【正文】 ear or so things went then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling we did, our Board of Directors sided with at 30 I was very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was 。幸運(yùn)的是，我在很小的時(shí)候就發(fā) 現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么。我在 20 歲時(shí)和沃茲（Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱——譯注）在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。我們干得很 賣力，十年后，蘋果公司就從車庫里我們兩個(gè)人發(fā)展成為一個(gè)擁有 20 億 元資產(chǎn)、4000 名員工的大企業(yè)。那時(shí)，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品 ——Macintosh 電腦——那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲?？珊髞恚冶?解雇了。你怎么會(huì)被自己辦的公司解雇呢？是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越 大，我們聘了一位我認(rèn)為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。在開始的一 年多里，一切都很順利?？墒牵S后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。這時(shí)，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風(fēng)雨。我成年后的整個(gè)生活重心都沒 有了，這使我心力交瘁。I really didn39。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly 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 ，記住生命隨時(shí)都有可能 結(jié)束。因?yàn)閹缀跛械臇|西——所有對(duì)自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴(yán)、所 有對(duì)困窘和失敗的恐懼——在死亡來臨時(shí)都將不復(fù)存在，只剩下真正重要 的東西。記住自己隨時(shí)都會(huì)死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方 法。你已經(jīng)一無所有了，還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢？About 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 doctor39。s code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few means to make sure 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 doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and, thankfully, I39。m fine ，我被診斷出癌癥。我在早上七點(diǎn)半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚 出現(xiàn)一個(gè)腫瘤，我連胰臟是什么都不知道。醫(yī)生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定 是一種不治之癥，我大概活不到三到六個(gè)月了。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟 親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對(duì)臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)建議。那代表你得試著在幾個(gè) 月內(nèi)把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會(huì)盡量輕松。那代表你得跟人說再見了。我整天想著那個(gè)診斷結(jié)果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個(gè)內(nèi)視鏡，從胃進(jìn)腸子，插了根 針進(jìn)胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細(xì)胞出來。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老 婆在場(chǎng)。她后來跟我說，當(dāng)醫(yī)生們用顯微鏡看過那些細(xì)胞后，他們都哭了，因?yàn)槟鞘欠浅Ｉ僖姷囊环N胰臟癌，可以用手術(shù)治好。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。This 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 concept: No one wants to people who want to go to heaven don39。t want to die to get 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 clears out the old to make way for the now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。s quite ，我希望那會(huì)繼續(xù)是未來幾十年內(nèi)最接近的 一次。經(jīng)歷此事后，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時(shí)要更肯定告訴你們 下面這些：沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。但是死亡是 我們共有的目的地，沒有人逃得過。這是注定的，因?yàn)樗劳龊?jiǎn)直就是生命 中最棒的發(fā)明，是生命變化的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代留下空間?，F(xiàn) 在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會(huì)逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞 臺(tái)。抱歉講得這么戲劇化，但是這是真的。Your time is limited, so don39。t waste it living someone else39。s 39。t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people39。s 39。t let the noise of others39。 opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is ，所以不要浪費(fèi)時(shí)間活在別人的生活里。不要被信條 所惑——盲從信條就是活在別人思考的結(jié)果里。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了 你內(nèi)在的心聲。最重要的，擁有跟隨內(nèi)心與直覺的勇氣，你的內(nèi)心與直覺 多少已經(jīng)知道你真正想要成為什么樣的人。任何其它事物都是次要的。When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the “bibles” of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 60s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great ，有本神奇的雜志叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng) 年我們很迷這本雜志。那是一位住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發(fā)行的，他把雜志辦得很有詩意。那是1960年代末期，個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)跟桌上出版還沒發(fā)明，所有內(nèi)容都是打字機(jī)、剪刀跟拍立得相機(jī)做出來的。雜志內(nèi)容有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的Google，在Google出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了：理想化，充滿新奇工具與神奇的注記。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 was the mid1970s, 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 it were the words: “Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed I39。ve always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you all very 《Whole Earth Catalog》，然 后出了?？?hào)。當(dāng)時(shí)是1970年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個(gè)年齡的時(shí)候。在?？?hào)的封底，有張?jiān)绯苦l(xiāng)間小路的照片，那種你去爬山時(shí)會(huì)經(jīng)過的鄉(xiāng) 間小路。在照片下有行小字：求知若饑，虛心若愚。那是他們親筆寫下的 告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當(dāng)你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此期許你 們。求知若饑，虛心若愚。非常謝謝大家。第二篇：蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講這是蘋果公司CEO喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，大學(xué)途中退學(xué)，創(chuàng)業(yè)，被解雇，東山再起，死亡威脅，這些他都一一經(jīng)歷了。經(jīng)營(yíng)自己與眾不同的人生要從了解別人的經(jīng)歷開始。很榮幸和大家一道參加這所世界上最好的一座大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。我大學(xué)沒畢業(yè)，說實(shí)話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。今天我想給大家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。第一個(gè)故事講的是點(diǎn)與點(diǎn)之間的關(guān)系。我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）只讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，此后便在學(xué)校里旁聽，又過了大約一年半，我徹底離開。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢？這得從我出生前講起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。沒想到我落地的霎那間，那對(duì)夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當(dāng)時(shí)他們還在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢——半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒人要的男嬰，你們要么？”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。但是，我的生母后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。不過，沒過幾個(gè)月她就心軟了，因?yàn)槲业酿B(yǎng)父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。年后，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。當(dāng)時(shí)我很天真，選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，當(dāng)工人的養(yǎng)父母傾其所有的積蓄為我支付了大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么，也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。這時(shí)，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來的錢了。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來，這還真是我有生以來做出的最好的決定之一。從退學(xué)那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無興趣的必修課，