第一篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講稿

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講稿

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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's 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 started 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 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 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.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 working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn'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 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't 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 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 every poster, every label on every drawer, was 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 learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't 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 the 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 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 when I was 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 connect in your future.You have to trust in somethingthat I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried 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.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 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 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 successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'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 hits you in the head with a brick.Don't lose faith.I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've got to find what you love.And that is 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 is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.Don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll 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.Don't 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 it was your last, someday you'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 something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most 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 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 1960's, 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, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notion.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 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 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.And now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.

第二篇：喬布斯斯坦福演講稿

喬布斯斯坦福演講稿

You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's 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 started 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 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 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.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 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 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 when I was 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 connect in your future.You have to trust in somethingthe Macintoshthat I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried 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.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 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 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 successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'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 hits you in the head with a brick.Don't lose faith.I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've got to find what you love.And that is 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 is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.Don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll 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.Don't 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 it was your last, someday you'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 something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most 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 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 1960's, 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, 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 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 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.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stewart Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.

第三篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講

史蒂夫喬布斯(Steve Jobs)2005年6 月在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講在今天對于我們?nèi)杂泻艽蟮膯l(fā)作用。這位蘋果電腦公司(Apple Computer)和皮克斯動(dòng)畫公司(Pixar Animation Studios)首席執(zhí)行官在演講中談到了他生活中的三次體驗(yàn)，這三次體驗(yàn)不僅在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技術(shù)同行中引起了巨大反響。他們將他的演講登在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上，在博客上展開討論，通過電子郵件互相發(fā)送，在全球傳閱。下面給大家分享這次演講的中英文演講稿。

You've got to find what you love

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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's 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 started 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 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 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.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 working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn'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 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting。It wasn't all romantic.I didn't 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 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 every poster, every label on every drawer, was 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 learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't 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 the 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 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 when I was 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 connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, 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 Apple 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 someone 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.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese 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 diagnosed with cancer.I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.I didn't 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 advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die.It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 for 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, 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 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 certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: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 destination we 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 Life's 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 old and be cleared away.Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most 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 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 1960's, 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, 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 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 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.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.

第四篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)演講(中文)

喬布斯斯坦福演講：活出你自己

[2009-12-18]

堅(jiān)信、堅(jiān)持、堅(jiān)定----生命中的三個(gè)故事 編者按：

2005年6月12日，在美國斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上，蘋果公司CEO喬布斯發(fā)表了精彩演講。已被確診身患癌癥的喬布斯對在場學(xué)子講述了自己經(jīng)歷的三個(gè)故事，與學(xué)子們分享自己的創(chuàng)業(yè)心得，并以此激勵(lì)年輕一代勇敢、積極、快樂地面對人生。喬布斯樸實(shí)而真誠的演講不但贏得了全場數(shù)次熱烈鼓掌和尖叫，也成為近年美國畢業(yè)典禮演講中最具影響力的一篇。時(shí)至今日，這一演講仍然對廣大學(xué)子和創(chuàng)業(yè)者產(chǎn)生著深遠(yuǎn)影響。以下為喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講全文：

一、關(guān)于信仰：堅(jiān)信 “你要堅(jiān)信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的，將在你未來的生命中串聯(lián)起來。正是這種信仰讓我沒有失去希望，它使我的人生與眾不同”

很榮幸今天能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一，而我從來沒拿過大學(xué)畢業(yè)證。說實(shí)話，在我的生命中，今天也許是我距離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。我想向你們講述我生活中的三個(gè)故事，不是什么大不了的事，只是三個(gè)故事而已。

第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中的點(diǎn)滴串連起來。

我在里德大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月之后就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個(gè)月以后——我真正作出退學(xué)決定之前，我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事得從我出生時(shí)講起。我的生母是一個(gè)年輕的、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我，她非常希望我被受過高等教育的人收養(yǎng)。所以在我出生的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切準(zhǔn)備工作，使我得以被一個(gè)律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)。讓她意外的是，當(dāng)我出生之后，律師夫婦突然決定生個(gè)女孩。所以我的養(yǎng)父母（他們還在我親生父母的觀察名單上）突然在半夜接到了一個(gè)電話:“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個(gè)不小心生出來的男嬰，你們想要嗎？”他們回答道:“當(dāng)然！”但是我的生母隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué)，我的養(yǎng)父甚至沒讀過高中。她拒絕簽收養(yǎng)合同。直到幾個(gè)月以后，我的養(yǎng)父母答應(yīng)她一定會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她才同意。

