第一篇：乔布斯和苹果公司的英文演讲
NOW, I am standing here to show my undying thanks to everybody present.Today,I would like to talk about Steven jobs and the Apple inc.There are three famous apples of the world.one seducing Eva, one awaken Newton，one is in jobs' hand, making him famous and rich.Owing to jobs‟charismatic leadership qualities.In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances.With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution.In 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene.But, how can jobs get such a big success?
I just want to quotesome mottos of jobs to show how can he successed.1.Steve Jobs said: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”Innovation has no limits.The only limit is your imagination.It‟s time for you to begin thinking out of the box.2.Steve Jobs said:There is no shortcut to excellence.Live by a higher standard and pay attention to the details that really do make the difference.Excellence is not difficult – simply decide right now to give it your best shot – and you will be amazed with what life gives you back.3.Steve Jobs said: “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.4.Steve Jobs said: “There‟s a phrase in Buddhism, „Beginner‟s mind.‟ It‟s wonderful to have a beginner‟s mind.”Think of beginner‟s mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement.5.Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don‟t waste it living someone else‟s life.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.Live a life that YOU choose and be your own boss.So many good qualities that jobs have , making Apple the most famous company in the world.So many good qualities that jobs have , making him rich and famous.In the last few years Nokia have lost as much as ithave won in a decade.Nokia and Microsoft are engaged in a “life or death” battle with their younger and competitors Apple , who are closing in on them and became a serious threat against Nokia.So Nokia‟s average selling price has been falling steadily, from $65 at the start of last year, to an expected $55 this quarter.Can an alliance solve their problems ?Sorry ,I have no idea about it.But ,I have to say that APPLE will actually attract shareholders and venture capital financiers due to it‟sBeautiful design.But,I would like to hope both of them can win the war.Under competition one turns out to be more active.Futhermore, competition gives each company shows greater initiative at products,making ordinary people can enjoy the best product and the cheapest price.Just like what jobs said:Passion can make the world a better place.Stay hungry, stay foolish.“.”Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, I wish that all for us students.Stay hungry, stay foolish.Thank you all, very much.
第二篇：乔布斯和苹果公司的英文演讲（最终版）
NOW, I am standing here to show my undying thanks to everybody present.Today,I would like to talk about Steven jobs and the Apple inc.There are three famous apples of the world.one seducing Eva, one awaken Newton，one is in jobs' hand, making him famous and rich.Owing to jobs‟charismatic leadership qualities.In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances.With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution.In 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene.But, how can jobs get such a big success?
I just want to quotesome mottos of jobs to show how can he successed.1.Steve Jobs said: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a
follower.”Innovation has no limits.The only limit is your imagination.It‟s time for you to begin thinking out of the box.2.Steve Jobs said:There is no shortcut to excellence.Live by a higher
standard and pay attention to the details that really do make the difference.Excellence is not difficult – simply decide right now to give it your best shot – and you will be amazed with what life gives you back.3.Steve Jobs said: “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.4.Steve Jobs said: “There‟s a phrase in Buddhism, „Beginner‟s mind.‟ It‟s wonderful to have a beginner‟s mind.”Think of beginner‟s mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement.5.Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don‟t waste it living someone else‟s life.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.Live a life that YOU choose and be your own boss.So many good qualities that jobs have , makingApple the most famous company in the world.So many good qualities that jobs have , making him rich and famous.In the last few years Nokia have lost as much as ithave won in a decade.Nokia and Microsoft are engaged in a “life or death” battle with their younger and competitorsApple , who are closing in on them and became a serious threat against Nokia.So Nokia‟s average selling price has been falling steadily, from $65 at the start of last year, to an expected $55 this quarter.Can an alliance solve their problems ?Sorry ,I have no idea about it.But ,I have to say that APPLE will actually attract shareholders and venture capital financiers due to it‟sBeautiful design.But,I would like to hope both of them can win the war.Under competition one turns out to be more active.Futhermore, competition gives each company shows greater initiative at
products,making ordinary people can enjoy the best product and the cheapest price.Just like what jobs said:Passion can make the world a better place.Stay hungry, stay foolish.“.”Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, I wish that all for us students.Stay hungry, stay foolish.Thank you all, very much.
