第一篇：斯坦福大學(xué)的故事

一對衣著簡陋的夫婦坐火車去了波士頓，到了目的地，他們就直接找到哈佛大學(xué)。這會兒，他們已經(jīng)走進(jìn)了校長接待室。

“對不起，我們沒有預(yù)約。但是，我們想見校長?！澳谴┲婆f的套裝的丈夫輕聲地對秘書說。

秘書眉頭微皺，說：”噢，校長，他很忙?！?/p>

”沒關(guān)系，我們可以等他?！按┲噬礁衩薏家碌钠拮游⑿χf。

幾個小時過去了，秘書沒有再搭理他們。秘書不明白這對鄉(xiāng)下夫婦和哈佛大學(xué)會有什么關(guān)系，她希望他們會氣餒，然后自己離開，可看來他們絲毫沒有想走的意思，盡管不太情愿，秘書決定還是去打擾一下校長。

”可能，他們只需要耽誤您幾分鐘?！懊貢鴮πｉL說。

校長的確很忙，他可能不會將太多的時間花費在那些他看來無關(guān)緊要的人身上。盡管如此，校長還是點頭同意會見客人。

女士告訴校長說：”我們的兒子進(jìn)入哈佛大學(xué)一年了，他愛哈佛大學(xué)。他在這里很快樂?！?/p>

”夫人，謝謝你的兒子愛哈佛大學(xué)，你知道，哈佛大學(xué)的學(xué)生都愛哈佛大學(xué)?！靶ｉL說。

”可是在一年前，他意外地死了?！?/p>

”噢，真不幸，夫人。“

”我丈夫和我想在學(xué)校的某個地方為他豎立一個紀(jì)念物。“

”非常遺憾，夫人！“校長說，”你知道，我們不可能為每一個進(jìn)入哈佛大學(xué)后死去的人豎立紀(jì)念物。如果這樣做，這哈佛大學(xué)不就成公墓了嗎？“

”噢，對不起，先生！“女士趕緊解釋，”我們并不想要豎立一尊雕像。我們只是想說我們愿給哈佛大學(xué)建座樓?！?/p>

校長的目光落在這對夫婦粗糙簡陋的著裝上，驚叫道：”一棟樓！你們知道建一棟樓要花多少錢？僅在哈佛大學(xué)的自然植物，價值就超過750萬美元！"

第二篇：喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講稿喬布斯的三個故事

Thank you.I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement(開始開端，畢業(yè)典禮)from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and 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 six 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later 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 go to college.This was the start in my life.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 okay.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 far more 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 five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 that 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 10 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--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky--I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz1 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 two billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.We'd 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.And 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 down--that I had dropped the baton（接力棒）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 world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation（動畫）studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and 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.Sometime life--Sometimes life going to hit 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--and 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--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've 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 failure--these 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 and 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（切片檢查）, where they stuck an endoscope（內(nèi)視鏡）down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines（腸）, put a needle into my pancreas（胰腺）and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated（安靜的）, 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, thankfully, 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's 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's 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 60s, 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, 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've 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：斯坦福大學(xué)演講稿

So, Dr.King said, “Not everybody can be famous.But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage.He said, “You don't have to have a college degree to serve.You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve.You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” 所以，正如馬丁路德金所說，“不是所有人都會成名。但每個人都可以變的偉大，因為偉大是通過為他人服務(wù)而界定的?！?你們當(dāng)中學(xué)歷史的人可能會知道他接下來的話，“為別人提供服務(wù)，并不一定要有大學(xué)學(xué)歷，并不一定要主謂一致，并不一定要認(rèn)識柏拉圖和亞里士多德，并不一定要會愛因斯坦的相對論，并不一定要

In a few moments, you'll all be officially Stanford's '08.不久你們就會正式成為斯坦福大學(xué)2008年的畢業(yè)生了解熱力學(xué)第二定律。你所需要的是一顆優(yōu)雅的心靈和充滿愛的靈魂?！?了。You have the heart and the smarts to go with it.And it's up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You've got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 'cause I know great things are sure to come.你們有聰明才智。你們將會決定如何利用它。說真的，你們將會如何利用它呢？你們拿到了學(xué)

You know, I've always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with you.Underneath your seats you'll find two of my favorite books.Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is my current book club selection.Our New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that book.And Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future has 位。走向社會吧，我堅信偉大的事將會發(fā)生的。reassured me I'm in the right direction.你們知道，我一直堅信，如果你和他人分享，那么事情就會變得更好。所以在我離開之前，我想和大家分享一下畢業(yè)禮物。在你們的座位底下，你們會發(fā)現(xiàn)兩本我最喜歡的書。Eckhart Tolle的A New Earth流行書俱樂部的精選品。我們的New Earth廣播已經(jīng)被下載3億次。Daniel Pink的A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 使我確定我在人生的正軌上。I really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn't pull that off!Congratulations，'08!我真的想送大家轎車，只是開不過來！祝賀大家！08年的畢業(yè)生們！

