【正文】 do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out 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 someday go to 。我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）只讀了六個月就退學(xué)了，此后便在學(xué)校里旁聽，又過了大約一年半，我 徹底離開。今天我想給大 家講三個我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個故事。s big three 。以下是英文原版以 及翻譯的版本：Tag: 英語 演講This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the never graduated from be told, this is the closest I39。第四篇：蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講中英文蘋果公司CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講摘要:這是蘋果公司CEO喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，大學(xué)途中退學(xué)，創(chuàng)業(yè)，被解雇，東山再起，死亡威脅，這些他都一一經(jīng)歷了。求知若饑，虛心若愚。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。在?？柕姆獾?，有張早晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，那種你去爬山時會經(jīng)過的鄉(xiāng)間小路。Stewart跟他的出版團隊出了好幾期《Whole Earth Catalog》，然后出了停刊號。那是1960年代末期，個人計算機跟桌上出版還沒發(fā)明，所有內(nèi)容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機做出來的。在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜志叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng)年我們很迷這本雜志。最重要的，擁有跟隨內(nèi)心與直覺的勇氣，你的內(nèi)心與直覺多少已經(jīng)知道你真正想要成為什么樣的人。不要被信條所惑——盲從信條就是活在別人思考的結(jié)果里。抱歉講得這么戲劇化，但是這是真的。這是注定的，因為死亡簡直就是生命中最棒的發(fā)明，是生命變化的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代留下空間。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續(xù)是未來幾十年內(nèi)最接近的一次。她后來跟我說，當(dāng)醫(yī)生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞后，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術(shù)治好。我整天想著那個診斷結(jié)果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內(nèi)視鏡，從胃進腸子，插了根針進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕松。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標準建議。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現(xiàn)一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什么都不知道。記住自己隨時都會死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。讓我能夠做出人生重大抉擇的最主要辦法是，記住生命隨時都有可能結(jié)束。17 歲那年，我讀到過這樣一段話，大意是：“如果把每一天都當(dāng)作生命的最后一天，總有一天你會如愿以償。不要半途而廢。就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。你們?nèi)绻€沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡什么，那就不斷地去尋找，不要急于做出決定。所以，一定得知道自己喜歡什么，選擇愛人時如此，選擇工作時同樣如此。有時生活會當(dāng)頭給你一棒，但不要灰心。我確信，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切決不可能發(fā)生。世道輪回，蘋果公司買下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋果公司，我們在 NeXT 公司開發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我還愛上一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。于是，我決定從頭開始。在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些**絲毫沒有改變這一點。這次失敗弄得沸沸揚揚的，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。我感到自己給老一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)者丟了臉——因為我扔掉了交到自己手里的接力棒。我成年后的整個生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。可是，隨后我倆對公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。你怎么會被自己辦的公司解雇呢？是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘了一位我認為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。那時，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品——Macintosh 電腦——那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲。我在 20 歲時和沃茲（Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱——譯注）在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。我的第二個故事是關(guān)于好惡與得失。你們必須信賴某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個點上看到將來；只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。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。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個人電腦可能不會有這些字體和字號。這是第一臺有這么漂亮的文字版式的計算機。但是，十年之后，我們在設(shè)計第一臺計算機時，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。當(dāng)時我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我給大家舉個例子:當(dāng)時，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國最好的。我喜歡這樣。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。那些日子一點兒都不浪漫。當(dāng)年做出這個決定時心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來，這還真是我有生以來做出的最好的決定之一。這時，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來的錢了。讀了六個月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。年后，我真的進了大學(xué)。但是，我的生母后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。沒想到我落地的霎那間，那對夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）只讀了六個月就退學(xué)了，此后便在學(xué)校里旁聽，又過了大約一年半，我徹底離開。今天我想給大家講三個我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個故事。很榮幸和大家一道參加這所世界上最好的一座大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingI found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 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 had just released our finest creationa year earlier, and I had just turned 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 at 30 I was very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was really didn’t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downI still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one had been rejected, but I was still in so I decided to start didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, another pany named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my went on to create the worlds first puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family ’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a ’t lose ’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I ’ve got to find what you that is as true for your 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 the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven’t found it yet, keep ’t with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep looking until you find ’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 you’ll most certainly be right.“ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?“ And whenever the answer has been “No“ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in almost everythingthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly th