【正文】 was biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。vely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all 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。t all didn39。 returned Coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later me give you one College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully I had dropped out and didn39。t capture, and I found it 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。t connect the dots looking can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whateverbecause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the second story is about love and was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the something slowly began to dawn on still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one 39。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。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。t lose 39。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for 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 work, and 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 thing 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 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 lived with that diagnosis all that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach 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 doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine was the closest I39。s the closest I get for a few more lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。s life39。it clears out the old to make way for the now, the new is someday, not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。t waste it living someone else39。t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people39。t let the noise of others39。謝謝大家。老實(shí)說(shuō)，我大學(xué)沒(méi)有畢業(yè)，今天恐怕是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次了。不是長(zhǎng)篇大論，只是三個(gè)故事而已。我 在里得大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個(gè)月之后我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。我的生母是一個(gè)年 輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。于是，一對(duì)律師夫婦說(shuō)好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然而最后一 秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個(gè)女孩兒。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書(shū)上簽字。這 是我生命的開(kāi)端。六個(gè)月后，我覺(jué)得不 值得。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒(méi)有做錯(cuò)。從我退學(xué)的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感興趣的必修課，開(kāi)始旁聽(tīng)那些有意思得多的課。我沒(méi)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。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(xiě)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(xiě)出好的字來(lái)。當(dāng) 時(shí)我并不指望書(shū)法在以后的生活中能有什么實(shí)用價(jià)值。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這 么一門課，Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會(huì)碰巧選了這門書(shū)法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。所以你必須相信，那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，會(huì)在你未來(lái)的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來(lái)。第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于愛(ài)與失的。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情