【正文】 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。現(xiàn)在，在你們即將踏上新旅程的時(shí)候，我也希望你們能這樣。有點(diǎn)像軟皮包裝的google，不過卻早了三十五年。不要被其他人的喧囂觀點(diǎn)掩蓋自己內(nèi)心真正的聲音。但是死亡是每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)，沒有人能夠逃脫。s quite time is limited, so don39。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。我當(dāng)時(shí)都不知道胰腺是什么東西。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问隆械臉s耀、驕傲、對難堪和失敗的恐懼——在死亡面前都會(huì)消隱，留下真正重要的東西。My third story is about I was 17 I read a quote that went something like ”If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。不要喪失信心。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。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。我被逐了，但我仍愛著我的事業(yè)。一開始的幾個(gè)月我真的不知道該干什么。我很幸運(yùn)，很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。所以你必須相信，那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，會(huì)在你未來的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。校園中每一張海報(bào)，抽屜上的每一張標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學(xué)會(huì)怎樣幫我指點(diǎn)迷津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書上簽字。The first story is about connecting the ，如何串連生命中的點(diǎn)滴。Thank 39。 passing.”His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.“ Job39。蘋果公司官方網(wǎng)站首頁目前已換成喬布斯大幅照片。 death was announced by Apple in a statement late on homepage featured a blackandwhite picture of him with the words “Steve Jobs, 19552011”.A message on the site read: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor.”Steve leaves behind a pany that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.“ The Silicon Valley icon who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world39。s fortunes waned after , its purchase of NeXTin 1997 brought him back into the that year, he became interim CEO and in 2000, the pany dropped ”interim“ from his the way Jobs also had managed to revolutionize puter animation with his other pany, Pixar, but it was the iPhone in 2007 that capped his legacy in the annals of modern technology years before the gadget that forever transformed the way people around the world access and use the Internet, Jobs talked about how a sense of his mortality was a major driver behind that vision.”Remembering that I39。Today I want to tell you three stories from my 39。她有一個(gè)很強(qiáng)烈的信仰，認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該被一個(gè)大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more 。t all didn39。Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully I had dropped out and didn39。s likely that no personal puter would have 。t connect the dots looking can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whateverbecause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the ，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。d just turned 30, and then I got can you get fired from a pany you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so, things went then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at 30, I was out, and very publicly had been the focus of my entir