這是蘋果公司和Pixar動畫工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12號在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮上面的演講稿祖娘。
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.
我今天很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮辛蚊，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一呼巴。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)陆淀。說實話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事璧诵。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一個故事是關(guān)于“因”和“果”莉钙。
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大學(xué)讀了六個月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我為什么要退學(xué)呢筛谚？
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.
故事從我出生的時候講起磁玉。我的親生母親是一個年輕的,沒有結(jié)婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我, 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)驾讲。所以在我出生的時候蚊伞，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準(zhǔn)備工作，能使得我被一個律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)吮铭。但是她沒有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后,律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個女孩时迫。 所以我的生養(yǎng)父母（他們還在我親生父母的觀察名單上）突然在半夜接到了一個電話:“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個不小心生出來的男嬰,你們想要他嗎？”他們回答道:“當(dāng)然谓晌！”但是我親生母親隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)掠拳，我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué),我的父親甚至從沒有讀過高中。她拒絕簽這個收養(yǎng)合同纸肉。但是在幾個月以后,我的父母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué),那個時候她才同意溺欧。
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.
在十七歲那年,我真的上了大學(xué)。但是我很天真的選擇了一個幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層柏肪，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費上面姐刁。在六個月后, 我已經(jīng)看不到其中的價值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能幫助我找到怎樣的答案预吆。 但是在這里龙填，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的所有積蓄。所以我決定要退學(xué),我覺得這是個正確的決定拐叉。不能否認(rèn),我當(dāng)時確實非常的害怕, 但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看,那的確是我這一生中最明智的一個決定岩遗。在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻, 我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點意思的課程凤瘦。
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:
但是這并不是那么羅曼蒂克宿礁。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房間的地板上面睡覺,我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子，僅僅為了填飽肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程蔬芥，穿過這個城市到Hare Krishna寺廟（注：位于紐約Brooklyn下城）,只是為了能吃上飯——這個星期唯一一頓好一點的飯梆靖。但是我喜歡這樣。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價之寶笔诵。讓我給你們舉一個例子吧：
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.
Reed大學(xué)在那時提供也許是全美最好的美術(shù)字課程返吻。在這個大學(xué)里面的每個海報, 每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。因為我退學(xué)了, 沒有受到正規(guī)的訓(xùn)練, 所以我決定去參加這個課程乎婿，去學(xué)學(xué)怎樣寫出漂亮的美術(shù)字测僵。我學(xué)到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學(xué)會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)不能捕捉到的、美麗的捍靠、真實的藝術(shù)精妙, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)那實在是太美妙了沐旨。
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.
當(dāng)時看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實際應(yīng)用的可能榨婆。但是十年之后,當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺Macintosh電腦的時候,就不是那樣了磁携。我把當(dāng)時我學(xué)的那些家伙全都設(shè)計進(jìn)了Mac。那是第一臺使用了漂亮的印刷字體的電腦良风。如果我當(dāng)時沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機會去參加這個我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程, Mac就不會有這么多豐富的字體谊迄，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。因為微軟就是蘋果的山寨版拖吼，可以說世上所有PC都不會有現(xiàn)在這么美妙的字型了鳞上。當(dāng)然我當(dāng)時不可能預(yù)知這事事之間的“因”“果”，但是當(dāng)我十年后回顧這一切的時候,真的豁然開朗了吊档。
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.
再次說明的是,沒人可以未卜先知篙议，事事的因果往往只在回首時顯現(xiàn)，你得相信怠硼，種什么因鬼贱，得什么果。人總要有些信仰才行香璃，直覺也好这难，命運也罷，因果輪回葡秒，不管什么姻乓。去相信因果的聯(lián)系，會給你信心去跟從自己的意愿眯牧，哪怕離經(jīng)叛道蹋岩，也絕不止步。只有這樣学少，才能有所成剪个。
My second story is about love and loss.
我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和得失的。
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.
我非常幸運, 因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西版确。Woz和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司扣囊。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮光蛋發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價值超過二十億的大公司绒疗。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是Macintosh侵歇。我也快要到三十歲了。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚吓蘑。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時候盒至，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運轉(zhuǎn)的很好。但是后來我們對未來的看法發(fā)生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。當(dāng)爭吵不可開交的時候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊枷遂。所以在三十歲的時候, 我被當(dāng)眾掃地出門。在而立之年棋嘲，我一生的追求突然不見了, 這真是沉重的打擊酒唉。
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.
在最初的幾個月里，我不知所措沸移。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪痪伦。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉雹锣。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了网沾。但是我漸漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了曙光, 我仍然喜愛我從事的這些東西。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點也沒有蕊爵。我被驅(qū)逐了,但是我仍然鐘愛它辉哥。所以我決定從頭再來。
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.
我當(dāng)時沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情攒射。因為醋旦，作為一個成功者的極樂感覺被作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺所重新代替: 對任何事情都不那么特別看重。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個階段会放。
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.
在接下來的五年里, 我創(chuàng)立了一個名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個后來成為我妻子的優(yōu)雅女人相識饲齐。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個用電腦制作的動畫電影——“”玩具總動員”,Pixar現(xiàn)在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。峰回路轉(zhuǎn),Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司咧最。我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)在Apple的復(fù)興之中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵的作用捂人。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個幸福的家庭。
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. Sokeep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
我可以非呈秆兀肯定,如果我不被Apple開除的話, 這其中一件事情也不會發(fā)生的滥搭。良藥苦口利于病，但是我想病人需要這個藥咨察。有些時候, 生活會拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下论熙。不要失去信心。我堅信摄狱，唯一使我一直走下去的脓诡，就是我對自己事業(yè)的熱愛。你必須去尋找自己所愛媒役。對于工作是如此, 對于你的愛人也是如此祝谚。你的工作將是此生命的主題之一。要獲得真正的滿足感酣衷，就要對它的價值深信不疑交惯，也只有熱愛，才可能開創(chuàng)偉大的事業(yè)。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到, 那么繼續(xù)找席爽、不要停下來意荤、全心全意的去找, 當(dāng)你找到的時候你就會知道的。就像你找到注定的伴侶只锻， 歲月的流逝只會令你們的感情愈發(fā)深刻玖像。所以千萬不要氣餒，不要放棄齐饮。
我的第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡的捐寥。
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.
當(dāng)我十七歲的時候, 我讀到了一句話:“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命中最后一天去生活的話,那么有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的∽媲”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象握恳。從那時開始,過了33年,我在每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你會不會完成你今天想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案連續(xù)很多次被給予“不是”的時候, 我知道自己需要改變某些事情了捺僻。
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.
“記住你即將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言乡洼。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。因為幾乎所有的事情, 包括所有的榮譽陵像、所有的驕傲就珠、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都那么微不足道。只需考慮那些真正重要的東西醒颖。你有時候會思考你將會失去某些東西,“記住你即將死去”可以有效杜絕我們的僥幸心理妻怎。既然將一無所有, 還有什么理由違背自己的意愿。
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 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.
大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥泞歉。我在早晨七點半做了一個檢查, 檢查清楚的顯示在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤逼侦。我當(dāng)時都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥, 我還有三到六個月的時間活在這個世界上腰耙。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫(yī)生準(zhǔn)備死亡的程序榛丢。那意味著你將要把未來十年對你小孩說的話在幾個月里面說完.；那意味著把每件事情都搞定, 讓你的家人會盡可能輕松的生活挺庞；那意味著你要說“再見了”晰赞。
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.
那張診斷書揮之不去。后來有一天早上我作了一個活切片檢查选侨，醫(yī)生將一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞掖鱼。我當(dāng)時很鎮(zhèn)靜,因為我被注射了鎮(zhèn)定劑。但是我的妻子在那里, 后來告訴我援制，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡地下觀察這些細(xì)胞的時候他們不住叫喊, 因為這些細(xì)胞最后竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥戏挡。我做了這個手術(shù), 現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。
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:
那是我最接近死亡的時候, 我還希望這也是以后的幾十年最接近的一次晨仑。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說褐墅，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時候拆檬，我可以更肯定一點地對你們說：
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.
沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點妥凳。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它竟贯。也應(yīng)該如此。 因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明逝钥。它是生命更迭的媒介澄耍，推動世界的“新陳代謝”。現(xiàn)在的你們代表“新”的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成“陳”的然后被“代謝”晌缘。我很抱歉說得這么夸張, 但是這都是事實。
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 other's 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.
你們的時間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費在重復(fù)其他人的生活上痢站。不要被教條束縛,那就是走別人的老路磷箕。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。還有最重要的是, 你要有勇氣去聽從你直覺和心靈的指示——它們從來都知道你想要成為什么樣的人阵难，所有其他的一切都是次要的岳枷。
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.
當(dāng)我年輕的時候, 有一本很棒的叫做《全球目錄》的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一呜叫。它是一個叫Stewart Brand的家伙在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park書寫的, 他把自己的文藝氣息融入其中空繁。那是六十年代后期, 在個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機,、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的朱庆。有點像用軟皮包裝的google, 在google出現(xiàn)三十五年之前：充滿理想主義的盛泡， 該書簡潔實用，見解獨到娱颊。
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.
Stewart和他的伙伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”,當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時候, 他們做出了最后一期的目錄傲诵。那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片箱硕，就是那種假如你搭車旅行玩冒險拴竹，也會遇到的那種村路，在照片之下有這樣一段話：“求知若渴剧罩，虛心若愚栓拜。”這是他們停止了發(fā)刊的告別語惠昔∧挥耄“求知若渴，虛心若愚舰罚∨γ牛”我總是希望自己能夠那樣,現(xiàn)在, 在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的旅程的時候, 我也希望你們能這樣：
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
求知若渴营罢，虛心若愚赏陵。
Thank you all very much.
非常感謝你們饼齿。
