【正文】 在照片下面有一排字：物有所不足，智有所不明(Stay Hungry ，Stay Foolish. 求知若饑，虛心若愚)這是他們停刊的離別留言。這本雜志的創(chuàng)辦人是一個叫斯圖爾特布蘭德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，間隔這兒不遠(yuǎn)?，F(xiàn)在你們?nèi)允切律?，但不久的將來你們也將逐漸老去，被送出人生的舞臺。那天晚上做了一個切片檢查，醫(yī)生把一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉管伸進(jìn)去，穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸道，將探針伸進(jìn)胰臟，從腫瘤上掏出了幾個細(xì)胞。在早晨7 ：30 我做了一個檢查，掃描結(jié)果清晰地顯示我的胰臟泛起了一個腫瘤?！　y third story is about death.　　第三個故事 關(guān)于死亡　　When I was 17， I read a quote that went something like： If you live each day as if it was your last， someday youll most certainly be right. It made an impression on me， and since then， for the past 33 years， I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself： If today were the last day of my life， would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row， I know I need to change something.　　在17歲的時候，我讀過一句格言，似乎是：假如你把每一天都當(dāng)成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發(fā)現(xiàn)原來一切皆在把握之中。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如斯，對愛人亦是如斯。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕巧所代替，每件事情都不再那么確定，我以自由之軀進(jìn)入了我整個生命當(dāng)中最有創(chuàng)意的時期。我覺得我讓企業(yè)界的前輩們絕望了，我失去了傳到我手上的指揮棒。在我20歲的時候，就和沃茲在我父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果電腦公司。但10 年之后再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常清晰。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)無法捕獲的布滿美感、歷史感和藝術(shù)感的微妙，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了。由于沒有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。但由于少不更事，我選擇了一所和斯坦福一樣昂貴的大學(xué)，(笑聲)我的父母都是工人階級，他們傾其所有資助我的學(xué)業(yè)。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。(笑聲)今天，我想告訴你們我生命中的三個故事，并非什么了不得的大事件，只是三個小故事而已。候選名單上的另外一對夫婦，也就是我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天午夜接到了一通電話： 有一個不請自來的男嬰，你們想收養(yǎng)嗎? 他們回答： 當(dāng)然想。(笑聲)從我退學(xué)那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫無愛好的必修課了，我開始旁聽那些看來比較有意思的科目。整個校園的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。自從Windows系統(tǒng)抄襲了Mac以后，(鼓掌大笑)所有的個人電腦都有了這些東西。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺、命運、糊口、因緣際會 恰是這種信奉讓我不會失去但愿，它讓我的人生變得不同凡響。因為公司的董事會站在他那一邊，所以在我30歲的時候，就被踢出了局。固然被拋棄了，但我的熱忱不改?！　m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine， but I guess the patient needed it.　　Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life， and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet， keep looking. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart， youll know when you find it. And， like any great relationship， it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Dont settle.　　我非常肯定，假如沒有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發(fā)生。猶如任何偉大的浪漫關(guān)系一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。在我所知道的各種方法中，提醒自己即將死去是避免掉入畏懼失去這個陷阱的最好辦法。這意味著你得把一切都鋪排妥當(dāng)，盡可能減少你的家人在你身后的負(fù)擔(dān)。即使想去天堂的人，也是但愿能活著進(jìn)去。最為重要的是，要有遵從你的內(nèi)心和直覺的勇氣，它們可能已知道你實在想成為一個什么樣的人。　　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 you