第一篇：参加斯坦福大学毕业庆典有感
参加斯坦福大学毕业庆典有感(转帖）
借孩子的光，有幸到美国西部斯坦福大学一行，感悟良多，记录在此，同诸位读者分享。
斯坦福大学是一所私立大学，1885年由当时的美国加州铁路大王、曾担任加州州长的利兰斯坦福为纪念他在意大利游历时染病而死的儿子，决定捐钱在帕洛尔托成立以他儿子命名的大学，并把自己8180英亩用来培训良种赛马的农场拿出来作为学校的校园。直到现在在校园还专辟一地作为他儿子的墓地以为纪念。
这里面还有个小故事。19世纪的美国差别很大，西部加州一带被东部人看不起，以为乡巴佬。儿子去世后，利兰斯坦福夫妇准备捐钱给儿子就学的哈佛大学，建一座楼，以纪念孩子。结果衣着简陋的利兰斯坦福被哈佛校长秘书和校长轻蔑地打发走了。这才有了在加州建立西部哈佛的想法。
学校一角有斯坦福儿子的墓园。在校园里建立儿子的墓地和雕像当时被很多人反对，但后来证明这是一个多么有远见的想法。几乎每个新来的学生都要来到雕像前感受这一伟大的父爱和母爱----没有这博大深远的爱心，就没有每个学生今天的一切。几乎每个学生都在这里暗下决心，为自己也为西部的哈佛而努力。
我们也又一次来到雕像前，感恩于利兰斯坦福夫妇和这座伟大的学校，为我们的儿子和千千万万的学子留下了这样美丽的校园和人间天堂。
我相信，这种爱心已经深植于每个斯坦福学生的心底。毕业典礼进场时，几乎80%的学生手里都举着各样的牌子，感谢父母的养育之恩。没有利兰斯坦福夫妇爱心奉献的壮举，是决计不会有今天这些饱含感恩之心的学子的。
眼泪就这样不由自主地流了出来，止也止不住。太太问我怎么了，我说不知道，我也不知道怎么了-----
毕业典礼有许多的活动，学校的系里的仪式、教会的礼仪和那以后很少再能听见的管风琴音乐会，都让毕业生和家长依依不舍。但于我而言，却是和校长的见面。
学校毕业典礼上，校长的自信和富有人情味的赠言已经足以安慰学子和家长：''今天美国的经济状况不好，但我可以给大家说，斯坦福大学的毕业生是不愁找不到工作的！''
在学生一片欢呼声中，校长又深情地说：''请你们回过身去，向你们的父母表示最深的感谢！''典礼是在学校的足球场进行的，数以万计的家长和亲属都在看台上观看。这时只看到所有的毕业生都转身向观众席挥手致谢，校长们也在贵宾席上向看台致意。
一时间，欢呼和呜咽弥漫了整个球场。经历过无数次的别离场合，感觉没有一次像今天这样让人震撼的激动。在感恩和被感恩的一瞬间，我们都分不清，谁是真正需要被感激的。我们驱车几千里是来向斯坦福说感谢的，但所有的孩子，穿着毕业服的孩子都向我们致意。都说斯坦福电脑、工程和医学专业有名，我看最成功的却是教会孩子懂得感恩。
但让我们更加难忘的是，毕业典礼后，校长急急赶回自己的住所，等待和毕业生的最后道别。斯坦福有这样的传统，每年毕业典礼后，校长都开放自己的住所，让毕业生浏览，并和每个学生及家长合影。
我本不想去的，时间紧已经不允许我们继续逗留，而且，过去个人崇拜的经历已经让我们对身边所有的崇拜失去热情。而且我还真怀疑，斯坦福这届毕业生有1700名之多，加上前来助兴的亲属至少三万人，难道校长会同每个学生合影？
去了之后，才感到自己今天没有遗憾。
校长和他的太太竟然真的站在自家住宅的草地前，和来访的毕业生和家长一一祝贺道别！竟然所有的学生和家长都不约而同地从四面八方涌向校长的住所，并排起了长长的队，等待着和校长告别！
不知道别人是什么样的感觉，我又有了崇拜人的感觉。我们也在大学度过，可临到毕业也不知道校长长得什么模样，更不要说有心情和校长道别了。论地位斯坦福大学校长可能比国内任何校长高，可他的门槛却比任何人都低：没有围栏障碍，没有秘书和警卫，像邻家大叔那样和蔼可亲地和每一个来访者握手祝贺。
