【正文】 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。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 clearlooking backwards ten years , you can39。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingI 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 creationa 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 really didn39。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my 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 went on to create the worlds first puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t lose 39。ve got to find what you that is as true for your work as it is for your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。t third story is about I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39。t even know what a pancreas doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor39。d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your means to say your 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 I39。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。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。t waste it living someone else39。t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people39。t let the noise of others39。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 mightfind 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 ，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一。說實話，今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個故事而已。我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個月之后就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前，我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我的親生母親是一個年輕的，沒有結(jié)婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準(zhǔn)備工作。她拒絕簽這個收養(yǎng)合同。在十七歲那年,我真的上了大學(xué)。在六個月后, 我已經(jīng)看不到其中的價值所在。但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的 全部積蓄。不能否認(rèn)，我當(dāng)時確實非常的害怕，但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看，那的確是我這一生中最棒的一個決定。然后我可以開始去修那些看起來有點意思的課程。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房間的地板上面睡覺,我去撿可以換5美分的可樂罐，僅僅為了填飽肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，穿過這個城市到Hare Krishna神廟(注：位于紐約Brooklyn下城),只是為了能吃上好飯——這個星期唯一一頓好一點的飯，我喜歡那里的飯菜。讓我給你們舉一個例子吧：Reed大學(xué)在那時提供也許是全美最好的美術(shù)字課程。因為我退學(xué)了, 不必去上正規(guī)的課程, 所以我決定去參加這個課程，去學(xué)學(xué)怎樣寫出漂亮的美術(shù)字。那種美好、歷史感和藝術(shù)精妙，是科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)不能捕捉到的, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)那實在是太迷人了。但是十年之后,當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺Macintosh電腦的時候,就不是那樣了。那是第一臺使用了漂亮的印刷字體的電腦。因 為Windows只是照抄了Mac，所以現(xiàn)在個人電腦才能有現(xiàn)在這么美妙的字型。再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時候不可能將這些片斷串連起來；你只能在回顧的時候?qū)Ⅻc點滴滴串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣......這個過程從來沒有令我失望,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同。我非常幸運, 因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮小子發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價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候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運轉(zhuǎn)的很好。當(dāng)爭吵到不可開交的時候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊。在這么多人目光下我被炒了。在最初的幾個月里，我真是不知道該做些什么。我和創(chuàng)辦惠普的David Pack、創(chuàng)辦Intel的Bob Noyce見面，并試圖向