英语分析乔布斯演讲《stay hungry,stay foolish》
乔布斯_斯坦福演讲_《Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry》演讲稿1

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. Justthree 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. Shefelt 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 a n unexpected baby boy; doyou want him?‖ They said: ―Of course.‖ My biological mother later found outthat my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had nevergraduated 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’ sa vings 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 spendingall of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided todrop 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 cl asses 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 floorin 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 onegood meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what Istumbled 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 instructionin 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 t he normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphyclass 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 itwas 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 themlooking 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 grewwe 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 triedto 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 beganto 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. Andso I decided to start over.I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple wasthe 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 companynamed Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become mywife. 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, itjust 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 mylife, 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 knowwhat 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 tellyour kids ev erything 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 myintestines, 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 hea ven don’t want to dieto 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 theold 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. Sorryto 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 EarthCatalog, 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 broughtit 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 inpaperback 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 themid-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.苹果公司总裁斯蒂夫.乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在2005年6月12日对全体史丹佛大学毕业生的演讲:今天,我非常荣幸来到各位在世界上最好的学校之一的毕业典礼上。
英语分析乔布斯演讲《stay hungry,stay foolish》.

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as well as in tra nsitional words such as “don‟t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It, names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ,as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintoshneed capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay FoolishLexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford…I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no id ea how college was going to help me figure it out. …The minut e 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 There are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, 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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering, however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense toreview their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetorical devices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker‟s mind, Jobs divided his speech into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker‟s infection .Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head.In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speech through five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs …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 finestuniversities in the world. I never graduated fro m 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 nevergraduated 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 handcalligraphed. 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. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing thefirst 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 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 第6 页共9 页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 Idecided 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 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 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 第7 页共9 页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 m e 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 de ath, 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 heav en 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‟slife. 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 第8 页共9 页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. 第9 页共9 页。
乔布斯演讲稿英文版三篇

乔布斯演讲稿英文版三篇Speech 1: “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”Ladies and gentlemen,Thank you for being here today. I stand before you as a humble individual, but one who has been fortunate enough to witness the incredible power of technology in shaping our world. Today, I want to share with you a message that has guided me throughout my journey, and I hope it will inspire you too.“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”These words were famously uttered by the great Stewart Brand in his publication, The Whole Earth Catalog. They encapsulate a mindset that has driven me and countless others to push the boundaries of what is possible. It is the spirit of curiosity, of never settling for the status quo, that has propelled humanity forward. To stay hungry means to never lose that fire within us that drives us to seek knowledge, to innovate, and to explore new frontiers. It is this hunger that led me to co-found Apple, a company that has revolutionized the world of technology. But, it is not just about creating products; it is about creating experiences that enrich people’s lives.To stay foolish means to embrace our naivety, to not be limited by what others perceive as possible. It is this foolishness that allowed me to dream big and envision a world where technology is seamlessly integrated into our daily lives. It is this foolishness that led to the creation of the iPhone, a device that changed the way we communicate forever.But staying hungry and staying foolish is not just for the dreamers and the innovators. It is a message for all of us. It is a reminder that we should never stop learning, never stop questioning, and never stop pushing ourselves to be better. It is a reminder that we all have the power to make a difference.So, my message to you today is simple: stay hungry, stay foolish. Embrace your curiosity, embrace your dreams, and never be afraid to take risks. In doing so, you will not only shape your own future, but also the future of our world.Thank you.Speech 2: “The Power of Simplicity”Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,Today, I want to talk to you about the power of simplicity. In a world that is becoming increasingly complex, it is easy to get lost in the noise. But, it is simplicity that allows us to cut through the clutter and find clarity.At Apple, we have always believed in the power of simplicity. We strive to create products that are not only beautiful and elegant, but also intuitive and easy to use. We believe that technology should enhance our lives, not complicate them.But simplicity is not just about design; it is about mindset. It is about focusing on what truly matters and eliminating the unnecessary. It is about distilling complex ideas into simple concepts that everyone can understand.Steve Jobs once said, “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. Butit’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”And move mountains we did. We simplified the way we listen to music with the iPod, we simplified the way we communicate with the iPhone, and we simplified the way we interact with technology with the iPad. And we will continue to simplify, innovate, and push the boundaries of what is possible.But simplicity is not just about technology; it is a way of life. It is about decluttering our minds, our homes, and our lives. It is about finding joy in the simple pleasures and focusing on what truly matters.So, my message to you today is this: embrace simplicity. Look for ways to simplify your life, your work, and your relationships. Cut through the noise and find clarity. And remember, simplicity is not about taking away; it is about adding value.Thank you.Speech 3: “The Power of Failure”Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,Today, I want to talk to you about the power of failure. It may seem counterintuitive, but failure is not something to be feared; it is something to be embraced. It is through failure that we learn, grow, and ultimately succeed.Throughout my career, I have faced numerous setbacks and failures. But it is these experiences that have shaped me into the person I am today. It is through failure that I have gained resilience, determination, and the ability to persevere.One of Apple’s most famous failures was the Apple Lisa. It was a commercial failure, but it laid the groundwork for the Macintosh, which went on to become one of the most successful products in Apple’s history. It is a reminder that failure is not the end; it is just a stepping stone on the path to success.Failure also teaches us humility. It reminds us that we are not infallible, that we make mistakes, and that we can always learn and improve. It is through failure that we gain the wisdom and experience to make better decisions in the future.But perhaps most importantly, failure fuels innovation. It is through failure that we discover new ideas, new approaches, and new solutions. It is through failure that we push the boundaries of what is possible and create breakthroughs that change the world. So, my message to you today is this: embrace failure. Don’t be afraid to take risks, to step outside of your comfort zone, and to try new things. Learn from your failures, grow from your setbacks, and let them propel you forward.Remember, failure is not the end; it is just the beginning of a new chapter. It is through failure that we find success.Thank you.。
最新乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲:保持饥饿-保持愚蠢(Stayhungry-stayfoolish.)解读