在十七歲那年，我真的上了大學(xué)。但是我很愚蠢地選擇了一個(gè)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，我的養(yǎng)父母是工人，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。六個(gè)月后，我已經(jīng)看不到其中的價(jià)值所在。我不知道我想做什么，也不知道大學(xué)能幫我找到怎樣的答案，而我卻幾乎花光了養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。所以我決定退學(xué)，我覺得這是個(gè)正確的決定。不能否認(rèn)，我當(dāng)時(shí)確實(shí)非常害怕，但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看，那的確是我這一生中最棒的決定。在我決定退學(xué)的那一刻，我終于可以不必去讀那些毫無興趣的課程了，可以去學(xué)那些看起來有點(diǎn)意思的課程。但這并不怎么浪漫。由于沒有宿舍可住，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上；為了有錢填飽肚子，我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子來賣；在星期天的晚上，我要走七英里的路，穿過這個(gè)城市到Hare Krishna教堂，只是為了能吃上飯——這個(gè)星期唯一一頓好點(diǎn)的飯。但我喜歡這樣，我跟隨好奇心和直覺所做的事，后來被證明基本都是極其珍貴的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。我舉幾個(gè)例子：

那時(shí)候，里德大學(xué)提供了全美國最好的書法教育。整個(gè)校園里的每一張海報(bào)、每一個(gè)抽屜上的標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用再去上那些常規(guī)的課程，于是我選擇了一個(gè)書法班，想學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫出一手漂亮字。在這個(gè)班上，我學(xué)習(xí)了各種襯線和無襯線字體，如何改變不同字體組合之間的字間距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)無法捕捉的充滿美感、歷史感和藝術(shù)感的微妙，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了。

當(dāng)時(shí)，我壓根兒沒想到這些知識(shí)會(huì)在我的生命中有什么實(shí)際運(yùn)用價(jià)值；但是8年之后，當(dāng)我們設(shè)計(jì)第一款Macintosh電腦的時(shí)候，這些東西全派上了用場。我把它們?nèi)吭O(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了Mac，這是第一臺(tái)可以排出好看版式的電腦。如果當(dāng)時(shí)我在大學(xué)里沒有旁聽這門課程的話，Mac就不會(huì)提供各種字體和等間距字體。自從視窗系統(tǒng)抄襲了Mac以后，所有的個(gè)人電腦都有了這些東西。如果我沒有退學(xué)，我就不會(huì)去書法班旁聽，而今天的個(gè)人電腦大概也就不會(huì)有出色的版式功能。當(dāng)然，在我念大學(xué)那會(huì)兒，不可能有先見之明，把那些生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴都串起來；但10年之后再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常清楚。

再強(qiáng)調(diào)一次，你不可能充滿預(yù)見地將生命的點(diǎn)滴串聯(lián)起來。只有在你回頭看的時(shí)候，你才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴之間的聯(lián)系。所以，你要堅(jiān)信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的，將在你未來的生命中串聯(lián)起來。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺、命運(yùn)、生活、因緣際會(huì)??正是這種信仰讓我沒有失去希望，它使我的人生變得與眾不同。

二、關(guān)于成功：堅(jiān)持

“偉大的工作只會(huì)在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。在終有所獲之前，不要停下尋覓的腳步” 我的第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于愛與失去。

我是幸運(yùn)的，在年輕時(shí)就知道了自己愛做什么。在我20歲的時(shí)候，就和沃茲在我父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果電腦公司。我們勤奮工作，只用了10年的時(shí)間，最初只有一個(gè)車庫和兩個(gè)小伙子的蘋果公司，已經(jīng)擴(kuò)展成擁有4000名員工、價(jià)值達(dá)到20億美元的企業(yè)。而在此之前的一年，我們推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品Macintosh電腦，當(dāng)時(shí)我剛過而立之年。然后，我就被炒了魷魚。一個(gè)人怎么可以被他所創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢？這是因?yàn)?，隨著蘋果的成長，我們請了一個(gè)原以為很能干的家伙和我一起管理公司，在頭一年左右，他干得還不錯(cuò)，但后來，我們對公司未來的前景出現(xiàn)了分歧，于是矛盾便產(chǎn)生了。由于公司的董事會(huì)站在他那一邊，所以我被踢出了局，那年我30歲。失去了一直貫穿在我整個(gè)成年生活的重心，這種打擊是毀滅性的。

