第一篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業演講(中文)

喬布斯斯坦福演講：活出你自己

[2009-12-18]

堅信、堅持、堅定----生命中的三個故事 編者按：

2005年6月12日，在美國斯坦福大學畢業典禮上，蘋果公司CEO喬布斯發表了精彩演講。已被確診身患癌癥的喬布斯對在場學子講述了自己經歷的三個故事，與學子們分享自己的創業心得，并以此激勵年輕一代勇敢、積極、快樂地面對人生。喬布斯樸實而真誠的演講不但贏得了全場數次熱烈鼓掌和尖叫，也成為近年美國畢業典禮演講中最具影響力的一篇。時至今日，這一演講仍然對廣大學子和創業者產生著深遠影響。以下為喬布斯在斯坦福大學畢業典禮上的演講全文：

一、關于信仰：堅信 “你要堅信，你現在所經歷的，將在你未來的生命中串聯起來。正是這種信仰讓我沒有失去希望，它使我的人生與眾不同”

很榮幸今天能和你們一起參加畢業典禮，斯坦福大學是世界上最好的大學之一，而我從來沒拿過大學畢業證。說實話，在我的生命中，今天也許是我距離大學畢業最近的一天了。我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事，不是什么大不了的事，只是三個故事而已。

第一個故事是關于如何把生命中的點滴串連起來。

我在里德大學讀了六個月之后就退學了，但是在十八個月以后——我真正作出退學決定之前，我還經常去學校。我為什么要退學呢？

故事得從我出生時講起。我的生母是一個年輕的、未婚的大學畢業生。她決定讓別人收養我，她非常希望我被受過高等教育的人收養。所以在我出生的時候，她已經做好了一切準備工作，使我得以被一個律師和他的妻子所收養。讓她意外的是，當我出生之后，律師夫婦突然決定生個女孩。所以我的養父母（他們還在我親生父母的觀察名單上）突然在半夜接到了一個電話:“我們現在這兒有一個不小心生出來的男嬰，你們想要嗎？”他們回答道:“當然！”但是我的生母隨后發現，我的養母從來沒有上過大學，我的養父甚至沒讀過高中。她拒絕簽收養合同。直到幾個月以后，我的養父母答應她一定會讓我上大學，她才同意。

在十七歲那年，我真的上了大學。但是我很愚蠢地選擇了一個幾乎和斯坦福大學一樣昂貴的學校，我的養父母是工人，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學費上。六個月后，我已經看不到其中的價值所在。我不知道我想做什么，也不知道大學能幫我找到怎樣的答案，而我卻幾乎花光了養父母一生的積蓄。所以我決定退學，我覺得這是個正確的決定。不能否認，我當時確實非常害怕，但是現在回頭看看，那的確是我這一生中最棒的決定。在我決定退學的那一刻，我終于可以不必去讀那些毫無興趣的課程了，可以去學那些看起來有點意思的課程。但這并不怎么浪漫。由于沒有宿舍可住，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上；為了有錢填飽肚子，我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子來賣；在星期天的晚上，我要走七英里的路，穿過這個城市到Hare Krishna教堂，只是為了能吃上飯——這個星期唯一一頓好點的飯。但我喜歡這樣，我跟隨好奇心和直覺所做的事，后來被證明基本都是極其珍貴的經驗。我舉幾個例子：

那時候，里德大學提供了全美國最好的書法教育。整個校園里的每一張海報、每一個抽屜上的標簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于已經退學，不用再去上那些常規的課程，于是我選擇了一個書法班，想學學怎么寫出一手漂亮字。在這個班上，我學習了各種襯線和無襯線字體，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充滿美感、歷史感和藝術感的微妙，我發現這太有意思了。

當時，我壓根兒沒想到這些知識會在我的生命中有什么實際運用價值；但是8年之后，當我們設計第一款Macintosh電腦的時候，這些東西全派上了用場。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。如果當時我在大學里沒有旁聽這門課程的話，Mac就不會提供各種字體和等間距字體。自從視窗系統抄襲了Mac以后，所有的個人電腦都有了這些東西。如果我沒有退學，我就不會去書法班旁聽，而今天的個人電腦大概也就不會有出色的版式功能。當然，在我念大學那會兒，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清楚。

