【正文】 as an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the “bibles” of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 60s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great ，有本神奇的雜志叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng) 年我們很迷這本雜志。t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people39。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。This was the closest I39。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟 親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對(duì)臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)建議。記住自己隨時(shí)都會(huì)死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方 法。你怎么會(huì)被自己辦的公司解雇呢？是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越 大，我們聘了一位我認(rèn)為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。你們必須信賴 某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。要 不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個(gè)人電腦可能不會(huì)有這些字體和字號(hào)。當(dāng)時(shí)我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日 后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。And 17 years later I did go to I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢？It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for 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 that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy。經(jīng)營自己與眾不同的人生要從了解別人的經(jīng)歷開始。今天我想給大 家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當(dāng)時(shí)他們還 在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢——半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒人要的男嬰，你們要么？”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。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 can39。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。t connect the dots looking forward。我們干得很 賣力，十年后，蘋果公司就從車庫里我們兩個(gè)人發(fā)展成為一個(gè)擁有 20 億 元資產(chǎn)、4000 名員工的大企業(yè)。I really didn39。m fine ，我被診斷出癌癥。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老 婆在場(chǎng)。s change clears out the old to make way for the now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。Your time is limited, so don39。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了 你內(nèi)在的心聲。ve always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you all very 《Whole Earth Catalog》，然 后出了?？?hào)。第二篇：蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講這是蘋果公司CEO喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，大學(xué)途中退學(xué)，創(chuàng)業(yè)，被解雇，東山再起，死亡威脅，這些他都一一經(jīng)歷了。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)。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。當(dāng)然，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。我在 20 歲時(shí)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。我成年后的整個(gè)生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。于是，我決定從頭開始。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。記住自己隨時(shí)都會(huì)死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。我整天想著那個(gè)診斷結(jié)果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個(gè)內(nèi)視鏡，從胃進(jìn)腸子，插了根針進(jìn)胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細(xì)胞出來。這是注定的，因?yàn)樗劳龊喼本褪巧凶畎舻陌l(fā)明，是生命變化的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代留下空間。在我年輕時(shí)，有本神奇的雜志叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng)年我們很迷這本雜志。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。s big three 。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked ，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。It wasn39。我憑借好奇心和直覺所干的這些事情，有許多后來都證明是無價(jià)之寶。None 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 neverdropped 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 。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間的關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。幸運(yùn)的是，我在很小的時(shí)候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么。這時(shí)，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風(fēng)雨。s code for“prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。那代表你得跟人說再見了。t want to die to get yet death is the destination we all one has ever escaped that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of 39?，F(xiàn)在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會(huì)逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞臺(tái)。 opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is ，所以不要浪費(fèi)時(shí)間活在別人的生活里。雜志內(nèi)容有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的Google，在Google出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了：理想化，充滿新奇工具與神奇的注記。求知若饑，虛心若愚。所以說，要不斷地尋找，直到找到自己喜歡的東西。喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講稿(中英對(duì)照全文)蘋果公司CEO史蒂夫,Jobs says Jobs說：你必須要找到你所愛的東西。沒什么大不了的，只是三個(gè)故事而已。然后我的排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個(gè)深夜接到電話，“很意外，我們多了一個(gè)男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當(dāng)然要！”但是我的生母后來又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒有畢業(yè)。六個(gè)月后，我覺得不值得。 returned Coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒有做錯(cuò)。幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她妥協(xié)了。I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a dropin for another eighteen months or so before I really why did I drop out? It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for 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 theyreallywanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。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