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乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs，1955年2月24日—20xx年10月5日），出生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。
乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，他深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。
下面带您看一下他在斯坦福大学毕业典礼讲话。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told， I never graduated 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 big deal. Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上的大学之一。
说实话，(虽然)我从来没有从大学中毕业，但今天是我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。
不说大道理，就是三个故事而已。
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 beforeI really quit. So why did I drop out?我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后，我还经常去学校。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs，1955年2月24日—20xx年10月5日），出生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。
乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，他深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。
下面WTT带您看一下他在斯坦福大学毕业典礼讲话。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told， I never graduated 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 big deal. Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上的大学之一。
说实话，(虽然)我从来没有从大学中毕业，但今天是我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。
不说大道理，就是三个故事而已。
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?我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后，我还经常去学校。
Steve.Jobs在2005年对Stanford毕业生的演讲（中英文）
Steve.Jobs在2005年对Stanford毕业生的演讲（中英文）Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and 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. The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." 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 later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was the start in my life. And seventeen 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 noidea 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 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 far more interesting.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 five-cent 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.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 sans-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.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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals 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 10 years later. 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--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well- worn path, and that will make all the difference.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 twenty. 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 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, 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, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. 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 beingpassed 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'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.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 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 create 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 renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.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's going to hit 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 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, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like anygreat relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.My third story is about death. 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. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing 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.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 doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through mystomach 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 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 now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's 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. 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's 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 quite 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, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, 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 Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Googlecame along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies 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 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. Stay hungry, stay foolish.Thank you all, very much. 乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲（中文稿）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。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英文对照)
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英文对照)篇一：乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【中英】乔布斯XX年斯坦福演讲：活出你自己XX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：史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学XX年毕业典礼上的演讲稿 [中英对照]XX-10-06 21:04:19You've 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, XX.这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs 于XX年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
Thank you.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。
史蒂夫-乔布斯(Steve Jobs)于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的讲话
Barrons的博客--贝乐斯一定要找到你热爱的这是苹果创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的讲话。
几年前，当我第一次读到这篇文章时就被深深的震撼了。
我把整个文章翻译了一遍。
时至今日，这篇文章仍然激励着我，去追随自己内心的想法，去做自己真正热爱的事。
这篇文章里的名句“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”很难翻译。
“Hungry、Foolish”仅从字面上理解是“饥饿、愚蠢”的意思。
但我把这句话译成“保持渴望。
固执愚见。
”这里的Hungry，我理解是年轻人对新事物的渴望与好奇，虽然穷困饥苦却渴求新知。
就像史蒂夫·乔布斯年轻时一样，条件艰苦甚至真饿肚子却到处去学自己真正感兴趣的东西。
这里的Foolish，我理解是指年轻人的年少轻狂，不精于世故，出生牛犊不怕虎的一股蛮劲，蠢劲。
在老于世故的人看来，这当然是愚蠢。
但正是这种不知天高地厚，不懂人情世故的固执愚见，才让年轻人能开创与前人不同的事业。
一定要找到你热爱的我很荣幸能在今天与你们一起参加一个世界上最优秀的大学的毕业典礼。
我从来没有从大学毕业。
说实话，今天是我最离大学毕业最近的一次。
今天，我想给你们讲我生活中的三个故事。
就是这样。
没什么大不了的。
只是三个故事。
第一个故事是关于把我生活中过去的点点滴滴联系起来。
在过了最初的六个月后，我便从Reed学院辍学了。
但是，在我真正离开那里前，我又呆了大约18个月。
我为什么辍学呢？这一切在我出生前就开始了。
我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的未婚大学生。
她决定把我送给别人收养。
她坚持认为，我应该被有大学学历的人收养。
所以，一切本来都已经安排好了，我将会被一个律师和他的妻子收养。
但是当我出生以后，律师夫妇在最后一分钟决定他们真正想要的是一个女孩。
所以，我的养父母，本来是在等候的名单上的。
他们在半夜接到了一个电话，“我们有一个意料之外的男婴。
苹果首席执行官Jobs在Stanford毕业典礼上的演讲
苹果首席执行官Jobs在Stanford毕业典礼上的演讲苹果首席执行官Jobs在Stanford毕业典礼上的演讲[中英]分类:i来英文2007.4.9 11:41 作者：bensea | 评论：0 | 阅读：84苹果首席执行官Jobs在Stanford毕业典礼上的演讲[中英]毕业典礼上的演讲大都轻松愉快，而且容易被遗忘。
然而, 乔布斯（Steve Jobs）2005年 6 月在斯坦福大学的演讲在经过了一个夏天之后依然为人所提及。
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。
他们将他的演讲登在互联网上，在博客上展开讨论，通过电子邮件互相发送，在全球传阅。
我们在此刊登全文，以飨还没有看到该演讲的读者。
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on Ju ne 2, 25.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from o ne of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from c ollege. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a colleg e graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. T hat’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。
Steve Jobs05年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿
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Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天，恐怕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.今天我想告诉大家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 dots.第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." 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 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，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。
Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学演讲词
