乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲观后感

第一篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲观后感

What you did Leads what you’ll get

/Sow nothing , reap nothing Jobs just told three stories to us , first of all he pointed that connecting the dots.Life went by , there may be something too big or small for you to regret.With my growing up, I always feel sorry to my parents.When I was a litthle boy, I loved to come and play with them.When I grow up , I leave them and only come to them when I need something or when I am in trouble , I thought everything that I did was absolutely right even if I quarreled ,shouted to release my unsatisfied emotion.No matter what happenes , parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy.I have been away from them for years , now I suddenly realize how I love them and what I can do for them.Maybe it’s cruel to them when I was young , I am convinced that don’t cry over the past, it’s gone, live in the present and make it beautiful now.“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.“

It’s easy to be thankful for the good things , while a life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.As he said , he never graduated from any college , he quit his college life but not his study.Things seem not romantic as we think , Jobs slept on the floor in friend’s rooms for not having his own dorn room , and his food depended on collecting bottles for 5 cents.and “much of what he stumbled into by following his curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on” , he said.Because he dropped out ,he attended a calligraphy class.Here , not only he learned how to do it , but also studied serif and san serif typefaces.None of this had even a hope of any practical application but years later,when they were designing the first Macintosh computer ,it all helped a lot.As he said , “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.”

Sow nothing , reap nothing.You have to trust something----your gut , destiny , life and so on.This approach will never let you down , and it will make all the difference in your life.Be true to who you are , stop trying to please other people or be someone else.It’s better to be an original version of yourself than an exact duplicate of someone else.It’s very sorry to see that Jobs were fired by his own company.In his nearly thirties , for the version of the future he and his cooperator had a falling out , the Board of Directors didn’t side with him.He said “what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone , and it was devastating.” Later on , something began to dawn him----he still love what he did.That’s enough.Therefore he decided to start over.Don’t cry because it is over , smile because it happened.And Jobs even thinks that it was the best thing that could have ever happened to him , what an amazing thought!He just said，“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.”

He set NEXT and another company Pixar , the technology they developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.Pretty surely , none of this would have happened if he hadn't been fired from Apple.It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.Here comes the third story----Death.Have you ever spent your every day as your last day ? Have you ever asked yourself in front of a mirror ,“if today were the last day of my life , would I want to do what I am about to do today ?” And , have you ever thought that life may need some change after your answering “No.”? Remembering that we will be dead soon so all things like pride , fear of embarrassment or failure , all of them will fall away , leaving only what is truly important.Facing death , Jobs realizes that the death is very likely the single best invention of life.For what ？It cleans out the old to make way for the new.So don’t waste it living someone else’s life.Above all , have the courage to follow your heart and intuition , they somehow already know what you truly want to become.Forrest Gump once told us “life is like the chocolate ,you’ll never know what you’ll get next.”

Well , an Aspirin or candy , it’s up to you.

第二篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲视频观后感

第一次看乔布斯在斯坦福大学演讲的时候，是在弥漫着浓厚硝烟味的高三。那是一个午后，阳光透过窗，洒在昏昏欲睡的同学身上。顺着光，我可以看到有许多细微的颗粒在光中漂浮着。

小时代里的周崇光说：我们活在浩瀚的宇宙里，漫天飘洒的宇宙尘埃和星河光尘，我们是比这些还要渺小的存在。

我们就像是宇宙中一颗尘埃，或许此刻也一样顺着我们看不到的光在漂浮。我也不知道生活什么时候就突然改变方向，陷入墨水一般浓稠的黑暗里去。就像眼前的光和它的尘埃，你就真的能确定它所飘向的方向肯定有尽头？

