第一篇：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)學(xué)生畢業(yè)典禮上的演講全文

喬布斯：你必須找到你所愛(ài)的東西

摘要

今天能夠在世界上最優(yōu)秀的高校之一參加各位的畢業(yè)典禮，我感到十分榮幸。我本人沒(méi)能從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說(shuō)句實(shí)在話，今天要算我同大學(xué)畢業(yè)之間距離最近的一次了。現(xiàn)在，我想給諸位講三個(gè)我的人生故事。是的，沒(méi)什么大道理，只講三個(gè)故事。

本文是蘋(píng)果公司及Pixar動(dòng)畫(huà)工廠CEO史蒂夫·喬布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大學(xué)學(xué)生畢業(yè)典禮上發(fā)表的演講。

今天能夠在世界上最優(yōu)秀的高校之一參加各位的畢業(yè)典禮，我感到十分榮幸。我本人沒(méi)能從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說(shuō)句實(shí)在話，今天要算我同大學(xué)畢業(yè)之間距離最近的一次了?，F(xiàn)在，我想給諸位講三個(gè)我的人生故事。是的，沒(méi)什么大道理，只講三個(gè)故事。第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于串起你生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴。

我在里德學(xué)院念了6個(gè)月大學(xué)后就退學(xué)了，但隨后我在學(xué)校旁聽(tīng)了18個(gè)月的課，然后才真正地輟學(xué)。那么，我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事要從我出生前說(shuō)起。我的親生母親是個(gè)未婚的大學(xué)研究生，她決定把我交給別人收養(yǎng)。她很堅(jiān)持我的養(yǎng)父母也應(yīng)該是大學(xué)研究生，于是一切就這么安排好了：我出 生后由一位律師和他的妻子領(lǐng)養(yǎng)。但是就在我呱呱墜地的一刻，事情起了變化，律師夫婦突然宣布他們想收養(yǎng)的是女孩。我爸和我媽當(dāng)時(shí)正列在收養(yǎng)人候選名單上，于是他倆半夜接到一個(gè)電話說(shuō)：“我們這兒出了個(gè)意外，有個(gè)男孩，你們要收養(yǎng)嗎？”他倆說(shuō)：“當(dāng)然要。”后來(lái)，我的親生母親發(fā)現(xiàn)，我媽大學(xué)沒(méi)畢業(yè)而我爸甚至 高中都沒(méi)讀完。她于是拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)協(xié)議上簽字，直到拖了幾個(gè)月后我爸媽承諾說(shuō)將來(lái)一定送我讀大學(xué)才算同意。

17年后，我果然上了大學(xué)?？墒?，我天真地選擇了一所差不多跟斯坦福一樣貴的大學(xué)，我那勞工階層的爸媽攢下的積蓄就成了我的大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。念了6個(gè) 月后，我看不出這種生活有什么價(jià)值。對(duì)于我的人生，我不知道應(yīng)該用它來(lái)做什么，我也不知道大學(xué)生活怎么能幫我解答這個(gè)問(wèn)題。于是我決定退學(xué)，相信這條路一 定走得通。這在當(dāng)時(shí)是很恐怖的一件事，但是現(xiàn)在回首看去，這是我作過(guò)的最好的決定之一。從退學(xué)的那一分鐘起，我就可以不上無(wú)趣的必修課，而且可以去旁聽(tīng)那 些讓我感興趣的課程。

這并不是一種很浪漫的生活。我沒(méi)有宿舍住，因此要睡在朋友宿舍的地板上。我收集喝空的可樂(lè)瓶，每個(gè)瓶子換回押金5美分供我買(mǎi)食物充饑。每個(gè)星期天晚上，我會(huì)走7英里的路穿過(guò)波特蘭市區(qū)去Hare Krishna神廟去吃頓好的（譯注：Hare Krishna神廟是印度教修習(xí)場(chǎng)所，周日有靈修活動(dòng)和免費(fèi)聚餐）。我很喜歡這頓牙祭。很多在這段跟隨自己的好奇心和直覺(jué)度過(guò)的日子里學(xué)到的東西，后來(lái)都讓我獲益匪淺。且讓我給你們舉個(gè)例子：

當(dāng)時(shí)里德學(xué)院的書(shū)法課程大概是美國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)最好的了。校園里的每一幅海報(bào)、抽屜上的每一張標(biāo)簽都是用漂亮的字體手寫(xiě)而成的。由于已經(jīng)退學(xué)，用不著去上常規(guī)課，我 就參加了一門(mén)書(shū)法課，去學(xué)寫(xiě)字。我學(xué)習(xí)serif字體和san serif字體，學(xué)習(xí)不同字母組合中間隙空間的變化，學(xué)習(xí)怎么讓好看的字體在應(yīng)用中變得更好看。書(shū)法很美，歷史悠久，而且有著精妙的藝術(shù)感，為科學(xué)所無(wú)法 企及，我對(duì)它入了迷。

