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※ 引述《NEWO (Into the face)》之铭言：
: Steve Jobs说，你得找出你爱的 (You've got to find what you love.)。
: 以下是苹果电脑公司与Pixar动画制作室执行长Steve Jobs在2005年六月12日对全体史丹
: 佛大学毕业生的演讲内容。
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: 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，我看不出唸这个书的价值何在。
: 那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道唸大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了唸这
: 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哩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电脑。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电脑都不会有这些东西，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
: 里开始了苹果电脑的事业。我们拼命工作，苹果电脑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，当苹果电脑成长后，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，被苹果电脑开除，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电脑动画电影，玩具总动员，现在是世界
: 上最成功的动画制作公司。然后，苹果电脑买下了NeXT，我回到了苹果，我们在NeXT发展
: 的技术成了苹果电脑后来复兴的核心。我也有了个美妙的家庭。
: 我很确定，如果当年苹果电脑没开除我，就不会发生这些事情。这帖药很苦口，可是我想
: 苹果电脑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。任何其他事物
: 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，个人电脑跟桌上出版还没发明，所有内容都是打字机、剪刀跟拍立得相机
: 做出来的。杂志内容有点像印在纸上的Google，在Google出现之前35年就有了：理想化，
: 充满新奇工具与神奇的注记。
: Stewart跟他的出版团队出了好几期Whole Earth Catalog，然后出了停刊号。当时是1970
: 年代中期，我正是你们现在这个年龄的时候。在停刊号的封底，有张早晨乡间小路的照片
: ，那种你去爬山时会经过的乡间小路。在照片下有行小字：
: 求知若饥，虚心若愚。
: 那是他们亲笔写下的告别讯息，我总是以此自许。当你们毕业，展开新生活，我也以此期
: 许你们。
: 求知若饥，虚心若愚。
: 非常谢谢大家。
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: '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 stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me,
: and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
: It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in
: friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5? deposits to buy food with,
: and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good
: meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I
: stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be
: priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in
: the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer,
: was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have
: to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn
: how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying
: the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes
: great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in
: a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
: None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten
: years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came
: back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer
: with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in
: college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally
: spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no
: personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have
: never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not
: have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to
: connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very
: clear looking backwards ten years later.
: Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them
: looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in
: your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma,
: whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the
: difference in my life.
: My second story is about love and loss.
: I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started
: Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years
: Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company
: with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the
: Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
: How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we
: hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and
: for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future
: began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board
: of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What
: had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
: I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the
: previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as
: it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried
: to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I
: even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began
: to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had
: not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And
: so I decided to start over.
: I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the
: best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being
: successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure
: about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my
: life.
: During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company
: named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
: Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy
: Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a
: remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the
: technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current
: renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
: I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from
: Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm
: convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
: You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is
: for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and
: the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
: And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't
: found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart,
: you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets
: better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.
: Don't settle.
: My third story is about death.
: When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day
: as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an
: impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the
: mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my
: life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the
: answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change
: something.
: Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
: encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost
: everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment
: or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only
: what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best
: way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are
: already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
: About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the
: morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know
: what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of
: cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than
: three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in
: order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell
: your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in
: just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it
: will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
: I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where
: they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my
: intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
: I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the
: cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to
: be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had
: the surgery and I'm fine now.
: This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I
: get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to
: you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely
: intellectual concept:
: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die
: to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever
: escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the
: single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the
: old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too
: long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry
: to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be
: trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's
: thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner
: voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
: intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
: Everything else is secondary.
: When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth
: Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a
: fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it
: to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal
: computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters,
: scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form,
: 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with
: neat tools and great notions.
: Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and
: then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the
: mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a
: photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself
: hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay
: Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay
: Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as
: you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
: Thank you all very much.