Stay hungry,Stay foolish
Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs
Thank you. I'm 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 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 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented 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 naïvely 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 of how college was going to help me figure 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 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 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 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 sans-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 that calligraphy class and personals 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 10 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 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 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. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, 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, 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 didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd 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 in 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 world's 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 we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene 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's going to hit 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 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, and 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. Don't settle.
Thank you. I'm 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 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 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented 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 naïvely 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 of how college was going to help me figure 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 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 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 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 sans-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 that calligraphy class and personals 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 10 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 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 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. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, 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, 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 didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd 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 in 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 world's 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 we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene 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's going to hit 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 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, and 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. 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 thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 endoscope 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 pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am 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's 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's 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, 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 Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart 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, 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. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, 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 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.
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 doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd 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 endoscope 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 pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am 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's 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's 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, 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 Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart 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, 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. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, 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 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.
来自Google翻译············
保持飢餓，保持愚蠢
談話在斯坦福大學畢業典禮上發表演說給予史蒂夫喬布斯
謝謝。我很榮幸能與你從今天開始為你的最好的大學之一，在世界上。說實話，我從來沒有從大學畢業，這是最接近我從來沒從大學畢業。
今天我要告訴你的三個故事從我的生活。就是這樣。沒什麼大不了的。只是三個故事。第一個故事是關於連接點。
我在里德學院退學後的頭 6個月，但之後仍作為一個下降約在18個月或再這樣我才真正離開。那麼，我為什麼退學呢？這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親是一個年輕的未婚媽媽，在讀研究生，她決定把我收養。她強烈覺得我應該通過大學畢業生，所以一切都沒有為我出生時將通過一個律師和他的妻子，只是當我突然出現了，他們決定在最後一刻，他們想一女孩。所以，我的父母，誰是在等候名單，接到一個電話，中間夜問，“我們有一個意外出生的男孩。你們想要他嗎？”他們說：“當然。”我的親生母親後來發現我的養母從來沒有從大學畢業，而我的父親從來沒有從高中畢業。她拒絕簽署最後的收養文件。她只是在幾個月後，我的父母答應，我會去上大學。
這是我生命中開始。和17年後，我上大學了，但我天真地選了一學院，幾乎和斯坦福大學一樣貴，和我所有的工薪階層的父母的積蓄都花在我的學費。經過 6個月，我看不出它的價值。我不知道我想要做什麼與我的生活，不知道的大學能怎樣幫助我找到答案，而且我在這裡，花父母的錢救了我的一生。所以我決定休學，相信它會各項工作進行確定。這是非常可怕的時間，但是現在回頭看看，這是一個最好的決定，我這輩子做過。當我休學了，我再也不用上所需要的類，我沒興趣，並開始對那些在下降，看起來更有趣。
