【正文】 e, 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。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。她拒絕在認(rèn)養(yǎng)文件上做最后簽字。所以在等待收養(yǎng)名單上的一對(duì)夫妻，我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天半夜里接到一通電話，問(wèn)他們“有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認(rèn)養(yǎng)他嗎？”而他們的回答是“當(dāng)然要”。她強(qiáng)烈覺(jué)得應(yīng)該讓有大學(xué)畢業(yè)的人收養(yǎng)我，所以我出生時(shí)，她就準(zhǔn)備讓我被一對(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 was the start in my 。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了十八個(gè)月。The first story is about connecting the ，是關(guān)于人生中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴怎么串連在一起。說(shuō)實(shí)話，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。s big three ，有榮幸來(lái)到各位從世界上最好的學(xué)校之一畢業(yè)的畢業(yè)典禮上。第一篇：?jiǎn)滩妓筥哈佛演講蘋(píng)果總裁喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講2005年6月12日I am honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from this is the closest I39。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。我從來(lái)沒(méi)從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。今天，我只說(shuō)三個(gè)故事，不談大道理，三個(gè)故事就好。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? 我在里德學(xué)院待了六個(gè)月就辦休學(xué)了。那么，我為什么休學(xué)？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。我的親生母親當(dāng)時(shí)是個(gè)研究生，年輕未婚媽媽?zhuān)龥Q定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。但是這對(duì)夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他們想收養(yǎng)女孩。后來(lái)，我的生母發(fā)現(xiàn)，我現(xiàn)在的媽媽從來(lái)沒(méi)有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，我現(xiàn)在的爸爸則連高中畢業(yè)也沒(méi)有。直到幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母同意將來(lái)一定會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她才軟化態(tài)度。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more ，我上大學(xué)了。六個(gè)月后，我看不出念這個(gè)書(shū)的價(jià)值何在。當(dāng)時(shí)這個(gè)決定看來(lái)相當(dāng)可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來(lái)，那是我這輩子做過(guò)最好的決定之一。It wasn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。我沒(méi)有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收可樂(lè)空罐的五先令退費(fèi)買(mǎi)吃的，每個(gè)星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過(guò)大半個(gè)鎮(zhèn)去印度教的 Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料。追尋我的好奇與直覺(jué)，我所駐足的大部分事物，后來(lái)看來(lái)都成了無(wú)價(jià)之寶。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。在整個(gè)校園內(nèi)的每一張海報(bào)上，每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上，都是美麗的手寫(xiě)字。我學(xué)了serif與san serif字體，學(xué)到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學(xué)到活版印刷偉大的地方。None 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, it’s likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal puters might not have the wonderful typography that they course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years ，不過(guò)十年后，當(dāng)我在設(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)麥金塔時(shí)，我想起了當(dāng)時(shí)所學(xué)的東西，所以把這些東西都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了麥金塔里，這是第一臺(tái)能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。又因?yàn)閃indows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，如果當(dāng)年我沒(méi)這樣做，大概世界上所有的個(gè)人電腦都不會(huì)有這些東西，印不出現(xiàn)在我們看到的漂亮的字來(lái)了。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, believing in the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when they leave you off the wellworn it has made all the difference in my ，你不能預(yù)先把點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串在一起；唯有未來(lái)回顧時(shí)，你才會(huì)明白那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴是如何串在一起的。你得信任某個(gè)東西，直覺(jué)也好，命運(yùn)也好，生命也好，或者業(yè)力。My second story is about love and ，有關(guān)愛(ài)與失去。我二十歲時(shí)，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車(chē)庫(kù)里開(kāi)始了蘋(píng)果電腦的事業(yè)。要怎么讓自己創(chuàng)辦的公司炒自己魷魚(yú)？好吧，當(dāng)蘋(píng)果電腦成長(zhǎng)后，我請(qǐng)了一個(gè)我以為他在經(jīng)營(yíng)公司上很有才干的家伙來(lái)，他在頭幾年也確實(shí)干得不錯(cuò)。曾經(jīng)是我整個(gè)成年生活重心的東西不見(jiàn)了，令我不知所措。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese 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 ，是我在人生中下重大決定時(shí)，所用過(guò)最重要的工具。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入自己有東西要失去了的陷阱里最好的方法。About 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。s code for prepare to means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you39。我在早上七點(diǎn)半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現(xiàn)一個(gè)腫瘤，我連胰臟是什么都不知道。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對(duì)臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)建議。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會(huì)盡量輕松。I lived with that diagnosis all that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and thankfully I39。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場(chǎng)。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。ve been to facing death, and I hope it’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: 這是我最接近死亡的時(shí)候，我希望那會(huì)繼續(xù)是未來(lái)幾十年內(nèi)最接近的一次。t want to die to get 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 is Life39。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。這是注定的，因?yàn)樗劳龊?jiǎn)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。抱歉講得這么戲劇化，但是這是真的。t waste it living someone else39。t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people39。t let the noise of others39。不要被信條所惑－盲從信條就是活在別人思考結(jié)果里。最重要的，擁有跟隨內(nèi)心與直覺(jué)的勇