Stay hungry, stay foolish——乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲:保持饥饿,保持愚蠢Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement[kəˈmensmənt] 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. Mybiological 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。
保持饥饿,保持愚蠢 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish(初中英语作文)

保持饥饿,保持愚蠢Stay Hungry, StayFoolish初中英语作文The former CEO of Apple company is Steve Jobs, though he died many years ago, his lengend is still going on. His classic speech which was delivered at Stanford University inspired the young generation to move on. He pointed out that the young people should always stay hungry, stay foolish, which meant that people should never get satisfied and be curious about things, so that they would have the motivation to keep searching. Steve never graduated from a college, he quit school and then focused his attention on the computer. He made it and started his own company. Later he got fired and he turned to create the animation studio, which later saved the Apple company. Stay hungry, stay foolish helped Steve to be successful.苹果公司的前首席执行官史蒂夫乔布斯,尽管他很多年前就去世了,但是他的传说仍在继续。
他在斯坦福大学的经典演讲,鼓舞了年轻一代继续前进。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲:保持饥饿-保持愚蠢(Stayhungry-stayfoolish.)解读

Stay hungry, stay foolish——乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲:保持饥饿,保持愚蠢Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement[kəˈmensmənt] 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 Ireally 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。
关于乔布斯To stay hungry,to stay foolish 的演讲稿

To stay hungry , to stay foolishFirst i want say thank to you,for you select this topic for us . To stay hungry, to stay foolish as a life motto for Steven jobs. I bet you will never mean that to be a really hungry,and foolish man. Right?On the other hand, it can be translated as to stay hungry for success, to stay foolish for misunderstanding.To stay hungry for success, Futurist Alvin toffler has said that the first law of survival is: nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.It is the Steven Jobs spirit of dedication, innovative and perfectionist that change the world with a series of products Macintosh、iMac、iPod、iPhone、iPad. If he satisfied with his first device macintosh, without following invention , can he change the world with the third apple? So if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. just figure out what’s next。
英语分析乔布斯演讲《stay hungry,stay foolish》

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as well as in transitional words such as “don‟t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh)need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford…I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no id ea how college was going to help me figure it out. …The minut e 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 There are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, 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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering, however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense to review their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetorical devices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker‟s mind, Jobs divided his speech into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker‟s infection .Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head.In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speech through five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿)Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs …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 finestuniversities in the world. I never graduated fro m 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 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 handcalligraphed. 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.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 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 withDavid 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 retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple‟s c urrent 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 helpme 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 do ctor‟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 fi ne 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. I t 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‟sopinions 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 i t 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.。
简析stay hungry,stay foolish