第三篇：乔布斯苹果公司的企业文化
苹果公司企业文化
1．专注于设计
首 先，每个员工都必须牢记苹果比其他任何一家公司都更加注重产品的设计。像微软这样的公司向来不擅于打造让人赏心悦目的产品，而苹果才是真正地在做设计—— 了解消费者的需求，懂得如何满足消费者的需求，然后着手实现这些目标。虽然实现起来并不总是很容易，但苹果似乎每次都能恰到好处地完成。这难道不是员工的 努力造就了苹果的成功吗？如果离开了员工的努力，苹果有可能会很快没落。
2．信任乔布斯
苹果是一家非常有意思的公司，它的企业文化从员工一直延伸到了消费者。这也就是说，它对员工的期望也是它对消费者的期望。其中，最重要的一点期望就是——相 信乔布斯。在过去的十年中，乔布斯一直是苹果的救星。他曾带领苹果走出老化的商业模式并进行革新，从而创造了前所未有的成就，并向市场推出了许多更好的产 品。不过，“相信乔布斯” 有时也会太过头（比如最近的iPhone天线门事件）。但是，在大多数情况下，相信乔布斯对苹果、对员工和对消费者来说都是有益无害的。
3．忘记一切，从头开始
当 员工初到苹果时，公司就希望他们立即做一件事：忘掉曾经了解的技术。苹果公司所做的事情与其他公司都不一样。无论是产品的设计、新产品的设计理念还是公司 独具的简单运营方式，只要是在苹果，所有事情就会不同。把在其他公司的工作习惯带到苹果来，可能会造成更多的麻烦。苹果是不同寻常的。
4．坚信苹果比其它所有公司都强
不同于行业里的其它任何公司，苹果公司非常自负。其中的部分原因是由于乔布斯非常自我，他相信苹果是世界上最强的公司，有不同于其他公司的做事方式。虽然苹果的仇敌无法忍受这一点，但是对所有该公司的粉丝和员工而言，这一信条已经成为了一种号召力。
5.看重外界的看法
由 于自负的本性，苹果用心聆听人们对自己的产品的批评。但在真正的苹果时尚里，该公司会选择更加恶毒的行为来回应这些批评，这一点是行业里其它所有公司都不 能企及的。毕竟，行业里有哪家公司可以在遇到诸如iPhone 4天线门这样的事件时还能满不在乎，依旧我行我素的呢？苹果不喜欢听到别人指责自己是错误的，并希望不管是自己的员工、还是外界的追捧者都能跟自己坚定的 站在一起。
6．永不服输
苹果最具魅力的一点就是它永不服输。就算产品被批评得体无完肤，该公司似乎也能在危急时刻找到脱离火海的方法。没有哪个领域能比计算市场把这一点展现得更加 淋漓尽致的了。在做出了一些有着不少争议（和风险）的决策后，乔布斯凭借正确的策略扭转了局面，使公司获得了收益。今天，苹果希望自己所创造的利润可以打 破纪录。乔布斯最不想看到的就是竞争对手击败自己的公司。也许，这就是为什么谷歌在移动市场的收益能让这位CEO如此愤怒的原因。
7．时刻关注细节
如果说苹果懂得哪一条经营之道，那就是关注细节意味着长远回报。例如，谷歌的Android操作系统，现在可能卖得很好，但在使用了一段时间之后，大多数 消费者就会发现Android与苹果的ios操作系统相比缺乏一些闪光点。这点差距并不会让消费者觉得Android操作系统不太好用，事实上，可以说 Android和ios一样好用，但这点小小的差距确实会让一些消费者禁不住怀疑谷歌为什么就不能再做得更好一点。在大多数情况下，苹果却多努力了一点
点。但就是这一点点的努力使得苹果成为了最大的赢家。与此同时，这也是苹果对自己员工的期望。
8.只乔布斯是必不可少的人物
如 果佩珀马斯特的离职暗示了苹果内部是如何运作的，那么很明显只有乔布斯是不可替代的人物。佩珀马斯特曾帮助世界上最知名的智能手机取得了超乎寻常的成功，如果在其它公司也好（不管文化差异与否），没有人会愿意看到他满心悔恨的离开。不过，这一点也只能归咎于乔布斯的自我。很明显，乔布斯认为自己才是苹果成 功的关键。苹果的爱好者和某些员工可能会同意这种说法，但佩珀马斯特在iPhone的成功上也是不可或缺的一员。苹果公司里还有谁可以让iPhone团队 像佩珀马斯特领导时那样有效地工作呢？这一点的确值得每一个人去思考。但或许并这不重要。苹果公司再次证明，只有乔布斯才不会丢掉饭碗。
9.保密至高无上
谈 到苹果的企业文化，就不得不提及该公司对保密工作的态度。不同于行业里的其他许多公司，苹果在即将推出新产品时很少会泄密。但实际上，由于该公司一名员工 的疏忽，使得iPhone 4在推出之前就已经泄漏了相关的信息。也许，这就是为什么苹果公司会制定长期的保密准则，只有那些能做好保密工作的公司才能取得成功。而那些泄露公司秘密 的员工，哪怕是无意间，也只有被炒掉的份。
10.主导市场才是最重要的事
在 涉及到技术时，史蒂夫乔布斯脑海中只有一个目标，那就是“主导市场”。他所想的不只是击败市场上的所有公司，而是要彻底摧毁他们。乔布斯想向世界表明，只 有他的公司才是最强的。乔布斯就是想向所有竞争者、消费者和所有人证明这一点，并希望员工可以帮他实现这个目标。如果员工不这样做的话，那么就只会被解 职。
11偏执于创新