這些對(duì)于我的生活毫無(wú)任何實(shí)際的用途，我也從沒(méi)指望有過(guò)。但是，10年后，當(dāng)我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)Macintosh電腦的時(shí)候，我學(xué)的這些又回到我的腦海里。我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)中全面應(yīng)用了這些知識(shí)。Macintosh成為第一臺(tái)擁有漂亮字體的電腦。假如我當(dāng)年沒(méi)有旁聽(tīng)這門(mén)課程，Mac就不會(huì)有多種不同字體以及字符按 比例間隔的字形；而且由于Windows照抄了Mac的設(shè)計(jì)，也就是說(shuō)很可能就不會(huì)有今天這個(gè)樣子的個(gè)人電腦了。假如不退學(xué)，我就不會(huì)旁聽(tīng)書(shū)法課，今天的 個(gè)人電腦就不會(huì)帶有現(xiàn)在的好看的字體。當(dāng)然了，在學(xué)校的時(shí)候我不可能預(yù)見(jiàn)到這些點(diǎn)滴事件之間的聯(lián)系。但是，10年之后再看過(guò)去，這種聯(lián)系非常非常清楚。

再說(shuō)一遍。你沒(méi)法預(yù)知你人生的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴之間會(huì)有怎樣的關(guān)系；你只能在事后把它們串接起來(lái)。因此，你必須相信，這些人生的片段會(huì)在你的未來(lái)產(chǎn)生聯(lián)系。你必須相信點(diǎn)什么——你的勇氣、命運(yùn)、生活、因緣，什么都可以。這個(gè)辦法對(duì)我一直都很有效，它造就了我的人生。我的第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于愛(ài)與失敗的。

我很幸運(yùn)，在人生很早的時(shí)期就找到了我所喜愛(ài)的東西。20歲時(shí)我和Woz在我爸媽的車(chē)庫(kù)里建立了蘋(píng)果公司。我們很努力地工作，10年之后蘋(píng)果電腦由最初車(chē)庫(kù) 中的兩個(gè)人變成一家有4000多員工、價(jià)值20億美元的公司。那個(gè)時(shí)候我們最棒的產(chǎn)品——Macintosh——?jiǎng)倓偼瞥鲆荒?，而我剛?0歲。然后我就 被解雇了。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司解雇？呃，是這樣的，隨著蘋(píng)果公司的發(fā)展壯大，我們請(qǐng)了一個(gè)在我看來(lái)非常有才能的人來(lái)和我一起管理公司。第一年一 切都非常順利。但是后來(lái)我們對(duì)于未來(lái)的看法出現(xiàn)了分歧，最終我們之間起了爭(zhēng)論。爭(zhēng)執(zhí)發(fā)生之后，我們的董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊。于是，30歲時(shí)我被炒掉了。一 次非常惹人注目的解雇。一直以來(lái)都是我成年生活核心的東西，忽然不復(fù)存在了。那感覺(jué)相當(dāng)可怕。

有幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間，我完全不知道該干什么。我感到自己辜負(fù)了前輩企業(yè)家的期望——就像接力棒交到我的手里，而我卻把它丟掉了。我跟David Packard和Bob Noyce見(jiàn)面，為自己把事情弄得如此糟糕而道歉。我成了一名眾所周知的失敗者。我甚至想過(guò)離開(kāi)硅谷。然而有一種東西慢慢照亮了我：我依然愛(ài)著我所愛(ài)的東 西。發(fā)生在蘋(píng)果公司的事并沒(méi)能改變這一點(diǎn)。是的我被趕走了，但是我的愛(ài)依然還在。于是我決定重新開(kāi)始。

我當(dāng)時(shí)并不知道，實(shí)際上被蘋(píng)果解雇是當(dāng)時(shí)發(fā)生在我身上的最好的事了。事業(yè)成功所伴隨的那種沉重不見(jiàn)了，取而代之的是重回起跑線的那種新手的輕盈。對(duì)于一切我都不再確信無(wú)疑。我獲得了解放，進(jìn)而開(kāi)始了我一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時(shí)期。