远远地看着校长和人握手，我们就在担心能不能和校长合影----很惭愧,已经被官本位和财富至上的社会观念浸淫太多，在一个民主和平等的校园里也会担心不已。但校长唯一配备的助理就是站在校长对面的一位女职员，也许是他的女儿，用来访者的相机拍下和校长的合影，消除了我们''走过路过不能错过''的担心。
怎么想得这样周到！几乎还没有回味感动的时间，眉毛和头发都雪白的校长就在我们眼前了（美国人显老，校长是53年生的，但看起来70有余了）。看着孩子的胸牌名字，校长给孩子祝贺，轻声柔和像老朋友又像长者那样，并和我们握手合影。
在此之前，我们准备了很多感谢的话，要向校长和斯坦福致谢----没有学校给孩子这样多的奖学金资助，一个外来移民的后代和家庭今天是不可能站在这座世界名校之中的。但除了THANKS以外，我们已经不会说话了。
校长的住所就在校园一个小土坡上，一个群树遮天，绿草荫地，鲜花环绕的小屋里。说它是小屋因为与一些相比要逊色得多，但它的文化历史底蕴却和建筑风格完全地融合在一起了
我有点疑惑不解的是，美国人的住宅是美国人的私密重地，一般不是友好朋友是不能进入他人房间的，况且，这屋是斯坦福的校长的别墅，竟然让任何人来参观！毕业典礼上因为墨西哥总统来参加典礼，还见到几个联邦警察维护治安。可在校长的住所，除了他的几个年老的亲戚在忙前忙后的解说招待外，没有任何人做警卫。从校长及帮忙人的笑脸上得出了结论---校长是真正将学生当作自己的孩子，自己的亲人的。对孩子美国人从来是不设防的。
是不是校长有炫耀自己住宅的想法呢？我以小人之腹猜度着。在其他地方校长的小屋也许还值得惊叹一番，可是在加州，在斯坦福学生的家长面前，这房实在是不值一谈的。斯坦福大学的学费每年六万美元左右，大概有一半的学生都是自己付学费的（另一半人靠奖学金），都是学习优异的富家子弟。而且他们每年给学校的捐款都是数十万到数百万的。显然，校长的屋是不值得炫富的。
我想应该是校长借此给学生上的最后一课----让他的孩子们懂得，从斯坦福走出去，你们以后也会有今天！无论如何，这种无声的教育比国内某个教授在那里口出狂言''以后没有几百万，不要来见我''要含蓄和深沉得多。至少，我这个家长记住了这一课，这就是斯坦福校长最后的教诲。
这么隆重和盛大的典礼，这么值得纪念的时刻，我们没有听见一次那熟悉的《友谊地久天长》的旋律，但浓郁的人情却在校园里无处不在。
有些话在典礼上听起来甚至有点过分。斯坦福和加州柏克列分校在规模和学术上不可同日而语，但由于两家是体育项目的死对头，有时斯坦福常常败在对手的手下，所以平日说着说着就贬低了他人。这系主任接着校长在典礼上''斯坦福的学生不愁找不到工作''的话题，信口开河了：''以后诸位同学发达了，有权决定员工了，请一定注意招斯坦福自己的同学和校友''----虽然有点狭隘，但肥水不外流也不能说错。但紧跟着的就有点不上路子了：''千万不要招柏克列的人！''引起斯坦福的毕业生和家长一阵怪笑。
虽然门户之见甚深，但也是一种以学校为荣的真情袒露。我们有过这样的爱校之心吗?也许有过，但我却记得当年的一个场景：某个受到不公正分配的同学，离校时涕泪交加，咬牙切齿地发誓，以后再也不回来了。
学校典礼结束，将近三万的毕业生亲友团队从体育场的各门散出，走向各自系里的毕业典礼。为了让来宾有饱满的精神参加下一个典礼，学校在各个出口处相关的路上放满了各种免费的食物水果和饮水，供来宾边走边吃。所有的食物都是干净便利而且好吃，看到有苹果，那个头之小是市场上少见的，我想肯定是又酸又硬的那种，咬了一口才知道斯坦福后勤们的用心：这果少有的甜和水分多，正好供我们这种饥渴之辈享用。而且个头小，吃得快，我们就还有可能在这食品街上享用其他食品。
让我更有感触的是，在你要将餐巾纸和食物包装扔掉的时候，那些干净的便利垃圾箱便整齐有序地出现在你的必经之道上。没有人情就没有这等人性化的安排，吃进去的食物于我而言，立即就成了精神的收获。
