【正文】 第三篇：?jiǎn)滩妓顾固垢４髮W(xué)演講 中英文完整版This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, ’m honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my ’s big three first story is about connecting the 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 why did I drop out?It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed college 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 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: “We have an unexpected baby boy, do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high refused to sign the final adoption only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to was the start in my 17 years later I did go to I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents’ savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn’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 didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more wasn’t all didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ returned coke bottles for the 5162?，F(xiàn)在，在你們即將踏上新旅程的時(shí)候，我也希望你們能這樣。這是他們的告別語(yǔ)，“求知若渴，虛心若谷”。最后一期的封底是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)村小路的照片，如果你有冒險(xiǎn)精神，可以自己找到這條路。斯糾華特和他的小組出版了幾期“完整地球目錄”，在完成使命之前，他們出版了最后一 期。有點(diǎn)像軟皮包裝的Google，不 過(guò)卻早了三十五年。他用詩(shī) 一般的觸覺將這份雜志帶到世界。我 年輕的時(shí)候，有一份叫做“完整地球目錄”的好雜志，是我們這一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。你的直覺和內(nèi) 心知道你想要變成什么樣子。不要被教條束縛，那意味著會(huì)和別人思考的結(jié)果一塊兒生活。抱歉，這很戲劇性，但卻是真的?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是“新”。也應(yīng)該如此，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧?命最好的發(fā)明。這次死里逃生讓我比以往只知道死亡是一個(gè)有用而純粹書面概念的時(shí)候更確信地告訴你們，沒(méi)有人愿意死，即使那些想上天堂的人們也不愿意通過(guò)死亡來(lái)達(dá)到他們的目的。我做了 手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。后來(lái)有天晚上我做了一個(gè)活切片檢查，他們將一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過(guò)胃，到達(dá)腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個(gè)細(xì) 胞。就是意味著把要對(duì)你小孩說(shuō)十年的話在幾個(gè)月內(nèi)說(shuō) 完；意味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點(diǎn)；意味著你要說(shuō)“永別”了。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。我當(dāng)時(shí)都不知道胰腺是什么東西。大 約一年前，我被診斷出患了癌癥。提醒自己就要死亡是我知道的最好的方法，用來(lái)避開擔(dān)心失去某些東西的陷阱。提醒自己就 要死了是我遇見的最大的幫助，幫我作了生命中的大決定。這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。我的第三個(gè)故事關(guān)于死亡。就像任何真誠(chéng)的關(guān)系，隨著時(shí)間的 流逝，只會(huì)越來(lái)越緊密。如果你還沒(méi)有找到，那么就繼續(xù)找，不要停。你必須去找你熱愛的東西，對(duì)工作如此，對(duì)你的愛人也是這樣的。不要喪失信心。這個(gè)藥的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。我們?cè)贜eXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。Pixar出品了世 界第一個(gè)電腦動(dòng)畫電影：“玩具總動(dòng)員”，現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界最成功的動(dòng)畫制作工作室了。這讓我感覺如此自由，進(jìn) 入一生中最有創(chuàng)造力的階段。當(dāng) 時(shí)我沒(méi)有看出來(lái)，但事實(shí)證明“被蘋果開除”是發(fā)生在我身上最好的事。我被逐了，但我仍愛著。有些東西在呼喚我：我還愛著我從事的行業(yè)。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。一開始的幾個(gè)月我真的不知道該干什么。于是，在我三十歲的時(shí)候，我出局了，很公開地出局了。你怎么可能被一個(gè)親手創(chuàng) 立的公司解雇？事情是這樣的，在公司成長(zhǎng)期間，雇傭了一個(gè)我們認(rèn)為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營(yíng)公司的人。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長(zhǎng)為擁有四千名員工，價(jià)值二十億的大公司。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于愛與失的。所以你必須相信，那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，會(huì)在你未來(lái)的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來(lái)。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會(huì)碰巧選了這門書法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這 么一門課，Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。當(dāng) 時(shí)我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實(shí)用價(jià)值。在這門課上，我學(xué)會(huì)了“serif”和“sansserif”兩種字體、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣寫出好的字來(lái)。校園中每一張海報(bào)，抽屜上的每一張標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。讓我來(lái)給你們舉個(gè)例子吧。我喜歡這種生活方式。我沒(méi)有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。從我退學(xué)的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感興趣的必修課，開始旁聽那些有意思得多的課。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒(méi)有做錯(cuò)。六個(gè)月后，我覺得不 值得。這 是我生命的開端。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書上簽字。于是，一對(duì)律師夫婦說(shuō)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(gè)女孩兒。我的生母是一個(gè)年 輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。我 在里得大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個(gè)月之后我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。不是長(zhǎng)篇大論，只是三個(gè)故事而已。老實(shí)說(shuō)，我大學(xué)沒(méi)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。 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late Sixties, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form thirtyfive years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of the Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final was the midSeventies and I was your 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 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 hungry, stay 。s 39。s 39。s quite time is limited, so don39。s change agent。t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all one has ever escaped that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of 39。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。 code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to are already is no reason not to follow your a year ago, I was diagnosed with had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my didn39。ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since