喬布斯_斯坦福演講_《Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry》演講稿1

1、【精品文檔】如有侵權(quán)，請聯(lián)系網(wǎng)站刪除，僅供學(xué)習(xí)與交流喬布斯_斯坦福演講_Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry演講稿1.精品文檔.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to

2、tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It starte

3、d before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She 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

4、 popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him? They said: Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never gr

5、aduated 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. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that wa

6、s almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt 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 a

7、ll of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt inter

8、est me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal

9、a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus e

10、very poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between di

11、fferent letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing th

12、e first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If 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

13、just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward

14、 when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, desti

15、ny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second 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 my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years App

16、le had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired s

17、omeone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. Wh

18、at had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didnt know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and t

19、ried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. A

20、nd so I decided to start over. I didnt see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one

21、of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most s

22、uccessful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apples current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. Im pretty sure none of this would have happened

23、if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true

24、 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 is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle. As with all

25、matters of the heart, youll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Dont settle. My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: If you live each day as if

26、it was your last, someday youll 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

27、been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that Ill be dead soon is the most important tool Ive ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these

28、 things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. About a year ago I was diagnos

29、ed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didnt even know what a pancreas was. The 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 months. My doctor a

30、dvised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought youd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible f

31、or your family. It means to say your goodbyes. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife

32、, 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 form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and Im fine now. This was the closest Ive been to facing death, and I hope its the

33、closest I get for a few more decades. Having 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 die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination w

34、e all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Lifes change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the ol

35、d and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most

36、important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a

37、fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form

38、, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back co

39、ver 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 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

40、 wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much. 蘋果公司總裁斯蒂夫.喬布斯（Steve Jobs）在2005年6月12日對全體史丹佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)生的演講: 今天，我非常榮幸來到各位在世界上最好的學(xué)校之一的畢業(yè)典禮上。我從來沒大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說實(shí)話，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三-個故事就好。 第一個故事，是關(guān)于人生的點(diǎn)滴怎么串連在一起。 我在里德

41、學(xué)院（Reed college）待了六個月就辦休學(xué)了。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了十八個月。那么，我為什么休學(xué)？這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親當(dāng)時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽-，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。她強(qiáng)烈覺得應(yīng)該讓有大學(xué)畢業(yè)的人收養(yǎng)我，所以我出生時，她就準(zhǔn)備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。但是這對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)名單上的下一對夫妻，我的養(yǎng)父母，在那一天半夜里接到一通電話，問他們有一名未預(yù)料到的男孩出生，你們要認(rèn)養(yǎng)他嗎？而他們的回答是當(dāng)然-要。后來，我的生母發(fā)現(xiàn)，我現(xiàn)在的媽媽從來沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，我現(xiàn)在的爸爸則連高中畢業(yè)也沒有。她拒絕在認(rèn)養(yǎng)文件上做最后簽字。直到幾個月后，我的

42、養(yǎng)父母同意將來-一定會讓我上大學(xué)，她才改變態(tài)度。 十七年后，我上大學(xué)了。但是當(dāng)時我無知選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學(xué)，我那工人階級的父母所有積蓄都花在我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。六個月后，我看不出念這個書的價值-何在。那時候，我不知道這輩子要干什么，也不知道念大學(xué)能對我有什么幫助，而且我為了念這個書，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)時這個決定看來相當(dāng)可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當(dāng)我休學(xué)之后，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課-。 這一點(diǎn)也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的五分錢退費(fèi)買吃的

43、，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮(zhèn)去印度教的Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好飯。我喜歡那頓好飯。追尋我的好奇與直覺，我所駐足的大部分事物，后來看來都成了無價之寶。舉例來說：當(dāng)時里德學(xué)院有著大概是全國最好-的書法。在整個校園內(nèi)的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學(xué)了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去學(xué)書法。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。書法的美好、歷史感與藝術(shù)感是科學(xué)所無法捕捉的，我覺得那很迷人。 我沒預(yù)期過學(xué)的這些東西能在我生活中起些什么實(shí)際作用，不過十年后，當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺麥金塔 (Ma

44、cintosh) 電腦時，我想起了所有當(dāng)時學(xué)的東西，所以把這些東西都設(shè)計進(jìn)了Mac機(jī)里，這是第一臺能印刷出漂亮字體的計算機(jī)。如果我沒沉溺于那樣一門課里，Mac機(jī)可能就不-會有多重字體跟變間距字體了。又因為視窗系統(tǒng)（Windows)抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，如果當(dāng)年我沒這樣做，大概世界上所有的個人計算機(jī)都不會有這些東西，印-不出現(xiàn)在我們看到的漂亮的字體來了。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我還在大學(xué)里時，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。 我再說一次，你不能預(yù)先把點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串在一起；唯有未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴是如何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你現(xiàn)在所體會的東西，將來多少會連接在

45、一-塊。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運(yùn)也好，生命也好，或者因緣什么的 (karma)。這種作法從來沒讓我失望，也讓我的人生整個不同起來。 我的第二個故事，有關(guān)愛與失落。 我好運(yùn)年輕時就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己愛做什么事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫里開始了蘋果計算機(jī)的事業(yè)。我們拼命工作，蘋果計算機(jī)在十年間從一間車庫里的兩個小伙子擴(kuò)展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美-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年頭，然后被炒魷魚。怎么會讓自己創(chuàng)辦的公司炒自己魷魚？好吧，當(dāng)蘋果計算機(jī)-成長后，我請了一個我以為他在經(jīng)營公司上很有才干的家伙來，他在頭一年

46、也確實(shí)干得不錯?？墒呛髞砦覀儗ξ磥淼目捶ㄩ_始有分歧，最后只好分道揚(yáng)鑣。當(dāng)這發(fā)生時，董-事會站在他那邊，炒了我魷魚，公開把我請了出去。曾經(jīng)是我整個成年生活重心的東西不見了，令我不知所措。有幾個月，我實(shí)在不知道要干什么好。我覺得我令企業(yè)界的-前輩們失望-我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創(chuàng)辦惠普（HP)的David Packard跟創(chuàng)英特爾(Intel)的Bob Noyce，跟他們說我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾非常的負(fù)面示范，我甚至想要離開硅谷。但是漸漸的，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我還是喜愛著我做過的事情，在蘋果的-日子經(jīng)歷的事件沒有絲毫改變我愛做的事。我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定

47、從頭來過。 當(dāng)時我沒發(fā)現(xiàn)，但是現(xiàn)在看來，被蘋果計算機(jī)開除，是我所經(jīng)歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重包袱被從頭再來的輕裝上陣所取代，每件事情都不那么確定，讓我自由進(jìn)入這輩-子最有創(chuàng)意的時期。 接下來五年，我開了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又開一家叫Pixar的公司，并和一位令人神魂顛倒的女士墜入愛河，她后來成了我的妻子。Pixar接著制作了世界-上第一部全計算機(jī)動畫電影，玩具總動員，現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司。然后，蘋果計算機(jī)買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)成了蘋果-計算機(jī)后來復(fù)興的核心。勞倫和我也有了個美妙的家庭。 我很確定，如果當(dāng)年蘋果計算機(jī)沒開除我，所有這些事就不會發(fā)生。這帖藥很苦口，但我想病人需要它。有時候，人生中會遇到當(dāng)頭一棒，不要喪失信心。我確信，我愛我-所做的事情，這就是這些