在接下來的幾個(gè)月，我真不知道該做些什么。我覺得我讓企業(yè)界的前輩們失望了，我失去了傳到我手上的指揮棒。我找到了戴維·帕卡德（注：戴維·帕卡德，普惠的創(chuàng)辦人之一）和鮑勃·諾伊斯（注：鮑勃·諾伊斯，英特爾創(chuàng)辦人之一），我向他們道歉，因?yàn)槲野咽虑楦阍伊恕Ｎ页闪巳巳私灾氖≌?，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但曙光漸漸出現(xiàn)，我還是喜歡我做過的事情，于是決定重新開始。

事實(shí)證明，被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經(jīng)歷過的最棒的事，盡管當(dāng)時(shí)的我并未意識(shí)到。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕盈所代替，我以自由之軀進(jìn)入了生命中最富創(chuàng)新力的時(shí)期。

在接下來的5年里，我開創(chuàng)了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接著是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并認(rèn)識(shí)了后來成為我妻子的曼妙女郎勞倫斯。Pixar制作了世界上第一部全電腦動(dòng)畫電影《玩具總動(dòng)員》，現(xiàn)在這家公司是世界上最成功的動(dòng)畫制作公司之一。后來經(jīng)歷一系列的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，于是我又回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT研發(fā)出的技術(shù)在推動(dòng)蘋果復(fù)興的核心動(dòng)力。我和勞倫斯也擁有了美滿的家庭。

我非常肯定，如果沒有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發(fā)生。對于病人來說，良藥總是苦口。生活有時(shí)候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋，但不要喪失信心。熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進(jìn)的惟一理由。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如此，對愛人亦是如此。工作將占據(jù)你生命中相當(dāng)大的一部分，從事你認(rèn)為具有非凡意義的工作，方能給你帶來真正的滿足感。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法，就是去熱愛這份工作。如果你到現(xiàn)在還沒有找到這樣一份工作，那么就繼續(xù)找。不要安于現(xiàn)狀，當(dāng)萬事了于心的時(shí)候，你就會(huì)知道何時(shí)能找到。如同任何偉大的浪漫關(guān)系一樣，偉大的工作只會(huì)在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。所以，在你終有所獲之前，不要停下你尋覓的腳步。不要停下。

三、關(guān)于抉擇：堅(jiān)定

“財(cái)富名利生不帶來，死不帶去，要遵從你的內(nèi)心和直覺，不要把時(shí)間浪費(fèi)在別人的生活里。提醒自己行將入土是我在面臨重大抉擇時(shí)的首選工具?！?/p>

我的第三個(gè)故事是關(guān)于死亡。

在17歲的時(shí)候，我讀過一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發(fā)現(xiàn)，原來一切皆在掌握之中?！边@句話從我讀到之日起，就對我產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響。在過去的33年里，我每天早晨都對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我還愿意做我今天本來應(yīng)該做的事情嗎？”當(dāng)一連好多天答案都否定的時(shí)候，我就知道做出改變的時(shí)候到了。

提醒自己行將入土，這是我在面臨人生中的重大抉擇時(shí)最為重要的工具。因?yàn)樗械氖虑?-榮譽(yù)、聲望、對尷尬和失敗的懼怕--在面對死亡的時(shí)候都將煙消云散，只留下真正重要的東西。在我所知道的各種方法中，提醒自己即將死去是避免產(chǎn)生上述想法的最好辦法。赤條條來去無牽掛，沒有理由不聽從你內(nèi)心的呼喚。

大約一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。在早晨7：30我做了一個(gè)檢查，掃描結(jié)果清楚地顯示我的胰臟出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)腫瘤。我當(dāng)時(shí)甚至不知道胰臟究竟是什么。醫(yī)生告訴我，幾乎可以確定這是一種不治之癥，頂多還能活3至6個(gè)月。大夫建議我回家，把諸事安排妥當(dāng)，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)用語。這意味著你得把你今后10年要對你的子女說的話用幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間說完；這意味著你得把一切都安排妥當(dāng)，盡可能減少你的家人在你身后的負(fù)擔(dān)；這意味著向眾人告別的時(shí)間到了。

