第1篇：乔布斯的演讲稿中英双语
乔布斯的演讲稿中英双语
乔布斯的演讲稿中英双语
篇一：乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿(中英)
名人演讲>>乔布斯演讲 总结自己的一生
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“因”和“果”。
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: “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.
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。但是在几个月以后,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。但是我很天真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，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明智的一个决定。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Mac。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。因为微软就是苹果的山寨版，可以说世上所有PC都不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我当时不可能预知这事事之间的“因”“果”，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,没人可以未卜先知，事事的因果往往只在回首时显现，你得相信，种什么因，得什么果。人总要有些信仰才行，直觉也好，命运也罢，因果轮回，不管什么。去相信因果的联系，会给你信心去跟从自己的意愿，哪怕离经叛道，也绝不止步。只有这样，才能有所成。
My second story is about love and loss.
我的第二个故事是关于爱和得失的。
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 $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 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.
我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。Woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被当众扫地出门。在而立之年，我一生的追求突然不见了, 这真是沉重的打击。
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.
在最初的几个月里，我不知所措。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光, 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。
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.
我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。
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.
在接下来的五年里, 我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司, 还有一个叫Pixar的`公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar 制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“”玩具总动员”,Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。峰回路转,Apple收购了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。
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.
我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。良药苦口利于病，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我坚信，唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我对自己事业的热爱。你必须去寻找自己所爱。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将是此生命的主题之一。要获得真正的满足感，就要对它的价值深信不疑，也只有热爱，才可能开创伟大的事业。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找, 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像你找到注定的伴侣， 岁月的流逝只会令你们的感情愈发深刻。所以千万不要气馁，不要放弃。
我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。
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.
当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始,过了33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。
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. “记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都那么微不足道。只需考虑那些真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西,“记住你即将死去”可以有效杜绝我们的侥幸心理。既然将一无所有, 还有什么理由违背自己的意愿。
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. 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.
大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查, 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症, 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完.；那意味着把每件事情都搞定, 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说“再见了”。
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.
那张诊断书挥之不去。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静,因为我被注射了镇定剂。
篇二：乔布斯哈佛演讲稿(英中)
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:
尊敬的Bok校长，Rudenstine前校长，即将上任的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：
Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you Id come back and get my degree.”
有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的!”
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. Ill be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了(注：指从微软公司退休)......我终于可以在简历上写我有一个大学学位，这真是不错埃
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, Im just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvards most successful dropout.” I guethat makes me valedictorian of my own special cla... I did the best of everyone who failed.
我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言......在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。
But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of busineschool. Im a bad influence.Thats why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.
但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer(注：微软总经理)也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。
Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadnt even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew Ididnt worry about getting up in the morning. Thats how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesnt guarantee success.
Radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun ma-ki-ng the worlds first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。
篇三：史蒂夫·乔布斯演讲稿(中英对照)
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。
Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement 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.
谢谢大家。很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。 The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six 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? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed 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've 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 a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前说起。我的生母是一个年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定让别人收养我。她有一个很强烈的信仰，认为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。于是，一对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。然后我排在收养人名单中的养父母在一个深夜接到电话，“很意外，我们多了一个男婴，你们要吗？”“当然要！”但是我的生母后来又发现我的养母没有大学毕业，养父连高中都没有毕业。她拒绝在领养书上签字。几个月后，我的养父母保证会让我上大学，她妥协了。 This was the start in 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-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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 far more interesting. 这是我生命的开端。十七年后，我上大学了，但是我很无知地选了一所差不多和斯坦福一样贵的学校，几乎花掉我那蓝领阶层养父母一生的积蓄。六个月后，我觉得不值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不晓得大学会怎样帮我指点迷津，而我却在花销父母一生的积蓄。所以我决定退学，并且相信没有做错。一开始非常吓人，但回忆起来，这却是我一生中作的最好的决定之一。从我退学的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感兴趣的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。 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 five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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.
事情并不那么美好。我没有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房间的地上。为了吃饭，我收集五分一个的旧可乐瓶，每个星期天晚上步行七英里到哈尔-克里什纳庙里改善一下一周的伙食。我喜欢这种生活方式。能够遵循自己的好奇和直觉前行后来被证明是多么的珍贵。让我来给你们举个例子吧。
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 sans-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.
当时的里德大学提供可能是全国最好的书法指导。校园中每一张海报，抽屉上的每一张标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于我已退学，不用修那些必修课，我决定选一门书法课上上。在这门课上，我学会了“serif”和“sans-serif”两种字体、学会了怎样在不同的字母组合中改变字间距、学会了怎样写出好的字来。这是一种科学无法捕捉的微妙，楚楚动人、充满历史底蕴和艺术性，我觉得自己被完全吸引了。 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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是，十年之后，我们在设计第一台 Macintosh计算机时，它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是，我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课，Macintosh计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是Windows照搬了 Macintosh，个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
要不是退了学，我决不会碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。
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. 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--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 path, and that will make all the difference.
当然，我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看，两者之间关系就非常、非常清楚了。你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来；只有回头看时，才会发现它们之间的关系。所以你必须相信，那些点点滴滴，会在你未来的生命里，以某种方式串联起来。你必须相信一些东西——你的勇气、宿命、生活、因缘，随便什么——因为相信这些点滴能够一路连接会给你带来循从本觉的自信，它使你远离平凡，变得与众不同。
My second 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 my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just
released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd 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, and 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. 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'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
第二个故事是关于爱与失的。我很幸运，很早就发现自己喜欢做的事情。我二十岁的时候就和沃茨在父母的车库里开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力，十年后，苹果公司成长为拥有四千名员工，价值二十亿的大公司。我们刚刚推出了最好的创意，Macintosh操作系统，在这之前的一年，也就是我刚过三十岁，我被解雇了。你怎么可能被一个亲手创立的公司解雇？事情是这样的，在公司成长期间，我雇佣了一个我们认为非常聪明，可以和我一起经营公司的人。一年后，我们对公司未来的看法产生分歧，董事会站在了他的一边。于是，在我三十岁的时候，我出局了，很公开地出局了。我整个成年生活的焦点没了，这很要命。一开始的几个月我真的不知道该干什么。我觉得我让公司的前一代创建者们失望了，我把传给我的权杖给弄丢了。我与戴维德·帕珂德和鲍勃·诺埃斯见面，试图为这彻头彻尾的失败道歉。我败得如此之惨以至于我想要逃离硅谷。但有个东西在慢慢地叫醒我：我还爱着我从事的行业。这次失败一点儿都没有改变这一点。我被逐了，但我仍爱着我的事业。我决定重新开始。
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 in my life. 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 world's first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. 当时我没有看出来，但事实证明“被苹果开除”是发生在我身上最好的事。成功的重担被重新起步的轻松替代，对任何事情都不再特别看重，这让我感觉如此自由，进入一生中最有创造力的阶段。接下来的五年，我创立了一个叫NeXT的公司，接着又建立了Pixar，然后与后来成为我妻子的女人相爱。Pixar出品了世界第一个电脑动画电影：“玩具总动员”，现在它已经是世界最成功的动画制作工作室了。 In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
在一系列的成功运转后，苹果收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果。我们在NeXT开发的技术在苹果的复兴中起了核心作用，另外劳琳和我组建了一个幸福的家庭。 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's going to hit 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 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, and 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. Don't settle.
我非常确信，如果我没有被苹果炒掉，这些就都不会发生。这个药的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。有些时候，生活会给你迎头一棒。不要丧失信心。我确信唯一让我一路走下来的是我对自己所做事情的热爱。你必须去找你热爱的东西，对工作如此，对你的爱人也是这样的。工作会占据你生命中很大的一部分，你只有相信自己做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你还没有找到，那么就继续找，不要停。全心全意地找，当你找到时，你会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系，随着时间的流逝，只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，不要停。
My third story is about death. 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. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing 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.
我的第三个故事关于死亡。我17岁的时候读到过一句话“如果你把每一天都当作最后一天过，有一天你会发现你是正确的”。这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那以后，过去的33年，每天早上我都会对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我会不会做我想做的事情呢？”如果连着一段时间，答案都是否定的的话，我就知道我需要改变一些东西了。提醒自己就要死了是我遇见的最大的帮助，帮我作了生命中的大决定。因为几乎任何事——所有的荣耀、骄傲、对难堪和失败的恐惧——在死亡面前都会消隐，留下真正重要的东西。提醒自己就要死亡是我
篇四：乔布斯演讲稿
乔布斯05年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
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【乔布斯05年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲】
Steve Jobs: Commencement Address at Stanford University
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” 求知若饥，虚心若愚
2 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Paul Jobs)苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司(Pixar)首席执行官。以下是Steve Jobs在2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
Thank you.
I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement 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. Just three stories.谢谢大家。
今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。我从来没从大学毕业。说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six 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?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed 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've 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 a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
第一个故事，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。我在里德学院
(Reedcollege)待了六个月就办休学了。到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。那么，我为什么休学？
这得从我出生前讲起。我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。
所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？而他们的回答是当然要。后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
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.