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.The first story is about connecting the dots.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?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.put sth up= to make something or someone available for a particular purposeput something up forThey put their house up for sale .The baby was put up for adoption .relent/rɪˈlent/v[I]formal to change your attitude and become less strict or cruel towards someone = give in变温和;变宽容;发慈悲,怜悯At last her father relented and came to visit her.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.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, andI would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meala 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: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.(无衬线字体在西文中习惯称sans-serif，其中sans为法语的“无”的意思)无衬线字体衬线字体衬线字体的衬线（红色部分）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 c opied 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 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.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.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 us in a garage into a 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. (=making someone feel extremely sad or shocked)if opinions, interests etc diverge, they are different from each otherdiverge fromHere Innocent's views diverged from Gregory's.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.screw sth⇔up informal =to spoil something by doing something stupidShe realized that she had screwed up her life.dawn on =if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time开始被理解；渐渐明白Then the ghastly truth dawned on me.It dawned on me that Joanna had been right all along.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the bestthing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure abouteverything. 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, anothercompany 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.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'mconvinced 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'llknow 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.My third story is about death.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. 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.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.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.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: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 become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite 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 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 become. Everything else is secondary.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 afellow 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 computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras(宝丽来相机). 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 notionStewart 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.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.sign off phr vinformal to end a radio or television programme by saying goodbyeto write your final message at the end of an informal letterIt's getting late so I'll sign off now. Love, John.乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿[中英]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6.14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。
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史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲：史蒂夫·乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲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。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来：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？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。
所以我的养父母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,我的养父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,那个时候她才勉强同意。
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。
我不知道我真正想要做什么,我也不知道大学能怎样帮助我找到答案。
但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的全部积蓄。
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。
然后我可以开始去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
但是这并不是那么浪漫。
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,我去捡可以换5美分的可乐罐，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神庙（注：位于纽约Brooklyn下城）,只是为了能吃上好饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭，我喜欢那里的饭菜。
找到你的热情所在——Steve Jobs2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
这是苹果电脑公司兼皮克斯动画公司CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯于2005年6月12日在毕业典礼上作的演讲。
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.今天，我很荣幸能来参加大家的毕业典礼，斯坦弗大学是世界上最优秀的大学之一。
我根本没有从大学毕过业。
说实话，这还是我与大学毕业最近距离的接触。
今天，我想给大家讲三个故事，它们都与我自己息息相关。
没错，它们就是三个故事而已。
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.第一个故事是有关小事情间的联系。
The first story is about connecting the dots.不过六个月的时间，我便从里德学院辍学了，但在那之后，我还是在学院里又呆了18个月才真正离开。
那么，我为什么要辍学呢？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?话还要从我出生时说起了。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲中英对照
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish求知若饥，虚心若愚This is the Commencement Address made by Steve Jobs,CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios,delivered on June 12, 2005 in Stanford University.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.The first story is about connecting the dots.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?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.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 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。
Steve Jobs于2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
Steve Jobs于2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲(兼任Apple和Pixar公司CEO)I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college gr aduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.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?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 midd le 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.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 tak ing the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.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: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 calligraped. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to t ake 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 b eautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.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.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. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it will lead you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference.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 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.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 Ð 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.I didn’t see it then, but it tur ned 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 theworlds 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.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.My third story is about death.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 answe r has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.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 Ð 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.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 tol d 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.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 mypancreas 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.This was the closest I’ve been to fac ing 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:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go t o 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 become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite 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 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 become. Everything else is secondary.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 computers 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 notions.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.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.。
乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
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 five cent 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:
史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Paul Jobs)苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司(Pixar)首席执行官。以下是Steve Jobs在2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
Thank you.
