【正文】 But something slowly began to dawn on still loved what I ，漸漸地，我開始有了一個想法：我仍然熱愛我過去做的一切 The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one **絲毫沒有改變這一點(diǎn)I39。(掌聲)In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。t been fired from ，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切決不可能發(fā)生It was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed 。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I You39。t ，那就不斷地去尋找，不要祈求安逸As with all matters of the heart, you39。t ，不要祈求安逸 My third story is about When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life，提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大決定時所用到的最好的辦法because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly －所有外界期望、所有名譽(yù)、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最重要的東西才會留下Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to ，是我所知避免自己因失落而陷入不知所措的窘境的最好的方法 You are already is no reason not to follow your ，沒什么理由不順心而為About a year ago, I was diagnosed with ，我被診斷患了癌癥 I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my ，我做了一次掃描檢查，結(jié)果清楚地表明我的胰腺上長了一個瘤子 I didn39。那代表你得跟他們說再見了 I lived with that diagnosis all Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the ，從喉嚨伸入一個內(nèi)視鏡，從胃進(jìn)腸子，插了根針進(jìn)胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細(xì)胞出來。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。s life39。t waste it living someone else39。不要讓別人思想里盲從的信條困惑你 Don39。我喜歡這雜志，因為雜志內(nèi)容很有詩意This was in the late Sixties, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid ，個人計算機(jī)跟臺式印刷系統(tǒng)還沒被發(fā)明，所以雜志全是由打字機(jī)、剪刀跟拍立得相機(jī)做出來的It was sort of like Google in paperback form thirtyfive years before Google came ，而這是在谷歌出現(xiàn)之前35年的產(chǎn)品 I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great ，也是簡單的工具與大量智慧的的結(jié)合。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。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。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢？這得從我出生前講起。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。當(dāng)時我很天真，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)。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅信日后會證明我這樣做是對的。我沒有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。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。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計進(jìn)了計算機(jī)中。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。所以，要相信這些點(diǎn)遲早會連接到一起。幸運(yùn)的是，我在很小的時候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么?？珊髞恚冶唤夤土?。這時，董事會站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風(fēng)雨。我去見了戴維帕卡德（David Packard，惠普公司創(chuàng)始人之一─譯注）和鮑勃諾伊斯（Bob Noyce，英特爾公司創(chuàng)建者之一─譯注），想為把事情搞得這么糟糕說聲道歉。我雖然被拒之門外，但我仍然深愛我的事業(yè)。這使我進(jìn)入了一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時期之一。我和勞倫娜（Laurene）也建立了美滿的家庭。我堅信讓我一往無前的唯一力量就是我熱愛我所做的一切。就像一切要憑著感覺去做的事情一樣，一旦找到了自己喜歡的事，感覺就會告訴你。我的第三個故事與死亡有關(guān)。因為幾乎所有的東西——所有對自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴(yán)、所有對困窘和失敗的恐懼——在死亡來臨時都將不復(fù)存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。醫(yī)生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之癥，我大概活不到三到六個月了。那代表你得跟人說再見了。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。但是死亡是我們共有的目的地，沒有人逃得過。你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費(fèi)時間活在別人的生活里。任何其它事物都是次要的。雜志內(nèi)容有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的Google，在Google出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了：理想化，充滿新奇工具與神奇的注記。在照片下有行小字：求知若饑，虛心若愚。非常謝謝大家。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。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(diǎn)與點(diǎn)之間的關(guān)系。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決