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t the heart of Apple39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。s going to hit you in the head with a 39。t lose 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for 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 you haven39。t found it yet, keep looking, and don39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll keep 39。t third story is about I was 17 I read a quote that went something like “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。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 that I39。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to are already is no reason not to follow your a year ago, I was diagnosed with had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my didn39。t even know what a pancreas 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 doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors39。 code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your means to say your lived with that diagnosis all that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine was the closest I39。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。s the closest I get for a few more lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all one has ever escaped that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of 39。s life39。s change agent。it clears out the old to make way for the now, the new is someday, not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。s quite time is limited, so don39。t waste it living someone else39。s 39。t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people39。s 39。t let the noise of others39。 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late Sixties, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form thirtyfive years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final was the midSeventies and I was your 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 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 hungry, stay you all, very much.第二篇:?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢4髮W(xué)的演講稿 英文原稿喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿 英文原稿Thank 39。m honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I39。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。s big three first story is about connecting the dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a dropin for another eighteen months or so before I really why did I drop out? It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for 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 my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。ve got an unexpected baby 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 refused to sign the final adoption only relented a few m