【正文】 “保持饑餓,保持愚蠢。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(dāng)我年輕的時(shí)候, 有一本叫做“整個(gè)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。t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people39。也應(yīng)該如此。我做了這個(gè)手術(shù), 現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。醫(yī)生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥, 我還有三到六個(gè)月的時(shí)間活在這個(gè)世界上。你有時(shí)候會(huì)思考你將會(huì)失去某些東西,“記住你即將死去”是我知道的避免這些想法的最好辦法。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。對(duì)于工作是如此, 對(duì)于你的愛人也是如此。t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you39。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。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。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時(shí)候，我們雇用了一個(gè)很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個(gè)公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的很好。這個(gè)過程從來沒有令我失望（let me down）,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同而已。如果我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有退學(xué), 就不會(huì)有機(jī)會(huì)去參加這個(gè)我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程, Mac就不會(huì)有這么多豐富的字體，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。在這個(gè)大學(xué)里面的每個(gè)海報(bào), 每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。 但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的所有積蓄。只是在幾個(gè)月以后,我的父母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué),那個(gè)時(shí)候她才同意。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. 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 girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: We have an unexpected baby boy。ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That39。從大學(xué)里輟學(xué)是他這一生做出的最為明智的一個(gè)選擇，因?yàn)樗破人麑W(xué)會(huì)了創(chuàng)新。 Jobs saysJobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個(gè)故事而已。但是她沒有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后,律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個(gè)女孩。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個(gè)幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上面。It wasn39。讓我給你們舉一個(gè)例子吧：Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn39。但是十年之后,當(dāng)我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)Macintosh電腦的時(shí)候,就不是那樣了。 you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時(shí)候不可能將這些片斷串連起來；你只能在回顧的時(shí)候?qū)Ⅻc(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是Macintosh。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱離自己遠(yuǎn)去, 這真是毀滅性的打擊。我被驅(qū)逐了,但是我仍然鐘愛它。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個(gè)用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫電影——“”玩具總動(dòng)員”,Pixar現(xiàn)在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You39。不要失去信心。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來！My third story is about death.我的第三個(gè)故事是關(guān)于死亡的。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。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。后來有一天早上我作了一個(gè)活切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個(gè)細(xì)胞。s change agent. It cl