对残障人的尊重也在典礼中无处不在。如同建筑外最方便的停车位是留给残障人一样，体育场二楼第一排最好的位置也是留给坐轮椅的亲属的。我们坐在一楼的最前排，也许与我们同排不远的地方有一位耳朵失聪的家长。为了让这位家长能听到现场的情况，学校特地派了两名哑语翻译，轮流为家长服务。加州空气虽然凉爽，但太阳依旧炙人，两位轮流上场执著认真，敬业得很。任凭背后是欢乐的海洋，她们的眼睛只是凝视着那位家长，用熟练的手势诠释着语言的深沉、热情和欢乐。
美国人对此习以为常，没有人对此有任何好奇。只有我对这人性化的服务感兴趣，还想知道被服务的是哪位。其实，我这种举动是不礼貌的，也是徒劳的。美国的残障人宁肯别人把他当作平常人看待，也不愿意表现出一点特殊。现场只有哑语翻译知道为谁服务。
给我另一印象是斯坦福宿舍的干净和有序管理。一想到要去儿子住的毕业生宿舍，就担心进入了时光隧道，回到我们毕业的时刻----那时刻几乎是由碎纸、杂物和破碎组合定格的。但我错了。这个学校的学生宿舍每学期都要更换，每次更换都要求学生将宿舍打扫干净，如若不干净，宿舍管理员会寄给你罚单。虽然这里多是富家子弟学生，但每个人离开宿舍时都把宿舍打扫得一尘不染。儿子说没有听说同学吃过这样的罚单。
我们也入乡随俗，临走的那天，将儿子住过的地方洗刷得油光水滑，窗明几净，然后将钥匙留在办公室的信箱里走人了。没有留一点垃圾，也没有见到一个人检查验收，一切都在诚信的氛围里悄然地结束了。
即便是个富人的学校，这里也没有一点的奢华。在宿舍的洗衣房里，放着两个大大的箱子，一个放不要的衣物，一个放可以捐献的衣物。所有箱子里的衣物都洗得干干净净，捐给他人还叠得整整齐齐。在这样的环境里生活，想不高尚也难。
难怪孩子一再要我们在他生活了四年的地方给他留影，一幢鲜花和绿树遮掩的小楼和门前参天的大树。
更加浓郁的眷恋之情是那首''威风堂堂进行曲''在校园里无处不在。这首曲子是由英国的作曲家爱德华.埃尔加编写的。英国人很喜欢这首曲子，爱德华七世曾用它作为《加冕颂歌》，其在英国的地位，几乎与国歌一样神圣。美国从来是实用主义，什么好听管它英国还是西班牙，拿来就用。当初为独立和英国人打仗，赢了之后便反唱英国人嘲笑美国人的''Yankee Doodle'',以为战歌。所以，这首好听的曲子又被美国人拿来，作为美国许多院校的毕业典礼上，学生领取文凭的伴奏音乐。这首曲子也确实有味道，给人留下一种充满豪气的出征的感觉。也许孩子们心中的理解和我们不一样，走出这个虽然美丽却又充满压力的校园，走向未知的未来，喜悦超过忧虑。因为毕竟名校文凭给了他们自信。但不懂很多的我，却总感到曲子里更多的是回顾和眷恋的成分，好像让这些孩子不要忘记这美丽的校园、典雅的建筑和给他们一切的师长。他们是出征的战士，我只是看守家园的老叟，理解是不一样的。
是不一样的。当年我们在下乡的列车上，在''大海航行靠舵手''的音乐里，连眼泪也不曾掉一滴，可曾想过母亲在背后有多少次地呜咽！希望儿子和这些孩子一起，在日后能读懂这乐曲的全部。但我却读懂了孩子们的留恋，他们有自己的表达方式。
斯坦福有个传统，每年将一位毕业生的感悟，用铜板代替砖头封存在长廊的当中。我们在深夜看见两个孩子坐在10的牌子和未来2012的位置上。也许他们是情侣，也许其中一位即将离开斯坦福，但他们没有情侣生离死别的拥抱，只是坐在自己的位置上，两眼相对，默默地守望。儿子挤了进去，在11上按下了手，留了影。他们都有自己的心迹轨道，只是别人不了解。斯坦福每年毕业典礼都要请一些名人为嘉宾，既助兴，也壮声威。虽为世界名校之列，但世俗的东西也是脱离不了的。以前请过大公司的总裁，电视台的名主持等，今年则请来了墨西哥的总统，还做专题报告。
请墨西哥总统来也是有章可循的。美国的西部几个州包括加州原本都是墨西哥的领地，因输了战事，便将这大片风水宝地割给了美国。仅加州而言大概37%的人种都是西班牙族的后裔，其中大部分是墨西哥人。所以请墨总统来，一是安抚加州的墨裔美国人，二是带有炫耀的色彩----看看我们美国人在过去你们的土地上干得多漂亮。当然这只是猜测而已，大面上都是你好我好，给足对方的面子。
能到这种美国名校来一遭，对墨总统来说也确实是荣誉事一件，所以墨总统竭尽能力，鼓吹自己如何从小民一个，如何当上总统，力图给斯坦福的学生上一堂励志课。如同现时国内的学生一样，斯坦福学生对说教的励志都不以为然，但为了给总统面子，大家都低下头，躲在学士博士帽下私自聊天。
但稀罕的是，当墨总统开始励志教育课的时候，体育场上空几乎同时出现了一架小飞机，飞机后面拖着一条巨大透明的标语''No 40000 dead，How many more？''。在墨总统长达四十分钟的说教中，这飞机就绕场了四十分钟，嘉宾和家长亲属都看得一清二楚。
原先我想，这美国也太自由了，人家总统在下面讲话，你一架飞机在上面转悠，做广告。要在中国，不但清场还净空了呢。标语内容看不太懂，大概是个做墓地广告的，猜想是''已经有四万死者了，还能有多少位置呢？''我感到真晦气，下面那么多人欢天喜地的，上面的偏做那广告。可这是人家的天地，那几个FBI都只能朝天干瞪眼，你着什么急呢？
可后来明白了那是墨裔的斯坦福毕业生在抗议墨总统呢。墨西哥贩毒集团在世界上很有名，其装备足以和正规军对抗。其势力也非同一般，杀个警察总监如囊中取物那般容易，弄得墨西哥在世界上很没面子。所以这总统一上台便向贩毒集团宣战，至今已经死了四万人了。学生心地永远是善良和正直的，看不得杀戮血腥之事，哪怕自己母国的总统来了，也要雇个飞机扫扫他的面子。原来这标语原意是''已经四万人死了，还要死多少''！
斯坦福大学以创新闻名世界，今天也让我辈开了眼。以后不懂就是不懂，千万不能装懂，我暗暗地告诫自己，别老是用中国观念来想问题，美国墓地没有中国紧张，用不着用飞机做广告！
美国学生也不给校长面子。校长在上面再三为学生打气，我们学校的毕业生不受美国经济危机影响，到处抢手。可偏有这样的学生，笑容满面打着标语，向校长和观众做广告，简单明了''雇我！''看来，局势也并非校长说得那样乐观。不过，在典礼上打出这样醒目的招牌还是很有商业头脑的。斯坦福学生的家长多是当地或美国有名学校和企业的老板，看到他的儿子和女儿的同窗这么渴求工作，能不动心吗？
大学的门一旦关闭，生活的窗就会即刻开启，但愿儿子和他的同窗永远记着斯坦福给他们的一切
第二篇：比尔盖茨斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿14
比尔盖茨斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿
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比尔盖茨斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿2014
比尔盖茨是大家都熟悉的名人，他是微软公司创始人，曾20年被评为美国首富，在2014年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上，比尔盖茨与妻子共同完成演讲，下面是由管理资料网整理的比尔盖茨毕业演讲稿2014中英文版
比尔盖茨斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿2014
Bill：Congratulations, class of 2014!祝贺2014届毕业生!
