乔布斯演讲稿英文版

1、Thank you. Im honored to be w it h you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduati on.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big de

2、al. Just three stories. The first story is about conn ect ing the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six mon ths but the n stayed around as a drop-i n for an other eightee n mon ths or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biologicalmotherwa

3、s a young, un wed graduate stude nt, and she decided to put me up for adopti on. She felt very stron gly that Ishould be adopted by collegegraduates, so everyth ing was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that whe n I popped out, they decided at the last mi nute th

4、at they really wan ted a girl. So my pare nts, who were on a wait ing list, got a call in the middle of the ni ght ask in g, Weve got an un expected 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 fathe

5、r had n ever graduated from high school. She ref used to sig n the final adopti on papers. She only rele nted a few mon ths later whe n my pare nts promised that Iwould go to college.This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I n a?vely chose a college that wa

6、s almost as expe nsive as Stan ford, and all of my work in g-class pare nts sav ings were being spe nt on my college tuiti on. After six mon ths, I could nt see the value in it.I had no idea what I wan ted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help mefigure it out, and here I w

7、as, spending all the money myparents 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 decisi ons I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop tak ing the required classes th

8、at did nt in terestmeandbeg in dropp ing in on the ones that looked far more in teresti ng.It was nt all roma ntic. I did nthave a dorm room, so I slept on the floorin friends rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seve n miles across tow n e

9、very Sun day night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled in to by followi ng my curiosity and in tuiti on turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.ReedCollege at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instructi

10、on in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully han d-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out anddid nt have to take the no rmal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to lear n how to do this. I lear ned about serif and san s-serif typeface

11、s, about vary ing the amount of space betwee n differe nt letter comb in ati ons, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that scienee cant capture, and I found it fasci nati ng.None of this had even a hope of any practicalapplicationin my

12、life. Butten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all cameback to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had n ever dropped in on that single course in college, the Macwould have never had multiple typefaces o

13、r proporti on ally spaced fon ts, and since Win dows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had n ever dropped out, I would have n ever dropped in on that calligraphy class and pers on als computersmight not have the won derfultypography that they do.Of course

14、 it was impossible to connect the dots look ing forward whe n I was in college, but it was very, very clear look ing backwards 10 years later. Aga in, you cant conn ect the dots look ing forward. You can only connect them look ing backwards, so you have to trust that the dotswillsomehow?onnect in yo

15、ur future. You have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever-because believing that the dots will connect dow n the road will give you the con fide nee to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the differe nee.My second story is

16、 about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my pare nts garage whe nI was twen ty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grow n from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billi on compa ny with over 4,000 employees. Wed just release

17、d our finest creation,the Macintosh, a yearearlier, and Id just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a compa nyyou started? Well, as Apple grew, wehired some one who I thought was very tale nted to run the compa ny with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. B

18、ut the n our visi ons of the future bega n to diverge, and eve ntually we had a falli ng out. Whe n we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastati ng.I really did nt kno

19、w what to do for a few mon ths.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, thatI had dropped the bat on as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screw ing up so badly.I was a very public failure and I eve n thought about

20、 running away from the Valley. But someth ing slowly bega n to daw n on me. I still loved whatI did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.rd beenrejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I did nt see it the n, but it tur ned out that gett ing fired from App

21、le was the best thing that could have ever happe ned to me. The heav in ess of being successful was replaced by the light ness of being a beg inner aga in, less sure about everyth in g. It freed me to en ter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company

22、named NeXT, another company namedPixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer-a ni mated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful ani matio n studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought Ne

23、XTand I returned to Apple and the tech no logy we developed at NeXTis at the heart of Apples curre nt ren aissa nee, and Lore ne and I have a won derful family together.Im pretty sure none of this would have happe ned if I had nt bee n fired from Apple. It was awful-tasti ng medici ne but I guess th

24、e patie nt n eeded it. Sometimes lifes going to hit you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love, and that is as truefor work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a larg

25、e 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 have nt found it yet, keep look ing, and dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youllknow when you find it, and like anygreat

26、relati on ship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.So keep look ing. Dont settle.My third story is about death. Whe n I was 17 I read a quote that went something like If you live each day as if it was your last, somedayyoull most certa inly be right. It made an impressi on on me, and

27、 since the n, 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 whatI am about to do today? And whe never the an swer has bee n no for too many days in a row, I know I n eed to cha nge someth ing. Rememberi ng

28、 that Ill be dead soon is the most important thing Ive ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everythi ng-all exter nal expectati ons, all pride, all fear of embarrassme nt or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly impor

29、tant.Rememberingthat 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 diag no sed with can cer. I had a sca n at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a

30、 tumor on my pan creas. I did nt eve n know what a pan creas was. The doctors told me this was almost certai nly a type of can cer that is in curable, and that I should expect to live no Ion ger tha n three to six mon ths. My doctor advised me to go home and get myaffairs in order, which is doctors

31、code for prepare to die. It means to try and tell your kids everyth ing you thought youd have the n ext ten years to tell them, in just a few mon ths. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived wi

32、th that diag no sis all day. Later that eve ning I had a biopsy where they stuck an en doscope dow n my throat, through mystomach in to myintestines, 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 whe n they viewed the cells u

33、n der a microscope, the doctor 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 am fine now.This was the closest rve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Havi

34、ng lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely in tellectual con cept. No one wants to die, eve npeople who want to go toHeave n dont want to die to get there, and yet, death is the dest in ati on we all share. No one has ever escaped

35、 it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. Its lifes cha nge age nt; it clears out the old to make way for the n ew. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually becomethe old and be cleared away. Sorry to be

36、 so dramatic, but its quite true. Your time is limited, so dont waste it livi ng some on eelses life. Dont be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition.They somehowalready know what youtruly want to become. Everyth ing else