第一篇：喬布斯在斯坦福演講稿

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement(開始，發(fā)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（沒什么了不起的）.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(不速之客)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（未婚的，沒有結婚的）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（突然出現(xiàn)）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 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（變溫和，變寬厚）a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was the start of 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(工人階級的，勞動階級的)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 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 5￠ deposits（定金）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（困惑，絆倒）into by following my curiosity and intuition（直覺，直覺知識）turned out to be priceless（無價的）later on.Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy(書法，筆跡)instruction（教導，說明，指令）in the country.Throughout the campus every poster（海報，廣告，招貼）, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphied.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(襯線體)and san serif typefaces（無襯線字體）, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography（排印，印刷格式，印刷樣式）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(成比例地，相稱地，適當?shù)?spaced fonts（字體）.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 something — your gut(膽量，直覺), destiny（命運）, life, karma（因緣，因果報應）, 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（用久了的，平凡的）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.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（愿景，想象）of the future began to diverge（分歧，偏離）and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors（董事會，理事會）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(災難性的，毀滅性的).I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs(企業(yè)家)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(裸露的，赤裸裸的).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(胰腺).I didn't even know what a pancreas was.The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable（無藥可救的，不能治愈的）, 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（圓滿完成的，守口如瓶的）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(活組織檢查), where they stuck an endoscope（內窺鏡，內診鏡）down my throat(喉嚨), through my stomach and into my intestines（腸）, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated（處于鎮(zhèn)靜狀態(tài)）, 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（發(fā)明，創(chuàng)造）of Life.It is Life's change agent(是生命的轉化媒介).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（目錄，產(chǎn)品目錄，編目。全球目錄）, which was one of the bibles（圣經(jīng)）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（詩歌的，詩意的）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（顯膠片照相機）.It was sort of like Google in paperback（平裝本，平裝書）form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with（充滿著）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（完畢）, 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(搭便車，搭車旅行)on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell（告別，辭別）message as they signed off（停止活動，結束）.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew（adv.重新，再）, 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世界上最優(yōu)秀的大學的畢業(yè)典禮。我從來沒有從大學畢業(yè)。說實話，今天是我最離大學畢業(yè)最近的一次。今天，我想給你們講我生活中的三個故事。就是這樣。沒什么大不了的。只是三個故事。

第一個故事是關于把我生活中過去的點點滴滴聯(lián)系起來。

在過了最初的六個月后，我便從Reed學院輟學了。但是，在我真正離開那里前，我又呆了大約18個月。我為什么輟學呢？

這一切在我出生前就開始了。我的親生母親是一個年輕的未婚大學生。她決定把我送給別人收養(yǎng)。她堅持認為，我應該被有大學學歷的人收養(yǎng)。所以，一切本來都已經(jīng)安排好了，我將會被一個律師和他的妻子收養(yǎng)。但是當我出生以后，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電話，“我們有一個意料之外的男嬰。你們想要他嗎？”他們回答說：“當然。”我的親生母親后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有從大學畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父高中都沒有畢業(yè)。她拒絕在最終的領養(yǎng)文件上簽字。過了幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母向她保證我將來會上大學后，她才同意了。

17年后，我確實上大學了。但是我天真的選擇了一個幾乎和斯坦福一樣昂貴的學院。我工薪階層的父母的所有積蓄都花在了我的學費上。六個月后，我看不到這有任何價值。我不知道我的一生想要做什么。我不知道大學如何能幫我找到這一問題的答案。而且我在這里花費著我父母一生所有的積蓄。所以，我決定輟學，而且相信所有的這一切都會解決的。在當時，這個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。讓我給你們舉一個例子：

那時，Reed學院提供了當時可能是全國最好的書法課程。在校園里，每一個海報，每一個抽屜上的標簽都是優(yōu)美的手寫字。因為我輟學了，不用再去上正常的課程，我決定上書法課，去學學如何寫書法。我學會了serif和sanserif字體，學會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，具有科學無法獲得的藝術的精巧。我發(fā)現(xiàn)這一切令人著迷。

