【正文】 ience can39。我憑借好奇心和直覺所干的這些事情，有許多后來都證明是無價(jià)之寶。每個(gè)星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我沒有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。It wasn39。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)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(shí)，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來的錢了。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked ，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。不過，沒過幾個(gè)月她就心軟了，因?yàn)槲业酿B(yǎng)父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當(dāng)時(shí)他們還在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢——半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒人要的男嬰，你們要么？”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(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 。我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）只讀了六個(gè)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(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。s big three 。喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講20100112 22:56:52This 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。第一篇：史蒂夫喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講史蒂夫ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。我大學(xué)沒畢業(yè)，說實(shí)話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。The first story is about connecting the 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?第一個(gè)故事，是關(guān)于人生中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴怎么串連在一起。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢？It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed college 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 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。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)。沒想到我落地的霎那間，那對(duì)夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。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。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。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it here I was spending all of 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。當(dāng)時(shí)我很天真，選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，當(dāng)工人的養(yǎng)父母傾其所有的積蓄為我支付了大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么，也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。從退學(xué)那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無興趣的必修課，開始旁聽一些看上去有意思的課。t all didn39。 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 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:那些日子一點(diǎn)兒都不浪漫。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。我喜歡這樣。我給大家舉個(gè)例子: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 didn39。t capture, and I found it ，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國最好的。當(dāng)時(shí)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。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。但是，十年之后，我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái) Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個(gè)人電腦可能不會(huì)有這些字體和字號(hào)。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。Again, you can39。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my ；只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。你們必須信賴某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。My second story is about love and was lucky — I 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 creation — the Macintosh — a 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 。我在 20 歲時(shí)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。那時(shí)，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。你怎么會(huì)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(rèn)為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。可是，隨后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。我成年后的整個(gè)生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation