乔布斯演讲稿

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第一篇：乔布斯演讲稿

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.没有人愿意死, 即使人们想上天堂, 人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的, 但是从现在开始不久以后, 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很戏剧性, 但是这十分的真实。

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。

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.

当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志，它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。它是一个叫stewart brand的家伙在离这里不远的menlo park书写的, 他象诗一般神奇地将这本书带到了这个世界。那是六十年代后期, 在个人电脑出现之前, 所以这本书全部是用打字机,、剪刀还有偏光镜制造的。有点像用软皮包装的google, 在google出现三十五年之前：这是理想主义的，其中有许多灵巧的工具和伟大的想法。

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： stay hungry. stay foolish.

保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。

thank you all very much.

非常感谢你们。

第二篇：乔布斯演讲稿

this program is brought to you by stanford on itunes u at stanford university, please visit us at itunes.stanford.edu.

steve jobs

ceo, apple and pixar animation

thank you.

i’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest university in the world.

truth to told, i never graduated from college, and 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 six months, but then stay around as a drop-in for another eighteen months also before i really quit. so why did i drop out? it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young unwed 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 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’ve got an unexpected baby boy. do you want him?” they said, “of course.” my biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and 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 go to college. this was the start in my life. and seventeen 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 parent’s savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months i couldn’t see the value in it. i have no idea what i want 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 far more 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 five-cent deposits to buy food with and i would work the seven miles across the 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 beautiful hand calligraphed.because i have 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 space fonts, and since windows copied the mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.if i had never dropped out, i would never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computer 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 10 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, you gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. and that would make all the difference.

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 twenty.we worked hard and in ten years, apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage in to a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we just released our finest creation, he macintosh, a year earlier, and i’d just turned thirty, 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 when our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board (请收藏好范文，请便下次访问：wWW.HaoWoRd.COm)of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, i was out, and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life 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 he 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 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’d been rejected but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over. i didn’t see that then , but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the happiness 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 in 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 became my wife. pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-aninated feature film “ toy story”, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, and i returned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple’s current renaissance, and lorene and i have a wonderful family together. i am pretty sure none of this world have happened if i hadn’t been fired from apple. it was awful-tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it. sometime life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith. i’ 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 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 and 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, don’t settle.

my third story is about death. when i was seventeen, 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 thing i’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. because almost everything, all external expectation, all pride, all fear of embarrassment of failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. remembering what 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 shower a tumor 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 doctors’ code for “prepare to die”. it means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next ten years to tell them in just a few months. it means to make sure that 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 on endoscope down my throat, through my stomach 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 they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor 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 , thankfully , i am fine now. this was the closest i’ve been to facing death, and i hope it’s the closest i get for a few more decades. having lived through it, i can now say this to you with a bit more certainly 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’s life’s change agent, it clear out the old and 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’s 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 drawn out your owner inner voice. and most important is 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 amazing publication called the whole earth catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. it was created by a fellow named stuart brand not far from here in menlo park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch, this was in the late sixties, 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, thirty-five years before google came along, it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great motions, stuart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue, it was the mid-seventies, 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 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.

第三篇：乔布斯的演讲稿

在接下来的五年里，我创立了一个名叫next的公司, 还有一个叫pixar的公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。pixar制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“玩具总动员”，pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运转中,apple收购了next，然后我又回到了apple公司。我们在next发展的技术在apple的今天的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。而且，我还和laurence 一起建立了一个幸福完美的家庭。

我可以非常肯定,如果我不被apple开除的话，这些事情一件也不会发生的。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。不要失去信仰。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，只要全心全意的去找，在你找到的时候，你的心会告诉你的。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！

you times is limited. so don't waste it leaving someone else's life.

don't by 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 your own inter-voice.

and most important, have the courage to fellow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know, what you truly want to become. everything else is secondary.

你的时间很有限，所以不要将他们浪费在重复其它人的生活上。

不要被教条束缚，那意味着你和其它人思考的结果一起生活。

不要被其它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要成为什么样子，所有其它的事情都是次要的。

第四篇：乔布斯演讲稿之斯坦福大学

steve jobs于2014年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿

今天能够在世界上最优秀的高校之一参加各位的毕业典礼，我感到十分荣幸。我本人没能从大学毕业。说句实在话，今天要算我同大学毕业之间距离最近的一次了。现在，我想给诸位讲三个我的人生故事。是的，没什么大道理，只讲三个故事。

第一个故事是关于串起你生命中的点滴。

我在里德学院念了六个月大学后就退学了，但随后我在学校旁听了18个月的课，然后才真正地辍学。那么，我为什么要退学呢？

故事要从我出生前说起。我的亲生母亲是个年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定把我交给别人收养。她很坚持我的养父母也应该是大学毕业，直到我爸妈承诺，将来一定送我读大学才算同意。

17年后，我果然上了大学。念了六个月后，我看不出这种生活有什么价值。对于人生，我不知道应该做什么，也不知道大学生活怎么能帮我解答这个问题。于是我决定退学，相信这条路一定走得通。这在当时是很恐怖的一件事，但是现在回首看去，这是我作过的最好的决定之一。从退学的那一分钟起，我就可以不上无趣的必修课，而且可以去旁听那些让我感兴趣的课程。

这并不是一种很浪漫的生活。我没有宿舍住，睡在朋友宿舍的地板上；收集空可乐瓶，每个瓶子换回押金五美分供我买食物。每周日晚上，我会穿过波特兰市区，走七英里去hare krishna神庙去吃顿好的（译注：hare krishna神庙是印度教修习场所，周日有灵修活动和免费聚餐）。我很喜欢这顿牙祭。很多在这段跟随自己的好奇心和直觉度过的日子里学到的东西，后来都让我获益匪浅。且让我给你们举个例子：

当时里德学院的书法课程大概是美国国内最好的了。由于已经退学，用不着去上常规课，我就参加了一门书法课，去学写字。我学习serif字体和san serif字体，学习不同字母组合中间隙空间的变化，学习怎么让好看的字体在应用中变得更好看。书法很美，历史悠久，而且有着精妙的艺术感，为科学所无法企及，我对它入了迷。

这些对于我的生活毫无任何实际的用途，我也从没指望有过。但是，10年后，当我们在设计第一台macintosh电脑的时候，我学的这些又回到我的脑海里。我们在设计中全面应用了这些知识。macintosh成为第一台拥有漂亮字体的电脑。假如我当年没旁听这门课程，mac就不会有多种不同字体以及字符按比例间隔的字形；假如不退学，我就不会旁听书法课，今天的个人电脑就不会带有现在的好看字体。

你没法预知你人生的点点滴滴之间会有怎样的关系；你只能在事后把它们串接起来。因此，你必须相信，这些人生的片段会在你的未来产生联系。你必须相信点

什么——你的勇气、命运、生活、因缘，什么都可以。这个办法对我一直都很有效，它造就了我的人生。

我的第二个故事是关于爱与失败的。

我很幸运，在人生早期就找到了喜爱的东西。20岁时我和woz在我爸妈的车库里建立了苹果公司。我们很努力地工作，10年之后苹果电脑由最初车库中的两个人变成一家有4000多员工、价值20亿美元的公司。那个时候我们最棒的产品macintosh刚刚推出一年，而我刚刚30岁。

然后我就被解雇了。随着苹果公司的发展壮大，我们请了一个在我看来非常有才能的人来和我一起管理公司。第一年一切都非常顺利。但是后来我们对于未来的看法出现了分歧，最终我们之间起了争论。争执发生之后，我们的董事会站在了他那一边。于是，30岁时我被炒掉了。一直以来都是我成年生活核心的东西，忽然不复存在了。那感觉相当可怕。

有几个月的时间，我完全不知道该干什么。我感到自己辜负了前辈企业家的期望——就像接力棒交到我的手里，而我却丢掉了。我成了一名众所周知的失败者。我甚至想过离开硅谷。然而有一种东西慢慢照亮了我：我依然爱着我所爱的东西。发生在苹果公司的事并没能改变这一点。我被赶走了，但是我的爱依然还在。于是我决定重新开始。

我当时并不知道，实际上被苹果解雇是当时发生在我身上的最好的事了。事业成功所伴随的那种沉重不见了，取而代之的是重回起跑线的那种新手的轻盈。对于一切我都不再确信无疑。我获得了解放，进而开始了我一生中最富有创造力的时期。

在接下去的五年中，我建立了一家名叫next的公司，然后又建立了pixar公司，并与一位奇妙的女士共堕爱河，她后来成为了我的太太。pixar创作出了世界上第一部电脑动画电影《玩具总动员》。现在它已经是世界上最成功的动画工作室。再后来，经过一次戏剧性的收购，苹果公司买下了next，我重返苹果。我们在next开发的技术现在成为苹果复兴事业的核心，laurene跟我也组建了一个美好的家庭。

我很确定，假如苹果没有开除我，所有这一切都不会发生。有时候，生活会用板砖砸你的头。一定不要失去信仰。我知道，唯一支撑我前进的东西就是：我爱我所做的事。你必须找到你所爱的东西。这句话不仅适用于你的工作也同样适用于你的恋爱。

你的工作将构成你生活的大部分，而唯一能让你真正从工作中得到满足的办法就是爱你所做的事。假如你还没有找到它，继续找吧。不要停下脚步。同所有与心灵相关的东西一样，当你找到它时，你会知道的。而且就像那些美好的爱情一样，它会随着岁月的增长而越加醇美。

我的第三个故事关于死亡。

我17岁那年读到过一句话，大意是这样：“假如你把每一天都当成你在人世的最后一天来过，总有一天你会发现自己是对的。”这话给我留下了印象。自那时起，33年来的每个早晨，我都对着镜子自问：“假如今天是我这辈子最后的一天，我还会做我今天要做的这些事吗？”每当连续很多天答案都是“不会”的时候，我就知道有什么东西需要改变了。

记住自己将不久于人世，这是我在作出人生重大选择时的一个最重要的参考工具。因为几乎所有的一切——一切外界对你的期待、一切荣耀、一切对丢脸和失败的恐惧——它们在面对死亡的时候都黯然失色，剩下的只有真正重要的东西。在我看来，记住你终将死去是帮助你避开“我可能会失去xxx”思维陷阱的最佳方法。你已经是赤裸裸的了。没有理由不追随自己的心去生活。

大约一年前，我被查出患有癌症。早上7点半，我做了一次扫描，结果很清楚地显示出我的胰腺里有一个肿瘤。当时我连胰腺是什么都不知道。大夫们告诉我，差不多可以肯定这是一种无法治愈的癌，我估计还能再活三到六个月。我的医生建议我回家去，把事情都做个了结。这是医生的行话，它意味着对这个世界说再见。

一整天我的脑子里只有这个判决。当晚，我做了一次组织切片检查，医生们发现这是一种非常罕见的、通过手术可以治愈的胰腺癌。后来我做了手术，现在已经痊愈了。

迄今为止，这是我距离死亡最近的一次，希望这也是未来几十年里我离死亡最近的一次。没有人想要死。但死亡是我们共同的终点，是生命最好的发明。它是生命的代谢催化剂，去除老朽，迎接新鲜。现在新鲜的是你们，但是用不了太久，某天你们会发现自己已经渐渐变得老朽，将被取代。抱歉说得这么夸张，但这是真理。

我们的时间是有限的，所以请不要浪费时间去过你不想要的生活。不要被教条所迷惑——它诱使你按照他人的思维定势生活。最重要的是，要有勇气追随你的心灵和直觉。它们会知道你真正想要做一个什么样的人。其他的一切都是次要的。当我还很年轻的时候，有一本刊物名叫《环球百科目录》，是我那一代人必读的圣典之一。它是由一个叫stewart brand的人在距此不远的menlo park出版的，此人以他富于诗意的工作为这份刊物注入了生命。那是在60年代末，个人电脑和桌面出版还远未发明，因此这本刊物完全是由打字机、剪刀和拍立得相机做出来的。它就像平装本的google，不过是在google诞生的35年前：一样是那么的理想主义，充满着简洁的工具和了不起的洞见。

《环球百科目录》出版了数期，生命就走到了尽头。那是70年代中期，我正是你们这个年纪。最后一期封底是一幅清晨乡村公路的照片，在照片下方写着这样的话：“求知若渴，虚怀若愚。（stay hungry，stay foolish.）”我一直希望自己做到这样。现在，在你们即将毕业的时刻，我用这句话来祝福你们。求知若渴，虚怀若愚。

第五篇：记住,你即将死去!——乔布斯演讲稿

美国媒体5日报道：苹果公司前首席执行官乔布斯去世，记住,你即将死去!——乔布斯演讲稿。

史蒂夫·乔布斯，1972年高中毕业后，在俄勒冈州波特兰市的里德学院只念了一学期的书；1974年乔布斯在一家公司找到设计电脑游戏的工作。两年后，时年21岁的乔布斯和26岁的沃兹尼艾克在乔布斯家的车库里成立了苹果电脑公司；1985年获得了由里根总统授予的国家级技术勋章；1996年，苹果公司重新雇用乔布斯作为其兼职顾问；1997年9月，乔布斯重返该公司任首席执行官。1997年成为《时代周刊》的封面人物；2014年被财富杂志评选为这十年美国最佳ceo，同年当选时代周刊年度风云人物之一。2014年8月24日，乔布斯提出辞职并于10月5日去世。

记住，你即将死去！——乔布斯演讲稿

演讲者：史蒂夫·乔布斯

演讲时间：2014年6月12日

演讲场合：斯坦福大学毕业典礼

今天，我很荣幸能来参加大家的毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最优秀的大学之一。我根本没有从大学毕过业。说实话，这还是我与大学毕业最近距离的接触。今天，我想给大家讲三个故事，它们都与我自己息息相关。没错，它们就是三个故事而已。

第一个故事是有关小事情间的联系。

不过六个月的时间，我便从里德学院辍学了，但在那之后，我还是在学院里又呆了18个月才真正离开。那么，我为什么要辍学呢？

话还要从我出生时说起了。我的生母是一个年轻的未婚大学生妈妈，是她决定把我送去别人家收养，并坚持收养我的人一定得是大学毕业生。在我出生前，所有关于收养我的事宜都已经安排妥当了。我本该被送到一个律师家去，但等到我真正出生了，那名律师和他的妻子却在最后时刻发现他们真正想要的还是女孩。所以我的生父生母在半夜给申请名单上的另一个家庭打了电话，“我们有一个不小心生出来的男孩，你们想收养他吗？”他们回答说，“当然想。”但后来，我的生母发现了我的妈妈不是大学毕业生，而我的爸爸甚至连高中都没有毕业，于是她拒绝在收养文件上签字。几个月后，她才最后妥协了，因为我的父母保证以后会送我去上大学。

十七年过去了，我果真上了大学。但我却很无知地挑了一个和斯坦福大学一般贵的学校，光是学费就花掉了我父母辛辛苦苦积攒多年的积蓄，而他们只不过是普通的工人而已。在学校待了六个月后，我发现学校对我没有任何的价值。我不知道我的人生期望是什么，也不知道我在学校里如何才能找到它。而且，我在学校念书，还花掉了父母一生的积蓄。于是，我决定辍学，并坚信这是一个正确的决定。当时，这的确是一个相当冒险的举动，但今天再回头看，那却是我做出的最明智的决定。辍学之后，我瞬间逃开了那些枯燥乏味的课程，转而开始研究那些我真正感兴趣的科目。

但事情也并非完美。辍学后我就没有寝室了，因此我都睡在朋友寝室的地板上。为了有钱吃饭，我还可乐瓶子退回商店，只为了那5美分的押金。每周星期天晚上，我还要走7英里的路，到城镇另一头的克利须那寺吃一顿大餐。但我爱这样的生活。而且，许多我出于好奇和直觉而偶然做过的事，后来也变得价值不菲。我就举一个例子。

当时，里德学院拥有全国最棒的书法课程。走在校园里，每一幅贴在墙上的海报，每一张粘在抽屉上的标签，都由漂漂亮亮的手写体写就。由于我辍了学，不用再去上课，我便决定报名参加书法培训班，学一手漂亮的字。在培训班里，我了解到了灯芯体和衬线体，字母组合间的间隙变化，以及如何才能让印刷品更美观。这一切是如此美妙、如此古朴、如此艺术、如此微妙，是现代科学所不能触及的。我简直着了迷。

当时看来，这些东西仿佛于我的人生没有任何实际意义。但十年之后，我在设计第一台苹果电脑时，这一切又重新浮现在我的脑海，并最后融入到了mac系统中，使我们的苹果电脑成为了第一台将文本精致排版的电脑。如果我当时没有辍学，我就不可能去参加书法培训班，mac系统就不会有多字体选择，字母间也不会有匀称的间隙，演讲稿《记住,你即将死去!——乔布斯演讲稿》。而由于windows是借鉴了mac的产物，如今所有的个人电脑都没有多字体和美妙的字母间隙也是有可能的。这些事情就像一个一个的点。当我还在学校时，是不可能看得出这些点如何能在未来彼此联系起来的。但十年之后，再回头来看，一切就豁然开朗了。

你们也是一样，现在要将点连接起来是不可能的，只有一段时间后，它们间的联系才会显现出来。但是，你们得相信，它们总是能联系起来的。而且，你们还得坚持一种信念，不管是直觉也好，命运也罢，甚至人生，或是来世，无论什么都好。我这样坚信了，并从中获益良多，我的生命也因此与众不同。

我讲的第二个故事，是关于爱与失败。

我是幸运的，因为我找到了我愿毕生从事的事业。我20岁时，和沃兹一起在我父母的车库里创立了苹果公司。我们拼命工作，不到十年的时间，就把只有我和沃兹两名员工的苹果从车库搬了出去，并雇佣了4000多名员工，拥有了20亿美元的资产。接着，在我快满30岁的那年，成功推出了我们最棒的艺术品——macintosh。然后，我就被解雇了。一个人怎么会被自己成立的公司解雇呢？因为，随着苹果日益壮大，我们聘请了一个人，当时，我认为他很有天赋，并希望他能和我一起经营苹果。第一年，一切看来都很好。但好景不长。我们对苹果的未来慢慢出现了分歧，最后我们发生了激烈的争吵。但公司董事会站在了他那边，于是我走人了，就在大家的注视之下。那一年我正好30岁。随之而去的，还有我成年之后对于生活的目标，当时，这给我造成了相当大的打击。

一开始的几个月，我根本不知道该做什么。我总感觉我让上一代的企业家们失望了，因为我把他们传给我的接力棒掉在了地上。我与david packard和bob noyce见了面，想要尝试着道歉，因为我把事情都搞砸了。我觉得自己成了公众的笑柄，甚至还因此想过逃出硅谷不干了。但事情开始慢慢有了转机，我也依然爱着我的事业，在苹果的失败并没有减少我对事业的热爱。虽然我感到灰心丧气，但我依然深爱着这一切。于是，我决定从头再来。

当时我并没有意识到，但后来我才发现，被苹果解雇是发生在我身上最好的一件事。再次创业，一切未知的轻松赶走了成功带来的压力，并给予了我生命中最具创造力的一段时光。

在接下来的五年里，我成立了两家公司，一家叫next，一家叫pixar，并爱上了一个优秀的女人，她就是我现在的妻子。后来，pixar公司创作出了世界上第一部全电脑制作动画电影《玩具总动员》，现在已经成为了最成功的动画公司。同时，我也遇到了戏剧性的转机，苹果收购了next，我因此重返苹果，而我在next发展的技术，也成了苹果现在的复兴之源。劳伦娜和我也有了一个幸福美满的家庭。

我很确定的是，如果我没有离开苹果，这一切都不可能发生。离开苹果像是一剂苦口的良药，但这却正是我这个病人所需要的。生活也许会给你沉重的打击，但千万不能失去信念。我确信，支持我，让我一直坚持走下去的，正是我对于我所从事的事业的热爱。你们也是一样，也得找到你们所热爱的。不管是找工作还是找伴侣都是这样。工作将伴你走过人生中很长一段时光，只有你自己认为你所做的工作是伟大的，你才会真正感到满足，因此，你们必须得热爱自己的工作。如果现在你们还不知道它是什么，那就继续找下去，不要马马虎虎应付了事。相信自己心底的感觉，当你找到它时，这种感觉会告诉你。这样的工作和美好的爱情一样，随着时间的推移而愈显美好。因此，勇敢地去寻找吧，千万不要应付了事。

最后一个故事，是关于死亡。

我在17岁那年读过一句话，话是这样说的，“如果你把每一天都当作是生命中的最后一天来度过，总有一天你会收益良多。”当时，这句话给我留下了很深的印象，从那以后的33年来，我每天早上都会对着镜子问我自己，“如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我还会去做我今天打算做的事吗？”如果我的答案一连几天都是“不会”，我就知道我需要作出改变了。

时刻提醒自己的生命行将终结，这是帮助我为生命中的重要选择做出决定的最好办法。因为所有期待、所有骄傲、所有畏怯、所有的所有，都在死亡面前变得不值一提。在死亡面前，生命中最重要的才能存留下来。时刻提醒自己的生命行将终结，这是防止自己畏手畏脚的最好办法。既然你已经一无所有，为什么不听听内心真实的想法呢？

大约一年前，我被诊断出患有癌症。那天早上7点半我去做了检查，发现胰腺上有一个肿瘤。我根本不知道胰腺癌意味着什么，但医生告诉我说，胰腺癌基本上是绝症，我只有不到六个月可活了。医生建议我马上回家，归纳一下我的各项事宜，通常，这就是医生让病人准备面对死亡的委婉说法。这意味着在一个月的时间里，你得把接下来十年里要对孩子们说的话说完；意味着你得把家中的大小事务都安排妥当，以免给家人造成麻烦；意味着，你得跟这个世界道别了。

那一天，诊断结果无时无刻不出现在我的脑海里。夜里晚些时候，医生把一面内诊镜顺着喉咙穿过胃肠，在我的胰腺里放了一根探针，取下几片肿瘤细胞，做了一次切片检查。我一直很镇定，直到我的妻子告诉我医生在显微镜下检查切片时兴奋地大叫了起来，因为这是一种非常稀有的胰腺癌，可以通过手术治愈。于是我接受了手术，而且现在身体很健康。

这是我最接近死亡的时刻，我真心希望今后几十年里我不要再有这样的经历。渡过这一难关后，比起死亡还只是一个抽象的概念时，现在的我能以一种更加确定的语气对你们说下面的话。

每个人都不想死。即使有人向往天堂，他也不想以死亡为方式去那里。但是我们大家最终都会投入死亡的怀抱。每个人都难逃一死，但这才是事物发展的规律，因为死亡可能才是生命最好的创造。死亡作为生命新老交替的使者，抹去老旧的事物，让新生的力量有空间发展。此时此刻，你们就是新生的力量，但不用太久，你们也会慢慢老去，最后消失。很抱歉说得这么悲观，但这是事实。

你们的时间是有限的，不要去过自己不想要的生活，那是在浪费时间。不要被教条束缚，那与生活在他人思想之中无疑。不要让旁人的观点淹没了你内心的呼喊。最重要的是，你们要有勇气去追寻你心底的想法，去追寻你的知觉。它们才真正清楚你想要成为什么样的人。其它的一切因素都只能拿来参考。

我年轻时，有一本名叫《全球目录》的书，它读来另人惊叹，是我这一代人的圣经。这本书的作者名叫斯图尔特·布兰德，他用诗歌一般的笔触将这本书写得活灵活现。他就住在门洛帕克，离这儿不远。那还是60年代末的时候了，个人电脑和桌面排版都还没有发明出来，他只能使用打字机、剪刀和宝丽来相机。那本书的性质就和google一样，但比google早诞生了35年，而且是用纸印刷的。它是理想主义的产物，充满了绝佳的创意和伟大的思想。

斯图尔特和他的团队为《全球目录》推出了好几个版本，最后，当《全球目录》即将退出历史舞台时，他们推出了最终版。那是在70年代中期了，那时我正和你们一般大。在最终版的封底上有一幅图片，上面是一条晨光中的乡村小路，如果你们中有人曾经勇敢地向别人搭过车，说不定就曾经行驶过这样的小路。在图片下面有这样一句话，“求知若饥，谦逊若愚。”这是他们的停刊赠言。求知若饥，虚心若愚。我一直这样要求自己。而现在，在你们即将毕业，迎来人生新起点之时，我也愿你们能记住这句话。

感谢乔布斯给我们带来曾经的美好与精彩！