乔布斯将他的旧式战略真正贯彻于新的数字世界之中，采用的是高度聚焦的产品战略、严格的过程控制、突破式的创新和持续的市场营销。重回苹果后的乔布斯采取的第一步骤就是削减苹果的产品线，把正在开发的15种产品缩减到4种，而且裁掉一部分人员，节省了营运费用。之后，苹果远离那些用低端产品满足市场份额的要求，也不向公司不能占据领导地位的临近市场扩张。
12.发扬苹果的特色。
苹果素以消费市场作为目标，所以乔布斯要使苹果成为电脑界的索尼。1998年6月上市的iMac拥有半透明的、果冻般圆润的蓝色机身，迅速成为一种时尚象征。在之后3年内，它一共售出了500万台。而如果摆脱掉外形设计的魅力，这款利润率达到23%的产品的所有配置都与此前一代苹果电脑如出一辙。
13.开拓销售渠道，让美国领先的技术产品与服务零售商和经销商之一的CompUSA成为苹果在美国全国的专卖商，使Mac机销量大增。
14.调整结盟力量。
同宿敌微软和解，取得微软对它的1.5亿美元投资，并继续为苹果机器开发软件。同时收回了对兼容厂家的技术使用许可，使它们不能再靠苹果的技术赚钱。
15.推崇精英人才文化
与对产品和战略高度聚焦的做法相似，在人才的使用上，乔布斯也极力强调“精”和
“简”。乔布斯曾创立并管理的Pixar公司倡导的是没有“B团队”，每个电影都是集合最聪明的漫画家、作家和技术人员的最佳努力而成。“质量比数量更加重要。”乔布斯表示从若干年前看到Stephen G.Wozniak为制造第一台苹果机而显示出的超凡工程学技能的那些日子开始，乔布斯就相信由顶尖人才所组成的一个小团队能够运转巨大的轮盘，仅仅是拥有较少的这样的顶尖团队就够了。为此，他花费大量精力和时间打电话，用于寻找那些他耳闻过的最优秀人员、以及那些他认为对于苹果各个职位最适合的人选。
乔布斯还在2000年苹果的一度停滞期喊出了“Think Different”（另类思考）的广告语，他希望这个斥资上亿美元宣传的广告不仅让消费者重新认识苹果，更重要的是，唤醒公司内员工的工作激情。
第四篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文
2010-11-01 10:26:25
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
„You‟ve got to find what you love,‟ Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer 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.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 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.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, 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.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.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 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.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 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.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.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, 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 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.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.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:
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 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.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.