I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and 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.谢谢大家。
SteveJobs对2005年斯坦福毕业生的演讲《求知若饥，虚心若愚》（完整版）
后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的 爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。直到 几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
不要让别人的意见淹没了你内在的心声。
最重要的，拥有跟随内心与直觉的勇气，你的内心与直觉多少已经 知道你真正想要成为什么样的人。
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任何其他事物都是次要的。
求知若饥，虚心若愚。
在我年轻时，有本神奇的杂志叫做Whole Earth Catalog，当年我 们很迷这本杂志。
那是一位住在离这不远的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand发行的， 他把杂志办得很有诗意。
我的第二个故事，有关爱与失去。
我好运－年轻时就发现自己爱做什么事。我二十岁时，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸妈的车库里开始了苹果电脑的事业。
我见了创办HP的David Packard跟创办Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他 们说我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厉害了。
我成了公众的非常负面示范，我甚至想要离开矽谷。
Stewart跟他的出版团队出了好几期Whole Earth Catalog，然后 出了停刊号。
非常谢谢大家。
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs,
我在里德学院（Reed college）待了六个月就办休学了。到我退学 前，一共休学了十八个月。
史蒂夫·乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
史蒂夫·乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲史蒂夫·乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲2006-06-14 23:17【大中小】【打印】【我要纠错】【加入收藏】Steve Jobs: Commencement Address at Stanford University"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish."求知若饥，虚心若愚2 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Paul Jobs）苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司（Pixar）首席执行官。
以下是Steve Jobs在2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
Thank you.I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and 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.The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college andthat 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 go to college. This 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 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 okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Theminute 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.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 five cent 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: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 thenormal 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.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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would havenever dropped in on that 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 10 years later.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 ——because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky —— I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz1 and I started Applein 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 two billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. We'd 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. 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 really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previousgeneration 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.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 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 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.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. Sometime life ——Sometimes life going to hit 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 —— and 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 —— don't settle.My third story is about death.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've 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 aboutto do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.