第四篇：斯坦福大學(xué)的由來

好些年前，哈佛的校長為一次錯誤判斷，付出了很大的代價。

一對老夫婦，女的穿著一套褪色的條紋棉布衣服，而她的丈夫則穿著布制的便宜西裝，也沒有事先約好，就直接拜訪哈佛的校長。

校長的秘書在片刻間就斷定這兩個鄉(xiāng)下人根本不可能與哈佛有業(yè)務(wù)來往。

先生輕聲地說：“我們要見校長?！?/p>

秘書很有禮貌地回答：“他整天都很忙！”

女士回答說：“沒關(guān)系，我們可以等?！?/p>

過了幾個鐘頭，秘書一直不答理他們，希望他們知難而退，自己走開。他們卻一直等在那里。

秘書終于決定通知校長：“也許他們跟您講幾句話就會走開。”

校長不耐煩地同意了。

校長很有尊嚴(yán)而且心不甘情不愿地面對這對夫婦。女士告訴他：“我們有一個兒子曾經(jīng)在哈佛讀過一年，他很喜歡哈佛，他在哈佛的生活很快樂。但是去年，他出了意外而身亡。我們想在校園里為他留一紀(jì)念物。”

校長并沒有感動，反而覺得很可笑，粗聲地說：“夫人，我們不能為每一位曾在哈佛就讀而后死亡的人建立雕像的。如果我們這樣做，我們的校園看起來會像墓園一樣?！?/p>

女士說：“不是，我們不是要豎立一座雕像，我們想要捐一棟大樓給哈佛?！?/p>

校長仔細(xì)地看了一下他們身上的條紋棉布衣服及粗布便宜西裝，然后吐一口氣說：“你們知不知道建一棟大樓要花多少錢？我們學(xué)校的建筑物超過750萬美元。”

這時，這位女士沉默不講話了。校長很高興，總算可以把他們打發(fā)走了。

這位女士轉(zhuǎn)向她丈夫：“只要750萬就可以建一座大樓，那我們?yōu)槭裁床唤ㄒ蛔髮W(xué)來紀(jì)念我們的兒子？”

就這樣，斯坦福夫婦離開了哈佛，到了加州，成立了斯坦福大學(xué)來紀(jì)念她們的兒子

第五篇：斯坦福大學(xué)開學(xué)演講

The following remarks were delivered by the President of Stanford University at the Opening Convocation on September 21, 2001.典禮上的致辭。

以下是斯坦福大學(xué)校長在2001年9月21日開學(xué) Parents and students of the Class of 2005: 各位家長，2005屆的同學(xué)們：

Good afternoon and welcome to Stanford University.Today, we celebrate the arrival of 1,717 new freshmen and transfer students.下午好！歡迎各位來到斯坦福大學(xué)。今天，我們在此歡迎1717名新生和轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)生的到來。

I have struggled with the format of this Convocation and the content of this speech for the past 10 days.過去的10天，我一直頗費心思，不知這個開學(xué)典禮該用什么形式，我的發(fā)言要講什么內(nèi)容。

Since the morning of Sept.11, the campus has been uncommonly quiet.Except for two memorial services, all major events were cancelled.午以來，校園里異乎尋常的安靜。除了兩個紀(jì)念性的活動以外，所有的大型活動都取消了。

9月11日上

As we considered how to start a new academic year, we decided that a Convocation was, in fact, the most fitting way to resume our normal activities.后來發(fā)現(xiàn)開學(xué)典禮實際上是恢復(fù)正常秩序的最佳方式。

我們在考慮怎樣開始新學(xué)年，Students, you represent our best hope for the future and for peace in our world.你們代表了我們世界的未來與和平的最美的希望

同學(xué)們，Americans and good-hearted people of all ages throughout the world will mourn this tragedy and carry the memory of that terrible day in their hearts.在記憶中

美國人民和全世界所有善良的人們，不論長幼，都會為這場悲劇哀悼，會將這可怕的一天永遠(yuǎn)留存

But it is your generation--more so than mine or your parents'--that will face the challenge of building a world in which such inhuman acts can never again occur.但面

臨挑戰(zhàn)的更是你們這一代，而不是我們或是你們父母這一代，你們要建設(shè)一個世界，決不容許類似慘無人道的事件再次發(fā)生。

In your time here, you will get to know people whose background, culture or beliefs are different from yours.You may find that your values--and your prejudices--are challenged.你們在這里求學(xué)的時光里，將會認(rèn)識很多人，他們的背景、文化或者信仰可能與你們迥然不同，你們會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的價值觀以及偏見將會受到挑戰(zhàn)。

