第一篇：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秀的大學的畢業典禮。我從來沒有從大學畢業。說實話，今天是我最離大學畢業最近的一次。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。她堅持認為，我應該被有大學學歷的人收養。所以，一切本來都已經安排好了，我將會被一個律師和他的妻子收養。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現我的養母從來沒有從大學畢業，而我的養父高中都沒有畢業。她拒絕在最終的領養文件上簽字。過了幾個月后，我的養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美。這一切都很優美，有歷史感，具有科學無法獲得的藝術的精巧。我發現這一切令人著迷。

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，這一切就又重現了。我們把字體的設計都放入了Mac，第一個有著優美字體的電腦。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，你不能把事情聯系在一起而預測未來。你只能回過頭來再把它們聯系起來。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，我們發布了我們最杰出的創造— Macintosh。然后，我被解雇了。你怎么能被你自己創立的公司解雇呢？哎，當蘋果公司逐漸發展，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業者。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造性的一段時間。

之后的5年，我創辦了一家叫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創造了世界上第一部電腦動畫電影，玩具總動員。現在，Pixar是世界上最成功的動畫工作室。在經歷了種種起伏后蘋果買下了NeXT。我重返了蘋果。我們在NeXT 發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。這對你的事業是這樣，對你的愛人也是如此。你的事業將會占據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。而做偉大的事業的唯一途徑就是熱愛你所作的一切。如果你還沒有找到，繼續找。不要妥協。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，繼續找吧，直到你找到。不要妥協。

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。醫生們告訴我幾乎可以肯定這類癌癥是無法治愈的。我應該不會活過3到6個月。我的醫生建議我回家把后事準備好，這也是醫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。

我帶著這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。但是我的妻子在現場。她告訴我，當他們在顯微鏡下看過之后，醫生們喊叫起來。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，現在我已經沒事了。

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。經歷過這一切，現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明。它是生命改變的媒介。它清理老的，給新的讓出路。現在，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，有一本優秀的刊物叫The Whole Earth Catalog, 是我們那一代的圣經之一。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。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。固執愚見。”(“Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.”)這是他們的告別語。保持渴望。固執愚見。我一直這樣勉勵我自己。現在，當你們畢業，有新的開始，我同樣勉勵你們。

保持渴望。固執愚見。

多謝你們

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：喬布斯在斯坦福演講稿

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement(開始，發端，畢業典禮)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）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，適當地)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（處于鎮靜狀態）, 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（發明，創造）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，產品目錄，編目。全球目錄）, which was one of the bibles（圣經）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.

第四篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業演講稿

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業演講稿

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.I never graduated from college.Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in somethingthat I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did.The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.I had been rejected, but I was still in love.And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.Don't lose faith.I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've got to find what you love.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.Don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.So keep looking until you find it.Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notion.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.

第五篇：喬布斯_斯坦福演講_《Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry》演講稿1

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 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 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 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

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 to tell

your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day.Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my

intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.I had the surgery and I’m fine now.This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die

to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.It is Life’s change agent.It clears out the

old to make way for the new.Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.Sorry

to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth

Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought

it to life with his poetic touch.This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in

paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.It was the

mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the

words: ―Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.‖ It was their farewell message as they signed off.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.蘋果公司總裁斯蒂夫.喬布斯（Steve Jobs）在2005年6月12日對全體史丹佛大學畢業生的演講:

今天，我非常榮幸來到各位在世界上最好的學校之一的畢業典禮上。我從來沒大學畢業。說實話，這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三-個故事就好。

第一個故事，是關于人生的點滴怎么串連在一起。

我在里德學院（Reed college）待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前，一共休學了十八個月。那么，我為什么休學？這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親當時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽-，她決定讓別人收養我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我，所以我出生時，她就準備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養。但是這對夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他們想收養女-孩。所以在等待收養名單上的下一對夫妻，我的養父母，在那一天半夜里接到一通電話，問他們‖有一名未預料到的男孩出生，你們要認養他嗎？‖

而他們的回答是‖當然-要‖。后來，我的生母發現，我現在的媽媽從來沒有大學畢業，我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文件上做最后簽字。直到幾個月后，我的養父母同意將來-一定會讓我上大學，她才改變態度。

十七年后，我上大學了。但是當時我無知選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學，我那工人階級的父母所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月后，我看不出念這個書的價值-何在。那時候，我不知道這輩子要干什么，也不知道念大學能對我有什么幫助，而且我為了念這個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自-然直。當時這個決定看來相當可怕，可是現在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當我休學之后，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課-。

這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的五分錢退費買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮去印度教的Hare

Krishna神廟吃頓好飯。我喜歡那頓好飯。追尋我的好奇與直覺，我所駐足的大部分事物，后來看來都成了無價之寶。舉例來說：當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好-的書法。在整個校園內的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標簽上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去學書法。我學了Serif 與san serif字體，學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學到活版印刷偉大的地方。書法的美好、歷史感與藝術感是科學所無法捕捉的，我覺得那很迷人。

我沒預期過學的這些東西能在我生活中起些什么實際作用，不過十年后，當我們在設計第一臺麥金塔(Macintosh)電腦時，我想起了所有當時學的東西，所以把這些東西都設計進了Mac機里，這是第一臺能印刷出漂亮字體的計算機。如果我沒沉溺于那樣一門課里，Mac機可能就不-會有多重字體跟變間距字體了。又因為視窗系統（Windows)抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，如果當年我沒這樣做，大概世界上所有的個人計算機都不會有這些東西，印-不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字體來了。當然，當我還在大學里時，不可能把這些點點滴滴預先串在一起，但是這在十年后回顧，就顯得非常清楚。

