喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講英文原文

1、喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講英文原文Sta nford Report, Ju ne 14, 2005'You' ve got to find what you love, ' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Comme nceme nt address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer andof Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencemen

2、t from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I' veever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That' s i t. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about conn ect

3、 ing the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 mon ths, but the n stayed arou nd as a drop-i n for ano ther 18 mon ths or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a you ng, un wed college graduatestude nt, and she decided to

4、 put me up for adopti on. She felt very str on gly 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 thatwhe n I popped out they decided at the lastmin utethat they really wan ted a girl. So my pare nts, who were o

5、n a wait ing list, got a call in the middle of the night asking:“We have an unexpectedbaby boy; 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 n ever graduated from high school. She refused to sig

6、n the final adopti on papers. She only rele nted a few mon ths later whe n my pare nts promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I n aively chose a college that was almostas expe nsive as Stan ford, and all of my working- class pare nts ' sav ings we

7、re being spe nt on my college tuiti on. After six mon ths,I could n ' t see the value in it. I had no ideawhat I wan ted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figureit out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to

8、drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but look ing back it was one of the best decisi ons I ever made. The min uteI dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn' t interest me, andbeg in dropp ing in on the ones that looked in terest

9、i ng.It wasn' t all romantic. I didn ' t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floorin friends 'rooms, I retur ned coke bottles for the 5? deposits to buy food with, and I would walkthe 7 miles across tow n every Sun day ni ght to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krish na temple. I lov

10、ed it. And much of what I stumbled into by follow ing my curiosity andintuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instructionin the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, w

11、as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn' t have to take the normal classes,I decided to take a calligraphy class to lear n how to do this. I lear ned about serif and san serif typefaces, about vary ing the amou nt of space betwee n differe nt letter comb in ati ons,

12、about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that scie neecan' t capture, and I found it fasc in at ing.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh com

13、puter, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. IfI had n ever dropped in on that sin gle course in college, the Mac would have n ever had multiple typefaces or proporti on ally spaced fon ts. And since Win dows just copied the

14、 Mac, its likely that no pers onal computer would have them. If I had n ever dropped out, I would have n ever dropped in on this calligraphy class, and pers onal computers might not have the won derful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to conn ect the dots looking forward when I w

15、as in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can ' t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow conn ect in your future. You have to trust in someth ing your gut, desti

16、ny, life, karma, whatever. This approachhas n ever let me dow n, and it has made all the differe nee in my life.My sec ond story is about love and loss.I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in myparents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years A

17、pple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billi on compa ny with over 4000 employees. We hadjust released our fin est creati on the Macin tosh a year earlier, and I had justturned 30. And then I got fired. Howcan you get fired from a company you started?Well,as Apple grew we hired

18、 some one who I thought was very tale nted to run the compa ny withme, and for the first year or so things went well. But the n our visi ons of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. Whenwe did, our Board ofDirectorssided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out.

19、 What had bee n the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really did n ' t know what to do for a few mon ths. I felt that I had let the previousgen erati on of en trepre neurs dow n that I had dropped the bat on as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard an

20、d Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I eve n thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me- I still loved what I did. The turn of eve nts at Apple had not cha nged that one bit. I had bee n rejected, but

21、I was stillin love. And so I decided to start over.I didn ' t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happe ned to me. The heav in ess of being successful was replaced by the light nessof being a beg inner aga in, less sure about every

22、th ing. It freed me to en terone of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I starteda company named NeXT, another company named Pixar,and fell in love with an amazing womanwho would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy

23、 Story, and is now the most successful ani mati on studio in the world. In a remarkable tur n of eve nts, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the tech no logy we developed atNeXT is at the heart of Apple ' scurre nt ren aissa nee. And Laure ne and I have a won derful family together.I 

24、9; m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn' t been fired from Apple.It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hitsyou in the head with a brick. Don' t lose faith. I ' m convinced that the only thingthatkept me going was that I loved

25、 what I did. You' ve got to find what you love. And thatis as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 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 isgreat work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do

26、. If you haven' tfound it yet, keep looking. Don ' t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you' llknow whe n you find it. And, like any great relati on ship,it just gets better and betteras the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don' t settle.My third story is abou

27、t death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went someth ing like:“ If you live each day as ifit was your last, someday you ' ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression onme, and since the n, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:“ If today were

28、the last day of my life, would I want to do what Iam about to do today? ” And whenever the answer has been“ Nc” for too many days ina row, I know I n eed to cha nge somethi ng.Remembering that I ' ll be dead soon is the most important tool I' ve ever encounteredto help me make the big choice