老师是在上课铃前踏进教室的，看着已经卧倒许多许久了的同学，眼神里充满了怜悯。她也有过一段叫高三岁月，也同样曾经在昏沉的午后，试图通过厚重的眼镜去看透未来。

当我们被失望拖进深渊，被疾病拉进坟墓，被挫折践踏地体无完肤，当我们被嘲笑、被讽刺、被讨厌、被怨恨、被放弃。但是我们却总是 在内心里保留着希望，保留着不甘心被放弃的跳动的心。老师就是试图去保存着呵护着我们心中仅存的那一点点的希望，那尚还跳动的心，然后她就给我们看了乔布斯的演讲视频，希望我们能透过别人给予乔布斯闪耀的光环，去找到他真正的发光点。

那是适逢乔布斯离世的时候，大街小巷说的都是苹果之父。我对这个我之前一点也不了解的男人的死讯的兴趣完完全全比对他的演讲还要高。这可能是和我当时觉得大学毕业演讲就应该在大学毕业时才看的心态有关。而我尚还未高中毕业，大学八字更还未见一撇，所

以人家大学毕业又关我什么事？

因此，乔布斯的演讲在我记忆中只留下了一个浅浅的轮廓。到了今天，时间如白马过隙，转眼我已经是以学长的身份在学校晃悠了。毛概老师说要给我们看一个视频，然后要写观后感。

当我听到要看的视频是乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲的时候，我尚还不屑一顾，这不就是我两年前就看过的视频了吗？许多人就是这样，总认为自己看过、用过、或是曾经拥有过得东西它就已经失去了它原有的魅力，对自己原有的吸引力。其实经典的东西永远都不会老的，它的价值会随着岁月的流逝而变得比你愈加值钱。

生活中的因和果

在心理课上老师说：大一是不知道自己不知道，大二是知道自己不知道。

我现在大概就是这样的一种状态。

我一直在思索着自己之前所做的一切是否是值得的，有意义的。到了大二，我的确是发现了自己很多的不足，知道了自己有更多的东西需要学习，要更多的时间来充实自己。越是这样子想，我就越是对部门协会的事情越是反感，感觉这样一些所谓的锻炼其实并不能给我什么，觉得这样的实践其实只要一个稍微有点智商的人也一样可以做的很好，这真的不能代表着什么。

心灰意冷的后果就是极度的消极，而极度消极的后果就是自暴自弃。甚至一度怀疑到自己所学的专业，这真的是我所爱的吗？

但是乔布斯和他的因和果就像是黑暗中的一点光芒。就如他所说的:你不可能把点点滴滴事先串连起来，只有回首往事，你才能把它们串在一起。

我的确不能否定现在还未对我产生作用或是影响的东西，说不定它以后就会改变我的一生！我所摸索的现在，所经历的现在，都只是为了给自己的未来一个契机，一个蜕变的契机。或许它现在还没有展现它的价值，或许它现在真的没有价值。但是谁又能代表未来发言？时间会告诉你的，你现在所做的一些并不是真的像你所想的那样无用。

这个就是因，有因就同样会有一个果在以后等你。

关于失去

失去的东西总是最美好的，因为我们会在回忆中把它变的更加完美。

我们总是会在高中的时候怀念初中，在大学的时候怀念高中。却一直忽略你现在所唾弃的今天以后会是你所怀念的昨天。

刚刚踏进大学，和新的同学谈的最多的不是以后的发展和计划，也不是共同的兴趣和爱好。而是自己的高中是如何的完美，以及自己的家乡又是如何的秀丽。

偶尔的回忆，或许真的会让人认为你是个有感情的人。但是一直只活在回忆中那只会虐死自己。

失去并不代表什么，它不是人生的终结,也不会是世界的末日。失去，有的时候更是意味着会遇到更多。

乔布斯说他失去苹果与成功的光环的那些日子，却是他一生中最快乐的日子。他不仅又成功的把自己的兴趣和创意融合到自己的作品中，还收获了让他余生充满幸福的婚姻。

生活就总是在不经意间给你惊喜。它悄悄拿走你一样东西的同时,就只是想给你换来更多更美好的东西。

所以，不要去为失去的东西痛心疾首，它回不来的。而是要做好准备去得到你将收获的意外惊喜。

关于未来

在社会和生活的双重压力下，许多的人都开始觉得自己患上了一种叫做拖延症的病。

我自己也曾经这么的认为过。我会把今天要完成的事情推给明天，但当明天变成今天的时候，我就又有一个明天的时间来拖延了。直到期限的最后一天，拖无可拖的时候，我才会火急火燎的去熬夜通宵。其实这真的不是什么不可征服的拖延症，而是懒的要命！

