【正文】 很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。所以你必須相信，那些點點滴滴，會在你未來的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會碰巧選了這門書法課，個人電腦也可能不會有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計進(jìn)了計算機中。在這門課上，我學(xué)會了“serif”和“sansserif”兩種字體、學(xué)會了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會了怎樣寫出好的字來。讓我來給你們舉個例子吧。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒有做錯。這 是我生命的開端。于是，一對律師夫婦說好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然而最后一 秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個女孩兒。我 在里得大學(xué)讀了六個月就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個月之后我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。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。t let the noise of others39。t waste it living someone else39。s life39。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。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。t lose 39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the something slowly began to dawn on still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one 39。t connect the dots looking can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whateverbecause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the second story is about love and was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。 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 College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully I had dropped out and didn39。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 big three first story is about connecting the 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 they really wanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。當(dāng)你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們——Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish！吸收知識就像是饑餓時想吃東西一樣，形容對知識很渴望；向他人請教時要像什么都不懂，形容非常的謙虛好學(xué)。當(dāng)時是70年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個年齡。那是60年代末，個人電腦和桌上出版還沒出現(xiàn)，所有內(nèi)容都是打字機、剪刀、拍立得相機做出來的。不要被教條所局限，盲從教條就是活在別人思考的結(jié)果里。這是注定的，因為死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的發(fā)明，是生命交替的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代讓出道路。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。那代表你得跟人說再見了。醫(yī)生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之癥，預(yù)計我大概活不到3到6個月。因為，幾乎所有事情——所有外界期望、所有榮譽、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼——這些事情在面對死亡的時候全都消失了，只有真正的最重要的東西才會留下，提醒自己快死了，是我所知道的避免掉入喪失和畏懼陷阱的最好方法。17歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是說“把每1天都當(dāng)成生命中的最后1天，你就會輕松自在（If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。m onvinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did）。這帖藥很苦口。Pixar接著制作了世界上第1部全電腦動畫電影《玩具總動員（Toy Story）》，現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司（聽眾鼓掌大笑）。雖然我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。我覺得我令企業(yè)界的前輩們失望，我把他 們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我怎么會被自己創(chuàng)辦的公司給解雇了？嗯，當(dāng)蘋果電腦成長后，我請了一個我以為在經(jīng)營公司上很有才干的家伙來，他在頭幾年也確實干得不錯。我很幸運年輕時就發(fā)現(xiàn)了自己愛做什么事。所以你得相信，眼前你經(jīng)歷的種種，將來多少會連結(jié)在一起。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我還在大學(xué)的時候，不可能把這些點點滴滴預(yù)先串連在一起，但10年后的今天回首，一切顯得非常清楚。我沒預(yù)期過學(xué)這些東西能在我的生活中起些什么實際作用，不過10年后，當(dāng)我在設(shè)計第1臺麥金塔電腦時，我想起了過去所學(xué)的東西，把這些東西都設(shè)計進(jìn)了麥金塔，這是第1臺能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。當(dāng)時銳意得學(xué)院有著大概是全國最好的書寫教育，校園里的每一張海報上每一個抽屜標(biāo)簽上，都是美麗的手寫字。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收空可樂罐的5分錢退費買吃的。所以，我決定休學(xué)，相信船到橋頭自然直。17年后，我上大學(xué)了。所以我必須等待收養(yǎng)名單上的另一對夫妻，也就是我后來的養(yǎng)父母。那么，我為什么休學(xué)？這得從我出生前講起。今天，我只說3個故事，不談大道理，3個故事就好。現(xiàn)在，在你們即將踏上新旅程的時候，我也希望你們能這樣。那是七十年代中期，我和你們差不多大。那是六十年代后期，個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，所以這份雜志全是用打字機、剪刀和偏光鏡制作的。所有其他東西都是次要的。你們的時間是有限的，不要浪費在重復(fù)別人的生活上。它陳讓新。這是我最接近死亡的時候，我也希望是我未來幾十年里最接近死亡的一次。我整日都想著那診斷書的事情。醫(yī)生們告訴我這幾乎是無法治愈的，還有三到六個月的時間。你已經(jīng)赤裸裸了，沒有理由不聽從于自己的心愿。從那以后，過去的三十三年，每天早上我都會對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我會不會做我想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案持續(xù)否定一些次數(shù)后，我知道我需要改變一些東西了。所以繼續(xù)找，不要停。工作會占據(jù)你生命中很大的一部分，你只有相信自幾做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得。有些時候，生活會給你迎頭一棒。在一系列的成功運轉(zhuǎn)后，蘋果收購了NeXT我又回到了蘋果。成功的重?fù)?dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，任何事情都不再特別看重。這次失敗一點兒都沒有改變這一點。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。一年后，我們對公司未來的看法產(chǎn)生分歧，董事會站在了他的一邊。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，它使你走離平凡，變得與眾不同。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。這是第一臺有這么漂亮的文字版式的計算機。在這門課上，我學(xué)會了“serif”和“sansserif”兩種字體、學(xué)會了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會了怎樣寫出好的字來這是一種科學(xué)無法捕捉的微妙，楚楚動人、充滿歷史底蘊和藝術(shù)性，我覺得自己被完全吸引了。讓我來給你們舉個例子吧。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒有做錯。這是我生命的開端。于是，一對律師夫婦說好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然而最后一秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個女孩兒。我在里得大學(xué)讀了六個月就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個月之后我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。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。t let the noise of other39。Remembering that I39。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。你只有相信自己