【正文】 ge graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his 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: “We have an unexpected baby boy。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked wasn39。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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 example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand 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 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 since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。t connect the dots looking forward。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downI still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one had been rejected, but I was still in so I decided to start didn39。s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family 39。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits 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 39。ll know when you find , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep looking until you find 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 thelast 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 almost everythingthese 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。s code for prepare to means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you39。m 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 concept: No one wants to people who want to go to heaven don39。s change clears out the old to make way for the now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it is quite time is limited, so don39。s 39。s 39。 opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 196039。喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講史蒂夫說實(shí)話，我自己從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，那么今天恐怕是我一生中最接近大學(xué)畢業(yè)的一天了。不是什么驚天動(dòng)地的事情，只是三個(gè)我自己的故事而已。我在里德學(xué)院（美國(guó)一所著名的私立大學(xué)）讀了六個(gè)月之后就退學(xué)了。十八個(gè)月后，我才徹底地離開那里。我的生母是一個(gè)年輕的未婚大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，在我出生之前，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。但是當(dāng)我出生之后，那對(duì)律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個(gè)女孩。他們說：“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個(gè)男嬰等著領(lǐng)養(yǎng)，你們想要他嗎？”他們回答道：“當(dāng)然！”但是后來我的生母拒絕簽這個(gè)領(lǐng)養(yǎng)合同，因?yàn)樗l(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué)，我的養(yǎng)父甚至從未完成高中學(xué)業(yè)。我認(rèn)為自己非常幸運(yùn)，因?yàn)槲以诤茉绲臅r(shí)候就找到了我鐘愛的事業(yè)。我們拼命工作，十年之后，蘋果公司發(fā)展成一個(gè)市值20億美元，擁有超過四千名員工的大公司。而就在那一年，我被解雇了。在公司快速成長(zhǎng)的時(shí)候，我們雇用了一個(gè)很有天分的人和我一起管理這個(gè)公司，在最初的幾年，公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的很好。當(dāng)我們的分歧越來越大的時(shí)候，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊。眾目睽睽之下，我失去了我為之奮斗了十幾年的事業(yè)，這對(duì)我來說真是毀滅性的打擊。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了，我覺得自己辜負(fù)了企業(yè)家前輩們對(duì)我的期望。輿論和媒體給我很大壓力，我甚至有過離開硅谷的念頭。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些，一點(diǎn)也沒有。所以我決定從頭再來。因?yàn)?，被解雇之后，作為一個(gè)世人皆知的成功者的負(fù)擔(dān)沒有了，我再次感受到了作為一個(gè)創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松，未來再次變得不可知而充滿魅力。在接下來的五年里，我創(chuàng)立了兩家新的公司，NeXT和Pixar，并和我后來的妻子，迷人的Laurence相愛。Pixar現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。我們?cè)贜eXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果公司的復(fù)興之中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵作用。我可以非常確定地說，如果我不被蘋果公司開除的話，這一切都不會(huì)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。挫折是難免的，有些時(shí)候就好像生活拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下。我堅(jiān)信，唯一使我堅(jiān)持走下去的，是我對(duì)我做的事情的無比鐘愛。對(duì)于工作如此，對(duì)于你的愛人也是如此。只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得，把工作做好。當(dāng)你找到的時(shí)候，你就會(huì)知道這一切都是值得的。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，千人觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你內(nèi)心的聲音。所有其他的事情都是次要的。它的作者叫Stewart Brand，就住在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park，他象詩一般神奇地將這本書帶到了這個(gè)世界。完全可以把這本雜志比喻成“包在書皮里的Google，但它出現(xiàn)在Google出現(xiàn)的三十五年之前－－它充滿了理想主義色彩，其中有許多巧妙的工具和偉大的想法。在七十年代的中期，他們做出了最后一期，我那時(shí)跟你們差不多大。如果你是個(gè)喜歡冒險(xiǎn)的人，你完全可以想像你會(huì)某一天在這樣的一條路上徒步旅行，時(shí)不時(shí)搭順風(fēng)車到下一個(gè)目的地，那是多么美妙?！癝tay Foolish“也成了我的座右銘，我總是希望自己能夠那樣。注記：[1] Serif字體和Sans Serif字體是字體的兩大基本分類。通常Serif字體更加易讀，特別是在字號(hào)較小的情況下，所以正文多用Serif字體。[2] 我花了很多時(shí)間也沒有能夠找到對(duì)“Stay Foolish”的簡(jiǎn)潔明了的中文翻譯。“Stay Hungry”是說要永遠(yuǎn)不滿足已經(jīng)取得的成就，奮斗不息。也許開始你會(huì)被別人以為“愚蠢”（foolish），甚至“瘋狂”，但正是這樣的與眾不同，往往會(huì)帶你走向偉大