【正文】 great work is to love what you you haven39。t lose 39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。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。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the something slowly began to dawn on still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one 39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。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 second story is about love and was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。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 me, and 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 fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。 returned Coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 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。t all didn39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 didn39。vely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。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。求知若渴，虛心若谷。這是他們的告別語，“求知若渴，虛心若我常以此勉勵自己。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。有點像軟皮包裝的Google，不過卻早了三十五年。他用詩一般的觸覺將這份雜志帶到世界。我年輕的時候，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。你的直覺和內心知道你想要變成什么樣子。不要被教條束縛，那意味著會和別人思考的結果一塊兒生活。抱歉，這很戲劇性，但卻是真的。現(xiàn)在，你們就是“新”。也應該如此，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的發(fā)明。這次死里逃生讓我比以往只知道死亡是一個有用而純粹書面概念的時候更確信地告訴你們，沒有人愿意死，即使那些想上天堂的人們也不愿意通過死亡來達到他們的目的。我做了手術，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。后來有天晚上我做了一個活切片檢查，他們將一個內窺鏡伸進我的喉嚨，穿過胃，到達腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個細胞。就是意味著把要對你小孩說十年的話在幾個月內說完；意味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點；意味著你要說“永別”了。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。我當時都不知道腺是什么東西。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，用來避開擔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。我的第三個故事關于死亡。就像任何真誠 的關系，隨著時間的流逝，只會越來越緊密。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，對工作如此，對你的愛人也是這樣的。不要喪失信心。這個藥的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。我們在NeXT開發(fā)的技術在蘋果的復興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個幸福的家庭。Pixar出品了世界第一個電腦動畫電影：“玩具總動員”，現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界最成功的動畫制作工作室了。這讓我感覺如此自由，進入一生中最有創(chuàng)造力的階段。當時我沒有看出來，但事實證明“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。一開始的幾個月我真的不知道該干什么。于是，在我三十歲的時候，我出局了，很公開地出局了。你怎么可能被一個親手創(chuàng)立的公司解雇？事情是這樣的，在公司成長期間，雇傭了一個我們認為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營公司的人。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長為擁有四千名員工，價值二十億的大公司。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。第二個故事是關于愛與失的。所以你必須相信，那些點點滴滴，會在你未來的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來。不管你現(xiàn)在學習的對于將來有沒有用，興趣也好，應用也好，十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間關系就非常、非常清楚了。要不是退了學，我決不會碰巧選了這門書法課，個人電腦也可能不會有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。要不是我當初在大學里偶然選了這 么一門課，Macintosh計算機絕不會有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號。于是，我們把這些東西全都設計進了計算機中。當時我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實用價值。由于我已退學，不用修那些必修課，我決定選一門書法課上上。當時的里得大學提供可能是全國最好的書法指導。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺前行后來被證明是多么的珍貴。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個的舊可樂瓶，每個星期天晚步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。事情并不那么美好。一開始非常嚇人，但回憶起來，這卻是我一生中作的最好的決定之一。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學會怎樣幫我指點津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。十七年后，我上大學了，但是我很無知地選了一所差不多和斯坦福一樣貴的校學，幾乎花掉我那藍領階層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會讓我上大學，她妥協(xié)了。然后我的排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個深夜接到電話，“很意外，我們多了一個男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當然要！”但是我的生母后來又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒有大學畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒有畢業(yè)。她有一個很強烈的信仰，認為我應該被一個大學畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。為何我要選擇退學呢？這還得從我出生之前說起。第一個故事，如何串連生命中的點滴。今天，我想告訴大家來自我生活的三個故事。很榮幸能和你們，來自世界最好大學之一的畢業(yè)生們，一塊兒參加畢業(yè)典禮。當你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們——Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish！吸收知識就像是饑餓時想吃東西一樣，形容對知識很渴望；向他人請教時要像什么都不懂，形容非常的謙虛好學。在照片下印了行小字： Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish(求知若饑，虛心若愚)。當時是70年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個年齡。這本雜志很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。那是60年代末，個人電腦和桌上出版還沒出現(xiàn)，所有內容都是打字機、剪刀、拍立得相機做出來的。最重要的是，要有勇氣追逐你們自己的內心世