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乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs，1955年2月24日—20xx年10月5日），出生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。
乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，他深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。
下面带您看一下他在斯坦福大学毕业典礼讲话。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿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 beforeI 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。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【双语】史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs，1955年2月24日—20xx年10月5日），出生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。
乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，他深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。
下面WTT带您看一下他在斯坦福大学毕业典礼讲话。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿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。
Chapter 8 The Decade Steve这就是一段扣人心弦的创业故事:年轻的乔布斯在上个世纪八十年代一手创立了苹果,九十年代回归,在随后的十年里,她在鬼门关前转了两圈,也曾陷入违反证券法的丑闻,但就是她领导苹果开发的一系列产品一直到今天还很畅销,她经常作出的一些令人不愉快的行为成为四个不同行业的主流个性,数次荣登亿万富豪榜,长期担任硅谷最有价值公司的掌门人、这听起来就是不就是有点象天方夜谭? 也许吧、但就是这却就是史蒂夫乔布斯的真实经历,她对她接触到的任何事物都产生了巨大的影响、商业界过去的十年就是属于乔布斯的、就在一年之前,任何关于她的生平介绍的文章似乎都带着一丝告别的意味、但就是时至今日,乔布斯又回来了、她经常签的“再多一件事(onemore thing)”放在她自己的身上也同样合适、经过上半年长达6个月的病休之后,她又精神抖擞地出现在3、4万苹果员工的面前、她在离开的期间接受了肝脏移植手术、在乔布斯年轻的时候,她的身边就聚集了一大批富有才干的追随者、现在乔布斯已经到了54岁,仅仅就是简单地列出她的辉煌成就就足以解释她为什么能够当选财富杂志的“十年CEO”、仅在过去的十年里,她就从根本上改变了音乐、电影与手机等三大市场的格局、而她对最初起家的电脑行业的影响力也就是有增无减、……她就是一位少见的全球知名的生意人、即便就是从未瞧过苹果年报或者商业杂志的消费者也能滔滔不绝地谈论乔布斯的设计品位、优雅的零售店以及她不拘一格的广告创意、她经常被比喻为演员、天生的推销员、魔法师以及专横的完美主义者、这些评价当然十分准确,同时它们也给乔布斯增添了不少的传奇色彩、她经常与撰稿人、工业设计师与音乐家们混在一起,虽然她的着装不太正统与讲究,但就是别搞错了,她可就是天生的企业家、她或许不太注意对客户进行研究,但就是她会非常勤奋地工作以生产出客户愿意购买的产品、她就是一个极富幻想的人,但就是她也不脱离现实,她密切注意着苹果的各种运营与营销活动、她的好友、甲骨文首席执行官拉里埃利森说,乔布斯就是一个不为金钱所动的人、她的勤奋显然就是处于内心对苹果的热爱,通过苹果这个媒介,她既就是冷酷的裁决者,又就是改变世界的执行者、不管对于苹果还就是乔布斯来说,每个季度的财报都就是令人大吃一惊的、苹果在2000年时的市值大约为50亿美元,不久之后乔布斯第一次披露了苹果的数字生活方式战略,当时几乎没有评论家们能理解她的战略意图、如今,苹果的市值达到了1700亿美元,略微超过谷歌、当时苹果在个人电脑市场的份额大幅下滑,现金外流非常严重,公司几乎到了破产的边缘、现在苹果手中的现金与现金等价物的总价值达到340亿美元,超过了竞争对手戴尔的总市值、 