我整天都想著診斷結(jié)果。那天晚上做了一個(gè)切片檢查，醫(yī)生把一個(gè)內(nèi)診鏡從我的喉管伸進(jìn)去，穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸道，將探針伸進(jìn)胰臟，從腫瘤上取出了幾個(gè)細(xì)胞。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，我的太太當(dāng)時(shí)在場，她后來告訴我說，當(dāng)大夫們從顯微鏡下觀察了細(xì)胞組織后尖叫起來，因?yàn)槟鞘欠浅：币姷?、但可以通過手術(shù)治療的胰臟癌。我接受了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)康復(fù)了。

這是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在隨后的幾十年里，都不要有比這一次更接近死亡的經(jīng)歷。在有了與死神擦肩而過的經(jīng)歷后，死亡對我來說，只是一個(gè)有用但純粹是知識(shí)上的概念，我可以更肯定地告訴你們：沒人想死；即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活著進(jìn)去。死亡是每個(gè)人的人生終點(diǎn)站，沒人能夠例外。生命就是如此，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧詈玫脑煳?，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走老者，給新生代讓路?，F(xiàn)在你們還是新生代，但不久的將來你們也將逐漸老去，被送出人生的舞臺(tái)。很抱歉說得這么富有戲劇性，但生命就是如此。

你們的時(shí)間有限，所以不要把時(shí)間浪費(fèi)在別人的生活里。不要被條條框框束縛，否則你就生活在他人思考的結(jié)果里。不要讓他人的觀點(diǎn)所發(fā)出的噪音淹沒你內(nèi)心的聲音。最為重要的是，要有遵從你的內(nèi)心和直覺的勇氣，它們可能已知道你其實(shí)想成為一個(gè)什么樣的人。其他事物都是次要的。

在我年輕的時(shí)候，有一本非常棒的雜志叫《全球目錄》（The Whole Earth Catalog），它被我們那一代人奉為圣經(jīng)。這本雜志的創(chuàng)辦人是一個(gè)叫斯圖爾特·布蘭德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，離這兒不遠(yuǎn)。他把這本雜志辦得充滿詩意。那是在60年代末期，個(gè)人電腦、桌面發(fā)排系統(tǒng)還沒有出現(xiàn)，所以出版工具只有打字機(jī)、剪刀和寶麗來相機(jī)。這本雜志有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的Google，但那是在Google出現(xiàn)的35年前。它充滿了理想色彩，內(nèi)容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的見解。

斯圖爾特和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)做了幾期《全球目錄》，快無疾而終的時(shí)候，他們出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我當(dāng)時(shí)處在你們現(xiàn)在的年齡。在最后一期的封底有一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間公路的照片，如果你喜歡搭車冒險(xiǎn)旅行的話，經(jīng)常會(huì)碰到的那種小路。在照片下面有一排字：好學(xué)若饑，謙卑若愚（Stay Hungry，Stay Foolish）。這是他們停刊的告別留言，此后的日子里，我總是用這句話來勉勵(lì)自己。現(xiàn)在，在你們畢業(yè)、即將開始新生活的時(shí)候，我用這句話與你們共勉：

好學(xué)若饑，謙卑若愚。謝謝諸位。

第五篇：喬布斯于斯坦福演講稿（精選）

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 I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's 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 started 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 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 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.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 working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn'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 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't 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 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 every poster, every label on every drawer, was 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 learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't 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 the 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 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 when I was 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 connect in your future.You have to trust in somethingthe Macintoshthat I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried 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.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 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 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 successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'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 hits you in the head with a brick.Don't lose faith.I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've got to find what you love.And that is 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 is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.Don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll 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.Don't 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 it was your last, someday you'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 something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most 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 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 1960's, 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, 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 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 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.And now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.我很榮幸能在今天與你們一起參加一個(gè)世界上最優(yōu)秀的大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。我從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說實(shí)話，今天是我最離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次。今天，我想給你們講我生活中的三個(gè)故事。就是這樣。沒什么大不了的。只是三個(gè)故事。

第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于把我生活中過去的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴聯(lián)系起來。