對書法的學習看起來沒有任何機會在我的一生中得到實際的應用。但是，10年后，當我們設計第一臺Macintosh電腦時，這一切就又重現(xiàn)了。我們把字體的設計都放入了Mac，第一個有著優(yōu)美字體的電腦。如果我沒有在學校學書法課程，Mac就不可能有多種字體或者按適當比例間隔的字體。因為 Windows只是照搬了Mac，有可能沒有任何個人電腦會有這樣的字體。如果我沒有輟學，我就不會選那個書法課程，個人電腦就有可能沒有今天這樣優(yōu)美的字體。當然，當我在大學時，把我當時的一點一滴串起來并不能預測到我后來的結果。但是，當10年后再回頭看，這一切非常，非常清楚。

當然，你不能把事情聯(lián)系在一起而預測未來。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點滴滴在將來一定會以某種形式聯(lián)系起來。你一定要相信一些事情— 你的直覺、命運、生命、因緣，無論是什么。這一方法從沒有讓我失望過。它對我的生活至關重要。

我的第二個故事是有關熱愛與失去。

我很幸運，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，蘋果從一個只有我們兩個人的車庫公司成長到20億美金，有4000員工的公司。當時我剛剛滿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，當蘋果公司逐漸發(fā)展，我們雇了一個我認為非常有才華的人來和我一起運作公司。第一年，都還不錯。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。當我們鬧翻的時候，董事會站在了他的一邊。結果是，我在30歲的時候被踢出了公司，而且是以盡人皆知的方式被踢出。我成年以來整個生活的中心沒有了，這是毀滅性的。

有幾個月的時間，我真的不知道做什么好。我覺得我辜負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。我被拒絕了，但是，我仍舊愛著。所以，我決定重新開始。

在那時我并沒有認識到，但是實際上，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，讓我進入了一生中最有創(chuàng)造性的一段時間。

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畫電影，玩具總動員。現(xiàn)在，Pixar是世界上最成功的動畫工作室。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)展的技術是蘋果目前復興的核心。Laurene和我有一個美好的家庭。

我相當確信，如果我沒被蘋果解雇，這一切之中的任何事情都不會發(fā)生。這是一計苦藥，但是我想我這個病人需要它。有時候，生活象用板兒磚拍頭一樣打擊你。別失去信心。我深信當時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，當你找到的時候，你會知道的。就象任何美滿的伴侶關系，隨著時間的推移，事情會變得更美好。所以，繼續(xù)找吧，直到你找到。不要妥協(xié)。

我的第三個故事是有關死亡的。

在我17歲的時候，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，我每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己“如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我還會去做我今天將要做的事情嗎？”而每當連續(xù)幾天我的回答總是“不”時，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。因為幾乎任何事情 — 所有外界的期望，所有的自尊，所有對失敗或丟臉的恐懼 — 在死亡面前都會煙消云散，只剩下那些真正重要的東西。記住你會死去，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心。

一年前我被診斷為癌癥。早晨7點半我做了掃描。掃描清楚的顯示在我的胰臟上有一個腫瘤。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。我應該不會活過3到6個月。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家把后事準備好，這也是醫(yī)生對準備去死的說法。也就是在幾個月的時間里對你的孩子說所有的事情，那些你曾經(jīng)認為你會有下一個10年的時間去說的一切。也就是說確保一切安頓停當，讓你的家人盡可能的從容一些。也就是你的告別。

我?guī)е@一診斷結果生活了一整天。晚上，我做了活組織檢測。他們把內窺鏡插下我的喉嚨，穿過我的胃，進入腸子，用一根針穿入我的胰臟從腫瘤上提取一些細胞。我被麻醉了。但是我的妻子在現(xiàn)場。她告訴我，當他們在顯微鏡下看過之后，醫(yī)生們喊叫起來。因為這原來是一種極為罕見形式的胰腺癌，可以通過手術治愈。我做了手術，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，死亡不僅僅是一個有用但抽象的概念。

沒人希望死。即使是想進入天堂的人們也不想通過死亡進入那里。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。因為死亡也許是生命中最好的發(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。