29、s in life. Because almost everythi ng all exter nalexpectations,all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fallaway in the face of death, leav ing only what is truly importa nt. Rememberi ng that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you hav

30、e something to lose. You are already n aked. There is no reas on not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diag no sed with can cer. I had a sca n at 7:30 in the mor ning, andit clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn ' t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was al

31、most certa inly a type of can cer that is in curable, and thatI should expect to live no lon ger tha n three to six mon ths. My doctor advised me to gohome and get my affairs in order, which is doctor' s code for prepare to die. It meansto try to tell your kids everything you thought you' d

32、have the next 10 years to tellthem in just a few mon ths. It means to make sure everyth ing is butt toned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diag no sis all day. Later that eve ning I had a biopsy, where they stuck an en doscope

33、 dow n my throat, through my stomach and into my in testi nes, put a n eedle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I 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 f

34、orm of pancreatic cancer that is curable wi th surgery. I had the surgery and I' m fine now.This was the closest I ' ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certa inty tha n whe n dea

35、th was a useful but purely in tellectual con cept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don' t want to die to get there. And yet death is the desti nati on we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best inve

36、ntion of Life. It isLife ' s cha nge age nt. It clears out the old to make way for the n ew. Right now the newis you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your timeislimited, so don' t waste it

37、 livi ng some oneelse 's life. Don' t be trappedby dogma-which isliving with the results of other people's thinking. Don ' t letthe noiseofother 's opinions drown out your own innervoice.And most important, havethe courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already k

38、now what you trulywant to become. Everyth ing else is sec on dary.Whenl was you ng, there was an amaz ing publicati oncalled The Whole Earth Catalog, whichwas one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life

39、 with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960' s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it wasall made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Googlein paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with n ea

40、t tools and great no ti ons.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then whenit had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was yourage. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the k

41、ind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it 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. Andnow, as you graduate to beg in an ew, I wish that

42、for you.Stay Hun gry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.Steve Jobs 說(shuō)，你得找岀你愛(ài)的(You' ve got to find what you love.) 。今天，有榮幸來(lái)到各位從世界上最好的學(xué)校之一畢業(yè)的畢業(yè)典禮上。我從來(lái)沒(méi)從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說(shuō)實(shí)話，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。今天，我只說(shuō)三個(gè)故事，不談大道理，三個(gè)故事就好。第一個(gè)故事，是關(guān)于人生中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴怎么串連在一起。我在里德學(xué)院(Reed college )待了六個(gè)月就辦休學(xué)了。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了十八個(gè)月。那么，我為什么休學(xué)？這得從我出生前講起。我的親生

43、母親當(dāng)時(shí)是個(gè)研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。她強(qiáng)烈覺(jué)得應(yīng)該讓有大學(xué)畢業(yè)的人收養(yǎng)我，所以我岀生時(shí)，她就準(zhǔn)備讓我被一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。但是這對(duì)夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他們想收養(yǎng)女孩。所以在等待收養(yǎng)名單上的一對(duì)夫妻，我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天半夜里接到一通電話，問(wèn)他們有一名意外岀生的男孩，你們要認(rèn)養(yǎng)他嗎？而他 們的回答是當(dāng)然要。后來(lái)，我的生母發(fā)現(xiàn)，我現(xiàn)在的媽媽從來(lái)沒(méi)有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，我現(xiàn)在的爸爸 則連高中畢業(yè)也沒(méi)有。她拒絕在認(rèn)養(yǎng)文件上做最后簽字。直到幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母同意將來(lái)一定會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她才軟化態(tài)度。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了。但是當(dāng)時(shí)我無(wú)知選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學(xué)，我那工人階級(jí)的父母所有積

44、蓄都花在我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。六個(gè)月后，我看不出念這個(gè)書(shū)的價(jià)值何在。那時(shí)候，我不知道這輩子要干什么，也不知道念大學(xué)能對(duì)我有什么幫助，而且我為了念這個(gè)書(shū)，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學(xué)，相信船到橋頭自然直。當(dāng)時(shí)這個(gè)決定看來(lái)相當(dāng)可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來(lái)，那是我這輩子做過(guò)最好的決定之一。當(dāng)我休學(xué)之后，我再也不用上我沒(méi)興趣的必修課,把時(shí)間拿去聽(tīng)那些我有興趣的課。這一點(diǎn)也不浪漫。 我沒(méi)有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收可樂(lè)空罐的五先令退費(fèi)買吃的，每個(gè)星期天晚上得走七里的路繞過(guò)大半個(gè)鎮(zhèn)去印度教的Hare Krish na神廟吃頓好料。我喜歡Hare Krishna 神廟的好料。追尋我的好奇與直覺(jué)，

