【正文】 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。非常感謝你們！第三篇：喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講喬布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大學(xué)2005年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講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?！扒笾麴嚕撔娜粲?。在最后一期的封底上是清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片(如果你有冒險精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的)，在照片之下有這樣一段話：“求知若饑，虛心若愚。Stewart和他的伙伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”，當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時候，他們做出了最后一期的目錄。那是六十年代后期, 在個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機,、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。當(dāng)我年輕的時候，有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發(fā)聵的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。你們的時間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費在重復(fù)其他人的生活上。你們現(xiàn)在是新的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被送離人生舞臺。因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。從死亡線上又活了過來, 我可以比以前把死亡只當(dāng)成一 種想象中的概念的時候，更肯定一點地對你們說：沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 也不會為了去那里而死。我做了這個手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。我拿著那個診斷書過了一整天，那天晚上我作了一個活切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)程序。我當(dāng)時都不知道胰腺是什么東西。大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥。你有時候會思考你將會失去某些東西, “記住你即將死去”是我知道的避免這些想法的最好辦法。因為幾乎所有的事情, 包括所有的榮譽、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都會消失?！坝涀∧慵磳⑺廊ァ笔俏乙簧杏龅降淖钪匾鹧??！边@句話給我留下了一個印象。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來！我的第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡的。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到，那么繼續(xù)找、不要停下來，只要全心全意的去找，在你找到的時候，你的心會告訴你的。你的工作將會占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。你需要去找到你所愛的東西。不要失去信仰。這個良藥的味道實在是太苦了，但是我想病人需要這個藥。而且，我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個幸福完美的家庭。在后來的一系列運轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT，然后我又回到了Apple公司。在接下來的五年里，我創(chuàng)立了一個名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個后來成為我妻子的優(yōu)雅女人相識。因為，作為一個成功者的負(fù)重感被作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺所重新代替, 沒有比這更確定的事情了。所以我決定從頭再來。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點也沒有。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。我覺得我很令上一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)家們很失望，我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱離自己遠(yuǎn)去, 這真是毀滅性的打擊。所以在三十歲的時候, 我被炒了。但是后來我們對未來的看法發(fā)生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是Macintosh。Woz和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和失去。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。當(dāng)然我在大學(xué)的時候，還不可能把從前的點點滴滴串連起來,但是當(dāng)我十年后回顧這一切的時候,真的豁然開朗了。如果我當(dāng)時沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機會去參加這個我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程, Mac就不會有這么多豐富的字體，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。我把當(dāng)時我學(xué)的那些 東西全都設(shè)計進(jìn)了Mac。當(dāng)時看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實際應(yīng)用的可能。我學(xué)到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學(xué)會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空白間距, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。在這個大學(xué)里面的每個海報, 每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價之寶。但是這并不是那么浪漫。在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻，我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。所以我決定要退學(xué)，我覺得這是個正確的決定。我不知道我真正想要做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能怎樣幫助我找到答案。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費上面。只是在幾個月以后,我的父母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué),那個時候她才勉強同意。所以我的養(yǎng)父母突然在半夜接到了一個電話:“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個不小心生出來的男嬰,你們想要他嗎？”他們回答道: “當(dāng)然！”但是我親生母親隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué),我的養(yǎng)父 甚至從沒有讀過高中。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)。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？故事從我出生的時候講起。第一個故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中的點點滴滴串連起來。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。 opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 196039。s 39。s 39。s change clears out the old to make way for the now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it is quite time is limited, so don39。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 concept:No one wants to people who want to go to heaven don39。m fine was the closest I39。s code for prepare to means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you39。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 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 then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the lastday 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 I39。ll know when you find , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep looking until you find 39。t found it yet, keep 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a 39。s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family 39。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 didn39。t connect the dots looking forward。t capture, and I found it of this had even a hope of any practical application in my ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to we designed it all into the was the first puter with beautiful I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand I had dropped out and did