友怀孕并生下一个女儿，最开始拒绝承担责任后来才改变态度承认父女关系，并且苹果当初有一款lisa电脑采用的就是他这个女儿的名字；

些许写下了这些读后感言，如你对苹果的产品或者文化对有兴趣的话，建议你一定去读一读<乔布斯传>。由于此书的出版当初为了做到全球同步发行，译言团队仓促翻译，我在读这本自传的过程中发现不少读起来不通顺和不易理解的地方。因此推荐唐茶版的<乔布斯传>给你吧，或许比中信版的要易读一些，当然最好还是去读英文原著。