在接下去的五年中，我建立了一家名叫NeXT的公司，然后又建立了Pixar公司，并與一位奇妙的女士共墮愛(ài)河，她后來(lái)成為了我的太太。Pixar創(chuàng)作出了 世界上第一部電腦動(dòng)畫(huà)電影——《玩具總動(dòng)員》?，F(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界上最成功的動(dòng)畫(huà)工作室。再后來(lái)，經(jīng)過(guò)一次戲劇性的收購(gòu)，蘋(píng)果公司買(mǎi)下了NeXT，我重返蘋(píng) 果。我們?cè)贜eXT開(kāi)發(fā)的技術(shù)現(xiàn)在成為蘋(píng)果復(fù)興事業(yè)的核心，Laurene跟我也組建了一個(gè)美好的家庭。我很確定，假如蘋(píng)果沒(méi)有開(kāi)除我，所有這一切都不會(huì)發(fā)生。這是一劑味道糟糕的苦藥，但是我想這正是病人所需。有時(shí)候，生活會(huì)用板磚砸你的頭。一定不要失去信仰。我知道，唯一支撐我前進(jìn)的東西就是：我愛(ài)我所做的事。你必須找到你所愛(ài)的東西。這 句話不僅適用于你的工作也同樣適用于你的戀愛(ài)。你的工作將構(gòu)成你生活的大部分，而唯一能讓你真正從工作中得到滿足的辦法就是愛(ài)你所做的事。假如你還沒(méi)有找 到它，繼續(xù)找吧。不要停下腳步。同所有與心靈相關(guān)的東西一樣，當(dāng)你找到它時(shí)，你會(huì)知道的。而且就像那些美好的愛(ài)情一樣，它會(huì)隨著歲月的增長(zhǎng)而越加醇美。所 以，繼續(xù)找吧，直到你把它找到。不要停下腳步。我的第三個(gè)故事是關(guān)于死亡的。

我17歲那年讀到過(guò)一句話，大意是這樣：“假如你把每一天都當(dāng)成你在人世的最后一天來(lái)過(guò)，總有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己是對(duì)的。”這話給我留下了印象。自那時(shí) 起，33年來(lái)的每個(gè)早晨，我都對(duì)著鏡子自問(wèn)：“假如今天是我這輩子最后的一天，我還會(huì)做我今天要做的這些事嗎？”每當(dāng)連續(xù)很多天答案都是“不會(huì)”的時(shí)候，我就知道有什么東西需要改變了。

記住自己將不久于人世，這是我在作出人生重大選擇時(shí)的一個(gè)最重要的參考工具。因?yàn)閹缀跛械囊磺小磺型饨鐚?duì)你的期待、一切榮耀、一切對(duì)丟臉和失敗的恐懼 ——它們?cè)诿鎸?duì)死亡的時(shí)候都黯然失色，剩下的只有真正重要的東西。在我看來(lái)，記住你終將死去是幫助你避開(kāi)“我可能會(huì)失去xxx”思維陷阱的最佳方法。你已 經(jīng)是赤裸裸的了。沒(méi)有理由不追隨自己的心靈去生活。

大約一年前，我被查出患有癌癥。早上7點(diǎn)半，我做了一次掃描，結(jié)果很清楚地顯示出我的胰腺里有一個(gè)腫瘤。當(dāng)時(shí)我連胰腺是什么都不知道。大夫們告訴我，差不多 可以肯定這是一種無(wú)法治愈的癌，我估計(jì)還能再活三到六個(gè)月。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家去，把事情都做個(gè)了結(jié)。這是醫(yī)生的行話，它意味著料理后事，意味著在接下去 的幾個(gè)月里把你10年內(nèi)要對(duì)孩子們說(shuō)的話提前說(shuō)完，意味著為了讓你的家人日后好過(guò)，把每一件事都作好安排，意味著對(duì)這個(gè)世界說(shuō)再見(jiàn)。一整天我的腦 子里只有這個(gè)判決。當(dāng)天晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查：他們把一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過(guò)我的胃一直進(jìn)到腸子里，用一枚探針伸進(jìn)胰臟取得了一些組織細(xì) 胞。我被麻醉了，但是當(dāng)時(shí)在場(chǎng)的妻子告訴我，醫(yī)生們把這些細(xì)胞放到顯微鏡下觀察之后都驚叫起來(lái)，因?yàn)樗麄儼l(fā)現(xiàn)這是一種非常罕見(jiàn)的、通過(guò)手術(shù)可以治愈的胰腺 癌。后來(lái)我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)痊愈了。

迄今為止，這是我距離死亡最近的一次，希望這也是未來(lái)幾十年里我離死亡最近的一次。經(jīng)歷了這件事，死亡對(duì)我而言已經(jīng)不再只是一個(gè)有用而僅限純粹想象的概念，因此我可以更加確信地跟你們談起我對(duì)死亡的看法：

沒(méi)有人想要死。就算那些想進(jìn)天堂的人也不想為此去死。但是死亡是我們共同的終點(diǎn)。從未有人逃離過(guò)死亡。而這是合理的，因?yàn)樗劳瞿耸巧詈玫陌l(fā)明。它是生命 的代謝催化劑，去除老朽，迎接新鮮?，F(xiàn)在新鮮的是你們，但是用不了太久，某天你們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己已經(jīng)漸漸變得老朽，將被取代。抱歉說(shuō)得這么夸張，但是這是真 理。

