【正文】 第一篇：蘋果CEO斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講蘋果CEO喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講I39。m uh...honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the ，斯坦福是世界上最好 的大學(xué)之一Truth be told, er...I never graduated from college and uh...this is the closest I39。ve ever gotten to a college ...說實(shí)話，我自己從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，所以今天應(yīng)該是我距離 畢業(yè)典禮最近的一刻。呵……Today I want to tell you three stories from my The first story is about connecting the I 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 。后來我又回到學(xué)校呆了大概十八個(gè)月就徹底退學(xué)了。So why did I drop out? It started before I was ？這得從我出生前講起。My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for ，也是一個(gè)年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我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 ，所以我就能出生在一個(gè)律師家庭。但是這對(duì)夫妻到最后一刻反悔了，因?yàn)樗麄兿胧震B(yǎng)女孩So 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.”在等待收養(yǎng)名單上的一對(duì)夫妻，也就是我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天半夜里接到電話問他們要不要認(rèn)養(yǎng)一個(gè)剛出生的男孩，而他們的回答是：“當(dāng)然要?！盡y biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high ，我現(xiàn)在的母親從來都沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)過，而父親則連高中也沒畢業(yè)。She refused to sign the final adoption 。She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to ，她才軟化態(tài)度。This was the start in my 。And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but 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 ，我進(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)。After six months, I couldn39。t see the value in ，我看不出念這個(gè)書的價(jià)值何在I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire ，也不確定大學(xué)能幫我弄明白自己想干什么。而我所在做的僅是花光我父母的畢生積蓄。So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ，我要自立更生。It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.(Laughter)當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定的時(shí)候還心有余悸，但現(xiàn)在驀然回首，我覺得這是我有生以來做出的最好的決定之一。（笑聲）The 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 far more ，我就可以不再選那些我不感興趣的必修課，而開始去旁聽一些在我看來更有意思的課。It wasn39。t all didn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。 。我沒有寢室，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，I returned Coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna 。每個(gè)星期天晚上得走七里的路繞過大半個(gè)鎮(zhèn)子去“”印度神廟改善一頓伙食。And I loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later 。追尋好奇與直覺的我所駐足的大部分事物，這些在我看來都成了無價(jià)之寶。Let me give you one ，Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the 。Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully ，每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上，都有美麗的手寫字。Because I had dropped out and didn39。t have to take the normal classes, I decidedto take a calligraphy class to learn how to do ，可以不照正常程序來選課，所以我跑去學(xué)書法。I learned about serif and sansserif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography ，學(xué)到在如何調(diào)節(jié)多字母組合詞的字間距，學(xué)到了怎么把很好的活版印刷做得更好It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。t capture, and I found it 、歷史感與藝術(shù)感是科學(xué)所無法捕捉的，我覺得那很迷人。None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my 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 was the first puter with beautiful ，十年之后，我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)Macintosh計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)，以前學(xué)的書法一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。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, it39。s likely that no personal puter would have them.(Laughter/Applause)要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課，Mac計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。要不是Windows抄襲了這個(gè)功能，個(gè)人電腦也都不會(huì)有Mac的這些字體（笑聲/掌聲）。If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals puters might not have the wonderful typography that they ，我也不會(huì)碰巧選了那門書法課，個(gè)人電腦上也不可能打出這些美妙的書法字體。Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years ，我在大學(xué)里不可能把當(dāng)時(shí)的點(diǎn)向前延伸，連成一條線；但是現(xiàn)在回過頭去看，貫穿在這十年里的那條線卻無比清晰。Again, you can39。t connect the dots looking ，你不能預(yù)先把點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串在一起You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your ，你才會(huì)明白過去的那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴是如何串在一起的You have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever...你得信任某個(gè)東西，直覺也好，命運(yùn)也好，生活也好，因果報(bào)應(yīng)……。because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the ，把你的想法變成現(xiàn)實(shí)，讓你與眾不同。My second story is about love and I was found what I loved to do early in ，我在很小的時(shí)候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么Woz and I started Apple in my parents39。 garage when I was We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2billiondollar pany with over 4,000 ，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)市值20億美元、擁有4000多名員工的大企業(yè)We39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。d just turned thirty, and then I got ，我們剛推出了我們Macintosh電腦。當(dāng)時(shí)我剛過而立之年，卻被解雇了How can you get fired from a pany you started?(Laughter)你怎么會(huì)被自己辦的公司解雇呢？(笑聲)Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so, things went ，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘請(qǐng)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