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現(xiàn)在,在你們畢業(yè)開始新糊口的時候,我把這句話送給你們。那是在70年代中期,我當時處在你們現(xiàn)在的春秋。那是在60年代末期,個人電腦、桌面發(fā)排系統(tǒng)還沒有泛起,所以出版工具只有打字機、剪刀和寶麗來相機。其他事物都是次要的。 Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others 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,所以不要把時間鋪張在別人的糊口里。(笑聲)死亡是我們每個人的人生終點站,沒人能夠成為例外。我接受了手術,現(xiàn)在已經康復了。這意味著向世人離別的時間到了。醫(yī)生告訴我,幾乎可以確定這是一種不治之癥,頂多還能活3至6個月。人赤條條地來,赤條條地走,沒有理由不服從你內心的呼叫。在過去的33年里,我天天早晨都對著鏡子問自己:假如今天是我生命中的末日,我還愿意做我今天本來應該做的事情嗎?當一連好多天謎底都否定的時候,我就知道做出改變的時候到了。所以,在你終有所獲之前,不要停下你尋覓的腳步。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法,就是去熱愛這份工作?! 『谟袝r候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋,但不要喪失決心信念。Pixar 制作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫片子《玩具總動員》,現(xiàn)在這家公司是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司之一。我決定重新開始。我成了人人皆知的失敗者,我甚至想過逃離硅谷。我失去了一直貫串在我整個成年糊口的重心,打擊是毀滅性的。而在此之前的一年,我們剛推出了我們最好的產品Macintosh 電腦,當時我剛過而立之年。 My second story is about love and loss. 第二個故事 關于愛與失去 I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How 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 well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. 被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經歷過的最棒的事情。 you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. 再夸大一次,你不可能布滿預見地將生命的點滴串聯(lián)起來。假如我沒有退學,我就不會去書法班旁聽,而今天的個人電腦大概也就不會有精彩的版式功能。但是10 年之后,當我們設計第一款Macintosh 電腦的時候,這些東西全派上了用場。因為已經退學,不用再去上那些常規(guī)的課程,于是我選擇了一個書法班,想學學怎么寫出一手漂亮字。在每個周日的晚上,我都會步行7英里穿越市區(qū),到HareKrishna教堂吃一頓大餐,我喜歡那兒的食品?! t wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent。當時,我的人生漫無目標,也不知道大學對我能起到什么匡助,為了念書,還花光了父母畢生的積蓄,所以我決定退學。 事后,我的生母才發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母根本就沒有從大學畢業(yè),而我的養(yǎng)父甚至連高中都沒有畢業(yè),所以她拒絕簽署最后的收養(yǎng)文件,直到幾個月后,我的養(yǎng)父母保證會把我送到大學,她的立場才有所轉變。我的生母是一名年青的未婚媽媽,當時她仍是一所大學的在讀研究生,于是決定把我送給其他人收養(yǎng)。 The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一個故事 關于串起生命中的點點滴滴 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? 退學是我這一生所做出的最準確的決定之一。喬布斯在斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮的演講:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 喬布斯在斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮的演講:Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2019. I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never gr