苹果CEO斯坦福演讲：退学是一生最明智决定

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苹果CEO斯坦福演讲：退学是一生最明智决定(图)

北京时间6月14日消息，苹果CEO史蒂夫-乔布斯(Steve Jobs)近日在美国斯坦福大学的一个毕业典礼上作了一场主题演讲。乔布斯在演讲中向现场的5000多名毕业生表露，从大学退学是他一生中做出的最明智决定之一，因为正是这一决定促使他必须保持创新，即使他当时还在为挣够吃饭的钱而奔波。

乔布斯同时表示，同胰腺癌抗争的经历使他明白人生苦短，因此每一天都应当过得充实。

乔布斯在毕业典礼上穿着凉鞋和牛仔裤，完全不像是一位IT业界的风云人物。与此同时，他在学生当中也受到了摇滚歌星一样的礼遇，这当然同苹果热销的便携音乐播放器iPod有很大关系。甚至有一群学生在毕业礼服外面套上迷你iPod广告衫，向着乔布斯高喊：“史蒂夫，让我到苹果工作吧！”

乔布斯曾经考入美国俄勒冈州波特兰市的里德学院(Reed College)，但仅仅8个月以后就因无法支付昂贵的学费而退学。乔布斯表示，退学以后他开始旁听各种他感兴趣的课程，其中甚至包括书法，而他的真正教育也正是从这时才开始。在旁听各种课程的同时，乔布斯只能依靠克里希纳教派(Hare Krishnas)提供的免费食品勉强维持生活。

乔布斯称，当时很少有人能够看到学习书法的价值，但是他的这段经历很快收到了回报。由于乔布斯掌握多种字体，他所研发的Macintosh计算机一经露面就鹤立鸡群，帮助苹果同竞争对手拉开了差距。乔布斯说：“如果我没有退学，我也许永远不会想到去上书法课。”

乔布斯同时坦言，当年被迫离开他一手创建的苹果公司是他一生中最艰难的一段经历，当时乔布斯仅仅30岁。他说：“当时在公众眼中我是一个失败人物，有一段时间我一度想退出硅谷。”但乔布斯并没有这样做，反而又创建了皮克斯(Pixar)公司。在乔布斯的领导下，皮克斯目前已经成为全球3D动画领域的翘楚，《海底总动员》和《怪物公司》都出自该公司旗下。

乔布斯在演讲中还提到了他的病情，他说：“我非常害怕吃药，但是病人不能逃避吃药。”当确诊为癌症后，医生曾经告诉乔布斯只能再活三到六个月的时间。虽然之后他找到了一种有效的治疗方法，但医生的话仍然让他明白了很多道理。他说：“如果一个人马上就要死了，那他还有什么不能失去呢？”

在毕业典礼开始之前，一架由环境保护组织“计算机回收行动”(Computer TakeBack Campaign)租来的飞机飞过体育场上空。飞机上拖着一条横幅，上面写道：“史蒂夫，不要做一个迷你玩家，请回收所有的电子垃圾。”计算机回收行动组织希望通过这样的举措敦促苹果公司加大回收废弃电子产品的力度.Apple CEO Tells Stanford Graduates to Pursue Their Passions

Jun 12, 2005 3:58 pm US/Pacific

(KCBS/AP)-Apple Computer Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs told Stanford University

graduates Sunday that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative, even when it came to finding enough money for dinner.In an unusually candid commencement speech, Jobs also told the almost 5,000 graduates that his bout with a rare form of pancreatic cancer reemphasized the need to live each day to the fullest.“Your time is limited so don't let it be wasted living someone else's life,” Jobs said to a packed stadium of graduates, alumni and family.KCBS reporter Henry Mulak at the commencement said Jobs urged the graduates to move forward without constantly worrying about how individual choices may, or may not, mesh together.“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,” Jobs said.“You can't connect the dots looking forward.You can only connect them looking backwards.”

The Apple CEO, wearing sandals and jeans under his robe, was treated like a rock star by the students, in large part due to the surge in popularity of his company's iPod digital music player.A group of students wore iPod mini costumes over their robes and several students shouted, “Steve, hire me!”

Jobs, 50, said he attended Reed College in Portland, Ore., but dropped out after only eight months because it was too expensive for his working-class family.“It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made,” Jobs said, interrupted by laughter before adding that his real education started when he “dropped in” on whatever classes interested him--including calligraphy.“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would've never had multiple type faces or proportionally-spaced fonts,” Jobs said.“Since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.”

Jobs said he lived off five-cent soda recycling deposits and free food offered by Hare Krishnas while taking classes.Jobs also recounted founding Apple in his parent's basement and his tough times after being forced out of the company he founded when he was only 30.“I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley,” Jobs said.Instead he founded Pixar Studios, which recently released enormously popular films such as “Madagascar” and “Finding Nemo.”

“It was awful tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it,” Jobs said.When he was diagnosed with cancer, Jobs said his doctor told him he had between three and six months to live.He later found out he had a rare, treatable form of the disease, but said he still learned a tough lesson.“Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the fear that you have something to lose,” he said.Before the ceremony, a plane rented by the Computer TakeBack Campaign, an environmental group, flew over the stadium with a banner that read: “Steve, don't be a mini player _ recycle all e-waste.” The group is prodding Apple to improve its efforts to recycle obsolete electronics.Jobs summed up his remarks by borrowing a phrase from the last issue of the Whole Earth Catalogue, which ceased publication in 1975.“Stay hungry and stay foolish,” he said.