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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 you all very much.第四篇:Steve Jobs于2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講Steve Jobs于2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(兼任Apple和Pixar公司CEO)I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from college, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my ’s big three first story is about connecting the dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really why did I drop out? 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。保持饑餓,保持愚蠢。它理想主義,全文充斥著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。你的直覺和內(nèi)心知道你想要變成什么樣子。也應(yīng)該如此,因為死亡很可能是生命最好的發(fā)明。t waste it living someone else39。This was the closest I39。醫(yī)生們告訴我這幾乎是無法治愈的,我還有三到六個月的時間。提醒自己就要死亡是我知道的最好的方法,用來避開擔(dān)心失去某些東西的陷阱。ll 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 that I39。我確信唯一讓我一路走下來的是我對自己所做事情的熱愛。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for 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 you haven39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family ,蘋果收購了NeXT,我又回到了蘋果。我決定重新開始。我覺得我讓公司的前一代創(chuàng)建者們失望了,我把傳給我的權(quán)杖給弄丟了。我二十歲的時候就和沃茨在父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。你必須相信一些東西——你的勇氣、宿命、生活、因緣,隨便什么——因為相信這些點滴能夠一路連接會給你帶來循從本覺的自信,它使你遠離平凡,變得與眾不同。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課,Macintosh計算機絕不會有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號。由于我已退學(xué),不用修那些必修課,我決定選一門書法課上 上。為了吃飯,我收集五分一個的舊可樂瓶,每個星期天晚上步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。所以我決定退學(xué),并且相信沒有做錯。幾個月后,我的養(yǎng)父母保證會讓我上大學(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 18 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 they really wanted 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 closest I39。s health had been a controversial topic for battle with cancer had been a deep concern to Apple fans, investors and the pany39。網(wǎng)站發(fā)布的消息說:“蘋果失去了一位富有遠見和創(chuàng)造力的天才,世界失去了一個不可思議之人?!盇pple Inc cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a yearslong and highly public battle with 39。 relationship with top management and the board pany removed most of his powers and then in 1985 he was 39。老實說,我大學(xué)沒有畢業(yè),今天恐怕是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次了。我的生母是一個年輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生,她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。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。It wasn39。讓我來給你們舉個例子吧。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 me, and 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 fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years , you can39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。你怎么可能被一個親手創(chuàng)立的公司解雇?事情是這樣的,在公司成長期間,我雇傭了一個我們認為非常聰明,可以和我一起經(jīng)營公司的人。諾埃斯見面,試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。s first puteranimated feature film, ”Toy Story,“ and is now the most successful animation studio in the ,但事實證明“被蘋果開除”是發(fā)生在我身上最好的事。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll keep 39。如果你還沒有找到,那么就繼續(xù)找,不要停。我17歲的時候讀到過一句話“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作最后一天過,有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的”。t even know what a pancreas doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors39。就是意味著把要對你小孩說十年的話在幾個月內(nèi)說完;意味著把所有東西搞定,盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點;意味著你要說“永別”了。t want to die to get there, and 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。s 39。但是有一天,不用太久,你們有會慢慢變老然后死去。它是一個叫斯糾華特最后一期的封底是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)村小路的照片,如果你有冒險精神,可以自己找到這條路。t connect the dots looking forwa