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

當我年輕的時候，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。一個叫Stewart Branch的人在離這不遠的Menlo Park用他詩人般的靈感創(chuàng)造了這一刊物。當時是60年代末，還沒有個人電腦和桌面出版系統(tǒng)。所以，這本刊物全部是用打字機，剪刀和寶利來相機做出來的。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和他的團隊出版了幾期The Whole Earth Catalog。他們最終完成了自己的使命，出了最后一期刊物，時間是70年代中期。當時我正處在你們的年紀。在刊物封底，是一幅清晨鄉(xiāng)間路的照片。如果你樂于冒險搭便車旅行就會看到這一種景象。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。我一直這樣勉勵我自己。現(xiàn)在，當你們畢業(yè)，有新的開始，我同樣勉勵你們。

保持渴望。固執(zhí)愚見。

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第四篇：斯蒂夫喬布斯在斯坦福演講全文

蘋果CEO斯蒂夫.喬布斯的演講

名人勵志 2009-02-04 22:49 閱讀45 評論0

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以下是蘋果電腦CEO斯蒂夫.喬布斯于2007年6月12日在斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講.他不但讓我們進入這位偉大企業(yè)家的內心深處,而且告訴我們應當怎樣經(jīng)營自己的人生,告訴我們從哪里來,要到哪里

去.......斯坦福是世界上最好的大學之一,我能參加各位的畢業(yè)典禮,備感榮幸,我大學只讀了半年,說實話,此時算是我離大學畢業(yè)最近的一刻.現(xiàn)在,我想和你們分享我生命中的三個小故事.一:串起生命中的點點滴滴

我在里德大學讀了6個月就退學了,這是為什么呢? 故事要從我的身世說起,我的生母是一名年輕的未婚媽媽,當時她還在讀研究生,于是決定把我送人,我的養(yǎng)父母都是藍領工人,為了供我上大學,他們傾其所有,在里德大學呆了半年后,我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的人生漫無目標,也不知道這樣讀下去有什么用,為了念書,還花了父母畢生的積蓄,所以我決定退學,作出這個決定的時候,我是非常害怕,但現(xiàn)在看來,這是我這一生所作出的最正確的決定之一.從那一刻起,我再也不用去上那些不感興趣必修課,我開始旁聽一些比較有意思的科目,事實上這一點也不浪漫.因為沒有宿舍,我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上.可樂瓶的押金是5分錢,我把瓶子還回去,然后用押金買吃的,每周日晚上，我都要步行7英里去教堂，只為了吃一頓大餐，因為我喜歡那兒的食物。

事后證明，這些由著好奇心和直覺所做的事情，大多數(shù)都是極其珍貴的經(jīng)驗，舉一個例子，當時，里德大學擁有全美國最好的書法教育，整個校園的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于已經(jīng)退學，我選擇旁聽書法班，想學學怎么寫出一手漂亮字，在那里，我學會了各種襯線，和無襯線字體，學會了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，那是一種科學永遠無法捕捉的美感，歷史感和藝術感，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了。

當時，我壓根兒就沒有想到這些知識有什么實際用途，但10年以后，當我們設計第一款電腦的時候，它們全派上了用場，我把它們全部設計進了MAC，這是第一臺可以排出好看版式的電腦。

現(xiàn)在回過頭來看，如果當時我沒有退學，就不會去書法班旁聽，蘋果電腦就不會提供各種字體和等間距字體，也不會擁有如此出色的版式功能，當然，我在念大學的那會兒，不可能有先見之明，把那些生命中的點點滴滴都串起來，但10年之后，再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常晰。

再強調一次，你不可能充滿預見地將生命中的點點滴滴串聯(lián)起來，只有在經(jīng)歷這后，你才會發(fā)現(xiàn)這些點點滴滴之間的聯(lián)系，所以，你要堅信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的將在你未來的生命中串聯(lián)起來。

正是這種信念，讓我從未失去希望，讓我的人生變得與眾不同。

二：從事偉大工作的惟一方法，就是熱愛這份工作 一個人最大的幸運，莫過于在他年富 力強的時候，發(fā)現(xiàn)了自己人生的使命，從這個意義上講，我是幸運的。20多歲的時候，我就在自家的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果電腦公司，10年后，公司已經(jīng)成長為一家擁有4000多名員工，市值20億美元的大企業(yè)，然后，我就被炒了魷魚。