第五篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
„You‟ve got to find what you love,‟ Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer 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.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 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.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, 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.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.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 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.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 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.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.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, 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 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.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.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:
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 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.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.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。我喜欢Hare Krishna神庙的好料。追寻我的好奇与直觉，我所驻足的大部分事物，后来看来都成了无价之宝。举例来说：
当时里德学院有着大概是全国最好的书法指导。在整个校园内的每一张海报上，每个抽屉的标签上，都是美丽的手写字。因为我休学了，可以不照正常选课程序来，所以我跑去学书法。我学了serif与san serif字体，学到在不同字母组合间变更字间距，学到活版印刷伟大的地方。书法的美好、历史感与艺术感是科学所无法捕捉的，我觉得那很迷人。
我没预期过学的这些东西能在我生活中起些什么实际作用，不过十年后，当我在设计第一台麦金塔时，我想起了当时所学的东西，所以把这些东西都设计进了麦金塔里，这是第一台能印刷出漂亮东西的计算机。如果我没沉溺于那样一门课里，麦金塔可能就不会有多重字体跟变间距字体了。又因为Windows抄袭了麦金塔的使用方式，如果当年我没这样做，大概世界上所有的个人计算机都不会有这些东西，印不出现在我们看到的漂亮的字来了。当然，当我还在大学里时，不可能把这些点点滴滴预先串在一起，但是这在十年后回顾，就显得非常清楚。
我再说一次，你不能预先把点点滴滴串在一起；唯有未来回顾时，你才会明白那些点点滴滴是如何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你现在所体会的东西，将来多少会连接在一块。你得信任某个东西，直觉也好，命运也好，生命也好，或者业力。这种作法从来没让我失望，也让我的人生整个不同起来。
我的第二个故事，有关爱与失去。
我好运－年轻时就发现自己爱做什么事。我二十岁时，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸妈的车库里开始了苹果计算机的事业。我们拼命工作，苹果计算机在十年间从一间车库里的两个小伙子扩展成了一家员工超过四千人、市价二十亿美金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我们最棒的作品－麦金塔，而我才刚迈入人生的第三十个年头，然后被炒鱿鱼。要怎么让自己创办的公司炒自己鱿鱼？好吧，当苹果计算机成长后，我请了一个我以为他在经营公司上很有才干的家伙来，他在头几年也确实干得不错。可是我们对未来的愿景不同，最后只好分道扬镳，董事会站在他那边，炒了我鱿鱼，公开把我请了出去。曾经是我整个成年生活重心的东西不见了，令我不知所措。
有几个月，我实在不知道要干什么好。我觉得我令企业界的前辈们失望－我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我见了创办HP的David Packard跟创办Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他们说我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厉害了。我成了公众的非常负面示范，我甚至想要离开硅谷。但是渐渐的，我发现，我还是喜爱着我做过的事情，在苹果的日子经历的事件没有丝毫改变我爱做的事。我被否定了，可是我还是爱做那些事情，所以我决定从头来过。
