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乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文Steve Jobs说,你得找出你爱的(You’ve got to find what you love.)。

今天,有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。

我从来没从大学毕业。

说实话,这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。

今天,我只说三个故事,不谈大道理,三个故事就好。

第一个故事,是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。

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。

那么,我为什么休学?这得从我出生前讲起。

我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生,年轻未婚妈妈,她决定让别人收养我。

她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我,所以我出生时,她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。

但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了,他们想收养女孩。

所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻,我的养父母,在一天半夜里接到一通电话,问他们「有一名意外出生的男孩,你们要认养他吗?」而他们的回答是「当然要」。

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。

十七年后,我上大学了。

但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学,我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。

六个月后,我看不出念这个书的价值何在。

那时候,我不知道这辈子要干什么,也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助,而且我为了念这个书,花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄,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。

这一点也不浪漫。

我没有宿舍,所以我睡在友人家里的地板上,靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的,每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。

steve jobs 2005 斯坦福大学演讲中英文版

steve jobs 2005 斯坦福大学演讲中英文版

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of AppleComputer and of PixarAnimation Studios, deliveredon June 12, 2005.I am honored to be withyou today at yourcommencement from one ofthe finest universities in theworld. I never graduated fromcollege. Truth be told, this isthe closest I've ever gotten toa college graduation. Today Iwant to tell you three storiesfrom my life. That's it. No bigdeal. 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 anunexpected 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 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, 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 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 spacebetween 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, 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. 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 $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 wasvery 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 — 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 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 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 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 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 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翻译:史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上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。

SteveJobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)

SteveJobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)

SteveJobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)第一篇:Steve Jobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)Steve Jobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)每次听他的演讲都受益良多没有什么大道理,只有真正感化你的小故事,一直引导我走向我真确的人生。

演讲最打动我的并不是最后的“求知若饥,虚心若愚”,而是“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,只要全心全意的去找, 在你找到的时候,你的心会告诉你的。

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!”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.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 reallywanted 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 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, 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 calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to takethe 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.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.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 $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 getfired 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 downthese 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 ter 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 rareform 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 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 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 WholeEarth 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 far ewell 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 史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上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。

乔布斯再斯坦福大学演讲稿(中英文)

乔布斯再斯坦福大学演讲稿(中英文)

乔布斯斯坦福演讲稿苹果CEO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。

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。

You'vegottofindwhatyoulove,'JobssaysJobs说,你必须要找到你所爱的东西。

ThisisthetextoftheCommencementaddressbySteveJobs,CEOofAppleComputerandofPixarAnimati onStudios,deliveredonJune12,2005.这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEOSteveJobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。

Iamhonoredtobewithyoutodayatyourcommencementfromoneofthefinestuniversitiesintheworld .Inevergraduatedfromcollege.Truthbetold,thisistheclosestI'veevergottentoacollegegrad uation.TodayIwanttotellyouthreestoriesfrommylife.That'sit.Nobigdeal.Justthreestories .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。

乔布斯2005年斯坦福高中毕业演讲(中英文完整版)

乔布斯2005年斯坦福高中毕业演讲(中英文完整版)

乔布斯2005年斯坦福高中毕业演讲(中英文完整版)乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲(中英文完整版)中文版亲爱的毕业生们,大家好!首先,请允许我向你们表示最热烈的祝贺,因为你们终于毕业了!(掌声)你们终于走出了这所美丽的校园,迎接未知的人生。

今天,我很荣幸能够与你们分享一些我个人的经历和思考。

我们需要从一个专业问题开始。

在之前的许多年里,我一直对死亡有一种直接而深入的了解,它不是从书本上获得的,而是从我与死亡如此之近的亲密接触中得到的。

这是我人生中非常特殊的一段经历。

在以下的十二个月里,我被诊断出患上了胰脏癌晚期。

医生告诉我,我只剩下六个月的寿命。

这个消息让我感到震惊、悲伤和绝望,所有曾经认为重要的东西都变得微不足道了。

在面临死亡的事实时,我开始思考生命的意义和价值。

我曾经问自己,如果今天是我生命的最后一天,我还会做我今天要做的事情吗?引发这个问题的常常是自己对无关紧要的事情的抱怨和牢骚。

当我面对死亡时,我意识到我所面临的问题只是琐碎的细节,对于生命的意义没有任何贡献。

过去33年里,我每天早晨都会照镜子告诉自己:“如果今天是生命的最后一天,我还是要做我今天要做的事情吗?”每当我的回答是“不”太多次时,我就知道我需要做出调整,重新寻找自己的激情和目标。

记住即将去世的事实,是我人生中最重要的教训之一。

当我意识到生命随时都可能终结时,我变得更加勇敢、不怕面对困难和失败。

因为,几乎所有的外部期望和自尊都变得毫无意义,唯有内心的声音才是至关重要的。

曾经,有一段时间,还是个十九岁的学生,我读到了一句名言,深深触动了我。

这句话是:“如果你活在别人的意见中,你的内心永远不会安宁。

”言归正传,让我简要地谈谈关于成功和失败的问题。

我曾经被辞退了公司创办人的职位,这对我来说是一次巨大的失败,而那时我才刚满三十岁。

当时我觉得自己崩溃了,但事实证明,这是对我人生最好的事情之一。

看起来不成功的事情变成了成功的机会,并让我追求我真正热爱的事业。

乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学地演讲稿子(中英文).docx

乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学地演讲稿子(中英文).docx

史蒂夫乔布斯2005 年 6 月在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of AppleComputer 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 finestuniversities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is theclosest 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.你必须要找到你所爱的东西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 didI drop out?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。

乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版

乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版'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 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.你必须要找到你所爱的东西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.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?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲(中英对照)

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲(中英对照)

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲'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 June 12, 2005.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。

史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)今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。

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。

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文Steve Jobs说,你得找出你爱的(You’ve got to find what you love.)。

今天,有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。

我从来没从大学毕业。

说实话,这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。

今天,我只说三个故事,不谈大道理,三个故事就好。

第一个故事,是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。

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。

那么,我为什么休学?这得从我出生前讲起。

我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生,年轻未婚妈妈,她决定让别人收养我。

她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我,所以我出生时,她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。

但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了,他们想收养女孩。

所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻,我的养父母,在一天半夜里接到一通电话,问他们「有一名意外出生的男孩,你们要认养他吗?」而他们的回答是「当然要」。

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。

十七年后,我上大学了。

但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学,我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。

六个月后,我看不出念这个书的价值何在。

那时候,我不知道这辈子要干什么,也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助,而且我为了念这个书,花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄,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。

这一点也不浪漫。

我没有宿舍,所以我睡在友人家里的地板上,靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的,每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲全文(中文版)

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲全文(中文版)

Steve Jobs 2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲全文Steve Jobs说,你得找出你爱的(You've got to find what you love.)。

今天,有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。

我从来没从大学毕业。

说实话,这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。

今天,我只说三个故事,不谈大道理,三个故事就好。

第一个故事,是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。

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。

那么,我为什么休学?这得从我出生前讲起。

我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生,年轻未婚妈妈,她决定让别人收养我。

她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我,所以我出生时,她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。

但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了,他们想收养女孩。

所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻,我的养父母,在一天半夜里接到一通电话,问他们“有一名意外出生的男孩,你们要认养他吗?”而他们的回答是“当然要”。

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。

十七年后,我上大学了。

但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学,我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。

六个月后,我看不出念这个书的价值何在。

那时候,我不知道这辈子要干什么,也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助,而且我为了念这个书,花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄,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。

这一点也不浪漫。

我没有宿舍,所以我睡在友人家里的地板上,靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的,每个星期天晚上得走七哩的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。

(整理)中英文对照近年美国大学毕业典礼中最具影响力的一篇演讲——乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学演讲.

(整理)中英文对照近年美国大学毕业典礼中最具影响力的一篇演讲——乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学演讲.

(中英文对照)乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿——近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇2005年6月12日,在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上,苹果公司CEO乔布斯发表了精彩演讲。

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。

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: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.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:一、关于信仰:坚信“你要坚信,你现在所经历的,将在你未来的生命中串联起来。

正是这种信仰让我没有失去希望,它使我的人生与众不同”I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from oneof the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.Truth be told, I never graduated from college. This is the closest I'veever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you threestories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.斯坦福是世界上最好的大学之一,今天能参加各位的毕业典礼,我备感荣幸。

苹果CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿(中英对照)

苹果CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿(中英对照)

5213zxjx果CEO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。

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。

You'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, 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。

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。

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲中英对照

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。

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲[ 2011-08-25 10:11 ]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。

苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯宣布辞职(辞职信中英文对照)Get Flash PlayerThank 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. Sherefused 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。

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版

乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版直面死亡+勇气Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish求知若饥,虚心若愚'You've got to find what you love,你必须要找到你所爱的东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.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?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?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.这得从我出生前讲起。

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲(中英对照).

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲(中英对照).

史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲'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 June 12, 2005.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。

史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs今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。

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。

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原稿和译文

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原稿和译文

乔布斯在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.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。

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原稿和译文

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原稿和译文

乔布斯在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.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。

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的英文演讲稿(附翻译)

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的英文演讲稿(附翻译)

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的英文演讲稿(附翻译)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, i never graduated from college. 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.斯坦福是世界上最好的大学之一,今天能参加各位的毕业典礼,我备感荣幸。

(尖叫声)我从来没有从大学毕业,说句实话,此时算是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。

(笑声)今天,我想告诉你们我生命中的三个故事,并非什么了不得的大事件,只是三个小故事而已。

the first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事关于串起生命中的点点滴滴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?退学是我这一生所做出的最正确的决定之一。

我在里德大学待了6个月就退学了,但之后仍作为旁听生混了18个月后才最终离开。

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.故事要从我出生之前开始说起。

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乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版'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 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.你必须要找到你所爱的东西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.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?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?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 lastminute 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.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。

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, 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: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: 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.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。

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