Mac电脑在美国个人电脑市场上的份额达到了9%,而且还在继续增长、苹果在9个国家开设了275家零售店,在美国MP3播放器市场占有73%的份额,自从推出iPhone之后,它又无可争议地确立了它在创新上的领袖地位、迪斯尼在2006年斥资75亿美元收购了乔布斯创立与控制的皮克斯动画制片厂、乔布斯顺理成章地成为迪斯尼董事与大股东、仅仅计算她所持有的苹果与迪斯尼股票的价值,她的净资产就达到了50亿美元、一些其她企业的高管也有人能够辉煌十年,但就是无人能够与乔布斯相比、……乔布斯的十年实际上始于1997年,当时的乔布斯在离开了公司12年之后刚刚回归、乔布斯重掌公司大权后的第二年,她就完成了新的领导班子的组建、那些优秀的人才正就是十年以来乔布斯智囊团的核心人物、随后,苹果推出了乔布斯回归之后的首款Mac电脑iMac,那款具有突破性意义的产品预示着苹果将恢复健康、iMac推出之后大获成功,加上乔布斯坚决果断地大幅削减成本,为苹果今后的发展积累了充足的现金、她改善了苹果的资产负债表,为未来的大投资做好了准备、在一切瞧起来都还正处于最黑暗的时候,乔布斯就开始为苹果日后的飞跃式发展打基础、苹果在2000年9月份发布的财报未能达到预期目标,股价在随后的几个月里持续下跌,一直跌到相当于如今的7美元的水平上、然而乔布斯到现在仍然记得苹果东山再起的关键因素、2001年,当全球市场下滑,全球都陷入衰退的时候,苹果在那一年的1月份发布了iTunes,在3月份发布了MacOS X操作系统,在5月份开设了首家苹果零售店,在11月份推出了首款iPod、市场当时并未迅速发现那些事件的重要性、iTunes当时还只就是内建在Mac 电脑中的音乐播放软件,当时也没有销售音乐的网络商店、但就是新的操作系统带来了一款极具吸引力、强大而且精美的产品,那就就是iPod、当苹果的股价一蹶不振的时候,市场不时会传出苹果即将被收购的传闻、鲜为人知的就是,乔布斯当时确实慎重考虑过在收购集团银湖的帮助下将苹果私有化的方案、收购苹果可能会成为整个世纪最大的交易,但就是据知情人士称,乔布斯最终放弃了那个想法、那其实就是苹果第二次面临可能被收购的命运、早在1997年的时候,乔布斯的好友埃利森就曾联合了一些财团,准备收购苹果、埃利森在最近一次接受采访时说,乔布斯不喜欢事后被人批评,搞得好象她纯粹就是为了赚钱才重新出山的一样、她向我解释说,她认为她可以更轻松与更体面地作出决定、对那些在乔布斯重返苹果后开始关注苹果的人来说,首席执行官的任务就就是确定公司今后的发展方向、她在2002年初曾对媒体说过:“我宁愿与索尼竞争,也不愿意在另一个产品领域与微软竞争、我们都就是同时拥有硬件、软件与操作系统的完整产品厂商、我们可以为用户完全负责、我们可以做到其她人做不到的事情、”乔布斯相信,只要她可以与公众直接对话,公众会转到苹果这边来的、她所说的公众并不就是指Mac电脑的忠实用户,而就是普通的消费者、开设自己的零售店的战略在当时还遭到了普遍的嘲笑,许多人认为那样做可能会让苹果的现金外流、前苹果高管、现在担任Intuit董事长与苹果董事的Bill Campbell说:“当时董事会都很紧张,但就是她还就是那么做了、她知道客户们想要什么、”现在回头来瞧,当时的苹果零售店能够出售的产品就是多么少啊、乔布斯知道,她应该拿出更多的产品、乔布斯将彻底了解苹果当作自己的任务、曾经与苹果断断续续地合作了几年的前Chiat/Day创意总监Ken Segall说:“乔布斯参与了许多非常细致的工作,您就是绝对不会认为一家公司的首席执行官应该参与那些细致的工作的、”Segall说,每当苹果将要推出新产品之前,乔布斯都会发起了著名的“换个思路”活动、她甚至将这个活动推广到了广告团队、她说:“乔布斯会说'第四段的第三个单词不恰当,您也许可以考虑用那个单词、'这样的话、”同时兼顾细节管理与大局观就是乔布斯的特色标志、在刚刚回到苹果的时候,她便意识到产品的精美设计就是苹果区别于当时由戴尔、微软与英特尔等厂商引领的计算机行业的因素之一、产品设计顾问公司Ideo的首席执行官Tim Brown在她的新作《通过设计去改变》中写道:“我根本数不清到底有多少客户会冲进苹果零售店然后说'给我下一款iPod'、那可能跟那些小声地说'给我下一个乔布斯'的设计师的数量很接近、”乔布斯还非常善于把握时机、在苹果推出iTunes之前,音乐界一直都没能开发出自己的数字音乐销售网站、之后苹果便开始为把iTunes变成一个购买音乐的商店作准备、当iTunes还只能在Mac电脑上使用的时候,苹果就巧妙地同各大唱片公司签订了协议、在iTunes兼容Windows系统之前,苹果的地位非常低,这在当时或许就是苹果的一项优势、这也使得iTunes更象就是一块试验田,而不就是破坏性的转型之举、滚石乐队的Steve Knopper在其新作《自我破坏的欲望》中写道,环球音乐的高管Doug Morris曾经说过:“我不明白苹果怎么可能只用一年的时间就在Mac 电脑上毁灭了唱片行业、”Knopper写道:“我们为什么不能尝试一下呢?