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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 yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.斯圖爾特和他的同事們出了好幾期《全球概覽》,到最后辦不下去時,他們出了最后一期。t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people39。當(dāng)時我用了麻醉劑,陪在一旁的妻子后來告訴我,醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看了細胞之后叫了起來,原來這是一種少見的可以通過外科手術(shù)治愈的惡性腫瘤。Remembering that I39。ll 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. Don39。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, another pany named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。你怎么會被自己辦的公司解雇呢?是這樣,隨著蘋果公司越做越大,我們聘了一位我認為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh,個人電腦可能不會有這些字體和字號。我去退還可樂瓶,用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn39。 Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I39。The first story is about connecting the dots.I 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 quit. So why did I drop out?第一個故事講的是點與點之間的關(guān)系。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么,也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。t connect the dots looking forward。I really didn39。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用電腦制作的動畫片《玩具總動員》(Toy Story),它現(xiàn)在是全球最成功的動畫制作室。所以,一定得知道自己喜歡什么,選擇愛人時如此,選擇工作時同樣如此。你已經(jīng)一無所有了,還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢。s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.這是我和死神離得最近的一次,我希望也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。不要讓別人觀點的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。求知若渴,大智若愚。這份刊物太完美了,查閱