【正文】 ege 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?我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個(gè)月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能幫助我找到怎樣的答案。t capture, and I found it 。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。I39。你的工作將會(huì)占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。d just turned thirty, and then I got can you get fired from a pany you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so, things went then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was really didn39。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。s 39。但是她沒有料到，當(dāng)我出生之后，律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個(gè)女孩。It wasn39。t connect the dots looking forward。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。This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the never graduated from be told, this is the closest I39。所以我決定要退學(xué)，我覺得這是個(gè)正確的決定。 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 school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.故事從我出生的時(shí)候講起。s quite time is limited, so don39。t found it yet, keep looking, and don39。s likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals puters might not have the wonderful typography that they course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years , you can39?！铱偸窍Ｍ约耗軌蚰??,現(xiàn)在, 在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的旅程的時(shí)候, 我也希望你們能這樣：Stay ，保持愚蠢。s 39。不要失去信心。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個(gè)用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫電影——―‖玩具總動(dòng)員‖,Pixar現(xiàn)在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。Again, you can39。但是我喜歡這樣。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it here I was spending all of 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。說實(shí)話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。ve got to find what you love,39。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)。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點(diǎn)意思的課程。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 Macwould 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 ，好像都沒有什么實(shí)際應(yīng)用的可能。所以我決定從頭再來。ve got to find what you that is as true for your 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 the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven39。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。那是六十年代后期, 在個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機(jī),、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。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。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。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。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn39。但是我喜歡這樣。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。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