我們的時(shí)間是有限的，所以請(qǐng)不要浪費(fèi)時(shí)間去過(guò)你不想要的生活。不要被教條所迷惑——它誘使你按照他人的思維定式生活。不要讓別人發(fā)出的聲音遮蓋住你自己的心聲。最重要的是，要有勇氣追隨你的心靈和直覺(jué)。它們會(huì)知道你真正想要做一個(gè)什么樣的人。其他的一切都是次要的。當(dāng)我還很年輕的時(shí)候，有一本刊物名叫《環(huán)球百科目錄》，是我那一代人必讀的圣典之一。它是由一個(gè)叫Stewart Brand的人在距此不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park出版的，此人以他富于詩(shī)意的工作為這份刊物注入了生命。那是在60年代末，個(gè)人電腦和桌面出版還遠(yuǎn)未發(fā)明，因此這本刊物完全是由打字機(jī)、剪刀和拍 立得相機(jī)做出來(lái)的。它就像平裝本的Google，不過(guò)是在Google誕生的35年前：一樣是那么的理想主義，充滿著簡(jiǎn)潔的工具和了不起的洞見(jiàn)。

Stewart 和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)出版了數(shù)期《環(huán)球百科目錄》，隨后刊物的生命走到了盡頭，他們就出版了最終的一期。那是在70年代中期了，我正是你們這個(gè)年紀(jì)。在最后一期封 底，是一幅清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片——假如你搭便車(chē)上路探險(xiǎn)，就會(huì)看到這種景色。在照片下方寫(xiě)著這樣的話：“饑以求知，癡而求真?！蔽乙恢毕Ｍ约耗茏龅竭@ 樣?，F(xiàn)在，在你們即將畢業(yè)的時(shí)刻，我用這句話來(lái)祝福你們。

饑以求知，癡而求真。謝謝大家。

第二篇：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

喬布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大學(xué)2005年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

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.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 o

f 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 pol

aroid 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.Thank you all very much

第三篇：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

今天我能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮讓我感到很榮幸，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上一流的大學(xué)之一。我從來(lái)沒(méi)有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說(shuō)真的，今天可能是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天。今天我將向你們講述我生活中三個(gè)故事。這三個(gè)故事并不是什么大不了的事情，只是我生活中的三個(gè)故事而已。

第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于怎樣把生活中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴都串聯(lián)起來(lái)。

我在里德學(xué)院讀了6個(gè)月的書(shū)之后就退學(xué)了，但是在我真正放棄之前大約18個(gè)月的時(shí)間里，我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校聽(tīng)課。那么我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

這個(gè)故事要從我出生的時(shí)候講起。我的親生母親是一個(gè)未婚的年輕的研究生。她決定把我送給別人收養(yǎng)，她非常想讓一個(gè)大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)我。在我就要出生的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)把一切準(zhǔn)備工作做好了，希望我被一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。唯獨(dú)有一件事沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)備好：在我出生的那一刻，那對(duì)律師夫婦在最后一分鐘才決定，他們其實(shí)想要一個(gè)女孩。所以排在候選名單上的我的養(yǎng)父母，在半夜突然接到一個(gè)電話：“我們這里剛剛生了個(gè)意料之外的男嬰，你們想要他嗎？”他們回答說(shuō)道：“當(dāng)然想要！”但是我的親生母親很快就發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母沒(méi)有上過(guò)大學(xué)，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連高中都沒(méi)讀完。于是她拒絕在這份收養(yǎng)合同上簽字。在幾個(gè)月之后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證一定會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，這個(gè)時(shí)候她才勉強(qiáng)同意讓他們收養(yǎng)我。

在17歲那年，我真的去上了大學(xué)。但是我當(dāng)時(shí)很幼稚地選擇了一所費(fèi)用貴得能和你們斯坦福大學(xué)相媲美的學(xué)校。我的父母都是工薪階層，他們幾乎把他們一生所有的積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。在入學(xué)6個(gè)月之后，我已經(jīng)看不到在這里上學(xué)的價(jià)值所在。我當(dāng)時(shí)并不知道我真正想要的到底是什么，我也不知道這所大學(xué)怎么能幫我找到我想要的答案。但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改敢簧娜糠e蓄。因此我決定退學(xué)，并相信這是一個(gè)明智的決定。不可否認(rèn)，其實(shí)我當(dāng)時(shí)的確是非常害怕的，但是現(xiàn)在看來(lái)，那可真是我這一生中作出的最好的一個(gè)決定。就在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻，我終于可以不再去讀那些令我厭煩的課程了。然后我就可以去學(xué)那些我感興趣的課程了。

可是事情并不如想象的那么浪漫。我不能再住在宿舍里了，所以我就只能睡在朋友家的地板上，靠回收空可樂(lè)瓶的5美分退費(fèi)買(mǎi)吃的。在周日的晚上，我要穿過(guò)這個(gè)城市到Hare Krishna神廟（位于紐約布魯克林下城—編者注），走上7英里的路只是為了吃頓好點(diǎn)的飯，這可是一個(gè)星期里最好的一頓飯，我喜歡那里的飯菜。