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.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 atype 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 and 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.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 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 iscurable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's 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: 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's 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 quite 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 follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.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 60s, before personal computers 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,overflowing with neat tools and great notions.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've always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.谢谢大家。
找到你的热情所在——乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上作的演讲（精选五篇）
找到你的热情所在——乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上作的演讲（精选五篇）第一篇：找到你的热情所在——乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上作的演讲找到你的热情所在——乔布斯在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上作的演讲在很多人的心目中，企业家中可以称得上偶像的只有两位，一位是英国维珍集团的创始人理查德•布兰森（Richard Branson），另一位则是苹果公司创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）。
前者的不拘一格和特立独行着实令我等艳羡，例如独自驾驶热气球飞越大西洋，亲自上阵为自己的企业做广告，画面竟是驾驶坦克在街头驶过，或是赤身裸体在沙滩奔跑。
后者故事的迷人之处则在于重返苹果公司缔造新传奇，以及经历死亡之后对生命的感悟启迪。
下文为史蒂夫·乔布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦弗大学毕业典礼上作的演讲，演讲的题目为：“找到你的热情所在。
”找到你的热情所在今天，我很荣幸能来参加大家的毕业典礼，斯坦弗大学是世界上最优秀的大学之一。
我根本没有从大学毕过业。
说实话，这还是我与大学毕业最近距离的接触。
今天，我想给大家讲三个故事，它们都与我自己息息相关。
没错，它们就是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是有关小事情间的联系。
不过六个月的时间，我便从里德学院辍学了，但在那之后，我还是在学院里又呆了18个月才真正离开。
那么，我为什么要辍学呢？话还要从我出生时说起了。
我的生母是一个年轻的未婚大学生妈妈，是她决定把我送去别人家收养，并坚持收养我的人一定得是大学毕业生。
在我出生前，所有关于收养我的事宜都已经安排妥当了。
我本该被送到一个律师家去，但等到我真正出生了，那名律师和他的妻子却在最后时刻发现他们真正想要的还是女孩。
所以我的生父生母在半夜给申请名单上的另一个家庭打了电话，“我们有一个不小心生出来的男孩，你们想收养他吗？”他们回答说，“当然想。
”但后来，我的生母发现了我的妈妈不是大学毕业生，而我的爸爸甚至连高中都没有毕业，于是她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Appl e 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, t his 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.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed arou nd 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 coll ege graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very s trongly 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 pop ped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my pa rents, 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.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' saving s were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the v alue in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how co llege was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the m oney my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust t hat 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 coul d stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.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 wit h, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one goo d meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stu mbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless late r on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, w as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to ta ke the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do t his. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of sp ace between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography gre at. