【正文】 ll of my workingclass parents39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了，但是我很無(wú)知地選了一所差不多和斯坦福一樣貴的學(xué)校，幾乎花掉我那藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學(xué)會(huì)怎樣幫我指點(diǎn)迷津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。一開始非常嚇人，但回憶起來(lái)，這卻是我一生中作的最好的決定之一。It wasn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。我沒有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。我喜歡這種生活方式。讓我來(lái)給你們舉個(gè)例子吧。t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do learned about serif and sansserif 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。校園中每一張海報(bào)，抽屜上的每一張標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。在這門課上，我學(xué)會(huì)了“serif”和“sansserif”兩種字體、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣寫出好的字來(lái)。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 me, and 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 fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。但是十年后當(dāng)我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)蘋果第一臺(tái)電腦的時(shí)候，這些東西都跑出來(lái)了，我把它們?nèi)荚O(shè)計(jì)到了電腦里。如果我從來(lái)沒有選過那門課，蘋果電腦就不會(huì)有那些漂亮的字型，又因?yàn)槲④浭峭耆截愄O果，很有可能，個(gè)人電腦就不會(huì)有這些漂亮的字體了。Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years , you can39。再說(shuō)一遍，往前看，是連接不起這些點(diǎn)滴的，只有往后看才行。你必須相信一些東西你的勇氣、宿命、生活、因緣，隨便什么因?yàn)橄嘈胚@些點(diǎn)滴能夠一路連接會(huì)給你帶來(lái)循從本覺的自信，它使你走離平凡，變得與眾不同。 garage when I was worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4,000 39。d just turned thirty, and 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 him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was really didn39。d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start 。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長(zhǎng)為擁有四千名員工，價(jià)值二十億的大公司。你怎么可能被一個(gè)親手創(chuàng)立的公司解雇？事情是這樣的，在公司成長(zhǎng)期間，雇傭了一個(gè)我們認(rèn)為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營(yíng)公司的人。于是，在我三十歲的時(shí)候，我出局了，很公開地出局了。一開始的幾個(gè)月我真的不知道該干什么。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。有個(gè)東西在慢慢地叫醒我。這次失敗一點(diǎn)兒都沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。我決定從新開始。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to 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 in 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 world39。成功的重?fù)?dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，對(duì)任何事情都不再特別看重。接下來(lái)的五年，我創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)叫NeXT的公司，接著又建立了Pixar，然后與后來(lái)成為我妻子的女人相愛。In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。我們?cè)贜eXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。s going to hit 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 looking, and don39。ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll keep 39。這個(gè)藥的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。不要喪失信心。你必須去找你熱愛的東西，對(duì)工作如此，對(duì)你的愛人也是這樣的。如果你還沒有找到，那么就繼續(xù)找，不要停。就像任何真誠(chéng)的關(guān)系，隨著時(shí)間的流逝，只會(huì)越來(lái)越緊密。My 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 thing I39。我十七歲的時(shí)候讀到過一句話“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作最后一天過，有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的”。從那以后，過去的三十三年，每天早上我都會(huì)對(duì)著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我會(huì)不會(huì)做我想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案持續(xù)否定一些次數(shù)后，我知道我需要改變一些東西了。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问隆械臉s耀、驕傲、對(duì)難堪和失敗的恐懼——在死亡面前都會(huì)消隱，留下真正重要的東西。你已經(jīng)赤裸裸了，沒有理由不聽從于自己的心愿。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 doctors39。d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your means to say your ，我被診斷出患了癌癥。我當(dāng)時(shí)都不知道胰腺是什么東西。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。就是意味著把要對(duì)你小孩說(shuō)十年的話在幾個(gè)月內(nèi)說(shuō)完；意味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點(diǎn)；意味著你要說(shuō)“永別”了。那天晚上我做了一個(gè)活切片檢查，他們將一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過胃，直達(dá)小腸，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個(gè)細(xì)胞。我做了手術(shù)，謝天謝地，我痊愈了。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。t want to die to get there, and 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 39。s change agent。s quite time is limited, so don39。s 39。s 39。 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is ，我也希望是我未來(lái)幾十年里最接近死亡的一次。但是死亡是每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)，沒有人能夠逃脫。它去陳讓新。但是有一天，不用太久，你們有會(huì)慢慢變老然后被清除。你們的時(shí)間是有限的，不要浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)別人的生活上。不要被其他人的喧囂觀點(diǎn)掩蓋自己內(nèi)心真正的聲音。所有其他東西都是次要的。它是一個(gè)叫斯糾華特布蘭得，住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的曼羅公園的家伙創(chuàng)立的。那是六十年代后期，個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，所以這份雜志全是用打字機(jī)、剪刀和偏光鏡制作的。它理想主義，全文充斥著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。那是七十年代中期，我和你們差不多大。下面有一句話，“保持饑餓，保持愚蠢”。我常以此勉勵(lì)自己。保持饑餓，保持愚蠢。第三篇：?jiǎn)滩妓寡葜v今天在火車上，用ipad上網(wǎng)，看到喬布斯去世的消息，有一個(gè)時(shí)代過去了的感覺轉(zhuǎn)發(fā)喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，紀(jì)念一下。說(shuō)實(shí)話，我大學(xué)沒有畢業(yè)。今天，我要講3個(gè)故事。第一個(gè)是關(guān)于連接生命軌跡的故事。在接下來(lái)的18個(gè)月里，我作為休學(xué)生到處閑逛，之后才徹底退學(xué)。我的生母是個(gè)未婚大學(xué)生。但是她有一個(gè)非常堅(jiān)定的領(lǐng)養(yǎng)條件：收養(yǎng)者必須是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。只是在最后一刻，當(dāng)把我的資料遞送他們時(shí)，他們最終決定要收養(yǎng)一個(gè)女孩。你們?cè)敢馐震B(yǎng)嗎？” 我的養(yǎng)父母說(shuō)：“當(dāng)然愿意。直到數(shù)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母承諾一定讓我讀大學(xué)，她才同意。17年后，我終于上了大學(xué)。我父母的所有積蓄都被用于為我交學(xué)費(fèi)。當(dāng)時(shí)，我沒有人生的目標(biāo)，而上大學(xué)似乎也無(wú)法幫助我厘清我的人生目標(biāo)。所以我決定退學(xué)。退學(xué)在當(dāng)時(shí)看來(lái)是很可怕的一件事。退學(xué)只是放棄了學(xué)習(xí)我不感興趣的東西。但是，這并不是件浪漫的事。我用退可樂瓶的押金（每個(gè)5美分）去買食物。我非常享受這樣的生活。后來(lái)被證明，這是個(gè)極其寶貴的經(jīng)歷。因此，