十七年后，我上大学了。但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。六个月后，我看不出念这
个书的价值何在。那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄。
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. 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 far more interesting.
所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
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 five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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:
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.
这一点也不浪漫。我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七哩的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的HareKrishna神庙吃顿好料。我喜欢HareKrishna神庙的好料。追寻我的好奇与直觉，我所驻足的大部分事物，后来看来都成了无价之宝。举例来说：当时里德学院有着大概是全国最好的书法指导。在整个校园内的每一张海报上，每个抽屉的标签上，都是美丽的手写字。因为我休学了，可以不照正常选课程序来，所以我跑去学书法。我学了serif与sanserif字体，学到在不同字母组合间变更字间距，学到活版印刷伟大的地方。书法的美好、历史感与艺术感是科学所无法捕捉的，我觉得那很迷人。
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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that 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 10 years later.
篇五：乔布斯演讲稿
So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone … are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone.
Yes, I bet you must have got which entrepreneur I’m going to introduce today. He is the father of the iphone and a revolutionary of the electronics industry Steven Jobs who are born to put a dent in the universe.
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, where he was adopted by his foster mother. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School and enrolled in Reed College. Owing a deep- interest in technology, he took up a job as a leading manufacturer of video games. When Jobs was 19 years old, he dropped out from the university , and after that he always researched the computer with his friend Wozniak who had the same interest with him. In 1976, they founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family garage. The first computer was sold for $666.66.Encouraged by the success of their first computer, on the fool day in 1976, they signed a contract and decided to found a computer company. At the beginning, everything went well .While the appearance of IBM’s personal computer attacked them a lot, Jobs had no choice but to leave the company and founded the Next computer company.
In 1996, Jobs was famous for the success of the computer animated film—Toy Story. At the same time, the Apple Company was faced with the bust-up risk. In 1997, Jobs returned as Apple CEO. He reformed the company thoroughly and cooperate with Microsoft, Jobs became the cover person of Times again.
In 1998, Apple launched iMac, which was the best -selling personal computer in America. In 1999, Apple launched iBook、G4 and iMac DV. And just as expected, all of them made a huge impact. In 2001, the music industry forever changed with the iPod, iTunes followed. Billions of songs were downloaded. In2007, Jobs captures the world’s attention again with the iPhone. They made an app for everything. In 2010, Jobs launched his latest creation— iPad , which was the fast-selling technological device ever. Jobs leads Apple create one and another miracle.
But unfortunately in 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his pancreas. As a result, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011. On October 5, 2011, Jobs passed away. Like Jobs many entrepreneurs have their own entrepreneurship they use their talents to find business opportunities which are not discovered by normal people. So now let me give you a brief conclusion about Jobs entrepreneurship.
1. bravery
The capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks. There is no such a thing as a free lunch. There is a chance in front of you with some uncertain things together. If you want to be successful, you should make a choice .To face the risks or to give up? Only when you take the challenge can you gain access to success.
2. Creativity
You catch peoples’ eyes if you create something new .For example, iphone from generation to generation , which attract a lot of customers to buy their new product.
3. cooperation
One tree does not make a forest. Teamwork can make a company run in a stale pace, showing great power.
4. devotion
Being devoted can help the company become more powerful. A company with a warm and aspirant environment will work efficiently.
5. passion for study
If three of us are walking together, at least one of the other two is good enough to be my teacher. Being willing to learn from others can help combine the enterprise with many advantages.
6. Integrity
No one wants to cooperate with the company that won’t obey the contract. No one wants to buy the product from the without honesty.
