乔布斯斯坦福演讲
乔布斯斯坦福演讲
乔布斯斯坦福演讲
篇一:
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿(中文) 乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 史蒂夫?乔布斯(Steve Jbs)今年 6 月在斯坦福大学的演讲中谈到了他生活中的三次体验,这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。尤其The hle Earth Catalg提到的话,作为杂志,这是一种精神,一种气质。 “好学若饥、谦卑若愚” 很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业,说实话,这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事,不讲别的,也不讲大道理,就讲三个故事。 第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院(Reed Cllege)只读了六个月就退学了,此后便在学校里旁听,又过了大约一年半,我彻底离开。那么,我为什么退学呢, 这得从我出生前讲起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚在校研究生,她决定将我送给别人收养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人,所以把一切都安排好了,我一出生就交给一对律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那间,那对夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。就这样,我的养父母?当时他们还在登记册上排队等著呢?半夜三更接到一个电话: “我们这儿有一个没人要的男婴,你们要么,”“当然要”他们回答。但是,我的生母后来发现我的养母不是大学毕业生,我的养父甚至连中学都没有毕业,所以她拒绝在最后的收养文件上签字。不过,没过几个月她就心软了,因为我的养父母许诺日后一定送我上大学。 17 年后,我真的进了大学。当时我很天真,选了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学校,当工人的养父母倾其所有的积蓄为我支付了大学学费。读了六个月后,我却看不出上学有什么意义。我既不知道自己这一生想干什么,也不知道大学是否能够帮我弄明白自己想干什么。这时,我就要花光父母一辈子节省下来的钱了。所以,我决定退学,并且坚信日后会证明我这样做是对的。当年做出这个决定时心里直打鼓,但现在回想起来,这还真是我有生以来做出的最好
的决定之一。从退学那一刻起,我就可以不再选那些我毫无兴趣的必修课,开始旁听一些看上去有意思的课。 那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有宿舍,只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶,用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上我都要走七英里,到城那头的黑尔,科里施纳礼拜堂去,吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜欢这样。我凭著好奇心和直觉所干的这些事情,有许多后来都证明是无价之宝。我给大家举个例子: 当时,里德学院的书法课大概是全国最好的。校园里所有的公告栏和每个抽屉标签上的字都写得非常漂亮。当时我已经退学,不用正常上课,所以我决定选一门书法课,学学怎么写好字。我学习写带短截线和不带短截线的印刷字体,根据不同字母组合调整其间距,以及怎样把版式调整得好上加好。这门课太棒了,既有历史价值,又有艺术造诣,这一点科学就做不到,而我觉得它妙不可言。 当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是,十年之后,我们在
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第一台 Macintsh 计算机时,它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是,我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课,Macintsh 计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是 inds 照搬了 Macintsh,个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。要不是退了学,我决不 会碰巧选了这门书法课,个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。当然,我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看,两者之间的关系就非常、非常清楚了。 你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来;只有回头看时,才会发现它们之间的关系。所以,要相信这些点迟早会连接到一起。你们必须信赖某些东西?直觉、归宿、生命,还有业力,等等。这样做从来没有让我的希望落空过,而且还彻底改变了我的生活。 我的第二个故事是关于好恶与得失。幸运的是,我在很小的时候就发现自己喜欢做什么。我在 20 岁时和沃兹(z,苹果公司创始人之一 zn 的昵称?译注)在我父母的车库里办起了苹果公司。我们干得很卖力,十年后,苹果公司就从车库里我们两个人发展成为一个拥有 20 亿元资产、4,000 名员工的大企业。那时,我们刚刚推出了我们最好的产品? Macintsh 电脑?那是在第 9
年,我刚满 30 岁。可后来,我被解雇了。你怎么会被自己办的公司解雇呢,是这样,随著苹果公司越做越大,我们聘了一位我认为非常有才华的人与我一道管理公司。在开始的一年多里,一切都很顺利。可是,随后我俩对公司前景的看法开始出现分歧,最后我俩反目了。这时,董事会站在了他那一边,所以在 30 岁那年,我离开了公司,而且这件事闹得满城风雨。我成年后的整个生活重心都没有了,这使我心力交瘁。 一连几个月,我真的不知道应该怎么办。我感到自己给老一代的创业者丢了脸?因为我扔掉了交到自己手里的接力棒。我去见了戴维?帕卡德(David Packard,惠普公司创始人之一?译注)和鲍勃?诺伊斯(Bb Nyce,英特尔公司创建者之一?译注),想为把事情搞得这么糟糕说声道歉。这次失败弄得沸沸扬扬的,我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是,渐渐地,我开始有了一个想法?我仍然热爱我过去做的一切。在苹果公司发生的这些风波丝毫没有改变这一点。我虽然被拒之门外,但我仍然深爱我的事业。于是,我决定从头开始。 虽然当时我并没有意识到,但事实证明,被苹果公司炒鱿鱼是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。尽管前景未卜,但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。这使我进入了一生中最富有创造力的时期之一。 在此后的五年里,我开了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司,我还爱上一位了不起的女人,后来娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画片《玩具总动员》(Ty Stry),它现在是全球最成功的动画制作室。世道轮回,苹果公司买下 NeXT 后,我又回到了苹果公司,我们在 NeXT 公司开发的技术成了苹果公司这次重新崛起的核心。我和劳伦娜(Laurene)也建立了美满的家庭。 我确信,如果不是被苹果公司解雇,这一切决不可能发生。这是一剂苦药,可我认为苦药利于病。有时生活会当头给你一棒,但不要灰心。我坚信让我一往无前的唯一力量就是我热爱我所做的一切。所以,一定得知道自己喜欢什么,选择爱人时如此,选择工作时同样如此。工作将是生活中的一大部分,让自己真正满意的唯一办法,是做自己认为是有意义的工作;做有意义的工作的唯一办法,是热爱自己的工作。你们如果还没有发现自己喜欢什么,那就不断地去寻找,不要急于做出决定。就像一切要凭著感觉去做的事情一样,一旦找到了自己
喜欢的事,感觉就会告诉你。就像任何一种美妙的东西,历久弥新。所以说,要不断地寻找,直到找到自己喜欢的东西。不要半途而废。 我的第三个故事与死亡有关。17 岁那年,我读到过这样一段话,大意是:“如果把每一天都当作生命的最后一天,总有一天你会如愿以偿。”我记住了这句话,从那时起,33 年过去了,我每天早晨都对著镜子自问: “假如今天是生命的最后一天,我还会去做今天要做的事吗,”如果一连许多天我的回答都是“不”,我知道自己应该有所改变了。 让我能够做出人生重大抉择的最主要办法是,记住生命随时都有可能结束。因为几乎所有的东西?所有对自身之外的希求、所有的尊严、所有对困窘和失败的恐惧?在死亡来临时都将不复存在,只剩下真正重要的东西。记住自己随时都会死去,这是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已经一无所有了,还有什么理由不跟著自己的感觉走呢。 大约一年前,我被诊断患了癌症。那天早上七点半,我做了一次扫描检查,结果清楚地表明我的胰腺上长了一个瘤子,可那时我连胰腺是什么还不知道呢~医生告诉我说,几乎可以确诊这是一种无法治愈的恶性肿瘤,我最多还能活 3 到 6 个月。医生建议我回去把一切都安排好,其实这是在暗示“准备后事”。也就是说,把今后十年要跟孩子们说的事情在这几个月内嘱咐完;也就是说,把一切都安排妥当,尽可能不给家人留麻烦;也就是说,去跟大家诀别。 那一整天里,我的脑子一直没离开这个诊断。到了晚上,我做了一次组织切片检查,他们把一个内窥镜通过喉咙穿过我的胃进入肠子,用针头在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些细胞组织。当时我用了麻醉剂,陪在一旁的妻子后来告诉我,医生在显微镜里看了细胞之后叫了起来,原来这是一种少见的可以通过外科手术治愈的恶性肿瘤。我做了手术,现在好了。 这是我和死神离得最近的一次,我希望也是今后几十年里最近的一次。有了这次经历之后,现在我可以更加实在地和你们谈论死亡,而不是纯粹纸上谈兵,那就是: 谁都不愿意死。就是那些想进天堂的人也不愿意死后再进。然而,死亡是我们共同的归宿,没人能摆脱。我们注定会死,因为死亡很可能是生命最好的一项发明。它推进生命的变迁,旧的不去,新的不来。现在,你们就是新的,但在不久的将来,你们也会逐渐成为旧的,也会被淘汰。对不起,
话说得太过分了,不过这是千真万确的。 你们的时间都有限,所以不要按照别人的意愿去活,这是浪费时间。不要囿于成见,那是在按照别人设想的结果而活。不要让别人观点的聒噪声淹没自己的心声。最主要的是,要有跟著自己感觉和直觉走的勇气。无论如何,感觉和直觉早就知道你到底想成为什么样的人,其他都是次要的。 我年轻时有一本非常好的刊物,叫《全球概览》(The hle Earth Catalg),这是我那代人的宝书之一,创办人名叫斯图尔特?布兰德(Steart Brand),就住在离这儿不远的门洛帕克市。他用诗一般的语言把刊物办得生动活泼。那是 20 世纪 60 年代末,还没有个人电脑和桌面印刷系统,全靠打字机、剪刀和宝丽莱照相机(Plarid)。它就像一种纸质的 Ggle,却比 Ggle 早问世了 35 年。这份刊物太完美了,查阅手段齐备、构思不凡。 斯图尔特和他的同事们出了好几期《全球概览》,到最后办不下去时,他们出了最后一期。那是 20 世纪 70 年代中期,我也就是你们现在的年纪。最后一期的封底上是一张清晨乡间小路的照片,就是那种爱冒险的人等在那儿搭便车的那种小路。照片下面写道: 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。那是他们停刊前的告别辞。 求知若渴,大智若愚。这也是我一直想做到的。眼下正值诸位大学毕业、开始新生活之际,我同样愿大家: 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。
篇二:
乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿(中英) 名人演讲 乔布斯演讲 总结自己的一生 这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CE Steve Jbs于201X年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。 I am hnred t be ith yu tday at yur mencement frm ne f the finest universities in the rld. I never graduated frm cllege. Truth be tld, this is the clsest I ve ever gtten t a cllege graduatin. Tday I ant t tell yu three stries frm my life. That s it. N big deal. Just three stries. 我今天很荣幸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。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三
