【正文】 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 can39。我把當(dāng)時(shí)我學(xué)的那些家伙全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了Mac。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺(jué)得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my , 但是事后證明, 從蘋(píng)果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。t with all matters of the heart, you39。對(duì)于工作是如此, 對(duì)于你的愛(ài)人也是如此?！@句話給我留下了深刻的印象。不要被教條束縛,那意味著你和其他人思考的結(jié)果一起生活。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 was the mid1970s, and I was your 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 it were the words: “Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed I have always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for ―整個(gè)地球的目錄‖,當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時(shí)候, 他們做出了最后一期的目錄。m honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I39。t all didn39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。t 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。s the closest I get for a few more lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people39。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個(gè)故事。所以在我出生的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準(zhǔn)備工作，能使得我被一個(gè)律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.在十七歲那年，我真的上了大學(xué)。然后我還可以去修那些看起來(lái)有點(diǎn)意思的課程。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。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 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 can39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the pa。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a 39。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。但是我喜歡這樣。不能否認(rèn)，我當(dāng)時(shí)確實(shí)非常的害怕，但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看，那的確是我這一生中最棒的一個(gè)決定。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn39。我的親生母親是一個(gè)年輕的、沒(méi)有結(jié)婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。我從來(lái)沒(méi)有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。t waste it living someone else39。d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your means to say your lived with that diagnosis all 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 was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine was the closest I39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。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 second story is about love and was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 didn39。Thank you all very 。那是六十年代后期, 在個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書(shū)全部是用打字機(jī),、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。t let the noise of other39。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。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我無(wú)比鐘愛(ài)。ve got to find what you that is as true for you