I hope that you will discover a new understanding and appreciation for the pluralistic society in which we live and find constructive ways to contribute to the world.我們生活在一個多元的社會中，我希望你們能夠從新的角度來理解和欣賞它，為世界做出建設(shè)性的貢獻(xiàn)。

For each of you, this moment is the beginning of a new chapter in your life.對你們每個人而言，這一時刻意味著人生翻開了新的篇章。Let it also be a moment you remember as the initiation of your journey into the larger world, a time when you consider your role as a citizen and what your future contribution might be.從這一刻開始，你們將踏上一個更廣闊世界的旅程，這一刻你們也將開始考慮作為一個公民你們未來應(yīng)作的貢獻(xiàn)。

You will not be expected to undertake this intellectual journey on your own.We have an exceptional faculty and staff, dedicated to the search for knowledge and understanding, who will support and encourage you in your journey.? 當(dāng)然，在這樣的智慧之旅上，你們不是獨行者。我們有出色的師資和員工，他們致力于求知與理解，將會在旅途中支持和鼓勵你們。

I hope you are proud of the accomplishments that have brought you to this important transition inyour lives.你們能取得成就，達(dá)到人生中這個重要的轉(zhuǎn)折點，我希望你們能引以為豪。

I know that all of you have worked hard to get here, but let me also acknowledge the contributions of your parents, family members, teachers, mentors and friends who have supported you on your road to Stanford.Without them, the journey here would have been more difficult and less rewarding.艱辛，也不會如此卓有成效。

我知道，你們中的每個人都曾經(jīng)奮發(fā)努力才能來到這里，但我也感謝父母、家人、師長和朋友的貢獻(xiàn)，他們曾為你踏上斯坦福之路給予支持。如果沒有他們，這條路將會更加

In recognition of the tremendous support and encouragement you have received from these important people in your lives, let me invite our new students to show their appreciation with a round of applause.這些人在你們的生活中舉足輕重，為你們提供了巨大的支持和鼓勵，我謹(jǐn)邀請我們的新生以熱烈的掌聲對他們表示感謝。

?Students, I urge you to pursue your journey at Stanford with vigor.同學(xué)們，我強烈希望你們能以無比的熱情投入到斯坦福的旅程中來。I hope that this beautiful campus will provide an ideal space for contemplation and inspiration to aid you in that journey.And I hope that you will find an intellectual pursuit that excites you and engages you so much that it will keep you up at night and get you out of bed early, even on the weekend!醉其中，能在深夜苦讀，能夠黎明即起，甚至連周末都不例外！

我希望，這個美麗的校園會為你們提供一個理想空間，讓你們沉思，找到靈感，以助你們更好的旅行。我也希望，你們能夠找到一種智慧的追求，能夠激勵你們，讓你們沉

I hope that you find a passion that matches your own talents, so that you may discover, as I did, something that you can pursue for the rest of your life with enthusiasm and joy.我希望你們能找到一種激情，無愧于自己的天分，如此你們就能像我一樣，找到足以令你窮盡一生追求的目標(biāo)，而且充滿熱情，樂此不疲。

?Students, while I cannot make any predictions about what paths each of you will take in your journey at Stanford, I urge you to begin this process of intellectual discovery, just as Sen.Leland Stanford urged at the opening day ceremonies for the first freshman class in 1891: 同學(xué)們，你們在斯坦福的旅程中將踏上什么 樣的道路，我無從預(yù)言，但我強烈希望你們能夠遵循李蘭德坦福參議員在1891年的開學(xué)典禮上對第一屆新生提出的要求來開始你們探索智慧的旅程：

?A university may be founded for you;in it, you may study for many years with all the advantages of learning.All that we can do for you is to place the opportunities within your reach;it rests with you to grasp and improve them.大學(xué)可以為你們而建立；在此，你們可以利用各種優(yōu)越的學(xué)習(xí)條件進(jìn)行多年的學(xué)習(xí)。我們所能做的，只是把機會放在你們伸手可及的范圍內(nèi)；抓住機會，利用機會，得靠你們自己。

I welcome all our new students and their parents, not just to the campus but to the Stanford family.Students, I hope your time here transforms your lives, just as it has transformed the lives of so many alumni.And, finally, I hope your time here will help to provide a foundation on which you will make your contributions to humanity and to a better future for yourselves and the generations that will follow.我歡迎所有的新生和家長來到我們的校園，并融入斯坦福家族。同學(xué)們，我希望你們在此渡過的時光能改變你們的生活，正如它改變了很多以前的校友的生活那樣。最后，我希望你們在此度過的時光能夠有助于你們打下良好的基礎(chǔ)，以便你們能為人類做出貢獻(xiàn)，為自己和后代創(chuàng)造更美好的未來。