在過了最初的六個(gè)月后，我便從Reed學(xué)院輟學(xué)了。但是，在我真正離開那里前，我又呆了大約18個(gè)月。我為什么輟學(xué)呢？

這一切在我出生前就開始了。我的親生母親是一個(gè)年輕的未婚大學(xué)生。她決定把我送給別人收養(yǎng)。她堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為，我應(yīng)該被有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人收養(yǎng)。所以，一切本來都已經(jīng)安排好了，我將會(huì)被一個(gè)律師和他的妻子收養(yǎng)。但是當(dāng)我出生以后，律師夫婦在最后一分鐘決定他們真正想要的是一個(gè)女孩。所以，我的養(yǎng)父母，本來是在等候的名單上的。他們在半夜接到了一個(gè)電話，“我們有一個(gè)意料之外的男嬰。你們想要他嗎？”他們回答說：“當(dāng)然?！蔽业挠H生母親后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父高中都沒有畢業(yè)。她拒絕在最終的領(lǐng)養(yǎng)文件上簽字。過了幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母向她保證我將來會(huì)上大學(xué)后，她才同意了。

17年后，我確實(shí)上大學(xué)了。但是我天真的選擇了一個(gè)幾乎和斯坦福一樣昂貴的學(xué)院。我工薪階層的父母的所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。六個(gè)月后，我看不到這有任何價(jià)值。我不知道我的一生想要做什么。我不知道大學(xué)如何能幫我找到這一問題的答案。而且我在這里花費(fèi)著我父母一生所有的積蓄。所以，我決定輟學(xué)，而且相信所有的這一切都會(huì)解決的。在當(dāng)時(shí)，這個(gè)決定是非常令人害怕的。但是，回過頭來看，這是我做過的最好的決定之一。在我輟學(xué)的那一刻，我可以不再去上我不感興趣的課程，而去上那些看起來有趣的課程。

這并不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在了朋友房間的地板上。我回收可樂瓶，用得到的5美分買吃的。我會(huì)在每星期天晚上步行7英里穿過城市到Hare Krishna寺廟去好好吃一頓。我喜歡那的飯。我憑著好奇心與直覺所遇到的一切，很大一部分在后來被證明是無比珍貴的。讓我給你們舉一個(gè)例子：

那時(shí)，Reed學(xué)院提供了當(dāng)時(shí)可能是全國最好的書法課程。在校園里，每一個(gè)海報(bào)，每一個(gè)抽屜上的標(biāo)簽都是優(yōu)美的手寫字。因?yàn)槲逸z學(xué)了，不用再去上正常的課程，我決定上書法課，去學(xué)學(xué)如何寫書法。我學(xué)會(huì)了serif和sanserif字體，學(xué)會(huì)了改變不同字母組合間的間隔，知道了是什么使字體變得優(yōu)美。這一切都很優(yōu)美，有歷史感，具有科學(xué)無法獲得的藝術(shù)的精巧。我發(fā)現(xiàn)這一切令人著迷。

對書法的學(xué)習(xí)看起來沒有任何機(jī)會(huì)在我的一生中得到實(shí)際的應(yīng)用。但是，10年后，當(dāng)我們設(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)Macintosh電腦時(shí)，這一切就又重現(xiàn)了。我們把字體的設(shè)計(jì)都放入了Mac，第一個(gè)有著優(yōu)美字體的電腦。如果我沒有在學(xué)校學(xué)書法課程，Mac就不可能有多種字體或者按適當(dāng)比例間隔的字體。因?yàn)?Windows只是照搬了Mac，有可能沒有任何個(gè)人電腦會(huì)有這樣的字體。如果我沒有輟學(xué)，我就不會(huì)選那個(gè)書法課程，個(gè)人電腦就有可能沒有今天這樣優(yōu)美的字體。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我在大學(xué)時(shí)，把我當(dāng)時(shí)的一點(diǎn)一滴串起來并不能預(yù)測到我后來的結(jié)果。但是，當(dāng)10年后再回頭看，這一切非常，非常清楚。

當(dāng)然，你不能把事情聯(lián)系在一起而預(yù)測未來。你只能回過頭來再把它們聯(lián)系起來。所以，你一定要相信那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴在將來一定會(huì)以某種形式聯(lián)系起來。你一定要相信一些事情— 你的直覺、命運(yùn)、生命、因緣，無論是什么。這一方法從沒有讓我失望過。它對我的生活至關(guān)重要。

我的第二個(gè)故事是有關(guān)熱愛與失去。

我很幸運(yùn)，在生命中的最初階段就找到了自己熱愛做的事情。在我20歲的時(shí)候，Woz和我在我父母的車庫里創(chuàng)建了蘋果公司。我們非常努力。10年內(nèi)，蘋果從一個(gè)只有我們兩個(gè)人的車庫公司成長到20億美金，有4000員工的公司。當(dāng)時(shí)我剛剛滿30歲，就在一年前，我們發(fā)布了我們最杰出的創(chuàng)造— Macintosh。然后，我被解雇了。你怎么能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢？哎，當(dāng)蘋果公司逐漸發(fā)展，我們雇了一個(gè)我認(rèn)為非常有才華的人來和我一起運(yùn)作公司。第一年，都還不錯(cuò)。但是，隨后我們對未來的想法就開始有了分歧。最終我們鬧翻了。當(dāng)我們鬧翻的時(shí)候，董事會(huì)站在了他的一邊。結(jié)果是，我在30歲的時(shí)候被踢出了公司，而且是以盡人皆知的方式被踢出。我成年以來整個(gè)生活的中心沒有了，這是毀滅性的。

有幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間，我真的不知道做什么好。我覺得我辜負(fù)了把接力棒傳遞給我的上一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)者。我找到David Packard和Bob Noyce并向他們道歉，為我把事情搞得如此之糟道歉。我是一個(gè)眾所周知的失敗。我甚至想到從硅谷逃走。但是慢慢的我才開始意識(shí)到 — 我仍舊熱愛我所作的事情。在蘋果所發(fā)生的事情絲毫沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。我被拒絕了，但是，我仍舊愛著。所以，我決定重新開始。

在那時(shí)我并沒有認(rèn)識(shí)到，但是實(shí)際上，被蘋果解雇是對我來說最好的事情。成功所帶來的沉重感被重新開始，對一切都不確定的輕松感所代替。這一切解放了我，讓我進(jìn)入了一生中最有創(chuàng)造性的一段時(shí)間。

之后的5年，我創(chuàng)辦了一家叫NeXT的公司和另外一家叫Pixar的公司，還愛上了一個(gè)非常好的女人，后來她成為了我的妻子。Pixar創(chuàng)造了世界上第一部電腦動(dòng)畫電影，玩具總動(dòng)員?，F(xiàn)在，Pixar是世界上最成功的動(dòng)畫工作室。在經(jīng)歷了種種起伏后蘋果買下了NeXT。我重返了蘋果。我們在NeXT 發(fā)展的技術(shù)是蘋果目前復(fù)興的核心。Laurene和我有一個(gè)美好的家庭。

我相當(dāng)確信，如果我沒被蘋果解雇，這一切之中的任何事情都不會(huì)發(fā)生。這是一計(jì)苦藥，但是我想我這個(gè)病人需要它。有時(shí)候，生活象用板兒磚拍頭一樣打擊你。別失去信心。我深信當(dāng)時(shí)唯一讓我支持下去的原因就是我熱愛我所作的一切。你一定要找到你所熱愛的。這對你的事業(yè)是這樣，對你的愛人也是如此。你的事業(yè)將會(huì)占據(jù)你生活的很大一部分，你真正得到滿足的唯一途徑就是去做你堅(jiān)信是偉大的事業(yè)。而做偉大的事業(yè)的唯一途徑就是熱愛你所作的一切。如果你還沒有找到，繼續(xù)找。不要妥協(xié)。就像其他一切需要用心靈去感受的事物，當(dāng)你找到的時(shí)候，你會(huì)知道的。就象任何美滿的伴侶關(guān)系，隨著時(shí)間的推移，事情會(huì)變得更美好。所以，繼續(xù)找吧，直到你找到。不要妥協(xié)。

我的第三個(gè)故事是有關(guān)死亡的。

在我17歲的時(shí)候，我讀到一段話，大概是“如果你按照生活的每一天都好象是你生命的最后一天那樣活著，總有一天你會(huì)確信你的方向是對的。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象，從那以后，在之后的33年里，我每天早晨都會(huì)對著鏡子問自己“如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我還會(huì)去做我今天將要做的事情嗎？”而每當(dāng)連續(xù)幾天我的回答總是“不”時(shí)，我知道我需要做些改變。

