【正文】 e only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You39。 在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我還愛上一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些風波絲毫沒有改變這一點。我成年后的整個生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。我在 20 歲時和沃茲（Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱─譯注）在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。Again, you can39。但是，十年之后，我們在設計第一臺 Macintosh 計算機時，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。我給大家舉個例子: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。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。讀了六個月后，我卻看不出上學有什么意義。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母─當時他們還在登記冊上排隊等著呢─半夜三更接到一個電話: “我們這兒有一個沒人要的男嬰，你們要么？”“當然要”他們回答。今天我想給大家講三個我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個故事。S226。ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That39。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn39。從退學那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無興趣的必修課，開始旁聽一些看上去有意思的課。每個星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾－科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我學習寫帶短截線和不帶短截線的印刷字體，根據(jù)不同字母組合調整其間距，以及怎樣把版式調整得好上加好。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。這樣做從來沒有讓我的希望落空過，而且還徹底改變了我的生活。在開始的一年多里，一切都很順利。諾伊斯（Bob Noyce，英特爾公司創(chuàng)建者之一─譯注），想為把事情搞得這么糟糕說聲道歉。s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.雖然當時我并沒有意識到，但事實證明，被蘋果公司炒魷魚是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t settle.我確信，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切決不可能發(fā)生。就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39。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.大約一年前，我被診斷患了癌癥。我做了手術，現(xiàn)在好了。我們注定會死，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的一項發(fā)明。s thinking. Don39。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.我年輕時有一本非常好的刊物，叫《全球概覽》（The Whole Earth Catalog），這是我那代人的寶書之一，創(chuàng)辦人名叫斯圖爾特amp。那是 20 世紀 70 年代中期，我也就是你們現(xiàn)在的年紀。照片下面寫道: 好學若饑、謙卑若愚。布蘭德（Stewart Brand），就住在離這兒不遠的門洛帕克市。 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.你們的時間都有限，所以不要按照別人的意愿去活，這是浪費時間?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是新的，但在不久的將來，你們也會逐漸成為舊的，也會被淘汰。ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don39。醫(yī)生建議我回去把一切都安排好，其實這是在暗示“準備后事”。因為幾乎所有的東西─所有對自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴、所有對困窘和失敗的恐懼─在死亡來臨時都將不復存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。不要半途而廢。有時生活會當頭給你一棒，但不要灰心。t lose faith. I39。這使我進入了一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時期之一。但是，漸漸地，我開始有了一個想法─我仍然熱愛我過