【正文】 第一篇：蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講中英文蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講摘要: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)營自己與眾不同的人生要從了解別人的經(jīng)歷開始。以下是英文原版以 及翻譯的版本：Tag: 英語 演講This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the never graduated from be told, this is the closest I39。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。s big three 。我大 學(xué)沒畢業(yè)，說實話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。今天我想給大 家講三個我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個故事。The first story is about connecting the dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really why did I drop out?第一個故事講的是點與點之間的關(guān)系。我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）只讀了六個月就退學(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？It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed college 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 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: “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 refused to sign the final adoption only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to 。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律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。沒想到我落地的霎那 間，那對夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當(dāng)時他們還 在登記冊上排隊等著呢——半夜三更接到一個電話: “我們這兒有一個沒人要的男嬰，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，沒過幾個月她就心軟了，因為我的養(yǎng) 父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。And 17 years later I did go to I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn39。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked ，我真的進了大學(xué)。當(dāng)時我很天真，選了一所學(xué)費幾乎和斯 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。讀了六個月后，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，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)，并且堅信日 后會證明我這樣做是對的。當(dāng)年做出這個決定時心里直打鼓，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，開始旁聽一些看上去有意思的課。It wasn39。t all didn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。 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 loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later me give you one example:那些日子一點兒都不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。每個星期天晚上我都要 走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美 餐。我喜歡這樣。我憑借好奇心和直覺所干的這些事情，有許多后來都證 明是無價之寶。我給大家舉個例子:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand I had dropped out and didn39。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。t capture, and I found it ，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國最好的。校園里所有的公告欄和 每個抽屜標(biāo)簽上的字都寫得非常漂亮。當(dāng)時我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我學(xué)習(xí)寫帶短截線和不帶短 截線的印刷字體，根據(jù)不同字母組合調(diào)整其間距，以及怎樣把版式調(diào)整得 好上加好。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點科學(xué)就 做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to we designed it all into the was the first puter with beautiful I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal puter would have 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 course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years 。但是，十年 之后，我們在設(shè)計第一臺 Macintosh 計算機時，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計進了計算機中。這是第一臺有這么漂亮 的文字版式的計算機。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課，Macintosh 計算機絕不會有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號。要 不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個人電腦可能不會有這些字體和字號。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會碰巧選了這門書法課，個人電腦也可能不會有 現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點上看到它與將 來的關(guān)系。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間的關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。Again, you can39。t connect the dots looking forward。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my ；只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)現(xiàn) 它們之間的關(guān)系。所以，要相信這些點遲早會連接到一起。你們必須信賴 某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。這樣做從來沒有讓我 的希望落空過，而且還徹底改變了我的生活。My second story is about love and was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 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 had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned then I got can you get fired from a pany you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first y