乔布斯演讲原文

1、乔布斯演讲原文篇一：Steve+jobs的英文版Transcript of Jobs commencement speech:Thank you. Im honored to be with 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 graduation.Today I want

2、 to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop outI

3、t 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

4、 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, Weve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him They said, Of course. My biological mother found out later that my mother had never g

5、raduated 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 go to college.This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I

6、naely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure

7、it out, and here I was, spending all 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

8、required classes that didnt interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles

9、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

10、instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learnedabout serif and sans-serif typef

11、aces, 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 cant capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my lif

12、e. 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

13、 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 that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was

14、impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Y

15、ou have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, 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 path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and

16、 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 twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. Wed just released our finest creatio

17、n, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and Id just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you startedWell, 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

18、 the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When 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 devastating. I really didnt know what to do for a few months

19、. 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.

20、 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. Id been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didnt see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could h

21、ave ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replacedby the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and

22、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 and I returned to Apple and the technology w

23、e developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apples current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.Im pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadnt been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes lifes going to hit you in

24、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 true for 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 satisfie

25、d is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking, and dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years r

26、oll on. So keep looking. Dont 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 youll most certainly be right. It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirro

27、r 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 Ill be dead soon is the most important thing Ive ever encountere

28、d 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 avoi

29、d 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 didnt even know what a pancreas was. The doctors to

30、ld 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 doctors code for prepare to die. It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought yo

31、ud have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. 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 with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endosco

32、pe down my throat, through my stomach 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 doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of

33、 pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.This was the closest Ive 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

34、 useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven dont 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. I

35、ts lifes 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 its quite true. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. D

36、ont 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 somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing

37、 publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, 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 Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing

38、, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogu

39、e, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies 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 were the word

40、s, 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.很荣幸今天能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没

41、有从大学中毕业。说实话，今天也许是我生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来我在里德大学读了六个月之后就退学了, 但是作为旁听生还继续在学校听课，十八个月后才真正离开学校。我为什么要退学呢？故事要从我出生前讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的未婚大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 但收养人一定要大学毕业。在我出生的时候，她已经安排好了一切，使我能被一对律师夫妇收养。但是她没有料到, 当我出生之后, 这对律师夫妇突然改变决定，坚持想要一个女孩。于是我的养父母（他们当时在我亲生父母的收养人候选名单上）突

42、然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们这儿突然有一个男婴可以收养，你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至高中没有毕业。她拒绝签署正式的收养文件。过了几个月, 我的养父母答应她一定要让我上大学, 我的生母才签字同意将我交给他们。十七年后, 我真的上了大学。但是我很幼稚的选择了一所几乎和你们的斯坦福大学一样学费昂贵的学校。我的父母属于工薪阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上。六个月后, 我看不到这样上学的价值所在。我不知道今后将怎样安排我的生活，也不知道大学能怎样帮我找到答案。而现在，我几乎花光了父母一辈子的积蓄。所以我决定退学, 抱着一

43、个信念，一切都会好起来的。我当时确实非常害怕, 但是现在回头看看, 那是我这一生中最好的一个决定。从我做出退学决定的那一刻开始, 我就可以不必去上必修课程，而是去选修那些我更感兴趣的课程了。但是这一切并不全是那么浪漫。我没有了宿舍, 只能在朋友房间的地板上睡觉。我靠捡可乐瓶子来填饱肚子，每个瓶子当时可以换5分钱。每个星期天晚上, 我都要走七英里的路程，穿过城市去印度克利须那神庙，只是为了能吃上一个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样的生活。在好奇心和直觉的引导下, 我跌跌撞撞地前进，学到的很多东西以后被证明非常宝贵。让我给你们举个例子吧：里德大学当时开设了也许是全美最好的美术字课程。学校里的

44、每张海报, 每个抽屉上的标签，都用的是漂亮的手写美术字体。因为我退学了, 不需要按照规定上课, 所以决定去上这个课，学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif和serif字体, 学会了怎样调整不同字母组合的间距, 认识到了怎样才能创造出最漂亮的印刷字体。这种艺术美丽、精妙而又富有历史渊源，是科学永远捕捉不到的，我发现它实在太美妙了。当时这些东西看起来在我的生命中不会有一点儿用途。但是十年后, 当我们设计第一台苹果电脑的时候, 我想起了这些知识，把当时学的那些技巧都设计进了苹果电脑中。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有走进美术字课堂, 苹果电脑就不会有这么丰富多样的字

45、体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距了；由于其它个人电脑纷纷模仿苹果机的设计，那么很有可能现在所有的个人电脑都不会有美丽的字体。而如果我没有退学, 就不会有机会学习美术字设计。当然，还在念大学的那个时候，我不可能看到未来，把这些点点滴滴串连起来, 但是十年后回顾往事时，一切就豁然开朗了。再次想说明的是, 你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些点点滴滴连起来；只有在回顾过去时才能理解它们。所以你必须要有信心，这些片断在你的未来一定会篇二：steve jobs 斯坦福大学演讲稿Thank you. Im honored to be with you today for your commencement from

46、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 graduation.谢谢大家。很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big dea

47、l. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop outIt started before I was born. My biological mother was a young

48、, 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

49、 wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, Weve 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

50、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.我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在十八个月之后-我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前说起。我的生母是一个年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定让别人收养我。她有一个很强烈的信仰，认为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。于是，一对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，

51、他们改变了注意，决定要个女孩儿。然后我的排在收养人名单中的养父母在一个深夜接到电话，“很意外，我们多了一个男婴，你们要吗？”“当然要！”但是我的生母后来又发现我的养母没有大学毕业，养父连高中都没有毕业。她拒绝在领养书上签字。几个月后，我的养父母保证会让我上大学，她妥协了。This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my

52、 working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their ent

53、ire 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 didnt interest me and begin dropping in on the ones tha

54、t looked far more interesting.这是我生命的开端。十七年后，我上大学了，但是我很无知地选了一所差不多和斯坦福一样贵的学校，几乎花掉我那蓝领阶层养父母一生的积蓄。六个月后，我觉得不值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不晓得大学会怎样帮我指点迷津，而我却在花销父母一生的积蓄。所以我决定退学，并且相信没有做错。一开始非常吓人，但回忆起来，这却是我一生中作的最好的决定之一。从我退学的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感兴趣的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on

55、the floor in friends rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 intuitio

56、n turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.事情并不那么美好。我没有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房间的地上。为了吃饭，我收集五分一个的旧可乐瓶，每个星期天晚上步行七英里到哈尔-克里什纳庙里改善一下一周的伙食。我喜欢这种生活方式。能够遵循自己的好奇和直觉前行后来被证明是多么的珍贵。让我来给你们举个例子吧。Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the ca

57、mpus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space betw

58、een different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture, and I found it fascinating.当时的里得大学提供可能是全国最好的书法指导。校园中每一张海报，抽屉上的每一张标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于我已退学，不用修那些必修课，我决定选一门书法课上上。在这门课上，我学会了“serif”和sans-serif两种字体、

59、学会了怎样在不同的字母组合中改变字间距、学会了怎样写出好的字来。这是一种科学无法捕捉的微妙，楚楚动人、充满历史底蕴和艺术性，我觉得自己被完全吸引了。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 compu

60、ter 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.一开始实在看不出所有这些会对我的实际生活应用有任何帮助。但是十年后当我们在