Melinda and I are excited to be here.我和梅琳达很高兴能来到这里。
It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it’s especially gratifying for us.能受邀到斯坦福做毕业演讲对于任何人来说都是一件令人激动的事情, 我们尤是如此。Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family, and it’s long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our foundation.斯坦福正迅速成为我们家人最喜欢的一所大学，它也一直是微软以及我们基金会最偏爱的一所大学。
Our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.我们喜欢招募最聪明最有创造性的人去解决最重要的问题。
It turns out that a disproportionate number of thost people are at Stanford.事实证明，我们这里很大一部分人都来自于斯坦福。
Right now, we have more than 30 foundation research projects underway here.现在这里有30多个基金会研究项目正在进行。
When we want to learn more about the immune system to help cure the worst diseases we work with Stanford.当我们想更深入理解免疫系统帮助治疗最严重的疾病时，我们找到斯坦福一同合作。
When we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States, so that more low-income students get college degrees, we work with Stanford.当我们想了解美国高等教育现状的改变趋势,帮助更多低收入家庭的学生获得大/fanwen/1545/学学位时，我们找到斯坦福一同合作。This is where genius lives.斯坦福是一个盛产天才的地方。
There’s a flexibility of mind here，and openness to change, an eagerness for what’s new.这里的思想充满了灵活性，开放性和创新性。
This is where people come to discover the future, and have fun doing it.斯坦福是促进人类探索未来并乐在其中的地方。
Melinda: Now, some people call you all nerds and we hear that you claim that label with pride.有些人把你们称作“书呆子”，听说你们很喜欢这个称谓。
Bill: Well, so do we.我们也喜欢。
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My normal glasses really aren’t all that different.Laughing。台下大笑。我平时用的眼睛其实也没有多大不同。
There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus, but if Melinda and I had go put into one word what we love most about Stanford, it’s the optimism.这所学校里发生了很多了不起的
事情。如果要我和梅琳达用一个词来总结对斯坦福的热爱，我们会说是“乐观”。
There’s an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every problem.这里有着浓郁的氛围，让人觉得创新能够解决所有问题。
That’s the belief that drove me in 1975 to leave a college in the suburbs of Boston and go on endless leave of absence.也正是这种信念让我在1975年离开波士顿郊外的那所大学，从此一去不复返。
I believed that magic of computers and software would empower people everywhere and make the world much, much better.我相信，神奇的计算机和软件能够让全世界所有人获得力量，让世界变得比现在好很多很多。It’s been 40 years since then, and 20 years since Melinda and I were married.从那时到现在已经过40年，我和梅琳达结婚也已经20年了。We are both more optimistic
now and ever.我们仍然坚持着这份乐观，甚至更甚于当年。But on our journey, our optimism evolved.随着人生旅途的展开，这份乐观也随之深化。
We would like to tell you what we learned and talk to you today about how your optimism and ours can do more for more people..今天，我们愿与大家分享自己的经历，告诉大家你们的乐观也可以和我们一样为更多的人做到更多。
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft, we wanted to bring the power of the computers and software to the people, and that was the kind of rhetoric we used.我和保罗`艾伦开创微软时，希望让计算机和软件的力量造福全人类，这也正是我们所想传达的理念。
One of the pioneering book in the field had raised fist on the cover, and it
was called “Computer Lib.”