个故事而已。 The first stry is abut cnnecting the dts. 第一个故事是关于“因”和“果”。 I drpped ut f Reed Cllege after the first 6 mnths, but then stayed arund as a drp-in fr anther 18 mnths r s befre I really quit. S hy did I drp ut? 我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢, It started befre I as brn. My bilgical mther as a yung, uned cllege graduate student, and she decided t put me up fr adptin. She felt very strngly that I shuld be adpted by cllege graduates, s everything as all set fr me t be adpted at birth by a layer and his ife. Except that hen I ppped ut they decided at the last minute that they really anted a girl. S my parents, h ere n a aiting list, gt a call in the middle f the night asking: e have an unexpected baby by; d yu ant him? They said: f curse. My bilgical mther later fund ut that my mther had never graduated frm cllege and that my father had never graduated frm high schl. She refused t sign the final adptin papers. She nly relented a fe mnths later hen my parents prmised that I uld smeday g t cllege. 故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的准备工作,能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。 所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,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,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养
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。但是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。 And 17 years later I did g t cllege. But I naively chse a cllege that as almst as expensive as Stanfrd, and all f my rking-class parents savings ere being spent n my cllege tuitin. After six mnths,
I culdn t see the value in it. I had n idea hat I anted t d ith my life and n idea h cllege as ging t help me figure it ut. And here I as spending all f the mney my parents had saved their entire life. S I decided t drp ut and trust that it uld all rk ut K. It as pretty scary at the time, but lking back it as ne f the best decisins I ever made. The minute I drpped ut I culd stp taking the required classes that didn t interest me, and begin drpping in n the nes that lked interesting. 在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很天真的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层,他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。 但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最明智的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。 It asn t all rmantic. I didn t have a drm rm, s I slept n the flr in friends rms, I returned cke bttles fr the 5, depsits t buy fd ith, and I uld alk the 7 miles acrss tn every Sunday night t get ne gd meal a eek at the Hare Krishna temple. I lved it. And much f hat I stumbled int by flling my curisity and intuitin turned ut t be priceless later n. Let me give yu ne example: 但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子,仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程,穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙(注:
位于纽约Brklyn下城),只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧:
Reed Cllege at that time ffered perhaps the best
calligraphy instructin in the cuntry. Thrughut the campus every pster, every label n every draer, as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had drpped ut and didn t have t take the nrmal classes, I decided t take a calligraphy class t learn h t d this. I learned abut serif and san serif typefaces, abut varying the amunt f space beteen different letter binatins, abut hat makes great typgraphy great. It as beautiful, histrical, artistically subtle in a ay that science can t capture, and I fund it fascinating. Reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 所以我决定去参加这个课程,去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙, 我发现那实在是太美妙了。 Nne f this had even a hpe f any practical applicatin in my life. But ten years later, hen e ere designing the first Macintsh puter, it all came back t me. And e designed it all int the Mac. It as the first puter ith beautiful typgraphy. If I had never drpped in n that single curse in cllege, the Mac uld have never had multiple typefaces r prprtinally spaced fnts. And since inds just cpied the Mac, its likely that n persnal puter uld have them. If I had never drpped ut, I uld have never drpped in n this calligraphy class, and persnal puters might nt have the nderful typgraphy that they d. f curse it as impssible t cnnect the dts lking frard hen I as in cllege. But it as very, very clear lking backards ten years later. 当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中,好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台 Macintsh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去
参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体,以及赏心悦目的字体间距。因为微软就是苹果的山寨版,可以说世上所有PC都不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我当时不可能预知这事事之间的“因”“果”,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。 Again, yu can t cnnect the dts lking frard; yu can nly cnnect them lking backards. S yu have t trust that the dts ill smeh cnnect in yur future. Yu have t trust in smething - yur gut, destiny, life, karma, hatever. This apprach has never let me dn, and it has made all the difference in my life. 再次说明的是,没人可以未卜先知,事事的因果往往只在回首时显现,你得相信,种什么因,得什么果。人总要有些信仰才行,直觉也好,命运也罢,因果轮回,不管什么。去相信因果的联系,会给你信心去跟从自己的意愿,哪怕离经叛道,也绝不止步。只有这样,才能有所成。 My secnd stry is abut lve and lss. 我的第二个故事是关于爱和得失的。 I as lucky – I fund hat I lved t d early in life. z and I started Apple in my parents garage hen I as 20. e rked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grn frm just the t f us in a garage int a $2 billin pany ith ver 4000 emplyees. e had just released ur finest creatin - the Macintsh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I gt fired. H can yu get fired frm a pany yu started? ell, as Apple gre e hired smene h I thught as very talented t run the pany ith me, and fr the first year r s things ent ell. But then ur visins f the future began t diverge and eventually e had a falling ut. hen e did, ur Bard f Directrs sided ith him. S at 30 I as ut. And very publicly ut. hat had been the fcus f my entire adult life as gne, and it as devastating. 我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。z和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintsh。我
也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候,我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被当众扫地出门。在而立之年,我一生的追求突然不见了, 这真是沉重的打击。 I really didn t kn hat t d fr a fe mnths. I felt that I had let the previus generatin f entrepreneurs dn - that I had drpped the batn as it as being passed t me. I met ith David Packard and Bb Nyce and tried t aplgize fr screing up s badly. I as a very public failure, and I even thught abut running aay frm the valley. But smething slly began t dan n me – I still lved hat I did. The turn f events at Apple had nt changed that ne bit. I had been rejected, but I as still in lve. And s I decided t start ver. 在最初的几个月里,我不知所措。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和David Pack和Bb Byce见面,并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光, 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。 I didn t see it then, but it turned ut that getting fired frm Apple as the best thing that culd have ever happened t me. The heaviness f being successful as replaced by the lightness f being a beginner again, less sure abut everything. It freed me t enter ne f the mst creative perids f my life. 我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为,作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。 During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, anther pany named Pixar, and fell in lve ith an amazing man h uld bee my ife. Pixar ent n t create
the rlds first puter animated feature film, Ty Stry, and is n the mst successful animatin studi in the rld. In a remarkable turn f events, Apple bught NeXT, I retuned t Apple, and the technlgy e develped at NeXT is at the heart f Apple s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a nderful family tgether. 在接下来的五年里, 我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司, 还有一个叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar 制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“”玩具总动员”,Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。峰回路转,Apple收购了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。 I m pretty sure nne f this uld have happened if I hadn t been fired frm Apple. It as aful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Smetimes life hits yu in the head ith a brick. Dn t lse faith. I m cnvinced that the nly thing that kept me ging as that I lved hat I did. Yu ve gt t find hat yu lve. And that is as true fr yur rk as it is fr yur lvers. Yur rk is ging t fill a large part f yur life, and the nly ay t be truly satisfied is t d hat yu believe is great rk. And the nly ay t d great rk is t lve hat yu d. If yu haven t fund it yet, keep lking. Dn t settle. As ith all matters f the heart, yu ll kn hen yu find it. And, like any great relatinship, it just gets better and better as the years rll n. S keep lking until yu find it. Dn t settle. 我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。良药苦口利于病,但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我坚信,唯一使我一直走下去的,就是我对自己事业的热爱。你必须去寻找自己所爱。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将是此生命的主题之一。要获得真正的满足感,就要对它的价值深信不疑,也只有热爱,才可能开创伟大的事业。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心
全意的去找, 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像你找到注定的伴侣,
岁月的流逝只会令你们的感情愈发深刻。所以千万不要气馁,不要放弃。 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 hen I as 17, I read a qute that ent smething like: If yu live each day as if it as yur last, smeday yu ll mst certainly be right. It made an impressin n me, and since then, fr the past 33 years, I have lked in the mirrr every mrning and asked myself: If tday ere the last day f my life, uld I ant t d hat I am abut t d tday? And henever the anser has been N fr t many days in a r, I kn I need t change smething. 当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始,过了33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢,”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。 Remembering that I ll be dead sn is the mst imprtant tl I ve ever encuntered t help me make the big chices in life. Because almst everything – all external expectatins, all pride, all fear f embarrassment r failure - these things just fall aay in the face f death, leaving nly hat is truly imprtant. Remembering that yu are ging t die is the best ay I kn t avid the trap f thinking yu have smething t lse. Yu are already naked. There is n reasn nt t fll yur heart. “记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都那么微不足道。只需考虑那些真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西,“记住你即将死去”可以有效杜绝我们的侥幸心理。既然将一无所有, 还有什么理由违背自己的意愿。 Abut a year ag I as diagnsed ith cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the mrning, and it clearly shed a tumr n my pancreas. I didn t even kn hat a pancreas as. The dctrs tld me this as almst certainly a type f cancer that
is incurable, and that I shuld expect t live n lnger than three t six mnths. My dctr advised me t g hme and get my affairs in rder, hich is dctr s cde fr prepare t die. It means t try t tell yur kids everything yu thught yu d have the next 10 years t tell them in just a fe mnths. It means t make sure everything is buttned up s that it ill be as easy as pssible fr yur family. It means t say yur gdbyes. 大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查, 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症, 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完.;那意味着把每件事情都搞定, 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活;那意味着你要说“再见了”。 I lived ith that diagnsis all day. Later that evening I had a bipsy, here they stuck an endscpe dn my thrat, thrugh my stmach and int my intestines, put a needle int my pancreas and gt a fe cells frm the tumr. I as sedated, but my ife, h as there, tld me that hen they vieed the cells under a micrscpe the dctrs started crying because it turned ut t be a very rare frm f pancreatic cancer that is curable ith surgery. I had the surgery and I m fine n. 那张诊断书挥之不去。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查,医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静,因为我被注射了镇定剂。
