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1、Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish求知若饥，虚心若愚This is the Comme nceme nt Address made by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of PixarAnimation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 in Stanford University.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很荣幸
2、和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的commencement from one of the finest universities in the一座大学的毕业典礼。我大学没毕业，说头话，world. I n ever graduated from college. Truth be told, this这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。今天我is the closest rve ever gotten to a college graduation.想给大家讲三个我自己的故事，不讲别的，也Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Th
3、ats不讲大道理，就讲三个故事。it. No big deal. Just three stories.第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。我在里德学院(Reed College)只读了六个月就退The first story is about connecting the dots.学了，此后便在学校里旁听，又过了大约一年I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6半，我彻底离开。那么，我为什么退学呢？mon ths, but the n stayed around as a drop-i n for ano ther这得从我出生前讲起。我的生
4、母是一名年18 mon ths or so before I really quit. So why did I drop轻的未婚在校研究生，她决定将我送给别人收out?养。她非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人，It started before I was born. My biological mother所以把一切都安排好了， 我一出生就交给一对was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she律师夫妇收养。没想到我落地的霎那间，那对decided to put me up for adopti on. She felt very st
5、ron gly夫妇却决定收养一名女孩。就这样，我的养父that I should be adopted by college graduates, so母一一当时他们还在登记册上排队等著呢一一everyth ing was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a半夜三更接到一个电话：“我们这儿有一个没人lawyer and his wife. Except that whe n 1 popped out they要的男婴，你们要么？ ”“当然要”他们回答。decided at the last minute that they really wan
6、 ted a girl.但是，我的生母后来发现我的养母不是大学毕So my pare nts, who were on a wait ing list, got a call in业生，我的养父甚至连中学都没有毕业，所以the middle of the ni ght ask in g: We have an un expected她拒绝在最后的收养文件上签字。不过，没过baby boy; do you want him? They said: Of course.几个月她就心软了，因为我的养父母许诺日后My biological mother later found out that my
7、mother had一定送我上大学。never graduated from college and that my father had17年后，我真的进了大学。当时我很天真，never graduated from high school. She refused to sign选了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学the final adoption papers. She only relented a few校，当工人的养父母倾其所有的积蓄为我支付mon ths later when my pare nts promised that I would了大学学费。读了六个月后，我却看
8、不出上学someday go to college.有什么意义。我既不知道自己这一生想干什么，And 17 years later I did go to college. But I n aively也不知道大学是否能够帮我弄明白自己想干什chose a college that was almost as expe nsive as Stanford,么。这时，我就要花光父母一辈子节省下来的and all of my work in g-class pare nts savi ngs were being钱了。所以， 我决定退学，并且坚信日后会证spe nt on my college t
9、uiti on. After six mon ths, I could nt明我这样做是对的。当年做出这个决定时心里see the value in it. 1 had no idea what I wan ted to do with直打鼓，但现在回想起来，这还真是我有生以my life and no idea how college was going to help me来做出的最好的决定之一。从退学那一刻起，figure it out. And here I was spe nding all of the money我就可以不再选那些我毫无兴趣的必修课，开my parents had
10、 saved their entire life. So I decided to始旁听一些看上去有意思的课。drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有佰舍，pretty scary at the time, but look ing back it was one of只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶，the best decisi ons I ever made. The minute I dropped out用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上I could stop tak
11、 ing the required classes that did nt我都要走七英里，到城那头的黑尔科里施纳礼interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜欢looked in teresti ng.这样。我凭借好可心和直觉所干的这些事情，It was nt all roma ntic. I did nt have a dorm room, so I有许多后来都证明是无价之宝。我给大家举个slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned coke例子：
12、bottles for the 5& #162; deposits to buy food with, and I当时，里德学院的书法课大概是全国最好would walk the 7 miles across tow n every Sun day ni ght的。校园里所有的公告栏和每个抽屉标签上的to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krish na temple.字都写得非常漂亮。当时我已经退学，不用正I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by常上课，所以我决定选一门书法课，学学怎么follow
13、ing my curiosity and intuition turned out to be写好字。我学习写带短截线和不带短截线的印priceless later on. Let me give you one example:刷字体，根据不同字母组合调整其间距，以及Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best怎样把版式调整得好上加好。这门课太棒了，calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the既有历史价值，又有艺术造诣，这一点科学就campus every poster,
14、every label on every drawer, was做不到，而我觉得匕妙不可言。beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有and did nt have to take the no rmal classes, I decided to什么实用价值。但是，十年之后，我们在设计take a calligraphy class to lear n how to do this. I lear ned第一台Macintosh计算机时，它一下子浮现在我about serif and s
15、an serif typefaces, about varying the眼前。于是，我们把这些东西全都设计进了计amount of space betwee n differe nt letter comb in ati ons,算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的about what makes great typography great. It was计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that一门课，Macintosh计算机绝不会有那么多种印scie nee cant capture, and I found it fasc in at ing.刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是None of this had even a hope of any practicalWindows照搬了 Macintosh ,个人电脑可能不会application in my life. But ten years later, when we were有这些字体和字号。要不是退了学，我决不会desig ning
