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史蒂夫乔布斯2005年6月在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Com puter and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.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The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around asa drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? 第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。
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CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.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 story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于“因”和“果”。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?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 before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.故事从我出生的时候讲起。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英文对照)篇一：乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【中英】乔布斯XX年斯坦福演讲：活出你自己XX年6月12日，在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上，苹果公司CEO史蒂夫?乔布斯（Steve Jobs）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 Whole Earth Catalog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 Jobs)在斯坦福大学XX年毕业典礼上的演讲稿 [中英对照]XX-10-06 21:04:19You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysJobs说，你必须要找到你所爱的东西。
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, XX.这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs 于XX年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
Thank you.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.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。
史蒂夫乔布斯2005 年 6 月在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of AppleComputer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finestuniversities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is theclosest 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.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The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why didI drop out?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿（通用6篇）乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿（1）I am 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 to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上的大学之一。
说实话，(虽然)我从来没有从大学中毕业，但今天是我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。
不说大道理，就是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months， but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后，我还经常去学校。
我为什么要退学呢?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young， unwed college graduate student， and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates， so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents， who were on a waiting list， got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him? They said: “Of course. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. This was the start in my life.故事要从我的出生说起。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文Steve Jobs说，你得找出你爱的(You’ve got to find what you love.)。
今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。
我从来没从大学毕业。
说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。
今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。
第一个故事，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。
我在里德学院（Reed college）待了六个月就办休学了。
到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。
那么，我为什么休学？这得从我出生前讲起。
我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。
她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。
但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。
所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们「有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？」而他们的回答是「当然要」。
后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。
她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。
直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
十七年后，我上大学了。
但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。
六个月后，我看不出念这个书的价值何在。
那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄，所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。
当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。
当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
这一点也不浪漫。
我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原稿和译文律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。
然后我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 17 years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea 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 therequired classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.这是我生命的开端。
Steve Jobs 2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲全文Steve Jobs说，你得找出你爱的(You've got to find what you love.)。
今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。
我从来没从大学毕业。
说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。
今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。
第一个故事，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。
我在里德学院（Reed college）待了六个月就办休学了。
到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。
那么，我为什么休学？这得从我出生前讲起。
我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。
她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。
但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。
所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们“有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？”而他们的回答是“当然要”。
后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。
她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。
直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
十七年后，我上大学了。
但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。
六个月后，我看不出念这个书的价值何在。
那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄，所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。
