euthanasia乔布斯再斯坦福大学演讲稿(中英文)

2021年1月20日发(作者：道德)
乔布斯斯坦福演讲稿


苹果
CEO
乔布斯在斯坦福大学的 演讲稿
[
中英
]
苹果计算机公司
CEO
史蒂夫·
乔
布斯
6.14
在斯坦福大学对即将毕业的大学生们进行演讲时说，从大学里辍学是他这一生做出的最为明智的一个选择，因为它逼迫他学会了创新。

乔布斯对操
场 上挤的满满的毕业生、校友和家长们说：
“你的时间有限，所以最好别把它浪
费在模仿别人这种 事上。
”

－－同样地，如果还在学校的话，似乎不应该去模
仿退学的牛人们。

You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Jobs
说，你必须要找到你所爱的东西。


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.

这是苹果公司和
Pixar
动画工作室的
CEO
Steve Jobs
于
2005
年
6
月
12
号在斯
坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。


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.

我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕 业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之
一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话
,
今 天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最
近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大 不了的事
情
,
只是三个故事而已。


The first story is about connecting the dots.

第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。


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?

我在
Reed
大学读了 六个月之后就退学了
,
但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作
出退学决定之前
,
我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？


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:

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.

故事从我出生的时候讲起。
我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的
,
没有结婚的大学毕业生。
她决定让别人收养我
,
她十分想让我被大学毕业 生收养。所以在我出生的时候，
她已经做好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。 但是
她没有料到
,
当我出生之后
,
律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女 孩。

所以我的生
养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个 电话
:
“我
们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴
,
你们想要他吗？ ”他们回答道
:
“当然！
”
但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过 大学
,
我的父亲甚至从没有读
过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,
我的父母答应她一定要让
我上大学
,
那个时候她才同意。


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.

在十七 岁那年
,
我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福
大学一样贵的 学校
,
我父母还处于蓝领阶层，
他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的
学费上面 。
在六个月后
,
我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
我不知道我想要在生命中做什么
,
我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。

但是在这里，< br>我几乎花光
了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学
,
我觉得这是个正 确的决定。
不能否认
,
我当时确实非常的害怕
,
但是现在回头看看
,
那的确是我这一生中最棒
的一个决定。
在我做出退学决定的那一刻
,
我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起
丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点 意思的课程。


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:

但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克 。我失去了我的宿舍
,
所以我只能在朋友房间的地板
上面睡觉
,
我去 捡
5
美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子
,
在星期天的晚上
,我需
要走七英里的路程，
穿过这个城市到
Hare Krishna
寺庙
（注：
位于纽约
Brooklyn
下城）
,
只是为了能吃上 饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。
但是我喜欢这样。
我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走
,
遇到的很多东西
,
此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给
你们举一个例子吧：


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.

Reed
大学在那时提供也许是全 美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海
报
,
每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了
,
没有受到正规的
训练
,
所以我决定去参加这个课程，
去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。
我学到了
san
serif
和
serif
字体
,
我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度
,
还
有怎么样才能作 出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、
真实的艺术精妙
,
我发现那实在是太美妙了。


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.

当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实 际应用的可能。但是十
年之后
,
当我们在设计第一台
Macintosh电脑的时候
,
就不是那样了。我把当时我
学的那些家伙全都设计进了
Ma c
。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。
如果我当时没有退学
,
就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程
, Mac
就
不会有这么多丰 富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不
会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学 的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴
滴串连起来
,
但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,
真的豁然开朗了。


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.

再次说明的是
,
你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断 串连起来；你只能在回顾
的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串< br>连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从
来没有令我失望（< br>let me down
）
,
只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。


My second story is about love and loss.

我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。


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 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.