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乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文 乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文:
Stanfrd Reprt, June 14, 201X ?Yu?ve gt t find hat yu lve,? Jbs says This is the text f the Cmmencement address by Steve Jbs, CE f Apple Cmputer and f Pixar Animatin Studis, delivered
n June 12, 201X. I am hnred t be ith yu tday at yur mencement frm ne f the finest universities in the rld. I never graduated frm cllege. Truth be tld, this is the clsest I?ve ever gtten t a cllege graduatin. Tday I ant t tell yu three stries frm my life. That?s it. N big deal. Just three stries. The first stry is abut cnnecting the dts. I drpped ut f Reed Cllege after the first 6 mnths, but then stayed arund as a drp-in fr anther 18 mnths r s befre I really quit. S hy did I drp ut? It started befre I as brn. My bilgical mther as a yung, uned cllege graduate student, and she decided t put me up fr adptin. She felt very strngly that I shuld be adpted by cllege graduates, s everything as all set fr me t be adpted at birth by a layer and his ife. Except that hen I ppped ut they decided at the last minute that they really anted a girl. S my parents, h ere n a aiting list, gt a call in the middle f the night asking: “e have an unexpected baby by; d yu ant him?” They said: “f curse.” My bilgical mther later fund ut that my mther had never graduated frm cllege and that my father had never graduated frm high schl. She refused t sign the final adptin papers. She nly relented a fe mnths later hen my parents prmised that I uld smeday g t cllege. And 17 years later I did g t cllege. But I naively chse a cllege that as almst as expensive as Stanfrd, and all f my rking-class parents? savings ere being spent n my cllege tuitin. After six mnths, I culdn?t see the value in it. I had n idea hat I anted t d ith my life and n idea h cllege as ging t help me figure it ut. And here I as spending all f the mney my parents had saved their entire life. S I decided t drp ut and trust that it uld all rk ut K. It as pretty scary at the time, but lking back it as ne f the best decisins I ever made. The minute I drpped ut I culd stp taking the required classes that didn?t interest me, and begin drpping in n the nes that lked interesting. It asn?t
all rmantic. I didn?t have a drm rm, s I slept n the flr in friends? rms, I returned cke bttles fr the 5?? depsits t buy fd ith, and I uld alk the 7 miles acrss tn every Sunday night t get ne gd meal a eek at the Hare Krishna temple. I lved it. And much f hat I stumbled int by flling my curisity and intuitin turned ut t be priceless later n. Let me give yu ne example: Reed Cllege at that time ffered perhaps the best calligraphy instructin in the cuntry. Thrughut the campus every pster, every label n every draer, as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had drpped ut and didn?t have t take the nrmal classes, I decided t take a calligraphy class t learn h t d this. I learned abut serif and san serif typefaces, abut varying the amunt f space beteen different letter binatins, abut hat makes great typgraphy great. It as beautiful, histrical, artistically subtle in a ay that science can?t capture, and I fund it fascinating. Nne f this had even a hpe f any practical applicatin in my life. But ten years later, hen e ere designing the first Macintsh puter, it all came back t me. And e designed it all int the Mac. It as the first puter ith beautiful typgraphy. If I had never drpped in n that single curse in cllege, the Mac uld have never had multiple typefaces r prprtinally spaced fnts. And since inds just cpied the Mac, its likely that n persnal puter uld have them. If I had never drpped ut, I uld have never drpped in n this calligraphy class, and persnal puters might nt have the nderful typgraphy that they d. f curse it as impssible t cnnect the dts lking frard hen I as in cllege. But it as very, very clear lking backards ten years later. Again, yu can?t cnnect the dts lking frard; yu can nly cnnect them lking backards. S yu have t trust that the dts ill smeh cnnect in yur future. Yu have t trust in smething - yur gut, destiny, life, karma, hatever. This apprach has never let me
dn, and it has made all the difference in my life. My secnd stry is abut lve and lss. I as lucky - I fund hat I lved t d early in life. z and I started Apple in my parents garage hen I as 20. e rked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grn frm just the t f us in a garage int a $2 billin pany ith ver 4000 emplyees. e had just released ur finest creatin - the Macintsh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I gt fired. H can yu get fired frm a pany yu started? ell, as Apple gre e hired smene h I thught as very talented t run the pany ith me, and fr the first year r s things ent ell. But then ur visins f the future began t diverge and eventually e had a falling ut. hen e did, ur Bard f Directrs sided ith him. S at 30 I as ut. And very publicly ut. hat had been the fcus f my entire adult life as gne, and it as devastating. I really didn?t kn hat t d fr a fe mnths. I felt that I had let the previus generatin f entrepreneurs dn - that I had drpped the batn as it as being passed t me. I met ith David Packard and Bb Nyce and tried t aplgize fr screing up s badly. I as a very public failure, and I even thught abut running aay frm the valley. But smething slly began t dan n me - I still lved hat I did. The turn f events at Apple had nt changed that ne bit. I had been rejected, but I as still in lve. And s I decided t start ver. I didn?t see it then, but it turned ut that getting fired frm Apple as the best thing that culd have ever happened t me. The heaviness f being successful as replaced by the lightness f being a beginner again, less sure abut everything. It freed me t enter ne f the mst creative perids f my life. During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, anther pany named Pixar, and fell in lve ith an amazing man h uld bee my ife. Pixar ent n t create the rlds first puter animated feature film, Ty Stry, and is n the mst successful animatin studi in the rld. In a remarkable
