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
苹果公司Pixar动画工作室CEO Steve Jobs2005年6月12号斯坦福学毕业典礼面演讲稿
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
天荣幸起参加毕业典礼斯坦福学世界学没学中毕业说实话天许生命中离学毕业天天想讲述生活中三事什事情三事已
The first story is about connecting the dots
第事关生命中点点滴滴串连起
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really quit So why did I drop out
Reed学读六月退学十八月——真正作出退学决定前常学校什退学呢?
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 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
事出生时候讲起亲生母亲年轻没结婚学毕业生决定收养 十分想学毕业生收养出生时候已做切准备工作律师妻子收养没料出生律师夫妇突然决定想女孩 生养父母(亲生父母观察名单)突然半夜接电话现心生出男婴想?回答道然亲生母亲发现养母没学父亲甚没读高中拒绝签收养合月父母答应定学时候意
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 workingclass 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
十七岁年真学愚蠢选择斯坦福学样贵学校 父母处蓝领阶层积蓄花学费面六月 已中价值知道想生命中做什知道学帮助找样答案 里花光父母辈子积蓄决定退学觉正确决定否认时确实非常害怕 现回头确生中棒决定做出退学决定刻 终必读令提起丝毫兴趣课程然修起点意思课程
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
罗曼蒂克失宿舍朋友房间板面睡觉捡5美分乐瓶子仅仅填饱肚子 星期天晚需走七英里路程穿城市Hare Krishna寺庙(注:位纽约Brooklyn城)吃饭——星期唯顿点饭喜欢样着直觉奇心走 遇东西证明价宝举例子吧:
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学时提供许全美美术字课程学里面海报 抽屉标签面全漂亮美术字退学 没受正规训练 决定参加课程学学样写出漂亮美术字学san serif serif字体 学会样字母组合中改变空格长度 样作出棒印刷式样种科学永远捕捉美丽真实艺术精妙 发现实太美妙
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
时起东西生命中没什实际应十年设计第台Macintosh电脑时候样时学家伙全设计进Mac第台漂亮印刷字体电脑果时没退学 会机会参加感兴趣美术字课程 Mac
会丰富字体赏心悦目字体间距现电脑会现美妙字型然学时候前点点滴滴串连起十年回顾切时候真豁然开朗
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
次说明前展时候片断串连起回顾时候点点滴滴串连起必须相信片断会未某天串连起必须相信某东西:勇气目生命缘程没令失(let me down)生命更加众已
My second story is about love and loss
第二事关爱损失
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
非常幸运 早时候找钟爱东西Woz二十岁时候父母车库里面开创苹果公司工作努力 十年 公司两车库中穷光蛋发展超四千名雇员价值超二十亿公司公司成立第九年刚刚发布产品Macintosh快三十岁年 炒鱿鱼创立公司炒鱿鱼呢 嗯苹果快速成长时候雇天分家伙起理公司 初年公司运转未法发生分歧 终吵起争吵开交时候 董事会站边三十岁时候 炒眼皮炒立年生命全部支柱离远
真毁灭性击
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
初月里真知道该做什前创业激情丢 觉创业沮丧David PackBob Boyce见面试图道歉事情弄糟糕透顶渐渐发现曙光 然喜爱事东西苹果公司发生事情丝毫没改变 点没驱逐然钟爱决定头
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
时没觉察 事证明 苹果公司炒辈子发生棒事情作成功者极乐感觉作创业者轻松感觉重新代 事情特重觉 进入生命中创造力阶段
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
接五年里 创立名NeXT公司 Pixar公司 然成妻子优雅女相识Pixar 制作世界第电脑制作动画电影——玩具总动员Pixar现世界成功电脑制作工作室系列运转中Apple收购NeXT 然回Apple公司NeXT发展技术Apple复兴中发挥关键作Laurence 起建立幸福家庭
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
非常肯定果Apple开话 中件事情会发生良药味道实太苦想病需药时候 生活会起块砖头脑袋猛拍失信心清楚唯直走做事情令钟爱需找爱东西工作 爱工作会占生活中部分相信做伟工作 怡然果现没找 继续找停全心全意找 找时候会知道真诚关系 着岁月流逝会越越紧密继续找直找停
My third story is about death
第三事关死亡
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
十七岁时候 读句话果天作生命中天生活话天会发现正确句话留深刻印象时开始33年天早晨会着镜子问果天生命中天 会会完成天想做事情呢?答案连续次予时候 知道需改变某事情
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
记住死生中遇重箴言帮指明生命中重选择事情 包括荣誉骄傲难堪失败恐惧死亡面前会消失留真正重东西时候会思考会失某东西记住死知道避免想法办法已赤身裸体 没理心起跳动
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 730 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
概年前 诊断出癌症早晨七点半做检查 检查清楚显示胰腺肿瘤时知道胰腺什东西医生告诉种法治愈癌症 三六月时间活世界医生回家 然整理切 医生准备死亡程序意味着未十年孩说话月里面说完意味着件事情搞定 家会轻松生活意味着说见
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
整天诊断书起生活天早作活切片检查医生窥镜喉咙伸进
通胃 然进入肠子 根针胰腺肿瘤取细胞时镇静注射镇定剂妻子里 告诉医生显微镜观察细胞时候开始尖 细胞竟然种非常罕见手术治愈胰腺癌症做手术 现痊愈
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
接死亡时候 希十年接次死亡线活 死亡说纯粹知识概念时候更肯定点说:
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
没愿意死 想天堂 会里死死亡终点没够逃脱应该 死亡生命中发明旧清便新路现新 现开始久 会逐渐变成旧然清抱歉戏剧性 十分真实
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
生命限活圈子浪费时光活想结果陷入困惑想法杂声压倒心声音重勇气心直接走知道真正想成样子次
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 mid1970s 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
记住保持饥饿保持愚蠢
饥求知痴求真
求知饥虚心愚
学饥谦卑愚
[永远保梦想追求饥渴愚状态坚持懈居安思危谦卑求进]
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