45、我所駐足的大部分事物，后來(lái)看來(lái)都成了無(wú)價(jià)之寶。舉例來(lái)說(shuō)：當(dāng)時(shí)里德學(xué)院有著大概是全國(guó)最好的書(shū)法指導(dǎo)。在整個(gè)校園內(nèi)的每一張海報(bào)上，每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上，都是美麗的手寫字。因?yàn)槲倚輰W(xué)了，可以不照正常選課程序來(lái)，所以我跑去學(xué)書(shū)法。我學(xué)了 serif與san serif 字體，學(xué)到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學(xué)到活版印刷偉大的地方。書(shū)法 的美好、歷史感與藝術(shù)感是科學(xué)所無(wú)法捕捉的，我覺(jué)得那很迷人。我沒(méi)預(yù)期過(guò)學(xué)的這些東西能在我生活中起些什么實(shí)際作用，不過(guò)十年后，當(dāng)我在設(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)麥金塔時(shí)，我想起了當(dāng)時(shí)所學(xué)的東西，所以把這些東西都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了麥金塔里，這是第一臺(tái)能印刷出漂亮東西的計(jì)算機(jī)。如果我沒(méi)沉溺于那樣一門課里，麥金

46、塔可能就不會(huì)有多重字體跟變間距字體了。又因?yàn)閃indows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，如果當(dāng)年我沒(méi)這樣做，大概世界上所有的個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī) 都不會(huì)有這些東西，印不出現(xiàn)在我們看到的漂亮的字來(lái)了。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我還在大學(xué)里時(shí)，不可能把 這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴預(yù)先串在一起，但是這在十年后回顧，就顯得非常清楚。何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你現(xiàn)在所體會(huì)的東西，將來(lái)多少會(huì)連接在一塊。你得信任某個(gè)東西，直覺(jué)也好，命運(yùn)也好，生命也好，或者業(yè)力。這種作法從來(lái)沒(méi)讓我失望，也讓我的人生整個(gè) 不同起來(lái)。我的第二個(gè)故事，有關(guān)愛(ài)與失去。我好運(yùn)年輕時(shí)就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己愛(ài)做什么事。我二十歲時(shí)，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫(kù)里開(kāi)始了蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)的事業(yè)

47、。我們拼命工作，蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)在十年間從一間車庫(kù)里的兩個(gè)小伙子擴(kuò)展成了一家員工超過(guò)四千人、市價(jià)二十億美金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品麥金塔， 而我才剛邁入人生的第三十個(gè)年頭，然后被炒魷魚(yú)。要怎么讓自己創(chuàng)辦的公司炒自己魷魚(yú)？好吧，當(dāng)蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)成長(zhǎng)后，我請(qǐng)了一個(gè)我以為他在經(jīng)營(yíng)公司上很有才干的家伙來(lái)，他在頭幾年也確實(shí)干得不錯(cuò)?？墒俏覀儗?duì)未來(lái)的愿景不同，最后只好分道揚(yáng)鑣，董事會(huì)站在他那邊，炒了我魷魚(yú)， 公開(kāi)把我請(qǐng)了出去。曾經(jīng)是我整個(gè)成年生活重心的東西不見(jiàn)了，令我不知所措。有幾個(gè)月，我實(shí)在不知道要干什么好。我覺(jué)得我令企業(yè)界的前輩們失望-我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見(jiàn)了創(chuàng)辦HP的David P

48、ackard 跟創(chuàng)辦In tel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說(shuō)我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾的非常負(fù)面示范，我甚至想要離開(kāi)硅谷。但是漸漸的，我發(fā)現(xiàn),我還是喜愛(ài)著我做過(guò)的事情，在蘋果的日子經(jīng)歷的事件沒(méi)有絲毫改變我愛(ài)做的事。我被否定了， 可是我還是愛(ài)做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來(lái)過(guò)。當(dāng)時(shí)我沒(méi)發(fā)現(xiàn)，但是現(xiàn)在看來(lái)，被蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)開(kāi)除，是我所經(jīng)歷過(guò)最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來(lái)過(guò)的輕松所取代，每件事情都不那么確定，讓我自由進(jìn)入這輩子最有創(chuàng)意的年代。接下來(lái)五年，我開(kāi)了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又開(kāi)一家叫做Pixar的公司，也跟后來(lái)的老婆談起了戀愛(ài)。Pixar接著制作了世界上第一部全計(jì)算機(jī)動(dòng)畫電影，玩具總動(dòng)員，現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功 的動(dòng)畫制作公司。然后，蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)買下了NeXT,我回到了蘋果，我們?cè)贜eXT發(fā)展