再強調一次，你不可能充滿預見地將生命的點滴串聯起來。只有在你回頭看的時候，你才會發現這些點點滴滴之間的聯系。所以，你要堅信，你現在所經歷的，將在你未來的生命中串聯起來。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺、命運、生活、因緣際會??正是這種信仰讓我沒有失去希望，它使我的人生變得與眾不同。

二、關于成功：堅持

“偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。在終有所獲之前，不要停下尋覓的腳步” 我的第二個故事是關于愛與失去。

我是幸運的，在年輕時就知道了自己愛做什么。在我20歲的時候，就和沃茲在我父母的車庫里開創了蘋果電腦公司。我們勤奮工作，只用了10年的時間，最初只有一個車庫和兩個小伙子的蘋果公司，已經擴展成擁有4000名員工、價值達到20億美元的企業。而在此之前的一年，我們推出了我們最好的產品Macintosh電腦，當時我剛過而立之年。然后，我就被炒了魷魚。一個人怎么可以被他所創立的公司解雇呢？這是因為，隨著蘋果的成長，我們請了一個原以為很能干的家伙和我一起管理公司，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了分歧，于是矛盾便產生了。由于公司的董事會站在他那一邊，所以我被踢出了局，那年我30歲。失去了一直貫穿在我整個成年生活的重心，這種打擊是毀滅性的。

在接下來的幾個月，我真不知道該做些什么。我覺得我讓企業界的前輩們失望了，我失去了傳到我手上的指揮棒。我找到了戴維·帕卡德（注：戴維·帕卡德，普惠的創辦人之一）和鮑勃·諾伊斯（注：鮑勃·諾伊斯，英特爾創辦人之一），我向他們道歉，因為我把事情搞砸了。我成了人人皆知的失敗者，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但曙光漸漸出現，我還是喜歡我做過的事情，于是決定重新開始。

事實證明，被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經歷過的最棒的事，盡管當時的我并未意識到。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕盈所代替，我以自由之軀進入了生命中最富創新力的時期。

在接下來的5年里，我開創了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接著是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并認識了后來成為我妻子的曼妙女郎勞倫斯。Pixar制作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影《玩具總動員》，現在這家公司是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司之一。后來經歷一系列的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，于是我又回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT研發出的技術在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?？隙?，如果沒有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發生。對于病人來說，良藥總是苦口。生活有時候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋，但不要喪失信心。熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進的惟一理由。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如此，對愛人亦是如此。工作將占據你生命中相當大的一部分，從事你認為具有非凡意義的工作，方能給你帶來真正的滿足感。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法，就是去熱愛這份工作。如果你到現在還沒有找到這樣一份工作，那么就繼續找。不要安于現狀，當萬事了于心的時候，你就會知道何時能找到。如同任何偉大的浪漫關系一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。所以，在你終有所獲之前，不要停下你尋覓的腳步。不要停下。

三、關于抉擇：堅定

“財富名利生不帶來，死不帶去，要遵從你的內心和直覺，不要把時間浪費在別人的生活里。提醒自己行將入土是我在面臨重大抉擇時的首選工具?！?/p>

我的第三個故事是關于死亡。

在17歲的時候，我讀過一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都當成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發現，原來一切皆在掌握之中。”這句話從我讀到之日起，就對我產生了深遠的影響。在過去的33年里，我每天早晨都對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我還愿意做我今天本來應該做的事情嗎？”當一連好多天答案都否定的時候，我就知道做出改變的時候到了。

提醒自己行將入土，這是我在面臨人生中的重大抉擇時最為重要的工具。因為所有的事情--榮譽、聲望、對尷尬和失敗的懼怕--在面對死亡的時候都將煙消云散，只留下真正重要的東西。在我所知道的各種方法中，提醒自己即將死去是避免產生上述想法的最好辦法。赤條條來去無牽掛，沒有理由不聽從你內心的呼喚。

大約一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。在早晨7：30我做了一個檢查，掃描結果清楚地顯示我的胰臟出現了一個腫瘤。我當時甚至不知道胰臟究竟是什么。醫生告訴我，幾乎可以確定這是一種不治之癥，頂多還能活3至6個月。大夫建議我回家，把諸事安排妥當，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準用語。這意味著你得把你今后10年要對你的子女說的話用幾個月的時間說完；這意味著你得把一切都安排妥當，盡可能減少你的家人在你身后的負擔；這意味著向眾人告別的時間到了。