追隨我的好奇心和與直覺(jué)，我所投入過(guò)的大部分的事情，后來(lái)看來(lái)都是無(wú)比珍貴的。我在這里給你們舉個(gè)例子吧：那時(shí)候里德學(xué)院的美術(shù)字課程可能是全美最好的美術(shù)字課。這所大學(xué)里的每份海報(bào)，每個(gè)抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全部都是最漂亮的美術(shù)字體。因?yàn)槲彝藢W(xué)了，所以我不必去上那些正規(guī)的課程，可以去學(xué)學(xué)那些美術(shù)字課程，學(xué)習(xí)怎樣才能寫(xiě)出漂亮的美術(shù)字。我學(xué)會(huì)了襯線字體和無(wú)襯線字體，我還學(xué)會(huì)如何改變不同字母之間的空間距離，還學(xué)會(huì)了如何去做出最好的印刷式樣。那種美妙的藝術(shù)感和歷史感，是科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)都不可能做到的，我發(fā)現(xiàn)那真的是很讓人著迷。

在當(dāng)時(shí)看來(lái)，這些東西在我生命中好像沒(méi)有什么實(shí)際的用處，但只在十年之后，當(dāng)我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)麥金塔電腦的時(shí)候,我發(fā)覺(jué)了這些東西的用處。我把當(dāng)時(shí)我學(xué)到的那些東西全

部都用到了麥金塔的設(shè)計(jì)上。那是第一臺(tái)有非常漂亮的印刷字體的電腦。如果我當(dāng)時(shí)沒(méi)有退學(xué)的話，就沒(méi)有機(jī)會(huì)去參加那個(gè)我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程，麥金塔也就不會(huì)有那么多豐富的美術(shù)字體和那些美妙的字體間距。因?yàn)閃indows只是照抄了麥金塔，所以現(xiàn)在大家使用的個(gè)人電腦才會(huì)有那么多美妙的字體。

當(dāng)然在上大學(xué)的時(shí)候，我還不能前瞻性地把那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴聯(lián)系起來(lái)，但是在十年之后，在回顧這一切的時(shí)候，真的是豁然開(kāi)朗了。

我再說(shuō)一次，你在展望未來(lái)的時(shí)候可能還不能將那些點(diǎn)滴的片段串聯(lián)起來(lái)；只有在你回顧的時(shí)候才能將它們串聯(lián)起來(lái)。所以你一定要相信這些片斷會(huì)在你未來(lái)某一天里全部串聯(lián)起來(lái)。在你的生命中你必須相信某些東西：你的直覺(jué)、命運(yùn)、生命、緣分……在這個(gè)過(guò)程中從來(lái)都沒(méi)有令我失望過(guò)，而且讓我的生命更加與眾不同。

我第二個(gè)要講的故事是關(guān)于愛(ài)和失去。

我真的是非常的幸運(yùn)，在很早的時(shí)候就找到了我感興趣的那些東西。沃茲和我在我們20多歲的時(shí)候就在我父母的車(chē)庫(kù)里開(kāi)創(chuàng)了蘋(píng)果公司。我們很努力地工作，10年之后，這個(gè)公司從只有兩個(gè)窮小子發(fā)展到擁有4000多名員工、市值超過(guò)20億美元的大公司。在這家公司成立的第9年里，我們發(fā)布了最棒的產(chǎn)品，那就是麥金塔。那年我剛好30歲。然后，我被炒魷魚(yú)了。

你怎么可能被你自己一手創(chuàng)立起來(lái)的公司給炒魷魚(yú)了呢？嗯,在蘋(píng)果公司快速發(fā)展的時(shí)期，我們雇用了一個(gè)我認(rèn)為非常有天分的人和我一起管理這家公司。在開(kāi)始的幾年里，蘋(píng)果公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)得非常好，但是后來(lái)我們?cè)诠疚磥?lái)的發(fā)展上發(fā)生了分歧，最終我們吵了起來(lái)。當(dāng)我們吵得很兇的時(shí)候，董事會(huì)站了出來(lái)，并且站到了他的那邊。所以在我30歲的時(shí)候，我被炒了魷魚(yú)。在眾目睽睽之下我被蘋(píng)果開(kāi)除了。在而立之年，這絕對(duì)是毀滅性的打擊。我生命的全部支柱都離我而去。

在被開(kāi)除的最初幾個(gè)月里，我真是不知道自己該做些什么。我覺(jué)得我很令上一代的那些創(chuàng)業(yè)家們失望，我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我和創(chuàng)辦惠普的大衛(wèi)·帕克、創(chuàng)辦英特爾的鮑勃·諾伊斯見(jiàn)面，并想向他們道歉，因?yàn)槲野咽虑榕煤茉愀?。但是我漸漸地發(fā)現(xiàn)希望，因?yàn)槲胰匀幌矏?ài)我從事的那些事情。在蘋(píng)果公司發(fā)生的那些不愉快的事情絲毫沒(méi)有改變我的想法，一點(diǎn)也沒(méi)有改變。我被蘋(píng)果拋棄了，但我仍然鐘愛(ài)我所從事的事情。所以我決定東山再起，從頭再來(lái)。我當(dāng)時(shí)并沒(méi)有覺(jué)察,?但是事后證明，被蘋(píng)果公司炒魷魚(yú)是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。因?yàn)?，作為一個(gè)成功者的負(fù)重感被作為一個(gè)創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感所代替，對(duì)任何事情都不再那么特別看重了。這讓我感覺(jué)很自由，我進(jìn)入了生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個(gè)階段。在接下來(lái)的五年里，我創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)新的公司名字叫NeXT，同時(shí)還創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)叫皮克斯的公司,?然后和一個(gè)后來(lái)成為我妻子的美麗女人相識(shí)。而皮克斯制作出了世界上第一個(gè)用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫(huà)電影—《玩具總動(dòng)員》，皮克斯現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是世界上最成功的電腦動(dòng)畫(huà)制作工作室。后來(lái)，蘋(píng)果收購(gòu)了NeXT，之后我就又回到了蘋(píng)果公司。我們?cè)贜eXT公司創(chuàng)新出來(lái)的技術(shù)對(duì)蘋(píng)果的今天發(fā)展起到至關(guān)重要的作用。而且，我還和勞倫斯一起建立了一個(gè)幸福美滿的家庭。

我可以非?？隙?，如果當(dāng)初我不被蘋(píng)果開(kāi)除的話，那么后來(lái)的這些事情一件也不會(huì)發(fā)生的。良藥確實(shí)苦口，但是我想病人需要這個(gè)藥。有些時(shí)候，上帝會(huì)跟你開(kāi)一個(gè)很大的玩笑。

這時(shí)不要失去信仰。我確信，我熱愛(ài)我所做的事情，是這些年來(lái)支持我繼續(xù)走下去的唯一理由。你需要去找到你所愛(ài)的東西。對(duì)于工作是如此，對(duì)于你的愛(ài)人也是如此。你的工作將會(huì)占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒(méi)有找到，那么繼續(xù)找，不要停下來(lái)。只要全心全意地去找，在你找到的時(shí)候，你的心就會(huì)告訴你的。這就像任何深厚的關(guān)系，隨著歲月的流逝只會(huì)越來(lái)越緊密。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它為止，千萬(wàn)不要停下來(lái)！

我講的第三個(gè)故事是關(guān)于死亡的。

在我17歲的時(shí)候，我讀過(guò)這樣一句話：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命中最后一天去生活的話，那么有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的?！边@句話給我留下了深刻的印象。從那個(gè)時(shí)候開(kāi)始，在過(guò)去的33年里，我每天早晨都會(huì)對(duì)著鏡子問(wèn)自己：“如果今天是你生命中的最后一天，你會(huì)不會(huì)完成你今天想做的事情呢？”如果答案連續(xù)很多天都是“不”的話，我知道自己需要改變一些事情了。

“記住你終將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它幫我指明了生命的方向。因?yàn)閹缀跛械氖虑椋ㄋ衼?lái)自外部的期望、所有的榮譽(yù)、所有的驕傲、所有對(duì)困難和失敗的恐懼，所有的這些在死亡面前都會(huì)消失，而留下來(lái)的那些才是真正重要的東西。你有時(shí)候會(huì)想你將會(huì)失去某些東西，“記住你終將死去”是我所知道的避免這些思維陷阱的最好辦法。你已經(jīng)什么都沒(méi)有了，沒(méi)有理由不去聽(tīng)從自己內(nèi)心的聲音。

大約在一年以前，我被診斷出了癌癥。我那天早晨七點(diǎn)半做了一個(gè)體檢，體檢報(bào)告清楚地顯示在我的胰腺上有一個(gè)腫瘤。說(shuō)實(shí)話當(dāng)時(shí)我都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生告訴我說(shuō)這很可能是一種無(wú)法治愈的癌癥，我只能活三到六個(gè)月的時(shí)間。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家，然后準(zhǔn)備好一切后事，那是醫(yī)生對(duì)臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)程序。那意味著你將要把未來(lái)十年對(duì)你小孩說(shuō)的話在幾個(gè)月里面說(shuō)完；那意味著把每件事情都安排好，讓你的家人會(huì)盡可能輕松地生活；那意味著你要說(shuō)“再見(jiàn)了”。我拿著那個(gè)診斷書(shū)過(guò)了整整一天，當(dāng)天晚上我作了一個(gè)切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去，通過(guò)我的胃，然后進(jìn)入我的腸子，用一根針從我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個(gè)細(xì)胞。當(dāng)時(shí)我是被麻醉的，但是我的妻子在那里，后來(lái)她告訴我，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡下觀察到這些細(xì)胞的時(shí)候他們歡呼起來(lái)，因?yàn)檫@些細(xì)胞竟然是一種非常罕見(jiàn)的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥細(xì)胞。之后我就做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在我很好。

