【正文】 d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start didn39。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。 garage when I was worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4,000 39。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。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do learned about serif and sansserif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more wasn39。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。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。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 I39。非常感謝?，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(jué)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(jué)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(kāi)擔(dān)心失去某些東西的陷阱。提醒自己就 要死了是我遇見(jiàn)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(ài)的東西，對(duì)工作如此，對(duì)你的愛(ài)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(kāi)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(jué)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(kāi)除”是發(fā)生在我身上最好的事。我被逐了，但我仍愛(ài)著。有些東西在呼喚我：我還愛(ài)著我從事的行業(yè)。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見(jiàn)面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。一開(kāi)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(kāi)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(ài)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(kāi)始旁聽(tīng)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(jué)得不 值得。這 是我生命的開(kāi)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。謝謝大家。t let the noise of others39。t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people39。t waste it living someone else39。it clears out the old to make way for the now, the new is someday, not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。s life39。s the closest I get for a few more lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。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。t even know what a pancreas doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors39。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。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。t with all matters of the heart, you39。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for 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 work, and the only way to do