我再說一次，你不能預先把點點滴滴串在一起；唯有未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你現在所體會的東西，將來多少會連接在一-塊。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者因緣什么的(karma)。這種作法從來沒讓我失望，也讓我的人生整個不同起來。

我的第二個故事，有關愛與失落。

我好運—–年輕時就發現自己愛做什么事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫里開始了蘋果計算機的事業。我們拼命工作，蘋果計算機在十年間從一間車庫里的兩個小伙子擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美-金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔，而我才剛邁入人生的第三十個年頭，然后被炒魷魚。怎么會讓自己創辦的公司炒自己魷魚？好吧，當蘋果計算機-成長后，我請了一個我以為他在經營公司上很有才干的家伙來，他在頭一年也確實干得不錯。可是后來我們對未來的看法開始有分歧，最后只好分道揚鑣。當這發生時，董-事會站在他那邊，炒了我魷魚，公開把我請了出去。曾經是我整個成年生活重心的東西不見了，令我不知所措。有幾個月，我實在不知道要干什么好。我覺得我令企業界的-前輩們失望—-我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦惠普（HP)的David Packard跟創英特爾(Intel)的Bob Noyce，跟他們說我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾非常的負面示范，我甚至想要離開硅谷。但是漸漸的，我發現，我還是喜愛著我做過的事情，在蘋果的-日子經歷的事件沒有絲毫改變我愛做的事。我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。

當時我沒發現，但是現在看來，被蘋果計算機開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重包袱被從頭再來的輕裝上陣所取代，每件事情都不那么確定，讓我自由進入這輩-子最有創意的時期。

接下來五年，我開了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又開一家叫Pixar的公司，并和一位令人神魂顛倒的女士墜入愛河，她后來成了我的妻子。Pixar接著制作了世界-上第一部全計算機動畫電影，玩具總動員，現在是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司。然后，蘋果計算機買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發展的技術成了蘋果-計算機后來復興的核心。勞倫和我也有了個美妙的家庭。

我很確定，如果當年蘋果計算機沒開除我，所有這些事就不會發生。這帖藥很苦口，但我想病人需要它。有時候，人生中會遇到當頭一棒，不要喪失信心。我確信，我愛我-所做的事情，這就是這些年來讓我繼續走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你愛的，工作上是如此，對情人也是如此。你的工作將填滿你的一大塊人生，唯一獲得真正滿足的方法-就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何-偉大的關系，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續找，別停頓。

我的第三個故事，關于死亡。

當我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是「如果把每一天都當成生命中的最后一天，總有一天你是對的。」這對我影響深遠，在過去33年里，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自-問：「如果今天是此生最后一日，我今天要干些什么？」每當我連續太多天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案時，我就知道我須有所變革了。提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中-做重大決定時，所用過最重要的工具。因為幾乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有名譽、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最重要的東西才會留下。提-醒自己快死了，是我所知避免陷入擔心失去什么陷阱里的最好方法。人生不帶來，死不帶去，沒什么道理不順心而為。

一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什么都不知道。醫生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之癥，我大概活不-到三到六個月了。醫生建議我回家，把所有的事都安排妥當，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得-把每件事情搞定，盡量減輕家人的負擔。那代表你得跟人說再見了。

我整天想著那個診斷結果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡，從胃進腸子，插了根針進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑，不醒人事，但是我太-太在場。她后來跟我說，當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞后，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術，康復了。

這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事后，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時要更肯定告訴你們下面這些：

沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。但是死亡是我們共有的目的地，沒有人逃得過。這是注定的，因為死亡簡直就是生命中最棒的發明，是生命變化的-媒介，送走老人們，給新生代留下空間。現在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞臺。抱歉講得這么戲劇化，但是這是真的。

你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活里。不要被信條所惑—–盲從信條就是活在別人思考結果里。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要的-，擁有跟隨內心與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什么樣的人。任何其它事物都是次要的。

我在年輕時，有一本出色的期刊叫‖地球編目大全‖。它是在我那一代的‖圣經‖之一。住在Menlo Park離這不遠的 Stewart Brand 創辦了它，用他理想化的點睛之筆賦予它生命。那是在60年代末，在個人電腦和桌面出版系統問世之前，因此所有的工作是由打字機，剪刀，和寶利來快捷相機完成的。它像是平裝版Google，比Google的誕生早了35 年。它是理想化的，充滿了靈巧的工具和深邃的觀念。

Stewart Brand 和他的同伴們發表了若干期‖地球編目大全‖，當這本期刊終于完成了它的使命時，他們發表了完結篇。那是在70年代中期，我和你們的年紀差不多。在最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉間道路的照片。如果你是熱愛探險的人，那正是讓你躍躍欲試的征程。在照片下邊有一行字：‖保持饑渴，保持求知‖（Stay hungry, stay foolish)這是他們最后的告別留言。保持饑渴，保持求知。我總希望我能做到那樣。作為剛畢業的新生代，我也希望你們：

保持饑渴，保持求知。

謝謝，非常感謝大家。