当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。
当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
这一点也不浪漫。
我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七哩的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿_乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文演讲稿也叫演说辞，演讲词，它是在较为隆重的仪式上和某些公众场所发表的讲话文稿。
以下是本小编整理的乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿，欢迎大家阅读。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.你必须要找到你所爱的东西I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.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 story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿【中英】I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. no big deal. Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能参加你们的毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学毕业。
说真的，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 story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?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--我真正地作出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.故事从我出生的时候讲起。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿1我当时没有觉察，但后来发现，被苹果公司解雇可能是我这辈子发生的'最好的事情。
一个成功者的包袱没有了，有的只是一个初出茅庐者的轻松感觉，我对各种事情也不再那么胸有成竹。
这让我轻装上阵，进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段之一。
今天，我很荣幸能来到贵校这所世界顶尖大学，参加你们的毕业典礼。
我没有念完大学。
老实说，今天是我一生中最接近大学毕业的日子。
今天我想告诉你们我生活中的三个故事，仅此而已。
不是什么大不了的事情，只是三个故事。
第一个故事是关于串连起生活的点滴我在里德大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但之后我又像在校生一样读了十八个月左右才彻底退学。
那么，我为什么要退学呢？这要从我出生前讲起。
我母亲生我的时候还是一个年轻、未婚的在校研究生，所以她决定让别人收养我。
她十分希望收养者是大学毕业生，并办妥了一切，我出生后就会由一位律师和他的妻子收养。
意外的是，我出生后，那对夫妻突然变卦，说他们其实想要一个女孩。
于是，当时还在等待名单上的我的养父母在半夜接到了一个电话，问他们说：“我们这儿有一个未婚出生的男婴，你们想要他吗？”他们回答：“当然要。
”但是，随后我的生母发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至连高中都没读完。
她拒绝签订收养合同。
几个月以后，我的养父母承诺一定会让我上大学，她才让步。
十七年之后，我真的上了大学。
但是，我很幼稚地选择了一所学费几乎和你们斯坦福一样贵的学校。
我父母是工薪阶层，他们倾尽积蓄，支付了我的学费。
过了六个月，我却看不到这笔钱的价值。
我不知道我想要做什么，也不知道大学会怎样帮我找到答案，而我却在浪费着我父母一辈子的积蓄。
所以我决定退学，并坚信这是个正确的决定。
我当时非常害怕，但是现在回头看，那是我一生中最棒的决定之一。
一退学，我就可以不去读那些我不感兴趣的必修课，并开始上那些看起来很有意思的课程。
但是，这并没有多浪漫。
乔布斯：你必须找到你所爱的东西摘要今天能够在世界上最优秀的高校之一参加各位的毕业典礼，我感到十分荣幸。
我本人没能从大学毕业。
说句实在话，今天要算我同大学毕业之间距离最近的一次了。
现在，我想给诸位讲三个我的人生故事。
是的，没什么大道理，只讲三个故事。
本文是苹果公司及Pixar动画工厂CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大学学生毕业典礼上发表的演讲。
今天能够在世界上最优秀的高校之一参加各位的毕业典礼，我感到十分荣幸。
我本人没能从大学毕业。
说句实在话，今天要算我同大学毕业之间距离最近的一次了。
现在，我想给诸位讲三个我的人生故事。
是的，没什么大道理，只讲三个故事。
第一个故事是关于串起你生命中的点点滴滴。
我在里德学院念了6个月大学后就退学了，但随后我在学校旁听了18个月的课，然后才真正地辍学。
那么，我为什么要退学呢？故事要从我出生前说起。
我的亲生母亲是个未婚的大学研究生，她决定把我交给别人收养。
她很坚持我的养父母也应该是大学研究生，于是一切就这么安排好了：我出生后由一位律师和他的妻子领养。
但是就在我呱呱坠地的一刻，事情起了变化，律师夫妇突然宣布他们想收养的是女孩。
我爸和我妈当时正列在收养人候选名单上，于是他俩半夜接到一个电话说：“我们这儿出了个意外，有个男孩，你们要收养吗？”他俩说：“当然要。
”后来，我的亲生母亲发现，我妈大学没毕业而我爸甚至高中都没读完。
她于是拒绝在最后的收养协议上签字，直到拖了几个月后我爸妈承诺说将来一定送我读大学才算同意。
17年后，我果然上了大学。
可是，我天真地选择了一所差不多跟斯坦福一样贵的大学，我那劳工阶层的爸妈攒下的积蓄就成了我的大学学费。
念了6个月后，我看不出这种生活有什么价值。
对于我的人生，我不知道应该用它来做什么，我也不知道大学生活怎么能帮我解答这个问题。
于是我决定退学，相信这条路一定走得通。
这在当时是很恐怖的一件事，但是现在回首看去，这是我作过的最好的决定之一。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
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。
今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
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，他们改变了主意，决定要个女“很意外，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，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。
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。
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。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中英文文本Ting Bao was revised on January 6, 20021乔布斯哈弗大学演讲Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from oneof 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 ofthe 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 naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what Iwanted 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 savedtheir 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-calligrapher. 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 computerwith 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 thatcalligraphy 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 wasin 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.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 ofdirectors 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 firedfrom 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 isfor 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 andbetter 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 sixmonths. 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 itwill 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. It was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the WholeEarth 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 theysigned 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.谢谢大家。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿中文尊敬的斯坦福大学的毕业生们，您们中的许多人我都认识。
今天，我很高兴有机会来这里和你们一起庆祝毕业，也非常感谢您们邀请我来与你们分享我的故事。
我出生在旧金山，但随着我父亲的工作转移，我们一家搬到了加州的山景城市。
年轻的我，在那里度过了我的童年和大部分的青春时光。
在我的大学生涯中，我选择进入了里德学院。
但不幸的是，我进去只待了半年时间，然后就决定退学了。
这个决定当时看来是正确的，但是，参加课程之类的活动吧，这些并不是我真正感兴趣的。
因为，我更喜欢自己喜欢的事情，而不是追求一个学位。
退学之后，我开始个人所爱的探索之旅。
我每天都在废墟中度过，如同现在这个工程师正在进行的工作。
我在库珀电子公司做了一些电路板设计的工作。
和热德公司（Hewlett-Packard）的人一起玩游戏，他们最终成为了苹果公司的合作伙伴。
在我20多岁的时候，我创办了苹果公司，开始了我自己的企业家生涯。
有人可能会问，创办苹果公司成功的原因是什么？其实，这是一个复杂的问题。
但最简单的答案，就是我们做了我们自己想做的事情。
我们相信自己的直觉，而不是听取市场调查或客户需求，在产品上的创意和研发方面自然都迎刃而解了。
但是，由于各种各样的原因，我最终被解雇了，离开了苹果公司。
离开苹果公司后，我开始了我新的一段创业之旅，创办了NeXT公司，开始了我在计算机行业的另一个探险。
但是，NeXT公司的事情并不顺利，因为我们所做的事情过于复杂，而且价格太高，几乎一夜之间，我们的公司从市场上消失了。
同时，我还投资购买了一些股票，但也遭受了很大的损失。
这个时候我很失落，感觉很失败。
但过了一段时间以后，我开始了另一段创业的旅程，创立了Pixar动画公司。
在Pixar，我们做的其实并不是动画片，而是创新的技术的使用。
通过使用电脑图形技术，我们创造了新的方式来制作动画，《玩具总动员》、《瓦力》以及《海底总动员》凭借优秀的制作水平，一鸣惊人，赢得了广泛的赞誉。
