【正文】 得這是個正確的決定。 It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價之寶。我學到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。我把當時我學的那些家伙全都設計進了Mac。當然我在大學的時候，還不可能把從前的點點滴滴串連起來,但是當我十年后回顧這一切的時候,真的豁然開朗了。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣。Woz和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。所以在三十歲的時候, 我被炒了。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點也沒有。因為，作為一個成功者的極樂感覺被作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺所重新代替: 對任何事情都不那么特別看重。在后來的一系列運轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。這個良藥的味道實在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要這個藥。你需要去找到你所愛的東西。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到, 那么繼續(xù)找、不要停下來、全心全意的去找, 當你找到的時候你就會知道的?！边@句話給我留下了深刻的印象。因為幾乎所有的事情, 包括所有的榮譽、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都會消失。 About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. 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 months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. 大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫(yī)生準備死亡的程序。我當時很鎮(zhèn)靜,因為我被注射了鎮(zhèn)定劑。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時候，我可以更肯定一點地對你們說： No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. 沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。 因為死亡就是生命中的一個發(fā)明。 Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to bee. Everything else is secondary. 你們的時間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費在重復其他人的生活上。 When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. 當我年輕的時候, 有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發(fā)聵的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。 Stewart 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 issue. It was the mid1970s, and I was your age. On 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 adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stewart和他的伙伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”,當它完成了自己使命的時候, 他們做出了最后一期的目錄?！氨３逐囸I,保持愚蠢。這里給大家抓取英文演講稿中的第一個故事，讓我們在閱讀中體味生活的智慧。所以我決定退學，并且相信沒有做錯。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。讓我來給你們舉個例子吧。在這門課上，我學會了“serif”和”sansserif”兩種字體、學會了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學會了怎樣寫出好的字來。于是，我們把這些東西全都設計進了計算機中?！　f 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 do.　　要不是退了學，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。所以你必須相信，那些點點滴滴，會在你未來的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)