而且我们知道自己到底有多少个明天吗？自己的明天不会有它也

本该完成的事吗？

这的确不是什么的吉利的话，更不是什么诅咒。当它的确说的很对，死亡和希望一样，也总在不经意间来临。

我老当益壮的父亲，总以为自己可以看着我哥大学毕业，光宗耀祖，可以看着我续我哥之后，成为家里的第二个大学生，然后去向曾经看不起我们的亲戚邻里证明，证明我们人穷志却不穷。然后父亲也以为他可以抱上第一个孙子，当上爷爷。

但当未来看起来很美好的时候，对于现在来说，的确是一种幸福和期待。但是那还只是存在于未来，我们在未真正触摸到的时候，就不能把它当成已经存在了的东西。

我父亲就是这样带着遗憾离世的，在最后一刻他还念叨着尚在大学城的儿子怎么还未赶来见他最后一面？我清楚的记得父亲的眼睛最后是没有闭上的，我合不上它，我母亲也合不上。或许只有他所期待的那些美好的愿景才替他合上他的双眼吧！

未来是否存在我们不能肯定，但是我们能肯定的就是，现在就在我们的手上。我们是选择握紧现在呢还是寄希望于飘渺的未来？都只是取决于我们选择张开或是紧握双手？

总之，我是不会让今天那么容易的就溜走了的，至少我也要扯下它的一段尾巴，来证明我曾经紧紧的握紧它过，来证明我的今天过得还尚有意义。

我们的明天有限，所以不要浪费时间活在别人的生活里。不要被教条所局限，盲从教条就是活在别人思考的结果里。不要让别人的意见

淹没了你内在的心声。最重要的是，要有勇气追逐我们自己的内心世界和直觉，它们多少已经知道我们真正想要成为什么样的人，其他任何事情都是次要的！

把握我们能抓住的每一天，然后每一天都问自己：如果今天是我一生的最后一天，我要干些什么？

到了最后，我已经知道了我的大学不应该就只是这样子的。它应该更精彩。

这是我对自己的承诺。

第三篇：乔布斯在斯坦福大学演讲演讲观后感

Thoughts of The speech of the Jobs

The speech that Jobs made on Stanford has profound effects on us after we watching the video.His speech is contained by three stories.And each one of the three have different significance for us.How did he achieved the glorious accomplishment? And what’s his attitude of the live?what’s advice he want to share to us? You will acknowledge the answer after watching the video.His first stories started from his collage.He was adopted by a copple of workers because his biological mother was unmarried.Actually he as a bastard.When he studied in the collage he found that it was meaningless for him to studied in it at the cost of all the wealth of his foster parents.Then he quit out.He used the time to listen other lessons.He learned about serif and serif typefaces.About varying the amount of space between different letter combinations.About what makes great typography great.....which seemed useless from the sight of our attitudes.But ten years later, when they designed the first Macintosh computer,it made a giant works on them.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.Then I think of my life, i found we should made the right decision on ourselves.when he dropped out his collage, he also was afraid of the money and the future.But he learned other things during the time his absence of school which were beneficial for his business.The experience that we experienced while we were in trouble was not only rarity for our careen but also for our life.So that Jobs said’ you cant’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backward.So you have to trust to trust that.The dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something.Your gut destiny life,karam whatever.This approach has never let me down and it has made all the different in my life.’ I considered that we are always recreating the things we have down, which was a negative thought for ourselves.Just like us now,we regret why we choose the course--english or rather others--computer, tourist, and so on.The complain is too feeble.If we found the course did not available for us we should change another one as the Jobs.Ever you consist it, you should learn some useful

thing not only on your major but on your interesting instead of regretting.As soon as you have some experience or knowledge,please trust me, you must have the chance to use them in some day.His second stories about love and loss.It is a sentimental topic of the life, isn’t it? When he was twenty years old, he with his friend set up a company to now the two billion company with four thousands employees.It was a joke that he was fired by his own company, which made a huge damage on his life and career.But he still love his job.Even though lost the company, he still had the chance to do his job by tough efforts.I remembered his word ‘the haviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again’.Then he started a company named NeXT and Pixar that the two companies have gained huge achievement.And during the process he fell in love with an amazing woman who became his wife.Due to some reasons Apple bought NeXT, he returned to Apple which once was his own company.Why he could achieved such glories achievement after being fried by his company? I think the reason is easy---love what you do.He loves his job so that he could not quit it regardless of the damage on his enterprise.His courage came from his love for his job.Seeking for your loved job is very imperative of your life.Because the job will company with you forever, each of them will more intimately with the years past.Keep seeking if you have not found it.I make a example of myself, I want to be a accountant still now even though I am a english major student.I always learn the knowledge on accounting after class in the library for getting the certification of accounting.But I have no teacher to teach me ,no classmates to discuss with me, so just studied by myself.Some times I feel lonely and helpless for the course.I love it so that I want to distant it.Even though the exam was fail but I still learn the knowledge right now.But for the love for it,how could I can accept the fail.Do not afraid of the loss because the love give the courage for us which could leads us to the place where has the lightness and hope.His third stories about death.He experienced the threaten of cancer so that he even cherished his live and the beauty of the life.‘if you live each day as if it was your last someday.You will most certainly be right’.All the money and honour will

lost because human could not exit forever.we have the limited life, which resulted in they have no time to care about other’s attitudes for people.We should live the life according to the thought of ourselves.‘have the courage to follow your heart and intuition....’ Jobs gave the advice ‘Stay hungry, Stay foolish.’ During our lives, do the things you think its worthy.Jobs did not know he would died several years later, but he has made the prepare for his family and his own.Death is the taboo thing for us.All of us want have the glorious, so that we pay more attentions to the regular of the society.What a pity thing for the limited life.This great man’s three stories let person feel deeply.Then I have different ideals for the life and my live after watching the video.In the limited life to live out our own style is very necessary things.

第四篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲

于乔布斯，在2005年斯坦福大学的演讲就是他最好的自传。

你得找出你的所爱。

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。

‘You’ve got to find what you love

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 somethingI 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 creationa 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 downI 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 everythingthese 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.乔布斯是个天才和疯子，他每天必来到我们部门看昨天的成果，能听到他骂人，我们并不生气，因为我们知道他不允许产品上市后没有销路。

2011年8月25日，乔布斯先生宣布辞职的消息让人吃惊，我们对他的健康状况表示担心。在办公室里，也许再难听到他骂人了，只留下曾经他的那些经典的激励我们的语录——

1、不要按照用户的坏习惯去设计，也不要按照程序员的思维去设计！

1, do not according to user bad habits to design, also do not according to programmers thinking design!

2、有好的想法要坚持，不要被其他人的观点的噪声掩盖你真正的内心的声音。当你的想法站不住时，立即大度的丢弃，这其实是更是一种坚持。

2, have good ideas are going to insist, don’t be others’ opinion noise drown out your own inner voice.When your ideas stand, immediately magnanimous discard it is, and it is also a kind of persistence.3、任何一款产品都不应该带着BUG去见用户，那怕失信于媒体推迟发布时间。

3, any product are not should bring a BUG to meet users, that is afraid to betray media postpone the release of time.4、产品一定是让人感觉最新，但坚决不做小白鼠去尝试前无古人的新产品。

4, products must be feeling letting a person, but resolute don’t do new mice to try an unprecedented new product.5、把标志画那么大干吗？苹果的产品要在任何时候都让人一眼认出是苹果的产品而非是苹果的标志。

