【正文】 出你的所愛。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故事就好。那么，我為什么休學？這得從我出生前講起。所以在等待收養(yǎng)名單上的一對夫妻，我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天半夜里接到一通電話，問他們「有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認養(yǎng)他嗎？」而他們的回答是「當然要」。十七年后，我上大學了。當時這個決定看來相當可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。因為我休學了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去學書法。如果我沒沉溺于那樣一門課里，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟變間距字體了。所以你得相信，你現(xiàn)在所體會的東西，將來多少會連接在一塊。我好運－年輕時就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己愛做什么事?？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，炒了我魷魚，公開把我請了出去。我見了創(chuàng)辦HP的David Packard跟創(chuàng)辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。當時我沒發(fā)現(xiàn)，但是現(xiàn)在看來，被蘋果計算機開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。然后，蘋果計算機買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術成了蘋果計算機后來復興的核心。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。你的工作將填滿你的一大塊人生，唯一獲得真正滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。所以，在你找到之前，繼續(xù)找，別停頓。提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大決定時，所用過最重要的工具。一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。經歷此事后，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時要更肯定告訴你們下面這些： 沒有人想死?，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在的心聲。那是一位住在離這不遠的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發(fā)行的，他把雜志辦得很有詩意。當時是1970年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個年齡的時候。當你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此期許你們。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 17 years later I did go to I naively chose 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 wasn’t all didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ 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: 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。當你的想法站不住時，立即大度的丟棄，這其實是更是一種堅持。5, the sign painting so big? Apple products will at any time those who make a person recognized apple’s products rather than is the apple 、比別人少用一條線獲得更低的工藝成本，比別人提供多一種價值認同并獲得更高的利潤，這就是蘋果。8, IBM Thinkpad if not a little red dot, it isn’t if added little red dots, that it is not IBM Thinkpad nor apple 、讓團隊中那些說“不可能”的人感到實現(xiàn)不了是可恥的。12, product design all the functions are a whole, should not have any reason to cut function, destroy 、領袖和跟風者的區(qū)別就在于創(chuàng)新，你的時間有限，所以不要像亞洲人那樣，浪費在模仿別人這種事上。16,East: “there’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘beginner’s never keep Have a beginner’s mind is a wonderful 、不要小看ipod上的一顆按鈕，它和別人不一樣的是我們做了21個方案、84000次測試、57次改進，用戶的滿意源于不必要的堅持。t lose 39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。有些時候, 生活會拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下。對于工作是如此, 對于你的愛人也是如此。就像任何真誠的關系, 隨著歲月的流逝只會越來越緊密。t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people39。不要被教條束縛,那意味著你和其他人思考的結果一起生活。那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時代?！蔽铱偸窍Ｍ约耗軌蚰菢?現(xiàn)在, 在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的旅程的時候, 我也希望你們能這樣。史蒂夫喬布斯斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮上演講一定要找到你熱愛的我很榮幸能在今天與你們一起參加一個世界上最優(yōu)秀的大學的畢業(yè)典禮。就是這樣。在過了最初的六個月后，我便從Reed學院輟學了。她決定把我送給別人收養(yǎng)。所以，我的養(yǎng)父母，本來是在等候的名單上的。她拒絕在最終的領養(yǎng)文件上簽字。我工薪階層的父母的所有積蓄都花在了我的學費上。而且我在這里花費著我父母一生所有的積蓄。在我輟學的那一刻，我可以不再去上我不感興趣的課程，而去上那些看起來有趣的課程。我會在每星期天晚上步行7英里穿過城市到HareKrishna寺廟去好好吃一頓。在校園里，每一個海報，每一個抽屜上的標簽都是優(yōu)美的手寫字。我發(fā)現(xiàn)這一切令人著迷。如果我沒有在學校學書法課程，Mac就不可能有多種字體或者按適當比例間隔的字體。但是，當10年后再回頭看，這一切非常，非常清楚。你一定要相信一些事情你的直覺、命運、生命、因緣，無論是什么。我很幸運，在生命中的最初階段就找到了自己熱愛做的事情。當時我剛剛滿30歲，就在一年前，我們發(fā)布了我們最杰出的創(chuàng)造Macintosh。但是，隨后我們對未來的想法就開始有了分歧。我成年以來整個生活的中心沒有了，這是毀滅性的。我是一個眾所周知的失敗。我被拒絕了，但是，我仍舊愛著。這一切解放了我，讓我進入了一生中最有創(chuàng)造性的一段時間。在經歷了種種起伏后蘋果買下了NeXT。我相當確信，如果我沒被蘋果解雇，這一切之中的任何事情都不會發(fā)生。我深信當時唯一讓我支持下去的原因就是我熱愛我所作的一切。而做偉大的事業(yè)的唯一途徑就是熱愛你所作的一切。就象任何美滿的伴侶關系，隨著時間的推移，事情會變得更美好。在我17歲的時候，我讀到一段話，大概是“如果你按照生活的每一天都好象是你生命的最后一天那樣活著，總有一天你會確信你的方向是對的。記住你會死去，這是我所知的避免陷入患得患失的陷阱的最好的方式。早晨7點半我做了掃描。我應該不會活過3到6個月。也就是你的告別。我被麻醉了。我做了手術，現(xiàn)在我已經沒事了。沒人希望死。死亡就是這樣?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是新的。所以不要浪費你自己的時間去過別人的生活。你的內心和直覺早已洞察了你真正想做的。當時是60年代末，還沒有個人電腦和桌面出版系統(tǒng)。他們最終完成了自己的使命，出了最后一期刊物，時間是70年代中期。在照片下面有一句話“保持渴望。固執(zhí)愚見。固執(zhí)愚見。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 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。t all didn39。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do learned about