一個人怎么可以被他所創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢？這么說吧，隨著蘋果的成長，我們請了一個原本以為很能干的家伙和我一起管理這家公司，在頭一年左右，他干得還不錯，但后來，我們對公司未來的前景出現(xiàn)了分歧，于是我們之間出現(xiàn)了矛盾，由于公司的董事會站在他那一邊，所以在我30歲的時候，就被踢出了局，我失去了一直貫穿在我整個成年生活的重心，打擊是毀滅性的。

失業(yè)的頭幾個月，我真不知道要做些什么，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。我由眾人景仰的企業(yè)家變成了一個徹頭徹尾的失敗者，當時我甚至想過逃離硅谷，但曙光漸漸出現(xiàn)，我不是喜歡我做過的事情，在蘋果電腦發(fā)生一切絲毫沒有改變我，一點都沒有，雖然被拋棄了，但

我熱忱不改，我決定重新開始。

我當時沒有看出來，但事實證明，被蘋果開掉是我這一生最大的財富，成功的沉重被鳳凰涅磐的輕盈所代替，卸下包袱，我以自由之身軀進入了生命中最有創(chuàng)意的時期，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PIXAR的公司，并且結識了后來成為我妻子的曼妙女勞倫斯，PIXAR后來制作了世界上第一部全電腦畫電影《玩具總動員》，現(xiàn)在這家公司是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司之一，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)出的技術成為推動蘋果復興的核心動力，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，生活有時候就像一塊板磚，不斷拍向你的腦袋，但你不要因此喪失信心，熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進的惟一理由，你要時刻清楚自己想要成為什么樣的人，想要做什么，對愛人如此，對工作也要如此。

工作 將占據(jù)你生命的相當一部分，從事你認為具有非凡意義的工作，才能帶給你真正的滿足感，而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法就是熱愛這份工作，如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到這份工作，那么請繼續(xù)尋找，如同浪漫的愛情一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。

三：死亡是生命最好的一項發(fā)明

17歲那年記不得什么書上的一段話對我產(chǎn)生了致命的誘惑：“如果你把每一天當作生命的最后一天，總有一天你的假設會成為現(xiàn)實”從那時起，我每天早晨都會對著鏡子捫心自問，假如今天 是我生命中的最后一天，我還會去做今天的事嗎？這件事值得我去為 它投入激情嗎？當一連幾天答案都是否定的時候，我就知道做出改變的時候到了．

因為所有的一切，外界的期望，尊貴的地位，對失敗的恐懼，對面對死亡的時候，都是煙消云散，只留下真正重要的東西，人赤條條地來，赤條條地走，沒有理由不聽從內心的呼喚．

兩年前，我被診斷患有癌癥，掃描結果清楚地顯示我的肺腑出現(xiàn)了一個腫瘤，醫(yī)生告訴我，這是一種不治之癥，頂多還能活３至６個月，于是醫(yī)生建議我回家，把各種事情安排妥當，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標準用語，這意味著你的子女說的話用幾個月的時間說完，這意味著你得準備向眾人告別了．

我一直都著那個不容置疑的診斷結果，那天晚上做了一個切片檢查，當大夫們從顯微鏡下觀察了細胞之后，我忍不住哭了，因為那是一種非常罕見的，完全可以通過手術治療胰臟癌，我接受了手術，現(xiàn)在，我已經(jīng)康復了．

這是我最接近死亡的一次，在與死神擦肩而過之后，我能夠肯定地告訴你們以下事實：誰也不愿意死即使是那些人想進天堂的人，然而死亡是我們共同的歸宿，沒人能擺脫，我們注定會死，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的一項發(fā)明，它推進生命的新陳換代．

現(xiàn)在，你們是新的，但在不久的將來，你們也會成為舊的，也會被淘汰，你們的時間都是有限的，所以不要按照別人的意愿去活，這是浪費時間，不要讓別人聒噪聲淹沒了自己的心聲，最主要的是要有跟著自己感覺和直覺的勇氣，無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為一個什么樣的人，其他的都不重

要．

第五篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業(yè)演講稿

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業(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.