【正文】 efused to sign the final adoption only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to was the start in my seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I na239。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more wasn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。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。s likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals puters might not have the wonderful typography that they 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。 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 didn39。s first puteranimated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the 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。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。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 life, because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to are already is no reason not to follow your a year ago, I was diagnosed with had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my didn39。 code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。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 I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late Sixties, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form thirtyfive years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final was the midSeventies 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 were the words, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off.“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for hungry, stay you all, very much.第三篇：喬布斯英文演講稿喬布斯英文演講稿Dear students:I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I39。s it. No big deal. Just three stories.我今天很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮，斯坦福大學是世界上最好的大學之一。說實話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學畢業(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。I 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 quit. So why did I drop out?我在Reed大學讀了六個月之后就退學了，但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學決定之前，我還經常去學校。 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 school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.故事從我出生的時候講起。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我，她十分想讓我被大學畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)。但是她沒有料到，當我出生之后，律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個女孩。她拒絕簽這個收養(yǎng)合同。And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their en