【正文】 t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no。And 17 years later I did go to I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。她拒絕簽這個(gè)收養(yǎng)合同。但是她沒有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后,律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個(gè)女孩。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我, 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)。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 。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 why did I drop out? 我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個(gè)月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個(gè)故事而已。說實(shí)話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。s big three ，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一。I 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。 Jobs says Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。第四篇：蘋果CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿[中英]請(qǐng)背誦標(biāo)藍(lán)部分并熟讀全文蘋果CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿[中英] You39。保持饑餓，保持愚蠢。我常以此勉勵(lì)自己。下面有一句話，“保持饑餓，保持愚蠢”。那是七十年代中期，我和你們差不多大。它理想主義，全文充斥著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。那是六十年代后期，個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，所以這份雜志全是用打字機(jī)、剪刀和偏光鏡制作的。它是一個(gè)叫斯糾華特布蘭得，住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的曼羅公園的家伙創(chuàng)立的。所有其他東西都是次要的。不要被其他人的喧囂觀點(diǎn)掩蓋自己內(nèi)心真正的聲音。你們的時(shí)間是有限的，不要浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)別人的生活上。但是有一天，不用太久，你們有會(huì)慢慢變老然后死去。它去陳讓新。但是死亡是每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)，沒有人能夠逃脫。 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is ，我也希望是我未來(lái)幾十年里最接近死亡的一次。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。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)你小孩說十年的話在幾個(gè)月內(nèi)說完；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“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。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 ，我被診斷出患了癌癥。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。你已經(jīng)赤裸裸了，沒有理由不聽從于自己的心愿。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问隆械臉s耀、驕傲、對(duì)難堪和失敗的恐懼——在死亡面前都會(huì)消隱，留下真正重要的東西。從那以后，過去的三十三年，每天早上我都會(huì)對(duì)著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我會(huì)不會(huì)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。我十七歲的時(shí)候讀到過一句話“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作最后一天過，有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的”。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。My 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。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。ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll keep 39。t found it yet, keep looking, and don39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。s going to hit you in the head with a 39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。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。In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。接下來(lái)的五年，我創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)叫NeXT的公司，接著又建立了Pixar，然后與后來(lái)成為我妻子的女人相愛。成功的重?fù)?dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，對(duì)任何事情都不再特別看重。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 in 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 world39。我決定重新開始。這次失敗一點(diǎn)兒都沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。有個(gè)東西在慢慢地叫醒我。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。d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start 。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。你必須相信一些東西你的勇氣、宿命、生活、因緣，隨便什么因?yàn)橄嘈胚@些點(diǎn)滴能夠一路連接會(huì)給你帶來(lái)循從本覺的自信，它使你走離平凡，變得與眾不同。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來(lái)；只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。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 ，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來(lái)的關(guān)系。If 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 ，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。s likely that no personal puter would have 。這是一種科學(xué)無(wú)法捕捉的微妙，楚楚動(dòng)人、充滿歷史底蘊(yùn)和藝術(shù)性，我覺得自己被完全吸引了。由于我已退學(xué)，不用修那些必修課，我決定選一門書法課上上。t capture, and I found it 。Reed 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。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺前行后來(lái)被證明是多么的珍貴。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個(gè)的舊可樂瓶，每個(gè)星期天晚上步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。 returned Coke bottles for the