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乔布斯妹妹悼词（中英双语）
此文为乔布斯的妹妹、小说家梦娜·辛普森在10月16日位于斯坦福大学纪念教堂举办的乔布斯道别仪式上发表的悼词。原文发表于《纽约时报》。先中文，后英文原文。文 / Mona Simpson 我是家中的独生女，跟单身母亲长大。父亲是叙利亚移民，小时候我们家很穷，由于这两个原因，我把他想像成奥玛·沙里夫（埃及影星，主演过《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》、《日瓦格医生》等片）的样子。当时我希望他早日发达，然后大发善心，拯救我们那家徒四壁的生活。终于遇到了父亲之后，我尽量说服自己相信他是一个密谋为阿拉伯人民建立新世界的理想主义革命分子，所以才要改头换面。
虽然身为女性主义者，但我一辈子都在等待一个值得我爱，也爱我的男人。几十年来，我一直觉得父亲就是那个男人。25岁那年，我遇到了他，我的哥哥。
那时我住在纽约，正在写第一本小说。我在一家小杂志社上班，办公室比衣柜大不了多少，连我一共坐了四个人，都是充满抱负的文学青年。一天，我接到一位律师打来的电话，说他一个富有而显赫的客户是我失散多年的哥哥──当时的我还是一个加州来的中产女生，整天缠着老板给我买医保。年轻的编辑们沸腾了。那是 1985年，我们编的是一本前卫文学杂志，而我却仿佛进入了狄更斯小说中的情节。（说真的，我们最爱的还是那些小说。）律师没有透露我哥哥的名字，于是同事们打起赌来。得票最多的是约翰·屈伏塔（John Travolta）。内心深处我暗暗希望他是一个能在文学上继承亨利·詹姆斯的传统的人：一个才华比我高、举重若轻的作家。
我第一次见到史蒂夫时，他跟我差不多大，穿着牛仔裤，阿拉伯或犹太长相，比奥玛·沙里夫更帅。
我们一起散步，走了很久——他和我一样喜欢散步。我不太记得那天说了什么，只记得他让人感觉是那种我会愿意与之做朋友的人。他花了些时间向我解释自己是做电脑的。当时我不太了解电脑。我还在用Olivetti牌的手动打字机。我跟史蒂夫说打算买一台Cromemco型号的电脑。
史蒂夫说你等到现在是对的。他说他正在做的电脑会漂亮到爆。我想跟各位分享自己从史蒂夫那里学到的一些东西。我认识他27年，其中可以分为三个时期。不是按年来分，是按生存状态：人生完整的时期、与病魔战斗的时期、垂死时期。史蒂夫只做他热爱的事。他工作极其努力，天天如此。这话说来无比简单，但也无比真实。他是三心二意的对立面。
他不会为努力工作而感到尴尬，哪怕结果是失败。如果像史蒂夫这么聪明的人都不会耻于承认自己的努力曾经失败，或许我也不必感到羞耻。
他被踢出苹果后非常痛苦。我听他提到过一场晚宴，嘉宾包括五百名硅谷领袖，以及当时的总统。没有人邀请他。
他很受伤，但仍然去 NeXT上班。天天如此。史蒂夫最大的价值不在于新，而在于美。
有一点很特别：以一个创新者而言，史蒂夫并不喜新厌旧。如果他喜欢某件衣服，就会订上十件、一百件。在他帕洛奥托家中的黑色圆领羊毛衫的数量大概足够分给这间教堂里每人一件。
他不喜欢一时的潮流或是奇技淫巧。他喜欢同龄人。
他的美学理念让我想到一句话：“初看美丽，随后变丑的，是时尚；初看或许丑陋，但随后显示出美的，是艺术。”
史蒂夫总是希望创造出那种“随后显示出美”的东西。他不介意被误解。
他没有得到晚宴邀请，便开着黑色跑车去NeXT工作，他一直开同一款跑车，那辆已经是第三还是第四代了。在NeXT的办公室里，他和团队静静地创造着。多年以后，添姆·伯纳斯·李在他们发明的电脑上写下了万维网的代码。
史蒂夫谈论爱情时像个小女生。爱是他的最高美德，他的众神之神。他会关注同事的感情生活，为他们操心。
每当他看到他认为会受女性欢迎的男性时，就会直接了当地问：“兄弟，有女朋友吗？要不要跟我妹妹一起吃饭？” 记得他遇到劳伦那天打电话给我。“我遇到一个美女，无比聪明，养了只狗，我要娶她。” 里德出生时，他开始滔滔不绝，从未停止。他是个实打实的父亲，对每个孩子都如此。他操心丽萨的男友，艾琳的出游计划和裙子的长度，以及伊芙跟她喜爱的马匹玩耍时的安全问题。我们这些参加过里德毕业派对的人，一辈子也忘不了里德和史蒂夫父子两人慢舞的场面。他对劳伦的爱矢志不渝，这份爱成了维系他的动力。他相信爱无时、无处不在。这是最重要的一点。了解了这点，你就会知道史蒂夫不刻薄、不犬儒、不悲观，从不。我一直试图学习这点，直到现在。
