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ped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced since Windows just copied the Mac, its 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 , you can39。 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 intuitio 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 Commencement address by Steve Jobs hand I had dropped out and didn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked wasn39。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。s big three 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? 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。 Jobs saysThis 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:喬布斯哈佛演講稿 Commencement address by Steve JobsCommencement address by Steve Jobs 喬布斯哈佛演講稿 Commencement address by Steve JobsYou39。ve got to find what you love,39。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。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 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。t all didn39。 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。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。t connect the dots looking forward。s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family 39。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。t found it yet, keep 39。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。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 last day 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。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people39。t let the noise of other39。s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final was the mid1970s, and I was your the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so it were the words: “Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed I have always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you all very much.第二篇:喬布斯哈佛演講稿(英中)喬布斯哈佛演講稿(英中)President Bok, former President Rudenstine, ining President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的Bok校長,Rudenstine前校長,即將上任的Faust校長,哈佛集團(tuán)的各位成員,監(jiān)管理事會(huì)的各位理事,各位老師,各位家長,各位同學(xué):Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you Id e back and get my degree.” 有一句話我等了三十年,現(xiàn)在終于可以說了:“老爸,我總是跟你說,我會(huì)回來拿到我的學(xué)位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely be changing my job next year...and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。哈佛的校報(bào)稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got