苹果ceo,steve jobs(乔布斯)在05年斯坦福大学得毕业典礼上曾送给学生们一句话: stay hungry, stay foolish有人翻译成”求知若饥,虚心若愚”,有人翻译成“物有所不足,智有所不明”。
大家怎么理解这句英语呢?个人认为Stay Hungry 是对个人是否满足的一种激励。
Never be satisfied, never feel fulfilled, always feel thirsty, hungry for knowledge, success and another achievement.而stay foolish 是强调一个人be modesty to himself.英语有这样一句话,I Know what I know, I don't know what I don't Know; I know what I don't know, I don't know what I know; I know what I know what I know, I don't know what I know what I don't know.... 所以stay foolish 强调一个人对自己的知识,所知、所得有一个清晰的认识。
对应于未来和所要学习和了解的知识或人生而言,我们每一个人都显得那么无知和浅薄。
stay foolish 强调每个人对于知识的起点,无论你是否已经成为知识的伟人或是一位刚刚毕业的大学生。
Steven Jobs 对大学毕业生的演讲正是符合了这种精神,对毕业生提出stay hungry 意在希翼be ambitious 和激励奋进;stay foolish 强调我们人生旅途上的所知所得还在继续,做到be wise enough to know we are not the smartest guy yet.个人认为steven jobs的话属于励其志、明其行的人生赠言。
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。
stay hungry stay foolish完整演讲稿英文

stay hungry stay foolish完整演讲稿英文Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishGood morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today, I would like to share with you a famous quote by Steve Jobs: "Stay hungry, stay foolish." This quote, from his commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, has become a popular motto for many, myself included.To me, staying hungry means never being satisfied with what you have achieved. It means constantly seeking new challenges and striving for improvement. It means setting high goals for yourself and never settling for mediocrity. It is this hunger that drives us to work harder and reach our full potential.Staying foolish, on the other hand, means being open-minded and willing to take risks. It means not letting fear or self-doubt hold us back from pursuing our dreams. It means being willing to make mistakes and learn from them. Being foolish allows us to think outside the box, to challenge the status quo, and to find new and innovative solutions to problems.Why is it important to stay hungry and stay foolish? Because these qualities are what lead to personal growth and success. When we are hungry, we are motivated to learn and improve. We are not content with staying in our comfort zones but instead push ourselves to explore new territories. And when we are foolish, we are not afraid to take risks or make bold decisions. We are not constrained by the fear of failure but rather embrace it as a valuable learning experience.Staying hungry and staying foolish is what separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. It is what allows individuals to make a significant impact on the world. Just look at people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey. These individuals were not satisfied with just being average. They pushed themselves to their limits and achieved extraordinary success.So, how can we stay hungry and stay foolish in our own lives? Firstly, it's important to continuously set new goals for ourselves. Whether it's in our careers, personal lives, or relationships, we should always be striving for something greater. Secondly, we should never stop learning. We should seek out new knowledge and skills and be open to new experiences. And lastly, we should not be afraid to take risks and embrace failure. Every failure is a stepping stone to success.In conclusion, staying hungry and staying foolish is the key to personal growth and success. It is what sets us apart from the rest and allows us to achieve greatness. So let us all embrace these qualities and strive to make a difference in our own lives and in the world around us. Thank you.。
乔布斯演讲稿中英文

乔布斯演讲稿中英文Ladies and gentlemen, today I am honored to stand before you and share some thoughts on the power of innovation and creativity. As we all know, innovation is the driving force behind progress, and creativity is the heart and soul of every great idea. In my speech today, I would like to emphasize the importance of these two elements by drawing inspiration from the legendary figure, Steve Jobs.乔布斯演讲稿中英文。
乔布斯曾经说过,“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”这句话成为了无数年轻人的座右铭,激励着他们勇敢地追求梦想。
这句话所蕴含的深意是,我们应该保持对生活的渴望和对未知世界的好奇心,永远保持一颗愚者的心态,敢于冒险,敢于突破传统,敢于创新。
正是因为乔布斯敢于放弃安逸,敢于冒险尝试,才有了苹果公司的诞生,才有了iPhone、iPad等一系列的划时代产品。
乔布斯的成功并非偶然,而是源于他对创新和创意的不懈追求。
在他的领导下,苹果公司不断推陈出新,不断挑战自我,不断超越自我。
正是这种不断创新的精神,让苹果公司成为了全球最具创新力和影响力的企业之一。
In the fast-paced world we live in today, it is easy to get caught up in the routine of daily life and forget the importance of staying hungry and staying foolish. However, it is precisely in these moments of complacency that we must remind ourselves of the wordsof Steve Jobs. We must remind ourselves to keep pushing the boundaries, to keep thinking outside the box, and to keep striving for greatness.乔布斯曾经在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上说过,“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 youfind it.”这段话深刻地诠释了乔布斯对创意和激情的理解。
英语分析乔布斯演讲《stayhungry,stayfoolish》