記住很快我將離開人世，這是幫助我做重大決定的最重要的工具。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问虑?— 所有外界的期望，所有的自尊，所有對失敗或丟臉的恐懼 — 在死亡面前都會(huì)煙消云散，只剩下那些真正重要的東西。記住你會(huì)死去，這是我所知的避免陷入患得患失的陷阱的最好的方式。你已經(jīng)赤條條無牽掛。你沒有任何原因不去追隨你的內(nèi)心。

一年前我被診斷為癌癥。早晨7點(diǎn)半我做了掃描。掃描清楚的顯示在我的胰臟上有一個(gè)腫瘤。我都不知道胰臟是什么。醫(yī)生們告訴我?guī)缀蹩梢钥隙ㄟ@類癌癥是無法治愈的。我應(yīng)該不會(huì)活過3到6個(gè)月。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家把后事準(zhǔn)備好，這也是醫(yī)生對準(zhǔn)備去死的說法。也就是在幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間里對你的孩子說所有的事情，那些你曾經(jīng)認(rèn)為你會(huì)有下一個(gè)10年的時(shí)間去說的一切。也就是說確保一切安頓停當(dāng)，讓你的家人盡可能的從容一些。也就是你的告別。

我?guī)е@一診斷結(jié)果生活了一整天。晚上，我做了活組織檢測。他們把內(nèi)窺鏡插下我的喉嚨，穿過我的胃，進(jìn)入腸子，用一根針穿入我的胰臟從腫瘤上提取一些細(xì)胞。我被麻醉了。但是我的妻子在現(xiàn)場。她告訴我，當(dāng)他們在顯微鏡下看過之后，醫(yī)生們喊叫起來。因?yàn)檫@原來是一種極為罕見形式的胰腺癌，可以通過手術(shù)治愈。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)沒事了。

這是我面臨死亡最近的一次。我希望這也是我今后幾十年內(nèi)最近的一次。經(jīng)歷過這一切，現(xiàn)在我可以更確信的對你說這一切，死亡不僅僅是一個(gè)有用但抽象的概念。

沒人希望死。即使是想進(jìn)入天堂的人們也不想通過死亡進(jìn)入那里。但是，死亡是我們共同的目的地。沒有人能逃脫。死亡就是這樣。因?yàn)樗劳鲆苍S是生命中最好的發(fā)明。它是生命改變的媒介。它清理老的，給新的讓出路。現(xiàn)在，你們就是新的。但是，不久，你們會(huì)慢慢變成老的，然后被清理掉。原諒我這種非常直白的說法，但是，這是事實(shí)。

你的時(shí)間是有限的。所以不要浪費(fèi)你自己的時(shí)間去過別人的生活。不要被教條所禁錮，被動(dòng)接受別人思想的結(jié)果。不要讓他人意見的噪音蓋過你自己內(nèi)心的聲音。最重要的是，有勇氣去追隨你的內(nèi)心與直覺。你的內(nèi)心和直覺早已洞察了你真正想做的。其他的一切都不重要。

當(dāng)我年輕的時(shí)候，有一本優(yōu)秀的刊物叫The Whole Earth Catalog, 是我們那一代的圣經(jīng)之一。一個(gè)叫Stewart Branch的人在離這不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park用他詩人般的靈感創(chuàng)造了這一刊物。當(dāng)時(shí)是60年代末，還沒有個(gè)人電腦和桌面出版系統(tǒng)。所以，這本刊物全部是用打字機(jī)，剪刀和寶利來相機(jī)做出來的。這好像是紙上的Google,但在Google出現(xiàn)前35年：它是理想主義的，充滿了簡潔的工具與偉大的想法。

Stewart和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)出版了幾期The Whole Earth Catalog。他們最終完成了自己的使命，出了最后一期刊物，時(shí)間是70年代中期。當(dāng)時(shí)我正處在你們的年紀(jì)。在刊物封底，是一幅清晨鄉(xiāng)間路的照片。如果你樂于冒險(xiǎn)搭便車旅行就會(huì)看到這一種景象。在照片下面有一句話“保持渴望。固執(zhí)愚見?！?“Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.”)這是他們的告別語。保持渴望。固執(zhí)愚見。我一直這樣勉勵(lì)我自己?，F(xiàn)在，當(dāng)你們畢業(yè)，有新的開始，我同樣勉勵(lì)你們。

保持渴望。固執(zhí)愚見。

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