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1、乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文Sta nford Report, Ju ne 14, 2005You ve got to find what you love, Jobs saysThis is the text of the Comme nceme nt address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer andof Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of th
2、e finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I veever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That s i t. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about conn ect ing the dots.I dropped ou
3、t of Reed College after the first 6 mon ths, but the n stayed arou nd as a drop-i n for ano ther 18 mon ths or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a you ng, un wed college graduatestude nt, and she decided to put me up for adopti on.
4、She felt very str on gly 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 thatwhe n I popped out they decided at the lastmin utethat they really wan ted a girl. So my pare nts, who were on a wait ing list, got a c
5、all in the middle of the night asking:“We have an unexpectedbaby 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 n ever graduated from high school. She refused to sig n the final adopti on pape
6、rs. She only rele nted a few mon ths later whe n my pare nts promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I n aively chose a college that was almostas expe nsive as Stan ford, and all of my working- class pare nts sav ings were being spe nt on my college tu
7、iti on. After six mon ths,I could n t see the value in it. I had no ideawhat I wan ted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figureit 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 w
8、ork out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but look ing back it was one of the best decisi ons I ever made. The min uteI dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn t interest me, andbeg in dropp ing in on the ones that looked in teresti ng.It wasn t all romantic. I didn t have
9、a dorm room, so I slept on the floorin friends rooms, I retur ned coke bottles for the 5? deposits to buy food with, and I would walkthe 7 miles across tow n every Sun day ni ght to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krish na temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by follow ing my cu
10、riosity andintuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instructionin the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out
11、 and didn t have to take the normal classes,I decided to take a calligraphy class to lear n how to do this. I lear ned about serif and san serif typefaces, about vary ing the amou nt of space betwee n differe nt letter comb in ati ons, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, histo
12、rical, artistically subtle in a way that scie neecan t capture, and I found it fasc in at ing.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. I
13、t was the first computer with beautiful typography. IfI had n ever dropped in on that sin gle course in college, the Mac would have n ever had multiple typefaces or proporti on ally spaced fon ts. And since Win dows just copied the Mac, its likely that no pers onal computer would have them. If I had
14、 n ever dropped out, I would have n ever dropped in on this calligraphy class, and pers onal computers might not have the won derful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to conn ect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten year
15、s 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 conn ect in your future. You have to trust in someth ing your gut, desti ny, life, karma, whatever. This approachhas n ever let me dow n, and it has
16、 made all the differe nee in my life.My sec ond 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 myparents 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 billi on compa ny with over 4000 employees. We hadjust released our fin est creati on the Macin tosh a year ear