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 1t2h in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable..We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finehecveat i onosh - ayear earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Aga in, you can't connect the dots look ing forward …This approach has n ever let me dow n,has made all the difference in my life.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 Your time is limited, sodon't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again ” “remembering ”,as well as intransitional words such as “don't ”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed w he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh)need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Sta nford had no idea what I wan ted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. --eThdrmppetd out I could stop tak ing the required classes thatdidn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interestingThere are many words in single or double syllable, such agso、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering, however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense to review their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetoricaldevices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker ' s mind, Jobs divid into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker ' s infection . Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head. In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speech through five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿)Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs‘ 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 wor ld. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I ' a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That ' 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 another18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop outIt 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 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 asStanford, 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 wanwteitdh tmoydloifeand 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 friendsreturned 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 dec 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 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 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 gieo n eoraf t en trepre neurs dow n —that I had dropped the bat on as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packardand 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 tginegt fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple 's current r 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 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 thga t htahtekoenpltymtheingoing 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 matte heart, you 'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets betntedr a 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 wa last, someday you 'll most certainly be rigt hmt.ade an imp”resIsion on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:“the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today ” And whenanswer has been “ No”to ofomr a ny 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 encountere 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 m 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 vkeidrystheing youthought 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.'ve been to facing death, aintsd tIhheocpleosest I get for a few moredecades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit morecertainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don die t 'ogt ewtathnet rteo. 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 chan 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 livi ng some one else ' s lifeddDpna - t be trap which is living with the results of other people ' s thinking. Don ' t let the noise of o drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart andintuition. 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 inMenlo 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 youmight find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish thatfor you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much. This was the closest I Hungry. Stay Foolish.allge as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay。
乔布斯_斯坦福演讲_《Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry》演讲稿1

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. Justthree 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. Shefelt 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 a n unexpected baby boy; doyou want him?‖ They said: ―Of course.‖ My biological mother later found outthat my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had nevergraduated 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’ sa vings 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 spendingall of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided todrop 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 cl asses 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 floorin 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 onegood meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what Istumbled 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 instructionin 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 t he normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphyclass 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 itwas 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 themlooking 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 grewwe 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 triedto 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 beganto 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. Andso I decided to start over.I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple wasthe 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 companynamed Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become mywife. 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, itjust 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 mylife, 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 knowwhat 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 tellyour kids ev erything 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 myintestines, 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 hea ven don’t want to dieto 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 theold 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. Sorryto 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 EarthCatalog, 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 broughtit 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 inpaperback 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 themid-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.苹果公司总裁斯蒂夫.乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在2005年6月12日对全体史丹佛大学毕业生的演讲:今天,我非常荣幸来到各位在世界上最好的学校之一的毕业典礼上。
谈乔布斯著名演说StayHungry,StayFoolish

谈乔布斯著名演说StayHungry,StayFoolish 谈乔布斯著名演说 "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"这是乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演说。
他通过讲他一生中经历的三个故事,来告诉大家:一定要听从自己的心声,追寻自己所热爱的事情,不要为旁人的想法和喧嚣所左右。
由于原文太精彩,有些地方如果翻译过来会失了原意,所以我会将原文附上。
第一个故事是谈集腋成裘,连点成线。
他大学二年级的时候退学。
那时候他觉得读大学这个事情耗尽了他养父母的积蓄,但他看不出这有什么价值。
他不知道自己这一辈子要干什么,而学校教育也不能帮他认清他这辈子要干什么。
所以他决定退学。
刚退学的时候,他还是很惊恐的。
但现在想起来,这应该是他这一辈子所作的最好决定。
因为他不必再强迫自己去上那些自己毫无兴趣的课,而可以完全自由地去学那些自己感兴趣的东西。
但是这个事情并不是那么浪漫的。
因为退学,他就只能睡在朋友的地板上。
他得去拣5分钱一个可口可乐的空罐子去换饭吃。
每个星期天晚上他得走7英里(11公里多,大概要走两个多小时)到寺庙中去混顿饱饭。
但是他仍然很喜欢这种经历。
他跟随自己的好奇心和直觉所遭遇的这些东西,后来被证明是无价之宝。
其中的一个例子就是他后来跑去学美术字。
这种艺术的精妙使他沉迷。
但是这些东西没什么实际用途,一直到了十年以后,这些美妙的字体全部被用到了 Macintosh 计算机的设计上。
而Window 的系统是抄自于Macintosh的。
所以可以说,没有他当时对学业的放弃,他后来就不可能有机会迷恋上美术字,就没有后来的这场伟大的革命。
这一切看起来是很零碎的点,在当时来说,你是无法预见到将来有一天会串连成线,从而成就了你的事业的。
当然现在回顾往日,这些点全都顺理成章地串连成线了。
所以,你必须相信某些东西---你的生命,勇气,宿命,因缘,等等。
相信这些“点”将来是一定会串连成线,将给予你追随自己的心的一种自信,哪怕这将引导你离开那平铺的大道,但那却将让你脱离平庸,不同凡响。
英语分析乔布斯演讲《stayhungry,stayfoolish》

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 heartYour time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as well as in transitional words such as “don’t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh)need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most ofeasy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford…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. …The minut e I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interestingThere are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering,however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense to review their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetorical devices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker’s mind, Jobs divided his speech into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker’s infection .Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head.In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speechthrough five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿)Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs ‘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.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 thefinal 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 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 Macwould 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, yo u 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 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 – 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 tha t getting fired from Apple wasthe best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.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 w ant 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 willgradually 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 fa rewell 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.。
英语分析乔布斯演讲《stayhungry,stayfoolish》

英语分析乔布斯演讲《s t a y h u n g r y,s t a yf o o l i s h》-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as wel l as in transitional words such as “don’t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh)need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as St anford…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. …The minut e 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 There are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, 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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering, however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense to review their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetorical devices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker’s mind, Jobs divided his speech into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker’s infection .Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head.In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speech through five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿)Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs ‘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.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 see the value in it. I had no idea what I want ed 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 5deposits 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 stumbledinto 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.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.Aga in, 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 startedWell, 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 thefuture 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 prev ious 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 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 t he 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 g ets 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 b een “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 d on’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 itshould 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 th eir 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.。
乔布斯毕业典礼发言稿英语

乔布斯毕业典礼发言稿英语《Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish》Good morning, graduates, faculty, and honored guests. It is a pleasure to be here today to address you on this monumental occasion of your graduation.As I stand before you, I am reminded of the power of determination and the importance of staying hungry and staying foolish. When I dropped out of college, I had no idea what the future held for me. I was scared, uncertain, and had no money. But what I did have was a hunger for success and a willingness to be foolish enough to take risks.In our world, the one thing that is constant is change. And in order to succeed, you must be willing to embrace the unknown and take bold and unconventional paths. This means staying hungry for knowledge, for innovation, and for growth. It means being foolish enough to ignore the naysayers, to be different, and to take chances.You see, the most successful people in the world are the ones who never stop learning, who never settle for the status quo, and who are unafraid to dream big. They understand that staying hungry and staying foolish is the key to unlocking new opportunities and achieving greatness.As you embark on this new chapter in your lives, I urge you to remember the lessons of staying hungry and staying foolish. Embrace the unknown, take risks, and never stop pushing the boundaries of what is possible. And most importantly, never losesight of your passion and your purpose.Congratulations, graduates. I have no doubt that each and every one of you is destined for greatness. Stay hungry, stay foolish, and keep reaching for the stars. Thank you.。
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A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve JobsSteve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlierSo 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.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as well as in transitional words such as “don’t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and make it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters such as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh)need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, therefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford…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. …The minut e I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interestingThere are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、chose、want、idea、figure、lucky、stay,etc, it makes the speech easy to understanding, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,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 themThis short sentences makes people has cordial feeling, just like communicate with friends, besides, short sentence make people more convince.On the other hand, speakers often use simple present tense in delivering, however, in order to encourage audiences to do something meaningful, speakers also use past tense to review their experiences, or use future tense to look forward to tomorrow. In this speech, Jobs used as much past tense and past perfect tense as possible, for he was mainly recalled his experience to encourage people to insist and brave.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.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.didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' roomsSemantic FeaturesThe speech is organized as an organic whole and it is delivered affectively through diverse rhetorical devices. In this speech ,we are easy to follow speaker’s mind, Jobs divided his speech into 3 parts, they are connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death respectively. From this three part, Jobs used adopted a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance his expressiveness, such as parallelism:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Parallelism makes sentences structure tidy and enhance speaker’s infection .Metaphor and simile are also appeared in the speech.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.This is a simile, Jobs compare work to your lovers.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.This is a metaphor, it is compared the difficulties you entered in daily to the brick which hit your head.In conclusion, the analysis above roughly touches some observable stylistic features of this speech. Jobs is a great speaker, this article analyze his speech through five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic features. We could find that his speech is full of philosophy and we always benefit from his words. The analysis may help us to learn from him in delivering speech.(后附演讲稿)Stay Hungry, Stay FoolishBy Steve Jobs‘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 wor ld. 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 outIt 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 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 wouldall 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 decidedto 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 ca n’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 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 fallingout. 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 generat ion 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 get ting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.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 thin g 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 a nd 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.” I t 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 e verything youthought 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 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.。