【正文】 我們在設計第一臺 Macintosh 計算機時，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。這是第一臺有這么漂亮的文字版式的計算機。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個人電腦可能不會有這些字體和字號。當然，我在大學里不可能從這一點上看到它與將來的關系。Again, you can39。 you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個點上看到將來；只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關系。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 loss.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.我的第二個故事是關于好惡與得失。我在 20 歲時和沃茲（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，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產品─ Macintosh 電腦─那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲。你怎么會被自己辦的公司解雇呢？是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘了一位我認為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。可是，隨后我倆對公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。我成年后的整個生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.一連幾個月，我真的不知道應該怎么辦。我去見了戴維帕卡德（David Packard，惠普公司創(chuàng)始人之一─譯注）和鮑勃。這次失敗弄得沸沸揚揚的，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些風波絲毫沒有改變這一點。于是，我決定從頭開始。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.During 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 wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。 在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我還愛上一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。世道輪回，蘋果公司買下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋果公司，我們在 NeXT 公司開發(fā)的技術成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。I39。t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a br