這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在地板上在朋友房間的。我回到可樂瓶，五美分的押金買吃的，我都會步行7英里穿越市區的每個星期天晚上得到一個良好的用餐一個星期能吃上。我喜歡它。和很多東西，我踉踉蹌蹌地按照我的好奇與直覺原來是無價之寶。讓我給你一個例子。
Reed大學在那時提供也許是最好的書法指導在該國。在整個校園內的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標籤都是美麗的手字。因為我休學了，沒有採取正常的課程，我決定採取書法課，學習如何做到這一點。我學了serif與 san - serif字體，不同的空間大小不同的字母組合，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。這是美麗的，真實的藝術微妙的方式是科學所無法捕捉的，我覺得這很迷人。
這甚至都不希望任何一個實際應用在我的生命。但是10年後，當我們在設計第一台Macintosh計算機時，它都回來給我，我們設計了這一切進了Mac。這是第一次印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。如果我當時沒有退學，在該門課程的大學，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體，又因為 Windows抄襲了Mac，這可能是因為沒有個人電腦都有了這些東西。
如果我沒有退學，我就不會下降了該書法班及個人電腦大概也就不會有出色的版式，他們做的事。
這當然是不可能的連接點期待當我在大學，但它是非常，非常清楚10年後的今天回顧。同樣，你不能連接點期待。您只能將它們連接回頭看，所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西 - 你的直覺，命運，生命，因緣 - 因為相信這些片斷會連接在路上會給你信心，跟隨你的心，甚至當它帶你離開陳腐的路徑，這將改變這一切。
我的第二個故事是關於愛和損失。我是幸運的。我找到了我鍾愛的生活在很早的時候。沃茲和我開始蘋果在我爸媽的車庫，當我20歲。我們拼命工作，並在10年，蘋果已經從僅僅是我們兩個人在一間車庫裡一項價值 20億美元的公司超過 4000名員工。我們剛剛推出了我們最棒的作品，在Macintosh，而去年同期，而且我剛過三十歲，然後我被解僱了。如何讓自己的公司解僱你開始了嗎？好吧，當蘋果計算機成長，我們僱用的人誰我認為非常有才華的公司與我，在頭一年左右，一切都很順利。不過，我們的願景是未來開始出現分歧，最終我們吵了起來。當我們這樣做，我們的董事會站在他的，所以在30，我在外面，也很公開了。曾經是重點我整個成年生活離自己遠去，這真是毀滅性的打擊。我真的不知道該怎麼做了數個月。我覺得我讓上一代的企業家下來，我已經放棄了，因為這是接力棒傳遞給我。我遇到了戴維帕卡德和Bob諾伊斯，並試圖向他們道歉搞砸得很厲害了。我是一個非常公開的失敗，我什至想過離開矽谷。但是我漸漸發現了曙光，我。我仍然熱愛我所做的一切。投票活動在蘋果並沒有改變這一點。我會被拒絕，但我還是愛。所以我決定從頭來過。
我當時沒有看出來，但事實證明，從蘋果公司炒魷魚是最好的事情可能曾經發生在我身上。成功的沉重被取代的亮度被重新開始，一切都那麼清楚了。這使我進入一個最有創意的時期，我的生活。在接下來的5年裡，我開始了一個名叫NeXT的公司，另一家公司命名為皮克斯，愛上一位了不起的女人誰成為我的妻子。 Pixar接著製作了世界上第一個電腦動畫電影“玩具總動員”，是目前最成功的動畫製作公司在世界上。
在運轉中的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果和技術，我們在NeXT發展的核心是在蘋果的復興，以及洛倫和我有一個美滿的家庭。
我敢肯定，這一切都沒有發生，如果我不被蘋果開除。這是可怕的，試藥，但我想病人需要它。有時候，人生的會打你的頭部用磚頭。不要喪失信心。我相信，唯一讓我繼續走下去，我愛我所做的。你得找出你愛，那是真正的工作，因為這是你的戀人。你的工作將會佔據很大一部分你的生活，唯一獲得真正滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。正如所有事項的心，你知道你一定會找到它，如同任何偉大的關係只會越來越好，並隨著歲月的流逝。所以繼續找。不要停下。
我的第三個故事是關於死亡。當我17歲我讀到一則格言，好像是“如果你生活每一天，就好像它是你的最後一天，總有一天你會是正確的。”這句話給我的印象，從那時起，在過去 33年中，我看著鏡中的每一個早晨問自己：“如果今天是我生命的最後一天，我會想要做什麼，我要今天做？“當答案是“不”的時候連續多天，我知道我必須有所改變了。記住你即將死去是最重要的是我一生中遇到幫助我做人生的重大抉擇，因為幾乎每件事 - 所有外界期望，所有名譽，所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼 - 這些事情剛剛消失在面對死亡，只留下真正重要的東西。記住你即將死去是我知道的最好辦法，以避免陷阱的思維你有東西要失去了。你已經赤身裸體。我們沒有理由不去跟隨自己的心。
大約一年前，我被診斷出癌症。我有一個掃描在早上7:30，這清楚地表明我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。我什至不知道胰臟是什麼。醫生告訴我，那幾乎肯定是一個類型的癌症是無法治愈的，而且我大概活不到三到六個月。我的醫生建議我回家，然後我的事務秩序，這是醫生的代碼為“準備死。”這意味著，試圖告訴你的孩子一切你以為你要把未來十年的時間告訴他們，在短短幾個月內。這意味著，以確保一切安頓停當，以便將盡可能容易為你的家人。這意味著向眾人告別。
我住的那個診斷整天。那天晚上做了一次切片，他們堅持一個內窺鏡從我的喉嚨，通過我的胃進入腸子，把一根針在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤細胞數。我當時是被麻醉，但我的妻子，誰在那裡，告訴我說，當他們認為這些細胞在顯微鏡下，醫生開始哭泣，因為那是一個非常罕見的胰臟癌，可以用手術治療是可以治愈的。我接受了手術，康復，現在我很好。
這是最接近我去過面臨死亡的時候，我希望它是最接近我得到了幾十年。有親身經歷過，我現在可以這樣說，是向你們提供多一點肯定比當死亡是有用但是純粹是知識上的概念。沒有人想死，即使人誰不想去天堂不想死到那裡，然而，死亡是我們共同的目的地。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。這是理所當然的，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的發明。這是生活的變革，它清除了老人們的新途徑。現在，新的就是您。但總有一天，不久從現在開始，你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然後被清除。很抱歉說得這麼富有戲劇性，但它很真實。你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生命。不要被教條束縛，這是生活的結果與其他人的思想。不要讓他人的噪音的意見淹沒了你內在的聲音，心和直覺。它們在某種程度上已經知道你真正想要成為。其他一切都是次要的。
當我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做Whole Earth目錄，這是一個對我這一代的聖經。它是由一個名為同胞斯圖爾特品牌在離這不遠的門洛帕克的，他把它辦得充滿詩意。這是在60年代後期，在個人電腦和桌面出版，所以全部是用打字機，剪刀和寶麗來相機。它有點像印在紙上的谷歌35年之前，谷歌來了。我很理想主義，充滿著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。斯圖爾特和他的團隊提出了幾個問題的整個地球的目錄，然後當它完成了它的過程中，他們做出了最後一個問題。這是70年代中期，我正是你們現在的年齡。在後蓋的最後一個問題了一張照片，一個清晨鄉村公路，那種你可能會發現自己這條路，如果你是這樣的冒險。下面有行小字：“保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。”這是他們告別的消息，因為他們停止了。 “保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。”我總是希望自己能夠和現在，在你們畢業開始新生活，我希望你們能這樣。保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。
謝謝大家，非常多。
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保持飢餓，保持愚蠢
談話在斯坦福大學畢業典禮上發表演說給予史蒂夫喬布斯
謝謝。我很榮幸能與你從今天開始為你的最好的大學之一，在世界上。說實話，我從來沒有從大學畢業，這是最接近我從來沒從大學畢業。
今天我要告訴你的三個故事從我的生活。就是這樣。沒什麼大不了的。只是三個故事。第一個故事是關於連接點。
我在里德學院退學後的頭 6個月，但之後仍作為一個下降約在18個月或再這樣我才真正離開。那麼，我為什麼退學呢？這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親是一個年輕的未婚媽媽，在讀研究生，她決定把我收養。她強烈覺得我應該通過大學畢業生，所以一切都沒有為我出生時將通過一個律師和他的妻子，只是當我突然出現了，他們決定在最後一刻，他們想一女孩。所以，我的父母，誰是在等候名單，接到一個電話，中間夜問，“我們有一個意外出生的男孩。你們想要他嗎？”他們說：“當然。”我的親生母親後來發現我的養母從來沒有從大學畢業，而我的父親從來沒有從高中畢業。她拒絕簽署最後的收養文件。她只是在幾個月後，我的父母答應，我會去上大學。
這是我生命中開始。和17年後，我上大學了，但我天真地選了一學院，幾乎和斯坦福大學一樣貴，和我所有的工薪階層的父母的積蓄都花在我的學費。經過 6個月，我看不出它的價值。我不知道我想要做什麼與我的生活，不知道的大學能怎樣幫助我找到答案，而且我在這裡，花父母的錢救了我的一生。所以我決定休學，相信它會各項工作進行確定。這是非常可怕的時間，但是現在回頭看看，這是一個最好的決定，我這輩子做過。當我休學了，我再也不用上所需要的類，我沒興趣，並開始對那些在下降，看起來更有趣。
這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在地板上在朋友房間的。我回到可樂瓶，五美分的押金買吃的，我都會步行7英里穿越市區的每個星期天晚上得到一個良好的用餐一個星期能吃上。我喜歡它。和很多東西，我踉踉蹌蹌地按照我的好奇與直覺原來是無價之寶。讓我給你一個例子。
Reed大學在那時提供也許是最好的書法指導在該國。在整個校園內的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標籤都是美麗的手字。因為我休學了，沒有採取正常的課程，我決定採取書法課，學習如何做到這一點。我學了serif與 san - serif字體，不同的空間大小不同的字母組合，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。這是美麗的，真實的藝術微妙的方式是科學所無法捕捉的，我覺得這很迷人。
這甚至都不希望任何一個實際應用在我的生命。但是10年後，當我們在設計第一台Macintosh計算機時，它都回來給我，我們設計了這一切進了Mac。這是第一次印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。如果我當時沒有退學，在該門課程的大學，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體，又因為 Windows抄襲了Mac，這可能是因為沒有個人電腦都有了這些東西。
如果我沒有退學，我就不會下降了該書法班及個人電腦大概也就不會有出色的版式，他們做的事。
這當然是不可能的連接點期待當我在大學，但它是非常，非常清楚10年後的今天回顧。同樣，你不能連接點期待。您只能將它們連接回頭看，所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西 - 你的直覺，命運，生命，因緣 - 因為相信這些片斷會連接在路上會給你信心，跟隨你的心，甚至當它帶你離開陳腐的路徑，這將改變這一切。
我的第二個故事是關於愛和損失。我是幸運的。我找到了我鍾愛的生活在很早的時候。沃茲和我開始蘋果在我爸媽的車庫，當我20歲。我們拼命工作，並在10年，蘋果已經從僅僅是我們兩個人在一間車庫裡一項價值 20億美元的公司超過 4000名員工。我們剛剛推出了我們最棒的作品，在Macintosh，而去年同期，而且我剛過三十歲，然後我被解僱了。如何讓自己的公司解僱你開始了嗎？好吧，當蘋果計算機成長，我們僱用的人誰我認為非常有才華的公司與我，在頭一年左右，一切都很順利。不過，我們的願景是未來開始出現分歧，最終我們吵了起來。當我們這樣做，我們的董事會站在他的，所以在30，我在外面，也很公開了。曾經是重點我整個成年生活離自己遠去，這真是毀滅性的打擊。我真的不知道該怎麼做了數個月。我覺得我讓上一代的企業家下來，我已經放棄了，因為這是接力棒傳遞給我。我遇到了戴維帕卡德和Bob諾伊斯，並試圖向他們道歉搞砸得很厲害了。我是一個非常公開的失敗，我什至想過離開矽谷。但是我漸漸發現了曙光，我。我仍然熱愛我所做的一切。投票活動在蘋果並沒有改變這一點。我會被拒絕，但我還是愛。所以我決定從頭來過。
我當時沒有看出來，但事實證明，從蘋果公司炒魷魚是最好的事情可能曾經發生在我身上。成功的沉重被取代的亮度被重新開始，一切都那麼清楚了。這使我進入一個最有創意的時期，我的生活。在接下來的5年裡，我開始了一個名叫NeXT的公司，另一家公司命名為皮克斯，愛上一位了不起的女人誰成為我的妻子。 Pixar接著製作了世界上第一個電腦動畫電影“玩具總動員”，是目前最成功的動畫製作公司在世界上。
在運轉中的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果和技術，我們在NeXT發展的核心是在蘋果的復興，以及洛倫和我有一個美滿的家庭。
我敢肯定，這一切都沒有發生，如果我不被蘋果開除。這是可怕的，試藥，但我想病人需要它。有時候，人生的會打你的頭部用磚頭。不要喪失信心。我相信，唯一讓我繼續走下去，我愛我所做的。你得找出你愛，那是真正的工作，因為這是你的戀人。你的工作將會佔據很大一部分你的生活，唯一獲得真正滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。正如所有事項的心，你知道你一定會找到它，如同任何偉大的關係只會越來越好，並隨著歲月的流逝。所以繼續找。不要停下。
我的第三個故事是關於死亡。當我17歲我讀到一則格言，好像是“如果你生活每一天，就好像它是你的最後一天，總有一天你會是正確的。”這句話給我的印象，從那時起，在過去 33年中，我看著鏡中的每一個早晨問自己：“如果今天是我生命的最後一天，我會想要做什麼，我要今天做？“當答案是“不”的時候連續多天，我知道我必須有所改變了。記住你即將死去是最重要的是我一生中遇到幫助我做人生的重大抉擇，因為幾乎每件事 - 所有外界期望，所有名譽，所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼 - 這些事情剛剛消失在面對死亡，只留下真正重要的東西。記住你即將死去是我知道的最好辦法，以避免陷阱的思維你有東西要失去了。你已經赤身裸體。我們沒有理由不去跟隨自己的心。
大約一年前，我被診斷出癌症。我有一個掃描在早上7:30，這清楚地表明我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。我什至不知道胰臟是什麼。醫生告訴我，那幾乎肯定是一個類型的癌症是無法治愈的，而且我大概活不到三到六個月。我的醫生建議我回家，然後我的事務秩序，這是醫生的代碼為“準備死。”這意味著，試圖告訴你的孩子一切你以為你要把未來十年的時間告訴他們，在短短幾個月內。這意味著，以確保一切安頓停當，以便將盡可能容易為你的家人。這意味著向眾人告別。
我住的那個診斷整天。那天晚上做了一次切片，他們堅持一個內窺鏡從我的喉嚨，通過我的胃進入腸子，把一根針在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤細胞數。我當時是被麻醉，但我的妻子，誰在那裡，告訴我說，當他們認為這些細胞在顯微鏡下，醫生開始哭泣，因為那是一個非常罕見的胰臟癌，可以用手術治療是可以治愈的。我接受了手術，康復，現在我很好。
這是最接近我去過面臨死亡的時候，我希望它是最接近我得到了幾十年。有親身經歷過，我現在可以這樣說，是向你們提供多一點肯定比當死亡是有用但是純粹是知識上的概念。沒有人想死，即使人誰不想去天堂不想死到那裡，然而，死亡是我們共同的目的地。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。這是理所當然的，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的發明。這是生活的變革，它清除了老人們的新途徑。現在，新的就是您。但總有一天，不久從現在開始，你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然後被清除。很抱歉說得這麼富有戲劇性，但它很真實。你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生命。不要被教條束縛，這是生活的結果與其他人的思想。不要讓他人的噪音的意見淹沒了你內在的聲音，心和直覺。它們在某種程度上已經知道你真正想要成為。其他一切都是次要的。
當我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做Whole Earth目錄，這是一個對我這一代的聖經。它是由一個名為同胞斯圖爾特品牌在離這不遠的門洛帕克的，他把它辦得充滿詩意。這是在60年代後期，在個人電腦和桌面出版，所以全部是用打字機，剪刀和寶麗來相機。它有點像印在紙上的谷歌35年之前，谷歌來了。我很理想主義，充滿著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。斯圖爾特和他的團隊提出了幾個問題的整個地球的目錄，然後當它完成了它的過程中，他們做出了最後一個問題。這是70年代中期，我正是你們現在的年齡。在後蓋的最後一個問題了一張照片，一個清晨鄉村公路，那種你可能會發現自己這條路，如果你是這樣的冒險。下面有行小字：“保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。”這是他們告別的消息，因為他們停止了。 “保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。”我總是希望自己能夠和現在，在你們畢業開始新生活，我希望你們能這樣。保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。
謝謝大家，非常多。
[ 本帖最后由 DeDeB 于 10-7-1 15:56 编辑 ]