那個(gè)時(shí)候是我最接近死亡的時(shí)刻，我希望這也是我以后的幾十年里最接近的一次。從死亡線上我又活了過(guò)來(lái)，現(xiàn)在，比起只把死亡當(dāng)成一種想象中的概念，我可以更肯定地對(duì)你們說(shuō)：沒(méi)有人愿意死，即使人們想上天堂，也沒(méi)有人愿意去死。但是死亡是我們每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)。從來(lái)沒(méi)有人能夠逃脫它。其實(shí)也應(yīng)該是如此，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡芫褪巧凶畎舻囊环N“發(fā)明”。它是生命交替的媒介。它將老的清除，以便給年輕的讓路。你們現(xiàn)在是年輕的，但是從現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始過(guò)不了多久，你們將會(huì)逐漸變成老的然后被送離人生舞臺(tái)。我很抱歉說(shuō)得很戲劇性，但是這確實(shí)是真實(shí)的。

你的時(shí)間是有限的，所以不要浪費(fèi)時(shí)間活在別人的生活里。不要被教條束縛，那意味著你將按別人的想法生活。不要讓其他人的觀點(diǎn)弱化你內(nèi)心的聲音。還有最重要的一點(diǎn)就是，要有勇氣去聽(tīng)從來(lái)自?xún)?nèi)心和直覺(jué)的指示—你自己其實(shí)已經(jīng)知道你真正想要成為什么樣的人，而其他所有的一切都是次要的。

當(dāng)我年輕的時(shí)候，有一本很棒的雜志，叫做《地球全目錄》。它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。它是由一個(gè)叫斯圖爾特·布蘭德的人在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的門(mén)洛帕克創(chuàng)辦的，他詩(shī)人一般神奇地將這本書(shū)帶到了這個(gè)世界。那是在20世紀(jì)60年代后期，當(dāng)時(shí)個(gè)人電腦還沒(méi)有出現(xiàn)，因此這本書(shū)全部是用打字機(jī)、剪刀還有一次成影照相機(jī)做出來(lái)的。那樣子是有點(diǎn)像今天的谷歌的“平裝版”，那是在谷歌出現(xiàn)35年以前：這本雜志是理想主義的，其實(shí)這其中有許多巧妙的工具和偉大的想法。

斯圖爾特和他的伙伴出版了好幾期《地球全目錄》。當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時(shí)候，他們出了最后一期。那是在20世紀(jì)70年代的中期，我正像你們一樣年輕。在最后一期的封底上是清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片（如果你有冒險(xiǎn)精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的），在照片之下有這樣一段話：“求知若饑，虛心若愚?！?這是他們停止發(fā)刊的告別語(yǔ)?！扒笾麴?，虛心若愚?！蔽铱偸窍Ｍ约耗軌蚰菢樱F(xiàn)在，在你們即將畢業(yè)，開(kāi)始新的旅程的時(shí)候，我也希望你們能這樣。

求知若饑，虛心若愚。

非常感謝你們！

第四篇：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(英文)

喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(英文)New York: 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, it's 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 somethingI 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 creationa 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 downI 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 returned 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 everythingthese 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 it's 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.Thank you all very much.

第五篇：史蒂夫·喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

史蒂夫·喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

今天，能在這所世界上最好的大學(xué)之一參加你們的畢業(yè)典禮，我感到很榮幸。說(shuō)實(shí)話，我自己從來(lái)沒(méi)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。在此，我只想向你們講述我生命中的三個(gè)故事。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。

第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴的經(jīng)歷聯(lián)系起來(lái)。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。但是在那以后的十八個(gè)月里，我還留在學(xué)校里。十八個(gè)月后，我才徹底地離開(kāi)那里。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事要從我出生的時(shí)候講起。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。她當(dāng)時(shí)非常希望我能被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)，所以在我出生的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)聯(lián)系好了一個(gè)律師的家庭來(lái)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。所以醫(yī)院連夜聯(lián)系了我現(xiàn)在的養(yǎng)父母。他們說(shuō)：“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(lái)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(lái)沒(méi)有上過(guò)大學(xué)，我的養(yǎng)父甚至從未完成高中學(xué)業(yè)。經(jīng)過(guò)幾個(gè)月的協(xié)商，我的養(yǎng)父母許諾一定會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，我的生母這才最終妥協(xié)了。

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(ài)的事業(yè)。Woz（蘋(píng)果公司的另外一個(gè)創(chuàng)始人）和我在二十歲的時(shí)候就在我父母的車(chē)庫(kù)里面開(kāi)創(chuàng)了蘋(píng)果公司。我們拼命工作，十年之后，蘋(píng)果公司發(fā)展成一個(gè)市值20億美元，擁有超過(guò)四千名員工的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我們發(fā)布了最偉大的產(chǎn)品－－Macintosh電腦，我也快要到三十歲了。而就在那一年，我被解雇了。有些人一定不理解，你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢？事情是這樣的。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。但是后來(lái)我們對(duì)公司遠(yuǎn)景規(guī)劃發(fā)生了分歧，最終我們吵了起來(lái)。當(dāng)我們的分歧越來(lái)越大的時(shí)候，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊。所以，在三十歲的時(shí)候，我被解雇了。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(lái)說(shuō)真是毀滅性的打擊。