我整天都想著診斷結果。那天晚上做了一個切片檢查，醫生把一個內診鏡從我的喉管伸進去，穿過我的胃進入腸道，將探針伸進胰臟，從腫瘤上取出了幾個細胞。我打了鎮靜劑，我的太太當時在場，她后來告訴我說，當大夫們從顯微鏡下觀察了細胞組織后尖叫起來，因為那是非常罕見的、但可以通過手術治療的胰臟癌。我接受了手術，現在已經康復了。

這是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在隨后的幾十年里，都不要有比這一次更接近死亡的經歷。在有了與死神擦肩而過的經歷后，死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但純粹是知識上的概念，我可以更肯定地告訴你們：沒人想死；即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活著進去。死亡是每個人的人生終點站，沒人能夠例外。生命就是如此，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走老者，給新生代讓路?，F在你們還是新生代，但不久的將來你們也將逐漸老去，被送出人生的舞臺。很抱歉說得這么富有戲劇性，但生命就是如此。

你們的時間有限，所以不要把時間浪費在別人的生活里。不要被條條框框束縛，否則你就生活在他人思考的結果里。不要讓他人的觀點所發出的噪音淹沒你內心的聲音。最為重要的是，要有遵從你的內心和直覺的勇氣，它們可能已知道你其實想成為一個什么樣的人。其他事物都是次要的。

在我年輕的時候，有一本非常棒的雜志叫《全球目錄》（The Whole Earth Catalog），它被我們那一代人奉為圣經。這本雜志的創辦人是一個叫斯圖爾特·布蘭德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，離這兒不遠。他把這本雜志辦得充滿詩意。那是在60年代末期，個人電腦、桌面發排系統還沒有出現，所以出版工具只有打字機、剪刀和寶麗來相機。這本雜志有點像印在紙上的Google，但那是在Google出現的35年前。它充滿了理想色彩，內容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的見解。

斯圖爾特和他的團隊做了幾期《全球目錄》，快無疾而終的時候，他們出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我當時處在你們現在的年齡。在最后一期的封底有一張清晨鄉間公路的照片，如果你喜歡搭車冒險旅行的話，經常會碰到的那種小路。在照片下面有一排字：好學若饑，謙卑若愚（Stay Hungry，Stay Foolish）。這是他們?？母鎰e留言，此后的日子里，我總是用這句話來勉勵自己?，F在，在你們畢業、即將開始新生活的時候，我用這句話與你們共勉：

好學若饑，謙卑若愚。謝謝諸位。

第二篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業演講

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學畢業演講

史蒂夫喬布斯(Steve Jobs)2005年6 月在斯坦福大學的演講在今天對于我們仍有很大的啟發作用。這位蘋果電腦公司(Apple Computer)和皮克斯動畫公司(Pixar Animation Studios)首席執行官在演講中談到了他生活中的三次體驗，這三次體驗不僅在斯坦福大學的畢業生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技術同行中引起了巨大反響。他們將他的演講登在互聯網上，在博客上展開討論，通過電子郵件互相發送，在全球傳閱。下面給大家分享這次演講的中英文演講稿。

You've got to find what you love

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

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

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap 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.

第三篇：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.

第四篇：喬布斯的斯坦福演講啟示

喬布斯的斯坦福演講啟示：

1.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.much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on 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 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 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.2.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.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.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.3.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 failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that I am going to die is the best way to avoid the continuous thinking I have something to lose.Like I am the one who is in charge of my life.I am responsible for my day.I am responsible for how I feel and what I do.Nobody can make me feel nothing.There is no reason not to follow my heart.And there is the quote I chose to end my presentation.It went something like,work like you don’t need money;love like you ‘ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching you.

第五篇：喬布斯斯坦福演講英文文稿

Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford

(This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.)I am honored to be with you today for(at)your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told, I never graduated from college.And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 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 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 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 my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was a start in my life.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out 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 to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma whatever.Because believing that these dots would connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.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 just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap 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 thankfully I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.It 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.4