【正文】 a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents’ savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn’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 didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more wasn’t all didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。 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: 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 didn’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 can’t capture, and I found it 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 , you can’t connect the dots looking forward。今天，我想告訴大家來自我生活的三個故事。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前說起。然后我的排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個深夜接到電話，“很意外，我們多了一個男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當(dāng)然要！”但是我的生母后來又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒有畢業(yè)。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了，但是我很無知地選了一所差不多和斯坦福一樣貴的校學(xué)，幾乎花掉我那藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。一開始非常嚇人，但回憶起來，這卻是我一生中作的最好的決定之一。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個的舊可樂瓶，每個星期天晚步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。當(dāng)時的里得大學(xué)提供可能是全國最好的書法指導(dǎo)。當(dāng)時我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實用價值。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。不管你現(xiàn)在學(xué)習(xí)的對于將來有沒有用，興趣也好，應(yīng)用也好，十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。第二個故事是關(guān)于愛與失的。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長為擁有四千名員工，價值二十億的大公司。于是，在我三十歲的時候，我出局了，很公開地出局了。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。我被逐了，但我仍愛著。這讓我感覺如此自由，進(jìn)入一生中最有創(chuàng)造力的階段。我們在NeXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個幸福的家庭。不要喪失信心。如果你還沒有找到，那么就繼續(xù)找，不要停。我的第三個故事關(guān)于死亡。提醒自己就要死了是我遇見的最大的幫助，幫我作了生命中的大決定。大約一年前，我被診斷出患了癌癥。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。后來有天晚上我做了一個活切片檢查，他們將一個內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過胃，到達(dá)腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。這次死里逃生讓我比以往只知道死亡是一個有用而純粹書面概念的時候更確信地告訴你們，沒有人愿意死，即使那些想上天堂的人們也不愿意通過死亡來達(dá)到他們的目的?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是“新”。不要被教條束縛，那意味著會和別人思考的結(jié)果一塊兒生活。我年輕的時候，有一份叫做“完整地球目錄”的好雜志，是我們這一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。有點像軟皮包裝的Google，不過卻早了三十五年。最后一期的封底是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)村小路的照片，如果你有冒險精神，可以自己找到這條路。求知若渴，虛心若谷。第1個故事，是關(guān)于人生中的點點滴滴如何串連在一起。我的親生母親當(dāng)時是個研究生，年輕的未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。有一天半夜，他們接到一個電話，“有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認(rèn)養(yǎng)他嗎”，他們回答“當(dāng)然要”。但是當(dāng)時我無知地選了一所學(xué)費幾乎跟死蛋孵的一樣貴的大學(xué)，我那工人階級的父母將所有積蓄都花在我的學(xué)費上。當(dāng)時這個決定看來相當(dāng)可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來，那是我這輩子做過的最棒的決定之一。每個星期天晚上，我得走7哩路，繞過大半個鎮(zhèn)去印度教的Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料，我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好吃的。因為我休學(xué)了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去上書寫課。如果我沒能沉溺于這樣一門課，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體和等比例間距字體。我再說一次，你不可能把點點滴滴事先串連起來，只有回首往事，你才能把它們串在一起（you can39。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者業(yè)力。我20歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫里開始了蘋果電腦的事業(yè)?？墒俏覀儗ξ磥淼脑妇安煌?，最后只好分道揚鑣，董事會站在他那邊，就這樣，在我30歲的時候，公司把我解雇了。我見了創(chuàng)辦HP的David Packard跟創(chuàng)辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說很抱歉我把事情給搞砸了。當(dāng)時我沒發(fā)現(xiàn)，但現(xiàn)在看來，被蘋果開除，是我所經(jīng)歷過最好的事情。然后，蘋果電腦買下NeXT，我又回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)成了蘋果電腦后來復(fù)興的核心部份。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭，但不要喪失信心。你得找出你的最愛，工作上是如此，人生伴侶也是如此。而且，如同任何偉大的事業(yè)，情況只會隨著時間推移變得愈來愈好。ll most certainly be right）。人生不帶來，死不帶去，沒理由不順心而為。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)建議。我整天想著那個診斷結(jié)果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內(nèi)視鏡，穿過胃進(jìn)到腸子，將探針伸進(jìn)胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細(xì)胞出來。這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續(xù)是未來幾十年內(nèi)最接近的一次?，F(xiàn)在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞臺。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內(nèi)在的心聲。雜志內(nèi)容有點像印在紙上的平面Google，在Google 出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了。在?？柕姆獾?，有張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經(jīng)過的鄉(xiāng)間小路。第四篇：喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿Thank 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