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
天荣幸家起参加世界学毕业典礼没学毕业说实话迄止接学毕业天天讲生中三事什事三事已
The first story is about connecting the dots
第事讲生命中点连接起
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really quit So why did I drop out
Reed学读六月退学校园里旁听十八月左右然真正离开什退学呢
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
出生前讲起生母未婚怀孕年轻学生决定肚子里送抚养强烈希收养家庭具学学历没出生时候切已安排律师妻子收养意想世刻突然反悔决定收养女孩收养名单排面养父母半夜接电话:计划中男孩想回答:然生母发现养母没学毕业养父没高中毕业拒绝签署终收养协议月养父母承诺送学意签署协议
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 workingclass 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
十七年真学幼稚选择斯坦福学样贵学校养父母蓝领阶层积蓄付学费读六月样做价值知道生应该干什知道学帮找答案果学里会花光父母整整生积蓄决定退学相信样行通时候确实担心害怕回头佳决策旦退学毫兴趣必修课开始旁听兴趣课
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
件事艰苦面没宿舍睡朋友家板退回乐瓶5美分积累起换东西吃星期天晚步行7英里穿城市教会吃顿免费丰盛晚餐心甘情愿着奇心直觉走误误撞遇许东西日证明价宝举例子
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
时Reed学开设全国书法课校园里张海报抽屉张标签优美手写体退学常规课程决定书法课学写出优美字里学衬线字体衬线字体学改变字母组合间间距学版面设计优美样美富历史感艺术精妙科学捕捉发现太迷
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 its 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
东西没件生实际价值十年设计第台Macintosh电脑时候帮设计进产品第台着优美操作界面电脑果学里旁听门课Mac电脑会种字形者例间隔字体Windows操作系统抄袭Mac电脑没果没退学会旁听书法课电脑会现样漂亮界面然学里展生时候点联系起十年回头间联系真非常非常清楚
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 This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life
说遍展生时候点连起回顾生时候发现间联系必须信心相信点总会某种方式未产生影响必须相信事情勇气命运生缘分等等样做未令失反决定生中众处
My second story is about love and loss
第二事关爱损失
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
幸运生早时候找热爱事情沃兹尼亚克父母车库里创立苹果公司时候20岁勤奋工作十年苹果公司车库里两公司成长超4000雇员20亿美元公司前年刚刚发布完美产品Macintosh电脑刚30岁接解雇家创立公司解雇呢事情样着公司发展雇位眼中天起理公司第年切算利公司发展法出现分歧终导致分裂董事会站边30岁年解雇众目睽睽整成年生生活重心离远真毁灭性击
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 had been rejected but I was still in love And so I decided to start over
初月真知道干什觉太失代企业家交接力棒已掉 David PackardBob Noyce见面试着道歉事情搞糟失败肆曝光甚想硅谷逃走慢慢件东西曙光然热爱做事情苹果公司发生问题丝毫没改变点确实否决然热爱事业决定头开始
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
时没意识事证明苹果解雇生中历事情成功者负担重新初学者轻快取代事情握解放重新进入生具创造力时期
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 retuned 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
接五年成立家做NeXT公司家做Pixar公司美妙女子坠入爱河然结夫妻Pixar生产出世界第部计算机动画电影玩具事目前全世界成功动画电影工作室通系列事件奇妙转变苹果公司收购NeXT回苹果公司NeXT开发技术现苹果公司复兴关键劳伦妮组建美家庭
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 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 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
肯定果苹果公司解雇切会发生然事件滋味药物样苦堪言想病需服时生活会迎头击时丧失信心确信唯保持前进动力热爱做事情必须找热爱东西公众爱工作生部分真正令感满足唯方法做心目中伟工作做成伟工作唯方法热爱做事情果没找样事情继续寻找妥协心关事情样找时候会知道伟感情样时间越久情况会变越越停找直找止妥协
My third story is about death
第三事关死亡
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
十七岁时候读句话意样:果天做生命天正确生活留深印象33年天早着镜子问:果天生天会会愿意做天做事情时果连天答案NO知道需作出改变
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 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
记住久死发现重工具帮助做出生中重决定事情外期心骄傲失败出丑恐惧事情死亡面前会消失留真正重事情记住死知道方法免念念忘会失某件东西已赤身裸体没理心
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 730 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 doctor'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
概年前诊断癌症早晨7点半做次全身扫描清楚显示胰脏肿瘤时甚知道胰脏什医生告诉已肯定种法治疗癌症生命预计超36月医生建议回家事情安排医生死亡表达方式意味着试着原未2019年孩子说事情放着月里告诉意味着确定原件事情安排家说切变简单意味着切告
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 a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery I had the surgery and I'm fine now
整天时刻想着诊断天晚做活检医生窥镜塞进喉咙穿胃进入肠子根针刺进胰脏肿瘤细胞镇定妻子(场)告诉医生显微镜观察细胞时开始发出惊叹发现种非常罕见胰腺癌通手术治愈做手术现感觉
This was the closest I've been to facing death and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades Having lived through it I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept
接死亡时刻希十年样历说死亡仅仅种纯粹智力概念更确定告诉:
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
没想死甚渴升入天堂想死死亡避免生终点没逃脱事情应该死亡生活中单项发明生活改变种手段清理旧代新代创造空间现新太遥远某天慢慢成旧代清理出抱歉想说戏剧化事实
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
时间限浪费生活教条束缚思考结果意见淹没心声音重勇气心直觉某种程度已知道真正想成什样子事情次
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
年轻时候奇妙出版物做球商品目录(The Whole Earth Catalog)代圣做Stewart Brand距离处远Menlo公园创造诗般带世六十年代末期电脑桌面出版没问世字机剪刀次成相机做成点纸质GoogleGoogle诞生35年前充满理想义包含许灵巧工具伟想法
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 mid1970s 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
Stewart团队发行期球商品目录然然推出期70年代中期现样期封底幅清晨乡间公路片果喜欢险会搭便车旅行种道路面行字:保持饥饿保持愚蠢总希做点现毕业开始新旅程样祝愿
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
保持饥饿保持愚蠢
Thank you all very much
非常感谢位
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