当时我没发现，但是现在看来，被苹果计算机开除，是我所经历过最好的事情。成功的沉重被从头来过的轻松所取代，每件事情都不那么确定，让我自由进入这辈子最有创意的年代。
接下来五年，我开了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又开一家叫做Pixar的公司，也跟后来的老婆谈起了恋爱。Pixar接着制作了世界上第一部全计算机动画电影，玩具总动员，现在是世界上最成功的动画制作公司。然后，苹果计算机买下了NeXT，我回到了苹果，我们在NeXT发展的技术成了苹果计算机后来复兴的核心。我也有了个美妙的家庭。
我很确定，如果当年苹果计算机没开除我，就不会发生这些事情。这帖药很苦口，可是我想苹果计算机这个病人需要这帖药。有时候，人生会用砖头打你的头。不要丧失信心。我确信，我爱我所做的事情，这就是这些年来让我继续走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你爱的，工作上是如此，对情人也是如此。你的工作将填满你的一大块人生，唯一获得真正满足的方法就是做你相信是伟大的工作，而唯一做伟大工作的方法是爱你所做的事。如果你还没找到这些事，继续找，别停顿。尽你全心全力，你知道你一定会找到。而且，如同任何伟大的关系，事情只会随着时间愈来愈好。所以，在你找到之前，继续找，别停顿。
我的第三个故事，关于死亡。
当我十七岁时，我读到一则格言，好像是「把每一天都当成生命中的最后一天，你就会轻松自在。」这对我影响深远，在过去33年里，我每天早上都会照镜子，自问：「如果今天是此生最后一日，我今天要干些什么？」每当我连续太多天都得到一个「没事做」的答案时，我就知道我必须有所变革了。
提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大决定时，所用过最重要的工具。因为几乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有名誉、所有对困窘或失败的恐惧－在面对死亡时，都消失了，只有最重要的东西才会留下。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入自己有东西要失去了的陷阱里最好的方法。人生不带来，死不带去，没什么道理不顺心而为。
一年前，我被诊断出癌症。我在早上七点半作断层扫描，在胰脏清楚出现一个肿瘤，我连胰脏是什么都不知道。医生告诉我，那几乎可以确定是一种不治之症，我大概活不到三到六个月了。医生建议我回家，好好跟亲人们聚一聚，这是医生对临终病人的标准建议。那代表你得试着在几个月内把你将来十年想跟小孩讲的话讲完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才会尽量轻松。那代表你得跟人说再见了。
我整天想着那个诊断结果，那天晚上做了一次切片，从喉咙伸入一个内视镜，从胃进肠子，插了根针进胰脏，取了一些肿瘤细胞出来。我打了镇静剂，不醒人事，但是我老婆在场。她后来跟我说，当医生们用显微镜看过那些细胞后，他们都哭了，因为那是非常少见的一种胰脏癌，可以用手术治好。所以我接受了手术，康复了。
这是我最接近死亡的时候，我希望那会继续是未来几十年内最接近的一次。经历此事后，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念时要更肯定告诉你们下面这些：
没有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活着上天堂。但是死亡是我们共有的目的地，没有人逃得过。这是注定的，因为死亡简直就是生命中最棒的发明，是生命变化的媒介，送走老人们，给新生代留下空间。现在你们是新生代，但是不久的将来，你们也会逐渐变老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉讲得这么戏剧化，但是这是真的。
你们的时间有限，所以不要浪费时间活在别人的生活里。不要被信条所惑－盲从信条就是活在别人思考结果里。不要让别人的意见淹没了你内在的心声。最重要的，拥有跟随内心与直觉的勇气，你的内心与直觉多少已经知道你真正想要成为什么样的人。任何其它事物都是次要的。
在我年轻时，有本神奇的杂志叫做Whole Earth Catalog，当年我们很迷这本杂志。那是一位住在离这不远的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand发行的，他把杂志办得很有诗意。那是1960年代末期，个人计算机跟桌上出版还没发明，所有内容都是打字机、剪刀跟拍立得相机做出来的。杂志内容有点像印在纸上的Google，在Google出现之前35年就有了：理想化，充满新奇工具与神奇的注记。
Stewart跟他的出版团队出了好几期Whole Earth Catalog，然后出了停刊号。当时是1970年代中期，我正是你们现在这个年龄的时候。在停刊号的封底，有张早晨乡间小路的照片，那种你去爬山时会经过的乡间小路。在照片下有行小字：
求知若饥，虚心若愚。
那是他们亲笔写下的告别讯息，我总是以此自许。当你们毕业，展开新生活，我也以此期许你们。
求知若饥，虚心若愚。
非常谢谢大家。
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