I am honored to be with you today at your commencement(开始，发端，毕业典礼) from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be 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（没什么了不起的）.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(不速之客) 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（未婚的，没有结婚的） 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（突然出现） 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 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 that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented（变温和，变宽厚） a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was the start of my life.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-cla(工人阶级的，劳动阶级的) 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 claes 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 5¢ deposits（定金） to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles acro 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（困惑，绊倒） into by following my curiosity and intuition（直觉，直觉知识） turned out to be pricele（无价的） later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy(书法，笔迹) instruction（教导，说明，指令） in the country.Throughout the campus every poster（海报，广告，招贴）, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphied.Because I had dropped out and didn\'t have to take the normal claes, I decided to take a calligraphy cla to learn how to do this. I learned about serif(衬线体) and san serif typefaces（无衬线字体）, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography（排印，印刷格式，印刷样式） 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(成比例地，相称地，适当地) spaced fonts（字体）.And since Windows just copied the Mac, it\'s likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy cla, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impoible 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(胆量，直觉), destiny（命运）, life, karma（因缘，因果报应）, 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（用久了的，平凡的） path.And that will make all the difference. My second story is about love and lo.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（愿景，想象） of the future began to diverge（分歧，偏离） and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors（董事会，理事会） 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(灾难性的，毁灭性的).I really didn\'t know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs(企业家) downthese 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(裸露的，赤裸裸的).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(胰腺).I didn\'t even know what a pancreas was.The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable（无药可救的，不能治愈的）, 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 and 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（圆满完成的，守口如瓶的） so that it will be as easy as poible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day.Later that evening I had a biopsy(活组织检查), where they stuck an endoscope（内窥镜，内诊镜） down my throat(喉咙), through my stomach and into my intestines（肠）, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated（处于镇静状态）, 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 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 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（发明，创造） of Life.It is Life\'s change agent(是生命的转化媒介).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 others\' 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（目录，产品目录，编目。全球目录）, which was one of the bibles（圣经） 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（诗歌的，诗意的） touch.This was in the late 1960\'s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, sciors, and polaroid cameras（显胶片照相机）.It was sort of like Google in paperback（平装本，平装书） form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with（充满着） neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several iues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course（完毕）, they put out a final iue.It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final iue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking(搭便车，搭车旅行) on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: \"Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.\" It was their farewell（告别，辞别） meage as they signed off（停止活动，结束）.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew（adv.重新，再）, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.
乔布斯_斯坦福演讲_《Stay_Foolish,_Stay_Hungry》演讲稿1
Jobs speech in stanford 乔布斯 斯坦福 演讲