在最初的幾個(gè)月里，我真的是不知所措。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了，我覺(jué)得自己辜負(fù)了企業(yè)家前輩們對(duì)我的期望。我約David Pack和Bob Boyce見(jiàn)面，并試圖向他們道歉。輿論和媒體給我很大壓力，我甚至有過(guò)離開(kāi)硅谷的念頭。但是不久以后，我漸漸振作起來(lái)并看到了希望，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己仍然深深喜愛(ài)著我在行業(yè)做的事情。蘋(píng)果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒(méi)有改變這些，一點(diǎn)也沒(méi)有。我被解雇了，但是我仍然對(duì)這份事業(yè)情有獨(dú)鐘。所以我決定從頭再來(lái)。

我當(dāng)時(shí)并沒(méi)有覺(jué)察，但是事后證明，從蘋(píng)果公司被炒是我這輩

子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。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(méi)有了，我再次感受到了作為一個(gè)創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松，未來(lái)再次變得不可知而充滿魅力。這讓我覺(jué)得重獲自由，進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個(gè)階段。

在接下來(lái)的五年里，我創(chuàng)立了兩家新的公司，NeXT和Pixar，并和我后來(lái)的妻子，迷人的Laurence相愛(ài)。Pixar制作了世界上第一個(gè)用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫(huà)電影－－《玩具總動(dòng)員》。Pixar現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。1996年，蘋(píng)果公司收購(gòu)了NeXT，我又回到了蘋(píng)果公司。我們?cè)贜eXT開(kāi)發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋(píng)果公司的復(fù)興之中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵作用。我還和Laurence一起建立了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。

我可以非常確定地說(shuō)，如果我不被蘋(píng)果公司開(kāi)除的話，這一切都不會(huì)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。這劑“良藥”的味道實(shí)在是太苦了，但是我相信，良藥苦口利于病。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。但是面對(duì)挫折，千萬(wàn)不要失去信心。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(wú)比鐘愛(ài)。你需要去找到你所愛(ài)的東西。對(duì)于工作如此，對(duì)于你的愛(ài)人也是如此。你的工作將會(huì)占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。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。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒(méi)有找到你最?lèi)?ài)的工作，那么繼續(xù)找，不要停下來(lái)，全心全意地去找。當(dāng)你找到的時(shí)候，你就會(huì)知道這一切都是值得的。就像任何真誠(chéng)的關(guān)系，隨著歲月的流逝只會(huì)越來(lái)越緊密。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。還有最重要的是，你要有勇氣去跟隨你的心和你的直覺(jué)－－它們?cè)谀撤N程度上知道你真正想要成為一個(gè)什么樣的人。所有其他的事情都是次要的。

當(dāng)我年輕的時(shí)候，有一本叫做《地球目錄》（The Whole Earth Catalog）的雜志，它被我們那一代人視為像《圣經(jīng)》一樣的讀物。它的作者叫Stewart Brand，就住在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park，他象詩(shī)一般神奇地將這本書(shū)帶到了這個(gè)世界。那是六十年代后期，在個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，所以這本書(shū)全部是用打字機(jī)，裁紙刀還有快速成像相機(jī)做成的。完全可以把這本雜志比喻成“包在書(shū)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。

Stewart和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)出版了幾期的“地球目錄”，但隨著時(shí)代變遷，它注定要退出歷史舞臺(tái)。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。在最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片。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(chē)到下一個(gè)目的地，那是多么美妙。在照片之下有這樣一段話：“Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish”[2]，作為這本精彩雜志的?？?zèng)言?！癝tay Hungry.Stay Foolish“也成了我的座右銘，我總是希望自己能夠那樣?，F(xiàn)在，在你們即將畢業(yè)，開(kāi)始新的旅程，我把這句話送給你們，希望你們能夠：

Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.謝謝大家。

注記：

[1] Serif字體和Sans Serif字體是字體的兩大基本分類(lèi)。在Serif字體中，字的筆畫(huà)開(kāi)始及結(jié)束的地方有額外的裝飾；與之相反，Sans Serif字體沒(méi)有在筆畫(huà)末端的修飾。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。而Sans Serif字體則多用于標(biāo)題中。

[2] 我花了很多時(shí)間也沒(méi)有能夠找到對(duì)“Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish”的簡(jiǎn)潔明了的中文翻譯。理解這句話需要結(jié)合這篇演講的全文，Steve Jobs的經(jīng)歷以及蘋(píng)果公司著名的“Think Different”廣告詞?！癝tay Hungry”是說(shuō)要永遠(yuǎn)不滿足已經(jīng)取得的成就，奮斗不息?！癝tay Foolish”是說(shuō)不要被別人的聲音所影響，要相信自己，走自己的路，不要為取悅別人而活著。也許開(kāi)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)帶你走向偉大的成功。