【正文】 uy 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 didnt 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 binations， about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful， historical， artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture， and I found it fascinating.　　這件事情做起來(lái)一點(diǎn)都不浪漫。由于沒(méi)有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上?？蓸?lè)瓶的押金是5分錢(qián)，我把瓶子還回去好用押金買(mǎi)吃的。在每個(gè)周日的晚上，我都會(huì)步行7英里穿越市區(qū)，到HareKrishna教堂吃一頓大餐，我喜歡那兒的食品。我跟隨好奇心和直覺(jué)所做的事情，事后證實(shí)大多數(shù)都是極其貴重的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。我舉一個(gè)例子：那個(gè)時(shí)候，里德大學(xué)提供了全美國(guó)最好的書(shū)法教育。整個(gè)校園的每一張海報(bào)，每一個(gè)抽屜上的標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫(xiě)體。因?yàn)橐呀?jīng)退學(xué)，不用再去上那些常規(guī)的課程，于是我選擇了一個(gè)書(shū)法班，想學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫(xiě)出一手漂亮字。在這個(gè)班上，我學(xué)習(xí)了各種字體，如何改變不同字體組合之間的字間距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法捕獲的布滿美感、歷史感和藝術(shù)感的微妙，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了?！　one of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later， when we were designing the first Macintosh puter， it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first puter 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 puter would have them. If I had never dropped out， I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class， and personal puters 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.　　當(dāng)時(shí)，我壓根兒沒(méi)想到這些知識(shí)會(huì)在我的生命中有什么實(shí)際運(yùn)用價(jià)值。但是10 年之后，當(dāng)我們?cè)O(shè)計(jì)第一款Macintosh 電腦的時(shí)候，這些東西全派上了用場(chǎng)。我把它們?nèi)吭O(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了Mac ，這是第一臺(tái)可以排出好看版式的電腦。假如當(dāng)時(shí)我大學(xué)里沒(méi)有旁聽(tīng)這門(mén)課程的話，Mac就不會(huì)提供各種字體和等間距字體。自從Windows系統(tǒng)抄襲了Mac以后，(鼓掌大笑)所有的個(gè)人電腦都有了這些東西。假如我沒(méi)有退學(xué)，我就不會(huì)去書(shū)法班旁聽(tīng)，而今天的個(gè)人電腦大概也就不會(huì)有精彩的版式功能。當(dāng)然我在念大學(xué)的那會(huì)兒，不可能有先見(jiàn)之明，把那些生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴都串起來(lái)。但10 年之后再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常清晰?！　gain， you cant 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.　　再夸大一次，你不可能布滿預(yù)見(jiàn)地將生命的點(diǎn)滴串聯(lián)起來(lái)。只有在你回頭看的時(shí)候，你才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴之間的聯(lián)系。所以，你要堅(jiān)信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的將在你未來(lái)的生命中串聯(lián)起來(lái)。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺(jué)、命運(yùn)、糊口、因緣際會(huì) 恰是這種信奉讓我不會(huì)失去但愿，它讓我的人生變得不同凡響?！　y second story is about love and loss.　　第二個(gè)故事　關(guān)于愛(ài)與失去　　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 pany 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 pany you started? Well， as Apple grew we hired someo