【正文】 ut serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can39。在這個(gè)大學(xué)里面的每個(gè)海報(bào), 每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。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格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first puter with beautiful typography. If 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, its likely that no personal puter would have them. If 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 do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.當(dāng)時(shí)看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實(shí)際應(yīng)用的可能。我把當(dāng)時(shí)我學(xué)的那些家伙全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了Mac。如果我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機(jī)會去參加這個(gè)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。當(dāng)然我在大學(xué)的時(shí)候，還不可能把從前的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來,但是當(dāng)我十年后回顧這一切的時(shí)候,真的豁然開朗了。t connect the dots looking forward。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。這個(gè)過程從來沒有令我失望（let me down）,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同而已。I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We 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 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How 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 well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.我非常幸運(yùn), 因?yàn)槲以诤茉绲臅r(shí)候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個(gè)公司從那兩個(gè)車庫中的窮光蛋發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價(jià)值超過二十億的大公司。我也快要到三十歲了。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時(shí)候，我們雇用了一個(gè)很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個(gè)公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的很好。當(dāng)爭吵不可開交的時(shí)候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊。在這么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。I really didn39。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點(diǎn)也沒有。所以我決定從頭再來。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個(gè)階段。s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.在接下來的五年里, 我創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個(gè)叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個(gè)后來成為我妻子的優(yōu)雅女人相識。在后來的一系列運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t lose faith. I39。ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly sa