乔布斯重返苹果的时候,她已经就是孤注一掷了、只就是她很聪明,知道该怎么做、她做得很辛苦,但就是再怎么辛苦也比不上最近几十年以来唱片公司的任何一位律师在艺人合同中进行的谈判那么艰难、”乔布斯抓住了一项重要的工具,那就就是她对信息的熟练控制、她仿佛演练她与其她高管将要对外公布的每一句话、苹果只授权极少数高管可以公开就特定话题发表意见、乔布斯会非常认真地推敲她与其她高管能够对外发布的每一句话以及不能对外公布的信息、哈佛大学教授David Yoffie估计,在2007年宣布推出与开始销售首款iPhone之间的几个月里,苹果未作任何公开声明就已经接到了价值4亿美元的免费广告,因此刺激的媒体都陷入了疯狂、乔布斯本人也非常小心,极其注意不过多透露消息,只有苹果要推销产品的时候,她才会出来说几句、她在2004年接受了癌症手术,但就是直到手术完成之后,她才在致员工的电子邮件形式的公开信中发布了那个消息、后来,她同样就是通过另一封致员工的公开信解释了她离开公司的情况,而且没有提到她或苹果其她高管的其她消息、在乔布斯的管理下,在没有得到公司媒体关系部同意的情况下,没有人有权公开发表意见、据说媒体关系部就是直接向乔布斯汇报的、在撰写本文之前,记者曾想给乔布斯作个专访,但就是苹果拒绝了那一要求、对于那起将苹果前首席财务官与法律顾问都牵连进去的股票期权倒填日期丑闻,乔布斯一开始保持沉默态度、在最后提交给证券交易委员会的文件中,苹果承认乔布斯在这件事上就是知情的、为此,乔布斯公开发表了道歉,并且声称这个小插曲绝非苹果的本性、乔布斯管理着苹果的财务、消息、交易、设计等等、但就是最近乔布斯的病患也给人们提了个醒,告诉世人乔布斯也就是一个人,而不就是神、终有一天她也会西去,那时缺少了乔布斯的苹果还能走多远呢?苹果的未来今年9月,乔布斯重新回到了公众的视野里,她对苹果首席运营官提姆库克表示了深切的谢意,因为在她病休期间,暂时代她行使首席执行官权力的库克将公司打理得井井有条、在新款iPod的发布会上,乔布斯首先告知新闻记者、分析师与开发商,她现在拥有的肝脏来自于一位死于车祸的年轻人、随后她对库克与一班高管表达了谢意,因为她们在她不在的期间表现得非常能干、随后,在库克的带领下,会场全体起立为乔布斯重返岗位而欢呼、由于乔布斯已经回到工作岗位,关于库克或者其她什么人准备接替乔布斯出任首席执行官的争论逐渐平息下去、苹果内部的等级制度就是由一位被乔布斯称作“前苹果高管”的人决定下来的、乔布斯的话还就是很有份量的、众所周知,甲骨文首席执行官埃利森非常不喜欢讨论接班人这个话题、她在与朋友交谈过程中谈到乔布斯时说:“她就是无可替代的、她创建了一个神话一般的品牌、她开发出了大量的产品、不管她什么时候退休,我都希望她那个时候就是健健康康的,还能开着游艇去逛地中海、但就是人们肯定会非常想念她,因为苹果就是一家消费品公司、产品周期太快了、”现在已经有迹象表明,乔布斯已经开始教育她的团队,让她们能够在她暂时离开的时候维持公司的正常运作、一位认识苹果高管团队中的某些高管的知情人士说:“整个公司都已经被彻底被培训过了,完全象乔布斯那样去思考问题、这就就是为什么苹果在乔布斯离开的6个月里能够保持平静的原因、人们会想,如果乔布斯在,她肯定也会这么做、”实际上,乔布斯的影响力已经超出了苹果的范围、拉里佩奇与谢尔盖布林最近在纽约曾说过,乔布斯就是她们心目中的英雄、当Jeff Bezos发布亚马逊的Kindle 2阅读器的时候,她对乔布斯的羡慕就是显而易见的、风险资本家、Netscape的联合创始人Marc Andreessen表示,她经常在给其她企业家的建议中以乔布斯作例子、她说:“发布首款产品时应该考虑的问题就是:乔布斯会怎么做?”展望下一个十年,乔布斯也许会这样问自己:在创造了1500亿美元的股东价值,改变了电影、电信、音乐、计算甚至零食与设计等行业之后,她下一步该做些什么呢? 鉴于她喜欢保密与给人意外惊喜的惯例,我们不妨等她自己在合适的时候为我们解答这个问题、。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲(英文)New York: 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.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?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 birthby 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 signthe final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.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 how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of 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 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 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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 san 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 this calligraphy class, and personal 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 ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that thedots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. 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. So at 30 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 DavidPackard 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 had 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 of 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 worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene 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 hits you in the head with abrick. 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 your 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. 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 until you find it. 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 tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, allfear 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 isdoctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure 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 and 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 doctors started crying because it turned out to be avery rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm 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 is 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 is 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. And most important, have the courage to follow your 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 Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, 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, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, 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 it 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.(中文译文)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。
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。
乔布斯2005年斯坦福高中毕业演讲(中英文完整版)乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲（中英文完整版）中文版亲爱的毕业生们，大家好！首先，请允许我向你们表示最热烈的祝贺，因为你们终于毕业了！（掌声）你们终于走出了这所美丽的校园，迎接未知的人生。
今天，我很荣幸能够与你们分享一些我个人的经历和思考。
我们需要从一个专业问题开始。
在之前的许多年里，我一直对死亡有一种直接而深入的了解，它不是从书本上获得的，而是从我与死亡如此之近的亲密接触中得到的。
这是我人生中非常特殊的一段经历。
在以下的十二个月里，我被诊断出患上了胰脏癌晚期。
医生告诉我，我只剩下六个月的寿命。
这个消息让我感到震惊、悲伤和绝望，所有曾经认为重要的东西都变得微不足道了。
在面临死亡的事实时，我开始思考生命的意义和价值。
我曾经问自己，如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我还会做我今天要做的事情吗？引发这个问题的常常是自己对无关紧要的事情的抱怨和牢骚。
当我面对死亡时，我意识到我所面临的问题只是琐碎的细节，对于生命的意义没有任何贡献。
过去33年里，我每天早晨都会照镜子告诉自己：“如果今天是生命的最后一天，我还是要做我今天要做的事情吗？”每当我的回答是“不”太多次时，我就知道我需要做出调整，重新寻找自己的激情和目标。
记住即将去世的事实，是我人生中最重要的教训之一。
当我意识到生命随时都可能终结时，我变得更加勇敢、不怕面对困难和失败。
因为，几乎所有的外部期望和自尊都变得毫无意义，唯有内心的声音才是至关重要的。
曾经，有一段时间，还是个十九岁的学生，我读到了一句名言，深深触动了我。
这句话是：“如果你活在别人的意见中，你的内心永远不会安宁。
”言归正传，让我简要地谈谈关于成功和失败的问题。
我曾经被辞退了公司创办人的职位，这对我来说是一次巨大的失败，而那时我才刚满三十岁。
当时我觉得自己崩溃了，但事实证明，这是对我人生最好的事情之一。
看起来不成功的事情变成了成功的机会，并让我追求我真正热爱的事业。
迎接挑战的名人例子
以下是几个迎接挑战的名人例子：
1.乔布斯（Steve Jobs）：乔布斯在1985年离开苹果后，他在一家已破产的公司上百家小公司中选择了迪士尼。
他买下了濒临破产的迪斯尼，并与其动画部门合作，创造出了米老鼠、皮克斯等经典卡通形象，并与迪斯尼签署了授权协议。
乔布斯以近25亿美元买下了皮克斯，并创造出了《玩具总动员》等一系列经典动画，带领苹果走向了新的辉煌。
2.雷军（Ray Li）：雷军是中国科技巨头小米的创始人。
他在创办小米之初面临着许多挑战，包括与国内外强大竞争对手的竞争、打造自主芯片等。
尽管面临重重困难，但他通过坚定的决心和创新的思维，成功地将小米推向了全球市场。
3.杰克·韦尔奇（Jack Welch）：韦尔奇是前通用电气（GE）首席执行官，在任期间成功地重组了公司业务，使其成为全球领先的企业之一。
他致力于将GE转变为一家更专注于高盈利、高回报的科技公司，通过推动公司创新和改革，使公司实现了数十亿美元的增长。
这些名人的成功故事表明，只要他们有决心和毅力面对挑战，他们就能够取得成功。
乔布斯：活着就是为了改变世界！从⼤学辍学是我⼀⽣做出的最为明智的选择我⼈⽣最⼤的失误，就是去读了个破研究⽣。
当年上⼤学倒是没后悔，虽然⼤学⼏年学的东西基本⽆⽤，但⼤学给我的不是知识和学问，只是增长了我对世界的见识。
我⼈⽣第⼆个最⼤的失误，就是研究⽣毕业后居然留校去当了个破⼤学⽼师。
不然的话，我的⼈⽣会⽐现在更精彩。
这些选择的失误，都浪费了我太多的⽣命时间。
当然，我也喜欢接受现在的安排----G先⽣说，⼀切都是最好的安排，每⼀个时刻都是⾦⾊的！我最明智的决定，就是离开⼤学，离开“体制”内的安稳和⽆奈，来到云南的乡间过我最真实的⼈⽣。
虽然这⾥有⼈似乎不太欢迎我，但是我喜欢，就⾏了；我的⽣命我做主，不是为教育局们的喜恶⽽活的！清⼀题记史蒂夫·乔布斯(1955-2011)，发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办⼈、前⾏政总裁。
1976年乔布斯和朋友成⽴苹果电脑公司，他陪伴了苹果公司数⼗年的起落与复兴，先后领导和推出了麦⾦塔计算机、iMac、iPod、iPhone等风靡全球亿万⼈的电⼦产品，深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐乃⾄⽣活的⽅式。
2011年10⽉5⽇他因病逝世，享年56岁。
乔布斯是改变世界的天才，他凭敏锐的触觉和过⼈的智慧，勇于变⾰，不断创新，引领全球资讯科技和电⼦产品的潮流，把电脑和电⼦产品变得简约化、平民化，让曾经是昂贵稀罕的电⼦产品变为现代⼈⽣活的⼀部分。
他的成就和⼈格魅⼒影响了⼀代⼈和整个世界，他就是拥有梦幻般传奇经历的苹果电脑公司的创始⼈斯蒂夫·乔布斯。
这个个⼈电脑领域的梦想家引领并改变了整个计算机硬件和软件产业。
代表他思维和个性的语句也常常脱⼝⽽出，这⾥摘取了⼀些经典的乔⽒语录。
⼤家可能发现：这些语⾔与今⽇学堂对⼩狮⼦们的⿎励很相似---所谓的精英和成功⼈⼠，就是思维和想法与绵⽺不同⽽已。
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower。
