【正文】 fine now. 我整天和那個診斷書一起生活。 后來有一天早上我作了一個活切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。我當(dāng)時很鎮(zhèn)靜,因為我被注射了鎮(zhèn)定劑。但是我的妻子在那里, 后來告訴我，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡地下觀察這些細(xì)胞的時候他們開始尖叫, 因為這些細(xì)胞最后竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥。我做了這個手術(shù), 現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。 This was the closest I39。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: 那是我最接近死亡的時候, 我還希望這也是以后的幾十年最接近的一次。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時候，我可以更肯定一點地對你們說： No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don39。t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life39。s change agent. It clears out the old to make way（讓路，讓位） 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. 沒 有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應(yīng)該如此。 因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現(xiàn)在是新的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性, 但是這十分的真實。 Your time is limited, so don39。t waste it living someone else39。s life. Don39。t be trapped by dogma（教條） which is living with the results of other people39。s thinking. Don39。t let the noise of other39。s 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. 你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被教條所侷限盲從教條就是活在別人思考結(jié)果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內(nèi)在的心聲。最重要的，擁有追隨自己內(nèi)心與直覺和勇氣，你的內(nèi)心與直覺多少已經(jīng)知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人任何其他事物都是次要的。When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 196039。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 notion在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜志叫做《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng)年這可是我們的經(jīng)典讀物。那是一位住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發(fā)行的，他把雜志辦得很有詩意。那是1960年代末期，個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒出現(xiàn)，所有內(nèi)容都是打字機(jī)、剪刀跟拍立得相機(jī)做出來的。雜志內(nèi)容有點像印在紙上的平面Google，在Google出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了：這本雜志很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。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. Stewart跟他的團(tuán)隊出版了好幾期的《Whole Earth Catalog》，然后很自然的，最后出了?？?。當(dāng)時是1970年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底，有張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經(jīng)過的鄉(xiāng)間小路。在照片下印了行小字：求知若飢，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當(dāng)你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們。Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 求知若飢，虛心若愚Thank you all very much.10 / 1