5, the sign painting so big? Apple products will at any time those who make a person recognized apple’s products rather than is the apple logo.6、比别人少用一条线获得更低的工艺成本，比别人提供多一种价值认同并获得更高的利润，这就是苹果。

6, less than others with a line acquire lower process cost more than others, and provide a kind of value identification and obtain more profits, this is an apple.7、所有的产品一定会离开苹果商店但不能离开苹果系统，我们要帮助客户持续使用苹果产品，直到寿终正寝。

7, all products will leave apple store but cannot leave apple system, we have to help customers continued use of apple products, until died.8、IBM Thinkpad如果没了小红点，那它就不是Thinkpad。MACBook如果加了小红点，那它即不是IBM Thinkpad也不是苹果MACBook了。

8, IBM Thinkpad if not a little red dot, it isn’t Thinkpad.MACBook if added little red dots, that it is not IBM Thinkpad nor apple MACBook.9、让团队中那些说“不可能”的人感到实现不了是可耻的。

9, let team for those who say “impossible” people feel not achieve them is shameful.10、品牌不是打上苹果的标志就是苹果的品质，打上苹果的标志也需要信心和对客户的承诺。10, brand is not playing apple logo is an apple quality, hit the apple logo also need confidence and commitment to customers.11、不要为别人而活，也不要为今天的自己而活，把今天的工作做好了，明天自然属于你，薪水自然比别人高。

11, don’t lived for others, also don’t live for today’s themselves, to do good work today, tomorrow natural belong to you, high salary nature than others.12、产品设计时的所有功能都是一个整体，不应该有任何理由去砍功能，破坏整体性。12, product design all the functions are a whole, should not have any reason to cut function, destroy unity.13、领袖和跟风者的区别就在于创新，你的时间有限，所以不要像亚洲人那样，浪费在模仿别人这种事上。

13, a leader and a follower innovation distinguishes between, your time is limited, so don’t like asians that, wasted in imitate others this kind of things.14、团队中那些想用Keynote（苹果的PPT）来证明自己的人只能说明你不行，请拿出解决方案。

14, team of people who want to use Keynote to prove themselves only shows that you can, please take out the solution.15、成为卓越的代名词并不是因为他有多么聪明，而在于他有多么勤劳。

15, become the pronoun of not because of his remarkable how clever, but that he is how diligent.16、东方佛学中有一句话：永远保持初学者的心态；拥有初学者的心态是件了不起的事情。16,East: “there’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘beginner’s never keep Have a beginner’s mind is a wonderful thing.17、不要小看ipod上的一颗按钮，它和别人不一样的是我们做了21个方案、84000次测试、57次改进，用户的满意源于不必要的坚持。

17, don’t look down upon a single button on the ipod, it and others are different is that we did 21 scheme, 84,000 times test, 57 times improvement, the satisfaction of customers from unnecessary insists

第五篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲

背诵：

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.我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找, 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系, 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来！

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.你们的时间很有限, 所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上。不要被教条束缚,那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活。不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是, 你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示——它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

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和他的伙伴出版了几期的“整个地球的目录”,当它完成了自己使命的时候, 他们做出了最后一期的目录。那是在七十年代的中期, 你们的时代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨乡村公路的照片（如果你有冒险精神的话，你可以自己找到这条路的），在照片之下有这样一段话：“保持饥饿,保持愚蠢。”这是他们停止了发刊的告别语。“保持饥饿,保持愚蠢。”我总是希望自己能够那样,现在, 在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候, 我也希望你们能这样。

Joseph Epstein, a famous American writer, once said, “We decide what is important and what is trivial不重要的，琐碎的 in life.We decide(so)that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do.But no matter how different the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make.We decide.We choose.And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed.In the end, forming our own destiny命运 is what ambition is about.” Do you agree or disagree with him? Write an essay of about 300-350 words entitled: