作者jaibaby (小鬼…你不想活了嗎?!)
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標題Re: [閒聊] 念書念累時看看steve jobs的演講巴
時間Thu Nov 3 21:19:49 2005
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/videos/53.html
這是線上收聽版
不用擔心聽不懂 他講話很標準XD
要期中考了…大家也裝認真一下吧(′ 3`)y==~
※ 引述《dreambreaken (小滅滅)》之銘言：
: Steve Jobs 對 2005 年 史丹佛 畢業生 演講---2005年六月12日
中文恕刪
下面英文可以對照一下
: =======================================================
: 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
: !
: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
: 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 sto! p 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 h! ave 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 w! as 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 entre! preneurs 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 lov! ers. 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
: m! yself: "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
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1F：推 dreambreaken:謝拉，我正想去找來聽，不過大該要考完試才有時間了 11/03 23:11
2F：→ dreambreaken:不然以我的破英文聽完考試都考完了 11/03 23:11
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