【正文】 all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great 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 I have always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you all very much.第三篇：蘋(píng)果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講蘋(píng)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(píng)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。Stewart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final 《全球目錄》，一直出到停刊號(hào)就沒(méi)再發(fā)行。t let the noise of others39。s 39。s change agent。s the closest I get for a few more ，我希望也是今后幾十年里最近的一次Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual ，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實(shí)在地和你們談?wù)撍劳?，No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with ，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場(chǎng)。t even know what a pancreas The 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 ，幾乎可以確診這是一種無(wú)法治愈的惡性腫瘤，我最多還能活三到六個(gè)月 My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors39。ll most certainly be right.”(Laughter)17歲那年，我讀到過(guò)這樣一段話(huà)，大意是：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命的最后一天過(guò)，總有一天你的假設(shè)會(huì)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。ll know when you find it, and like any greatrelationship it just gets better and better as the years roll ，一旦找到了自己喜歡的事，感覺(jué)就會(huì)告訴你。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your ，一定得知道自己喜歡什么，選擇愛(ài)人時(shí)如此，選擇工作時(shí)同樣如此Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you ，讓自己真正滿(mǎn)意的唯一辦法，是做自己認(rèn)為有意義的工作。Sometime...Sometimes life39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family ，蘋(píng)果公司買(mǎi)下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋(píng)果公司，我們?cè)?NeXT 公司開(kāi)發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋(píng)果公司這次重新崛起的核心。d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start ,但我仍然深?lèi)?ài)著我所做的一切，于是，我決定從頭開(kāi)始I didn39。I really didn39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。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(guò)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(jué)也好，命運(yùn)也好，生活也好，因果報(bào)應(yīng)……。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）。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。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(lái)選課，所以我跑去學(xué)書(shū)法。追尋好奇與直覺(jué)的我所駐足的大部分事物，這些在我看來(lái)都成了無(wú)價(jià)之寶。 。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(kāi)始去旁聽(tīng)一些在我看來(lái)更有意思的課。而我所在做的僅是花光我父母的畢生積蓄。 savings were being spent on my college ，我進(jìn)了大學(xué)。She refused to sign the final adoption 。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?zhuān)龥Q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。ve ever gotten to a college ...說(shuō)實(shí)話(huà)，我自己從來(lái)沒(méi)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。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。So why did I drop out? It started before I was ？這得從我出生前講起?！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(lái)都沒(méi)有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)過(guò)，而父親則連高中也沒(méi)畢業(yè)。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。t see the value in ，我看不出念這個(gè)書(shū)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。（笑聲）The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。And I loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later 。Because I had dropped out and didn39。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(shū)法一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。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(mén)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)。Again, you can39。 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(píng)果公司就從車(chē)庫(kù)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。在開(kāi)始的一年多里，一切都很順利But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a ，隨后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開(kāi)始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly ，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊，所以在30歲那年，我離開(kāi)了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿(mǎn)城風(fēng)雨What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was ，這使我心力交瘁。諾西道歉，說(shuō)我不該把事情搞得這么砸 I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the ，我甚至想過(guò)逃離硅谷