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't captu re, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But t en 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 wit h beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in colleg e, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fon ts. 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 o n this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful ty pography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking f orward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards te n years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect the m looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect i n 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 differen ce in my life.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 us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation —the Mac intosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How ca n you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired som eone 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 di verge 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.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 w as 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 thoug ht 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 th at one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to star t over.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 successf ul was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about ev ery thing. 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 comp any 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 returned to Apple, and the tec hnology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. An d Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired fro m Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Somet imes 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 fi nd what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Y our 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 grea t 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 kee p looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.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 i mpression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mi rror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, wo uld 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.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever enc ountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything —all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these th ings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Re membering 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 reaso n 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 w hat a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of can cer 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 poss ible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.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 inte stines, 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 a nd I'm fine now.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: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 eve r 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 no w, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dram atic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be t rapped 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 mo st important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Eart h Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a f ellow 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 comput ers 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 Go ogle came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great noti ons.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, an d then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-19 70s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograp h 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 Fo olish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to b egin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much。
史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲.
史蒂夫·乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲今天,能在这所世界上最好的大学之一参加你们的毕业典礼,我感到很荣幸。
说实话,我自己从来没有从大学毕业,那么今天恐怕是我一生中最接近大学毕业的一天了。
在此,我只想向你们讲述我生命中的三个故事。
不是什么惊天动地的事情,只是三个我自己的故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中点点滴滴的经历联系起来。
我在里德学院(美国一所著名的私立大学读了六个月之后就退学了。
但是在那以后的十八个月里,我还留在学校里。
十八个月后,我才彻底地离开那里。
我为什么要退学呢?故事要从我出生的时候讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的未婚大学毕业生,在我出生之前,她决定让别人收养我。
她当时非常希望我能被大学毕业生收养,所以在我出生的时候,她已经联系好了一个律师的家庭来收养我。
但是当我出生之后,那对律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以医院连夜联系了我现在的养父母。
他们说:“我们现在这儿有一个男婴等着领养,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是后来我的生母拒绝签这个领养合同,因为她发现我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从未完成高中学业。
经过几个月的协商,我的养父母许诺一定会让我上大学,我的生母这才最终妥协了。
在我十七岁那年,我上了大学。
天真的我选择了一个几乎和斯坦福大学一样贵的私立学校。
我蓝领阶层的养父母履行了他们的承诺,把所有的积蓄都拿给我做学费,那是一笔巨大的投资。
但是仅仅过了六个月,我就意识到这笔投资毫无价值。
我还不知道我这一生到底想做什么,我也看不出这样的大学生活能够帮我找到答案。
而于此同时,我在一点一点地花光我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。
所以我决定退学,并坚定的相信那是个正确的决定。
说实话,我当时确实非常害怕,但是现在看来,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。
从我退学的那一刻起,我终于可以不需要去选那些无聊的必修课程,而有时间去旁听一些我真正感兴趣的东西。
然而事情并非一帆风顺。
学校收回了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉。
贾伯斯演讲文-昆山科技大学ePortfolio
17年後，我真的上大學了。但我無知地選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣 貴的學校。而我的養父母是藍領階級，他們把所有的存款都花在我的學費上。 6個月後，我看不出念大學的價值到底在哪裡。那時候，我不知道這輩子要做 什麼，也不知道念大學能對我有什麼幫助，而且我為了讀大學，會花光了父 母畢生的積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直。 在當時，這是個讓人害怕的決定；但現在看來，它卻是我這輩子做過最 好的決定之一。休學後，再也不必上無趣的必修課，可以直接聽我喜歡的課。 只是這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，我得睡在朋友家的地板上，靠回收 可樂瓶罐的5毛錢填飽肚子，到了星期天晚上走7英哩遠的路，去印度教的 Hare Krishna神廟吃頓大餐。但那時我追尋的興趣，現在看來都成了無價之寶。 比如說，那時里德學院擁有幾乎是全國最好的的英文書法課程Caligraphy Instruction。校園裡的海報、教室抽屜的標籤，都是美麗的手寫體。我休學去 學書法，學習serif與san serif字體、學會在不同字母的組合間變更間距、認識 到活版印刷的偉大之處。書法的歷史與藝術，是科學文明無法取代的，這令 我深深著迷。
當時我沒察覺，不過現在看來，被蘋果電腦解聘是我人生中最棒的遭遇。 成功的沉重，被重生的輕鬆所取代，並不是每件事都能那麼有自信，而這解 救了我，讓我進入人生中最有創意的階段。
接下來的5年我創辦了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又創辦另一家叫做Pixar（皮 克斯）的公司，還愛上了一個好女人，而她後來成為我的妻子。Pixar製作了 世上第一部全電腦動畫電影——玩具總動員。現在已經是世界上最成功的動畫 公司。值得一提的是，蘋果電腦併購NeXT，我則重回到蘋果電腦，我們在 NeXT發展的技術成為蘋果電腦復興的關鍵，羅倫（Laurene）和我共組了美滿 的家庭。
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Steve Jobs为史丹佛毕业生的演讲文/刘炯朗2005年6月，在美国史丹佛Stanford大学的毕业典礼上，苹果计算机的CEO Steve Jobs为Stanford大学的应届毕业生作了一篇很感人的演说。
今天我想和大家分享这一篇演说，它的题目也是它的结语是：「Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish」，直接的翻译是：「保持一个饥饿的状态，保持一份愚蠢的心怀」。
在上周的节目里，我对Steve Jobs的事业生涯作了一个报导，一方面是想透过Steve Jobs的事业生涯，谈谈三十多年来个人计算机科技发展的片断，另一方面是为今天的节目作一个背景的介绍。
Steve Jobs在大学念了一个学期就退学了；他说，在名列全球最好的大学的毕业典礼上演讲，是很高的荣誉，也是他跟大学毕业最接近的一个时刻。
在这篇演说的开始，Steve Jobs说：「今天我要为大家讲我生命里的三个故事，没有什么大了不起，三个故事而已。
」第一个故事是关于把点连接起来（connecting the dots）。
Steve Jobs是一个未婚妈妈的小孩，他的妈妈念研究所的时候，跟一位政治系的教授生了他，他的生父叫做Abdulfattah Jandali，生母叫做Joanne Schieble。
也许因为当时社会环境的缘故，他妈妈决定让别人领养这个婴儿，她并且坚持领养的人必须受过大学教育。
经过安排，她找到一对律师夫妇来领养他。
可是等到Steve Jobs生下来要被送到这位律师的家的时候，他们在最后一分钟说：「他们要的是一个女孩子。
」那个时候，另外有一对夫妇Paul and Clara Jobs也在等待领养一个婴儿，半夜里他们接到电话说：「现在突然有一个男婴等待领养，你们要吗？」他们说：「当然啰！」就决定把Steve Jobs 领养下来。
但是当Steve Jobs的生母发现，Clara Jobs没有念过大学，Paul Jobs连高中都没有毕业时，她不肯在领养的文件上签字，拖了几个月后，在他们夫妇答应一定会把Steve Jobs送进大学之后，她才勉强同意。
Paul Jobs是个机械工人，后来的确启发了Steve Jobs在机械和电机方面的兴趣。
Steve Jobs的生父母，后来结婚了，再生了一个女儿，那就是Steve Jobs的妹妹，叫做Mary，是一个有点名气的小说家。
Steve Jobs一直称呼Paul and Clara Jobs是他的父母，假如有人在他的面前称他们为Steve Jobs的养父养母，Steve Jobs会不高兴，常常拂袖而去。
Steve Jobs的家在美国加州Mountain View，他在那边读小学和中学，在课堂里他并不是一个好学生，十七岁的时候，Steve Jobs上大学了，他进了Oregon州的Reed College，那是一所很小、很有名、也很贵的学校，他念了一学期，发现父母毕生的积蓄都花在他的学费上，他不知道他想干什么，也不觉得念大学会帮他搞清楚他要干什么，所以只念了一学期就退学了。
但是，Steve Jobs退学后并没有马上离开Reed College，他还继续在那边混了两年。
他没有宿舍住，在朋友的房间里打地铺；他去捡Coca Cola的瓶子，每个空瓶换5分钱，凑起来吃饭；每个礼拜天，他走好几哩路去吃一个宗教团体免费提供的礼拜天晚餐。
他说他用他的直觉、他的细心、他的胆量去发掘新的东西。
他举了一个很有趣的例子，他在Reed College退学后，就没有选读必修课程的压力，他跑去旁听一门学校里很有名、有关英文书法的课，在这个课程里，他学到不同的字体、不同的字型，学到字母和字母之间空间的配合，学到书法的艺术观和历史观。
这好像是一门没有用，特别是跟hi-tech没有关系的课，可是，十年之后，当Steve Jobs设计Macintosh computer的graphical user interface图形使用者接口的时候，这些知识都完全派上用场了。
而且不但是Macintosh的人机接口有很漂亮的字体，因为Microsoft Windows的GUI是从Macintosh那边抄过来的，所以，Windows 上面也有很漂亮的字体，今天所有个人计算机使用美丽的字型字体，可以说都是源自当年Steve Jobs在Reed College旁听的一门英文书法课的影响。
这个故事指出了，人生里有许多看起来互不相关的点，可是回过头来看，这些点是可以连接起来的。
当我们站在一个点上面的时候，我们无法预期这个点会怎样和未来的点连接起来，但是我们必须有信心，相信自己，相信生命，相信有一天，当我们回过头来看的时候，这个点是会和其它的点连接起来的。
第二个故事是关于爱和失落（Love and Lost）。
Steve Jobs二十岁时，和他的伙伴Steve Wozniak在他的爸爸的汽车间拼凑个人计算机，当他三十岁时，苹果计算机变成一个20亿美金、4000个员工的公司，但是他给董事会赶出了手创的公司。
这个故事，我在上周很详细的讲过，当Apple Computer公司快速成长时，Steve Jobs 到Pepsi Cola请了John Sculley到Apple Computer当总经理，但是不到两年，由于他们理念不合，董事会决定支持John Sculley，就把Steve Jobs的权力和责任全部拿掉，Steve Jobs就离开了Apple Computer。
他离开Apple Computer后，前面几个月，他不知道要干什么好，他觉得作为新一代的创业者enterpreneur，他让前一代的创业者失望，他去看HP的David Packard 和Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他们说抱歉；他甚至想逃避，离开Silicon Valley。
但是他慢慢明白过来，他还是热爱他的工作，离开Apple Computer，没有改变这份热爱。
他决定重头再开始，他觉得重头再开始的轻松，取代了成功的沉重负荷，当他对任何事情都没有绝对把握的时候，他自由自在地进入了他的事业生命中最有创造力的一段时期。
在之后的5年，他开了一间叫做Next的计算机公司，他开设这间公司原本的目的是制造教育用、便宜的工作站。
在硬件上，Next工作站是一个失败，但是Next 操作系统软件的发展，却成为Steve Jobs重回Apple Computer再掌大权的跳板。
Steve Jobs还买下一家用计算机制作动画的公司叫做Pixar，Pixar的目标是制造作动画用的工作站，这个硬件的发展也没有成功，但是用计算机制作卡通长片，为Pixar带来非常大的商机。
2006年1月，Disney Company用74亿美金把Pixar买下来，Steve Jobs 原来的投资是10个million一千万美金。
在这一段时期，Steve Jobs也认得他现在的太太Laurene，他们结婚，有一个美好的家庭生活。
Steve Jobs说，假如他当时不是给Apple Computer赶出来，这一连串的事情，都不可能会发生。
那是一帖很苦的药，但是他相信良药苦口，对病人是好的；当命运拿着一块砖头直敲你的脑袋时，不要失去信心，让他也让我们每个人继续努力前行的力量，来自我们对我们所做的事情、和对我们所爱的人的热爱。
你的工作会占据你的生命一大部分，在工作里，得到满足的唯一方法，是对工作的热爱；在工作里，能够有异常成就的唯一方法，是对工作的热爱。
假如你还没有找到你热爱的工作，继续去找，不要妥协，Do not settle，do not settle for the second best。
在Steve Jobs的演说里，他说的第三个故事是关于死亡（death）。
他说当他十七岁时，他听过一句话：「假如你把每一天都当作你生命中最后的一天，迟早你会走出对的路，做出对的事。
」多年以来，他每天早上，对着镜子问自己：「假如，今天是我生命中最后的一天，我会不会去做今天我安排了要做的事？」如果一连好多天，答案都是「不会」的话，他知道他应该改变他的方向了。
记得自己的时间是有限的，记得死亡不久就会来临，是帮助我们作重大决定的最好的工具，是帮助我们跳出害怕失败的陷阱的最大助力。
当你已经是赤裸裸地站在死亡面前，你不再有理由不听从你内心的呼唤。
Steve Jobs四十九岁那一年，有一天医生给他作扫描时，发现他的胰脏有一个肿瘤，医生告诉他胰脏肿瘤是很难治的，病人通常只能活3至6个月，你该回家把该处理的事情处理一下，那就是准备后事prepare to die。
他难过了一整天，当天晚上，他的太太陪着他回到医院，作切片检查，切片检查是在麻醉之后进行的，事后，他的太太告诉他，医生看到他的切片的时候，哭了起来。
原来，他的胰脏肿瘤是一种很罕见的肿瘤，动了手术之后，就完全治好了。
Steve Jobs说这是他生命中最接近死亡的经验，这个经验让他了解，没有人愿意接受死亡，但是死亡是每个人必须接受的终极点。
死亡在生命里扮演清道夫的角色，它把老旧的生命挪开，让新的生命进来，今天你们是年轻的、是崭新的，但在不久的将来你们会变得老旧，你们会被挪开，他接着说：「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 others people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others'opinions drown out your own inner voice.Ant most important,have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.」「你们不要浪费你们有限的时间，去过别人要你过的生活，不要让别人意见的杂音，淹没了你自己内在的声音，最重要的，你们必须有跟随着你们的内心和直觉去走的勇气，因为你们的内心和直觉已经清楚地知道你们真正要成为怎样的一个人。
」最后，Steve Jobs给年轻的同学们的结语是「Stay Hungry;Stay Foolish」。
这两句话，直接翻译是：「保持一个饥饿的状态，保持一份愚蠢的心怀」。
保持一个饥饿的状态，就是要不断求进步、求新、求美，不要轻易满足于你已经拥有的知识工作、地位和财富，继续去寻求，继续往前走。
保持一份愚蠢的心情，就是有一份冲劲，有一个赤子之心，听从你内心和直觉的呼唤，走你觉得应该走的路，过分的聪明、过分的谨慎、过分的盘算、过分的依赖别人的意见，会让你迷失了你真正要走的方向。