1、乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼的演讲：Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼的演讲：Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs， CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios， delivered on June 12， XXXX年.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the f
2、inest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told， I never graduated from college. This is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories.斯坦福是世界上最好的大学之一，今天能参加各位的毕业仪式，我备感荣
3、幸。我从来没有从大学毕业，说句实话，此时算是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。(笑声)今天，我想告诉你们我生命中的三个故事，并非什么了不得的大事件，只是三个小故事而已。The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事关于串起生命中的点点滴滴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
4、 out?退学是我这一生所做出的最准确的决定之一。我在里德大学待了6个月就退学了，但之后仍作为旁听生混了18个月后才终极离开。我为什么要退学呢?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 a
5、ll 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?” The
6、y 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 c
7、ollege.故事要从我出生之前开始说起。我的生母是一名年青的未婚妈妈，当时她仍是一所大学的在读研究生，于是决定把我送给其他人收养。她坚持我应该被一对念过大学的夫妇收养，所以在我出生的时候，她已经为我被一个律师和他的太太收养做好了所有的预备。但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改了主意，决定收养一个女孩。候选名单上的另外一对夫妇，也就是我的养父母，在一天午夜接到了一通电话：“ 有一个不请自来的男婴，你们想收养吗?” 他们回答：“ 当然想。” 事后，我的生母才发现我的养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而我的养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以她拒绝签署最后的收养文件，直到几个月后，我的养父母保证会把我送到大学，她的立场才有
8、所转变。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 couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and
9、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. T
10、he minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me， and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.17 年之后，我真上了大学。但由于少不更事，我选择了一所和斯坦福一样昂贵的大学，(笑声)我的父母都是工人阶级，他们倾其所有资助我的学业。在6个月之后，我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去毕竟有什么用。当时，我的人生漫无目标，也不知道大学对我能起到什么匡助，为了念书，还花光了父母毕生的积蓄，所以我决定退学。我相信
11、车到山前必有路。当时作这个决定的时候非常害怕，但现在回头去看，这是我这一生所做出的最准确的决定之一。(笑声)从我退学那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫无爱好的必修课了，我开始旁听那些看来比较有意思的科目。It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room， so I slept on the floor in friends rooms， I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent; deposits to buy food with， and I would walk the 7 miles across town
12、 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
13、 in the country. Throughout the campus every poster， every label on every drawer， was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes， I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces， abou
14、t 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 cant capture， and I found it fascinating.这件事情做起来一点都不浪漫。由于没有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上;可乐瓶的押金是5分钱，我把瓶子还回去好用押金买吃的;在每个周日的晚上，我都会步
15、行7#市区，到HareKrishna教堂吃一顿大餐，我喜欢那儿的食品。我跟随好奇心和直觉所做的事情，事后证实大多数都是极其贵重的经验。我举一个例子：那个时候，里德大学提供了全美国最好的书法教育。整个校园的每一张海报，每一个抽屉上的标签，都是漂亮的手写体。因为已经退学，不用再去上那些常规的课程，于是我选择了一个书法班，想学学怎么写出一手漂亮字。在这个班上，我学习了各种字体，如何改变不同字体组合之间的字间距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一种科学永远无法捕获的布满美感、历史感和艺术感的微妙，我发现这太有意思了。None of this had even a hope of any practical
16、 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 ha
17、d 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 t
18、hey 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.当时，我压根儿没想到这些知识会在我的生命中有什么实际运用价值;但是10 年之后，当我们设计第一款Macintosh 电脑的时候，这些东西全派上了用场。我把它们全部设计进了Mac ，这是第一台可以排出好看版式的电脑。假如当时我大学里没有旁听这门课程的话，Mac就不会提供各种字体和等间距字
19、体。自从Windows系统抄袭了Mac以后，(鼓掌大笑)所有的个人电脑都有了这些东西。假如我没有退学，我就不会去书法班旁听，而今天的个人电脑大概也就不会有精彩的版式功能。当然我在念大学的那会儿，不可能有先见之明，把那些生命中的点点滴滴都串起来;但10 年之后再回头看，生命的轨迹变得非常清晰。Again， you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in
20、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.再夸大一次，你不可能布满预见地将生命的点滴串联起来;只有在你回头看的时候，你才会发现这些点点滴滴之间的联系。所以，你要坚信，你现在所经历的将在你未来的生命中串联起来。你不得不相信某些东西，你的直觉、命运、糊口、因缘际会 恰是这种信奉让我不会失去但愿，它让我的人生
21、变得不同凡响。My second story is about love and loss.第二个故事关于爱与失去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 XXXX年 emp
22、loyees. 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
23、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.被苹果开掉是我这一生所经历过
24、的最棒的事情。我是幸运的，在年青的时候就知道了自己爱做什么。在我20岁的时候，就和沃兹在我父母的车库里开创了苹果电脑公司。我们勤奋工作，只用了10 年的时间，苹果电脑就从车库里的两个小伙子扩展成拥有XXXX年 名员工，价值达到20亿美元的企业。而在此之前的一年，我们刚推出了我们最好的产品Macintosh 电脑，当时我刚过而立之年。然后，我就被炒了鱿鱼。一个人怎么可以被他所创立的公司解雇呢?(笑声)这么说吧，跟着苹果的成长，我们请了一个原本认为很能干的家伙和我一起治理这家公司，在头一年左右，他干得还不错，但后来，我们对公司未来的远景泛起了不合，于是我们之间泛起了矛盾。因为公司的董事会站在他那一
25、边，所以在我30岁的时候，就被踢出了局。我失去了一直贯串在我整个成年糊口的重心，打击是毁灭性的。I really didnt know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing
26、 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.
27、在头几个月，我真不知道要做些什么。我觉得我让企业界的前辈们绝望了，我失去了传到我手上的指挥棒。我碰到了戴维帕卡德(普惠的创办人之一)和鲍勃诺伊斯(英特尔的创办人之一)，我向他们报歉，由于我把事情搞砸了。我成了人人皆知的失败者，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但曙光徐徐泛起，我仍是喜欢我做过的事情。在苹果电脑发生的一切涓滴没有改变我，一个比特都没有。固然被抛弃了，但我的热忱不改。我决定重新开始。I didnt see it then， but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever
28、 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 i
29、n 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 devel
30、oped at NeXT is at the heart of Apples current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.我当时没有看出来，但事实证实，我被苹果开掉是我这一生所经历过的最棒的事情。成功的沉重被凤凰涅槃的轻巧所代替，每件事情都不再那么确定，我以自由之躯进入了我整个生命当中最有创意的时期。在接下来的5 年里，我开创了一家叫做NeXT 的公司，接着是一家名叫Pixar 的公司，并且结识了后来成为我妻子的曼妙少女。Pixar 制作了世界上第一部全电脑动画片子玩具总动员，现在这家公司是世界
31、上最成功的动画制作公司之一。(掌声)后来经历一系列的事件，苹果买下了NeXT ，于是我又回到了苹果，我们在NeXT研发出的技术成为推动苹果中兴的核心动力。我和劳伦斯也拥有了美满的家庭。Im pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine， but I guess the patient needed it.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose f
32、aith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life， and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet， keep looking. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart， youll know when you find it. And， like any great relationship， it ju