turn f events, Apple bught NeXT, I retuned t Apple, and the technlgy e develped at NeXT is at the heart f Apple?s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a nderful family tgether. I?m pretty sure nne f this uld have happened if I hadn?t been fired frm Apple. It as aful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Smetimes life hits yu in the head ith a brick. Dn?t lse faith. I?m cnvinced that the nly thing that kept me ging as that I lved hat I did. Yu?ve gt t find hat yu lve. And that is as true fr yur rk as it is fr yur lvers. Yur rk is ging t fill a large part f yur life, and the nly ay t be truly satisfied is t d hat yu believe is great rk. And the nly ay t d great rk is t lve hat yu d. If yu haven?t fund it yet, keep lking. Dn?t settle. As ith all matters f the heart, yu?ll kn hen yu find it. And, like any great relatinship, it just gets better and better as the years rll n. S keep lking until yu find it. Dn?t settle. My third stry is abut death. hen I as 17, I read a qute that ent smething like: “If yu live each day as if it as yur last, smeday yu?ll mst certainly be right.” It made an impressin n me, and since then, fr the past 33 years, I have lked in the mirrr every mrning and asked myself: “If tday ere the last day f my life, uld I ant t d hat I am abut t d tday?” And henever the anser has been “N” fr t many days in a r, I kn I need t change smething. Remembering that I?ll be dead sn is the mst imprtant tl I?ve ever encuntered t help me make the big chices in life. Because almst everything - all external expectatins, all pride, all fear f embarrassment r failure - these things just fall aay in the face f death, leaving nly hat is truly imprtant. Remembering that yu are ging t die is the best ay I kn t avid the trap f thinking yu have smething t lse. Yu are already naked. There is n reasn nt t fll yur heart. Abut a year ag I as diagnsed ith cancer. I had a scan at 7:30
in the mrning, and it clearly shed a tumr n my pancreas. I didn?t even kn hat a pancreas as. The dctrs tld me this as almst certainly a type f cancer that is incurable, and that I shuld expect t live n lnger than three t six mnths. My dctr advised me t g hme and get my affairs in rder, hich is dctr?s cde fr prepare t die. It means t try t tell yur kids everything yu thught yu?d have the next 10 years t tell them in just a fe mnths. It means t make sure everything is buttned up s that it ill be as easy as pssible fr yur family. It means t say yur gdbyes. I lived ith that diagnsis all day. Later that evening I had a bipsy, here they stuck an endscpe dn my thrat, thrugh my stmach and int my intestines, put a needle int my pancreas and gt a fe cells frm the tumr. I as sedated, but my ife, h as there, tld me that hen they vieed the cells under a micrscpe the dctrs started crying because it turned ut t be a very rare frm f pancreatic cancer that is curable ith surgery. I had the surgery and I?m fine n. This as the clsest I?ve been t facing death, and I hpe its the clsest I get fr a fe mre decades. Having lived thrugh it, I can n say this t yu ith a bit mre certainty than hen death as a useful but purely intellectual cncept: N ne ants t die. Even peple h ant t g t heaven dn?t ant t die t get there. And yet death is the destinatin e all share. N ne has ever escaped it. And that is as it shuld be, because Death is very likely the single best inventin f Life. It is Life?s change agent. It clears ut the ld t make ay fr the ne. Right n the ne is yu, but smeday nt t lng frm n, yu ill gradually bee the ld and be cleared aay. Srry t be s dramatic, but it is quite true. Yur time is limited, s dn?t aste it living smene else?s life. Dn?t be trapped by dgma - hich is living ith the results f ther peple?s thinking. Dn?t let the nise f ther?s pinins drn ut yur n inner vice. And mst imprtant, have the curage t fll yur heart
and intuitin. They smeh already kn hat yu truly ant t bee. Everything else is secndary. hen I as yung, there as an amazing publicatin called The hle Earth Catalg, hich as ne f the bibles f my generatin. It as created by a fell named Steart Brand nt far frm here in Menl Park, and he brught it t life ith his petic tuch. This as in the late 1960?s, befre persnal puters and desktp publishing, s it as all made ith typeriters, scissrs, and plarid cameras. It as srt f like Ggle in paperback frm, 35 years befre Ggle came alng: it as idealistic, and verfling ith neat tls and great ntins.篇四:
乔布斯201X年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版 乔布斯201X年斯坦福大学毕业演讲 乔布斯201X年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版 Yu ve gt t find hat yu lve, Jbs says This is the text f the Cmmencement address by Steve Jbs, CE f Apple Cmputer and f Pixar Animatin Studis, delivered n June 12, 201X. I am hnred t be ith yu tday at yur mencement frm ne f the finest universities in the rld. I never graduated frm cllege. Truth be tld, this is the clsest I ve ever gtten t a cllege graduatin. Tday I ant t tell yu three stries frm my life. That s it. N big deal. Just three stries. 你必须要找到你所爱的东西 很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业,说实话,这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事,不讲别的,也不讲大道理,就讲三个故事。 The first stry is abut cnnecting the dts. I drpped ut f Reed Cllege after the first 6 mnths, but then stayed arund as a drp-in fr anther 18 mnths r s befre I really quit. S hy did I drp ut? 第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院(Reed Cllege)只读了六个月就退学了,此后便在学校里旁听,又过了大约一年半,我彻底离开。那么,我为什么退学呢? It started befre I as brn. My bilgical mther as a yung, uned cllege graduate student, and she decided t put me up fr adptin. She felt very strngly that
I shuld be adpted by cllege graduates, s everything as all set fr me t be adpted at birth by a layer and his ife. Except that hen I ppped ut they decided at the last minute that they really anted a girl. S my parents, h ere n a aiting list, gt a call in the middle f the night asking: e have an unexpected baby by; d yu ant him? They said: f curse. My bilgical mther later fund ut that my mther had never graduated frm cllege and that my father had never graduated frm high schl. She refused t sign the final adptin papers. She nly relented a fe mnths later hen my parents prmised that I uld smeday g t cllege. 这得从我出生前讲起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚在校研究生,她决定将我送给别人收养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人,所以把一切都安排好了,我一出生就交给一对律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那间,那对夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。就这样,我的养父母?当时他们还在登记册上排队等著呢?半夜三更接到一个电话: “我们这儿有一个没人要的男婴,你们要么?”“当然要”他们回答。但是,我的生母后来发现我的养母不是大学毕业生,我的养父甚至连中学都没有毕业,所以她拒绝在最后的收养文件上签字。不过,没过几个月她就心软了,因为我的养父母许诺日后一定送我上大学。 And 17 years later I did g t cllege. But I naively chse a cllege that as almst as expensive as Stanfrd, and all f my rking-class parents savings ere being spent n my cllege tuitin. After six mnths, I culdn t see the value in it. I had n idea hat I anted t d ith my life and n idea h cllege as ging t help me figure it ut. And here I as spending all f the mney my parents had saved their entire life. S I decided t drp ut and trust that it uld all rk ut K. It as pretty scary at the time, but lking back it as ne f the best decisins I ever made. The minute I drpped ut I culd stp taking the required classes that didn t interest me, and begin drpping in n the nes that lked interesting。It asn t all rmantic. I didn t have a drm rm, s I slept n the flr in friends rms, I
returned cke bttles fr the 5, depsits t buy fd ith, and I uld alk the 7 miles acrss tn every Sunday night t get ne gd meal a eek at the Hare Krishna temple. I lved it. And much f hat I stumbled int by flling my curisity and intuitin turned ut t be priceless later n. Let me give yu ne example: 17 年后,我真的进了大学。当时我很天真,选了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学校,当工人的养父母倾其所有的积蓄为我支付了大学学费。读了六个月后,我却看不出上学有什么意义。我既不知道自己这一生想干什么,也不知道大学是否能够帮我弄明白自己想干什么。这时,我就要花光父母一辈子节省下来的钱了。所以,我决定退学,并且坚信日后会证明我这样做是对的。当年做出这个决定时心里直打鼓,但现在回想起来,这还真是我有生以来做出的最好的决定之一。从退学那一刻起,我就可以不再选那些我毫无兴趣的必修课,开始旁听一些看上去有意思的课。那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有宿舍,只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶,用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上我都要走 七英里,到城那头的黑尔-科里施纳礼拜堂去,吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜欢这样。我凭著好奇心和直觉所干的这些事情,有许多后来都证明是无价之宝。我给大家举个例子: Reed Cllege at that time ffered perhaps the best calligraphy instructin in the cuntry. Thrughut the campus every pster, every label n every draer, as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had drpped ut and didn t have t take the nrmal classes, I decided t take a calligraphy class t learn h t d this. I learned abut serif and san serif typefaces, abut varying the amunt f space beteen different letter binatins, abut hat makes great typgraphy great. It as beautiful, histrical, artistically subtle in a ay that science can t capture, and I fund it fascinating. 当时,里德学院的书法课大概是全国最好的。校园里所有的公告栏和每个抽屉标签上的字都写得非常漂亮。当时我已经退学,不用正常上课,所以我决定选一门书法课,学学怎么写好字。我学习写带短截线和不带短截线的印刷字体,根据不同字母组合调整其
间距,以及怎样把版式调整得好上加好。这门课太棒了,既有历史价值,又有艺术造诣,这一点科学就做不到,而我觉得它妙不可言。 Nne f this had even a hpe f any practical applicatin in my life. But ten years later, hen e ere designing the first Macintsh puter, it all came back t me. And e designed it all int the Mac. It as the first puter ith beautiful typgraphy. If I had never drpped in n that single curse in cllege, the Mac uld have never had multiple typefaces r prprtinally spaced fnts. And since inds just cpied the Mac, its likely that n persnal puter uld have them. If I had never drpped ut, I uld have never drpped in n this calligraphy class, and persnal puters might nt have the nderful typgraphy that they d. f curse it as impssible t cnnect the dts lking frard hen I as in cllege. But it as very, very clear lking backards ten years later. 当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是,十年之后,我们在设计第一台 Macintsh 计算机时,它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是,我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课,Macintsh 计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是 inds 照搬了 Macintsh,个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。要不是退了学,我决不会碰巧选了这门书法课,个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。当然,我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看,两者之间的关系就非常、非常清楚了。 Again, yu can t cnnect the dts lking frard; yu can nly cnnect them lking backards. S yu have t trust that the dts ill smeh cnnect in yur future. Yu have t trust in smething — yur gut, destiny, life, karma, hatever. This apprach has never let me dn, and it has made all the difference in my life. 你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来;只有回头看时,才会发现它们之间的关系。所以,要相信这些点迟早会连接到一起。你们必须信赖某些东西?直觉、归宿、生命,还有业力,等等。这样做从来没有让
我的希望落空过,而且还彻底改变了我的生活。 My secnd stry is abut lve and lss. I as lucky — I fund hat I lved t d early in life. z and I started Apple in my parents garage hen I as 20. e rked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grn frm just the t f us in a garage int a $2 billin pany ith ver 4000 emplyees. e had just released ur finest creatin — the Macintsh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I gt fired. H can yu get fired frm a pany yu started? ell, as Apple gre e hired smene h I thught as very talented t run the pany ith me, and fr the first year r s things ent ell. But then ur visins f the future began t diverge and eventually e had a falling ut. hen e did, ur Bard f Directrs sided ith him. S at 30 I as ut. And very publicly ut. hat had been the fcus f my entire adult life as gne, and it as devastating. 我的第二个故事是关于好恶与得失。 幸运的是,我在很小的时候就发现自己喜欢做什么。我在 20 岁时和沃兹(z,苹果公司创始人之一 zn 的昵称?译注)在我父母的车库里办起了苹果公司。我们干得很卖力,十年后,苹果公司就从车库里我们两个人发展成为一个拥有 20 亿元资产、4,000 名员工的大企业。那时,我们刚刚推出了我们最好的产品? Macintsh 电脑?那是在第 9 年,我刚满 30 岁。可后来,我被解雇了。你怎么会被自己办的公司解雇呢?是这样,随著苹果公司越做越大,我们聘了一位我认为非常有才华的人与我一道管理公司。在开始的一年多里,一切都很顺利。可是,随后我俩对公司前景的看法开始出现分歧,最后我俩反目了。这时,董事会站在了他那一边,所以在 30 岁那年,我离开了公司,而且这件事闹得满城风雨。我成年后的整个生活重心都没有了,这使我心力交瘁。 I really didn t kn hat t d fr a fe mnths. I felt that I had let the previus generatin f entrepreneurs dn - that I had drpped the batn as it as being passed t me. I met ith David Packard and Bb Nyce and tried t aplgize fr screing up s badly. I as a very public failure, and I even thught abut running aay frm the valley. But smething slly began t dan n me
— I still lved hat I did. The turn f events at Apple had nt changed that ne bit. I had been rejected, but I as still in lve. And s I decided t start ver. 一连几个月,我真的不知道应该怎么办。我感到自己给老一代的创业者丢了脸?因为我扔掉了交到自己手里的接力棒。我去见了戴维帕卡德(David Packard,惠普公司创始人之一?译注)和鲍勃;诺伊斯(Bb Nyce,英特尔公司创建者之一?译注),想为把事情搞得这么糟糕说声道歉。这次失败弄得沸沸扬扬的,我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是,渐渐地,我开始有了一个想法?我仍然热爱我过去做的一切。在苹果公司发生的这些风波丝毫没有改变这一点。我虽然被拒之门外,但我仍然深爱我的事业。于是,我决定从头开始。 I didn t see it then, but it turned ut that getting fired frm Apple as the best thing that culd have ever happened t me. The heaviness f being successful as replaced by the lightness f being a beginner again, less sure abut everything. It freed me t enter ne f the mst creative perids f my life. 虽然当时我并没有意识到,但事实证明,被苹果公司炒鱿鱼是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。尽管前景未卜,但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。这使我进入了一生中最富有创造力的时期之一。 During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, anther pany named Pixar, and fell in lve ith an amazing man h uld bee my ife. Pixar ent n t create the rlds first puter animated feature film, Ty Stry, and is n the mst successful animatin studi in the rld. In a remarkable turn f events, Apple bught NeXT, I retuned t Apple, and the technlgy e develped at NeXT is at the heart f Apple s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a nderful family tgether. 在此后的五年里,我开了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司,我还爱上一位了不起的女人,后来娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画片《玩具总动员》(Ty Stry),它现在是全球最成功的动画制作室。世道轮回,苹果公司买下 NeXT 后,我又回到了苹果公司,我们在 NeXT 公司开发的技术成了苹果公司这次重新崛起的核心。我和劳伦
娜(Laurene)也建立了美满的家庭。 I m pretty sure nne f this uld have happened if I hadn t been fired frm Apple. It as aful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Smetimes life hits yu in the head ith a brick. Dn t lse faith. I m cnvinced that the nly thing that kept me ging as that I lved hat I did. Yu ve gt t find hat yu lve. And that is as true fr yur rk as it is fr yur lvers. Yur rk is ging t fill a large part f yur life, and the nly ay t be truly satisfied is t d hat yu believe is great rk. And the nly ay t d great rk is t lve hat yu d. If yu haven t fund it yet, keep lking. Dn t settle. As篇五:
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【中英】 乔布斯201X年斯坦福演讲:
活出你自己 201X年6月12日,在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上,苹果公司CE史蒂夫?乔布斯(Steve Jbs)发表了精彩演讲。已被确诊身患癌症的乔布斯对在场学子讲述了自己经历的三个故事,与学子们分享自己的创业心得,并以此激励年轻一代勇敢、积极、快乐地面对人生。这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。尤其The hle Earth Catalg提到的话,作为杂志,这是一种精神,一种气质。乔布斯对操场上挤的满满的毕业生、校友和家长们说:
“你的时间有限,所以最好别把它浪费在模仿别人这种事上。” ,,同样地,如果还在学校的话,似乎不应该去模仿退学的牛人们。乔布斯朴实而真诚的演讲不但赢得了全场数次热烈鼓掌和尖叫,也成为近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇。时至今日,这一演讲仍然对广大学子和创业者产生着深远影响。以下为乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲全文:
史蒂夫?乔布斯(Steve Jbs)在斯坦福大学201X年毕业典礼上的演讲稿 [中英对照] 201X-10-06 21:04:19 Yu ve gt t find hat yu lve, Jbs says Jbs说,你必须要找到你所爱的东西。 This is the text f the Cmmencement addr(乔布斯斯坦福演讲)ess by Steve Jbs, CE f Apple Cmputer and f Pixar Animatin Studis, delivered n June
12, 201X. 这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CE Steve Jbs于201X年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。 Thank yu.I am hnred t be ith yu tday at yur mencement frm ne f the finest universities in the rld. I never graduated frm cllege. Truth be tld, this is the clsest I ve ever gtten t a cllege graduatin. Tday I ant t tell yu three stries frm my life. That s it. N big deal. Just three stries. 我今天很荣幸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。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。 The first stry is abut cnnecting the dts. 第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。 I drpped ut f Reed Cllege after the first 6 mnths, but then stayed arund as a drp-in fr anther 18 mnths r s befre I really quit. S hy did I drp ut? 我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢, It started befre I as brn. My bilgical mther as a yung, uned cllege graduate student, and she decided t put me up fr adptin. She felt very strngly that I shuld be adpted by cllege graduates, s everything as all set fr me t be adpted at birth by a layer and his ife. Except that hen I ppped ut they decided at the last minute that they really anted a girl. S my parents, h ere n a aiting list, gt a call in the middle f the night asking: e have an unexpected baby by; d yu ant him? They said: f curse. My bilgical mther later fund ut that my mther had never graduated frm cllege and that my father had never graduated frm high schl. She refused t sign the final adptin papers. She nly relented a fe mnths later hen my parents prmised that I uld smeday g t cllege. 故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的
准备工作,能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。 所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,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,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。 And 17 years later I did g t cllege. But I naively chse a cllege that as almst as expensive as Stanfrd, and all f my rking-class parents savings ere being spent n my cllege tuitin. After six mnths, I culdn t see the value in it. I had n idea hat I anted t d ith my life and n idea h cllege as ging t help me figure it ut. And here I as spending all f the mney my parents had saved their entire life. S I decided t drp ut and trust that it uld all rk ut K. It as pretty scary at the time, but lking back it as ne f the best decisins I ever made. The minute I drpped ut I culd stp taking the required classes that didn t interest me, and begin drpping in n the nes that lked interesting. 在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层,他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。 但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。 It asn t all rmantic. I didn t have a drm rm, s I slept n the flr in friends rms, I returned cke bttles fr the 5, depsits t buy fd ith, and I uld alk the 7 miles acrss tn every Sunday night t get ne gd meal a eek at the Hare Krishna
temple. I lved it. And much f hat I stumbled int by flling my curisity and intuitin turned ut t be priceless later n. Let me give yu ne example: 但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子,仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程,穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙(注:
位于纽约Brklyn下城),只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧:
Reed Cllege at that time ffered perhaps the best calligraphy instructin in the cuntry. Thrughut the campus every pster, every label n every draer, as beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had drpped ut and didn t have t take the nrmal classes, I decided t take a calligraphy class t learn h t d this. I learned abut serif and san serif typefaces, abut varying the amunt f space beteen different letter binatins, abut hat makes great typgraphy great. It as beautiful, histrical, artistically subtle in a ay that science can t capture, and I fund it fascinating. Reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 所以我决定去参加这个课程,去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙, 我发现那实在是太美妙了。 Nne f this had even a hpe f any practical applicatin in my life. But ten years later, hen e ere designing the first Macintsh puter, it all came back t me. And e designed it all int the Mac. It as the first puter ith beautiful typgraphy. If I had never drpped in n that single curse in cllege, the Mac uld have never had multiple typefaces r
prprtinally spaced fnts. And since inds just cpied the Mac, its likely that n persnal puter uld have them. If I had never drpped ut, I uld have never drpped in n this calligraphy class, and persnal puters might nt have the nderful typgraphy that they d. f curse it as impssible t cnnect the dts lking frard hen I as in cllege. But it as very, very clear lking backards ten years later. 当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中,好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintsh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体,以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候,还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。 Again, yu can t cnnect the dts lking frard; yu can nly cnnect them lking backards. S yu have t trust that the dts ill smeh cnnect in yur future. Yu have t trust in smething - yur gut, destiny, life, karma, hatever. This apprach has never let me dn, and it has made all the difference in my life. 再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西:
你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘??这个过程从来没有令我失望(let me dn),只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。 My secnd stry is abut lve and lss. 我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。 I as lucky – I fund hat I lved t d early in life. z and I started Apple in my parents garage hen I as 20. e rked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grn frm just the t f us in a garage int a billin pany ith ver 乔布斯在ipad发布会上 4000 emplyees. e had just released ur finest creatin - the Macintsh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I gt fired. H can yu get fired frm a pany
yu started? ell, as Apple gre e hired smene h I thught as very talented t run the pany ith me, and fr the first year r s things ent ell. But then ur visins f the future began t diverge and eventually e had a falling ut. hen e did, ur Bard f Directrs sided ith him. S at 30 I as ut. And very publicly ut. hat had been the fcus f my entire adult life as gne, and it as devastating. 我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。z和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintsh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候,我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年,我生命的全部支柱离自己远去, 这真是毁灭性的打击。 I really didn t kn hat t d fr a fe mnths. I felt that I had let the previus generatin f entrepreneurs dn - that I had drpped the batn as it as being passed t me. I met ith David Packard and Bb Nyce and tried t aplgize fr screing up s badly. I as a very public failure, and I even thught abut running aay frm the valley. But smething slly began t dan n me – I still lved hat I did. The turn f events at Apple had nt changed that ne bit. I had been rejected, but I as still in lve. And s I decided t start ver. 在最初的几个月里,我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我与戴维?帕卡德( David Pack)和鲍勃?诺伊斯(Bb Byce)见面(注:
戴维?帕卡德,普惠的创办人之一,鲍勃?诺伊斯,英特尔创办人之一),并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐
渐发现了曙光, 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。 I didn t see it then, but it turned ut that getting fired frm Apple as the best thing that culd have ever happened t me. The heaviness f being successful as replaced by the lightness f being a beginner again, less sure abut everything. It freed me t enter ne f the mst creative perids f my life. 我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为,作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。 During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, anther pany named Pixar, and fell in lve ith an amazing man h uld bee my ife. Pixar ent n t create the rlds first puter animated feature film, Ty Stry, and is n the mst successful animatin studi in the rld. In a remarkable turn f events, Apple bught NeXT, I retuned t Apple, and the technlgy e develped at NeXT is at the heart f Apple s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a nderful family tgether.