领域内的一本先驱性的书籍封面上举起拳头，将这称作是“计算机解放运动”。At that time, only big businesses could buy computers.当时，只有大公司才买得起计算机。
We wanted to offer the same power to regular people, and democratize computing.我们希望让普通人也能使用这份力量，让计算机能够民众化 普及化。
By the 1990s, we saw how profoundly personal computers could empower people, but that success created a new dilemma.到1990年代，我们都见证了个人计算机为人类做出的巨大贡献，但这份成功同时又引来了新的困境。
If rich kids got computers and poor kids didn’t, then technology would make inequality worse.如果富有孩子有电脑用，而穷孩子没有，那么技术的天平将
变得更加不平等。That ran counter to our core belief.这将同我们的核心新年背道而驰。Technology should benefit everyone.技术应当让每个人收益。
So we worked to close the digital divide.于是我们开始行动，试图缩小这一数字鸿沟。
I made a priority at Microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our Foundation.我原来在微软以及我和梅琳达在盖茨基金会早期都确立了。
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第三篇：乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲
史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)2005年6 月在斯坦福大学的演讲在今天对于我们仍有很大的启发作用。这位苹果电脑公司(Apple Computer)和皮克斯动画公司(Pixar Animation Studios)首席执行官在演讲中谈到了他生活中的三次体验，这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。他们将他的演讲登在互联网上，在博客上展开讨论，通过电子邮件互相发送，在全球传阅。下面给大家分享这次演讲的中英文演讲稿。
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 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 downthese 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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.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.
第四篇：乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲稿
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 somethingthat 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 failurewhich 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 notion.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 a new, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.
第五篇：参加六周年庆典有感（范文）
参加公司六周年庆典有感
2010年3月28日是万物苏醒、春暖花开的季节，也是永利坚（迁址）六周年庆典的好日子。为了迎接这个特别的日子，永利坚铝业全体员工欢聚一堂，相聚在“深加工车间”举行了欢庆庆典。我们在这度过了一个难忘的夜晚，回想起当天，公司在紧锣密鼓筹备六周年庆典时的相关工作，各部门为此有条不紊的准备着，紧张、忙碌的情景犹如昨日。
如今高明永利坚已满六周年，所有工作都顺利的在进行着。规模不断在扩大，企业文化和机制成效显著，保证了公司正常健康发展。走进公司大门，那种激情氛围又回到了每位同仁的脸上，公司月产销量突破3000吨。这些成就都离不开高层领导和全体员工日以继夜的辛劳。在庆典上公司高层就永利坚品牌作了简要的汇报，所有成绩展现出了永利坚铝业的强大生命力，是永利坚人的骄傲，更是永利坚全体员工共同努力的结果，也必将伴随着永利坚的腾飞。
在过去的一年里，对公司员工培训方面，从一开始的余思维《职业化道德》，到《有效沟通》、《大智慧》，再到现在李强的《优秀员工》等内容，逐一组织相关的培训工作。我们看到了永利坚规范化越来越强，不仅增强了员工的整体素质，而且将这些意识真正落实到工作上了。真正教导我们如何做好一名出色的员工。同时树立产品信心，公司前不久在周总的领导下，研发了AL-Mg-Si-Zn合金新型产品，为以后更高、更好的发展注入了新鲜的血液。
我们信心十足，我们有信心为客户提供高质量的产品，提供更快、更准确、优质的服务。时刻坚持着这个理念，才能羸得市场。
六年的时间，不长也不短。回想起自己工作中的点点滴滴，更多的是感谢，没有公司的领导及同事的帮助，我不能成为一名合格的永利坚人。除了个人能力的提高，我想我得到更多的是那种工作的精神，认真的工作态度，细致的工作方法，公平、公正的监督检查，时刻注重自身素质的修养，对人对事有一颗感恩之心，对未来要诚恳。踏踏实实跟着永利坚的下一个五年，我将有信心与您一起共同成长。
投稿人：廖跃龙
2010年3月31日
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