史蒂夫年轻时就已名利双收，他认为这一点令他与众人孤立。自我认识他以来，他做的大多数决定都是为了溶解身边的这堵墙。一个来自洛斯奥托的中产男生，爱上了一个来自新泽西的中产女生，两人知道，必须把丽萨、里德、艾琳和伊芙培养成脚踏实地的普通人。他们家没有让人产生距离感的艺术品或装饰物。事实上，我最初认识史蒂夫和劳伦那几年，他们一直在草地上吃晚餐，有时整餐只吃一种蔬菜。分量很大，但除了蔬菜不吃别的。西兰花、季节性蔬菜，做法简单，还有刚刚摘下的新鲜香料。
虽然他年纪轻轻就已是百万富翁，但史蒂夫总是去机场接我，穿着牛仔裤站在那里。如果上班时有家人打电话去，他的秘书琳奈塔会帮他接听，“你爸爸在开会。要我叫他吗？” 万圣节时，里德会要求打扮成巫师，这时史蒂夫、劳伦、艾琳和伊芙都会装成巫术世界里的角色。
有一次他们要重新装修厨房，最后花了几年才完工。其间他们在车库中用一块加热的铁盘做饭。同期动工的皮克斯大楼只花了一半时间。而且他们家只改了厨房而已。卫生间完全没有动过。但它一开始就是一栋非常棒的房子，史蒂夫花了很多心思。
并不是说他不享受成功；他非常享受，但程度上要减少几个零。他跟我说过自己最爱跑到帕洛奥托的单车店里得意地想：这里最好的单车我也买得起。然后他买了。
史蒂夫很谦和。史蒂夫喜欢不断学习。
有一次他说，如果成长经历不同的话，他或许会去当数学家。他说到大学时非常尊敬，很爱在斯坦福校园中漫步。生命中最后几年，他开始思考苹果的新总部大楼的墙上应该挂什么东西才能激发员工灵感，于是开始研读一本关于马克·罗斯科（Mark Rothko）的绘画的专著。在那以前，他不知道罗斯科是谁。史蒂夫的性格中有趣致的一面。还有哪个CEO会熟知英国和中国茶玫瑰的历史，还能说出自己最喜欢的大卫·奥斯丁玫瑰的品种？
他充满了惊喜。虽然两人已经做了二十年日夜相对的夫妻，我敢打赌劳伦经常会收到他的各种充满心思的小礼物——喜爱的歌曲、剪下放在抽屉里的诗歌等等。我几乎隔天就会跟他倾谈几句，但打开《纽约时报》看到关于苹果某项专利的报道时，还是会对着一条完美楼梯的素描惊叹。
史蒂夫跟他的四个孩子、妻子以及我们所有人一起度过了许多快乐的时光。他珍视幸福。
后来，史蒂夫病了，他的生活压缩到一个很小的圈子当中。他一度喜欢在巴黎漫步，在京都寻找小巧精致的手工荞麦麵馆。他擅长高山滑雪，越野滑雪则较为笨拙。这些都已是过去时。直到有一天，即便是普通的乐趣——例如一只美味的桃子，也很难引起他的兴致。但令我吃惊的是，即便上帝夺走了他的那么多，剩下的仍然如此丰盛。这是我从他的疾病中学到的。
我记得哥哥借助椅子开始重新学习走路的过程。肝脏移植手术之后，他的腿瘦得像是无法支撑上半身。每天他都会用双手撑着椅背尝试站立，推着椅子沿着孟菲斯医院的走廊一直走到护士站，然后在椅子上坐下稍作休息，转身，再往回走。他会数自己的步数，每天都数，每天多走几步。
劳伦跪在他面前，看着他的眼睛。
“你可以的，史蒂夫。”她说。他的眼睛张大了一点，双唇紧闭。
他在尝试。他从来不会放弃尝试，从来不会。爱，永远是他的各种努力的核心。他是一个极度情感化的人。
在那段可怕的日子里，我意识到史蒂夫并不是为他自己在忍受这些痛苦。他为自己设定了目标：儿子里德高中毕业，女儿艾琳的京都之旅，他一直在建一艘船，打算带着家人出海环游世界，他希望自己和劳伦退休之后能在这船上生活。
即时是在病中，他对品味的坚持、对事物的区别对待和判断也丝毫不改。他从67个护士中选出了三个气质近似的，并完全信任这三人，她们一直陪伴他到临终：翠西（Tracy）、亚图萝（Arturo）、爱兰（Elham）。有一次，史蒂夫染上了严重的肺炎，医生嘱咐他绝对不能进食——连冰也不行。我们待在一间标准的重症监护室里。史蒂夫一般不喜欢插队或是靠自己的名字来争取些什么，不过这次，他说他希望能够得到特别对待。我说：史蒂夫，这就是特别对待了。他靠过来说：“我想要再特别一点。”
他喉咙里插了管子不能说话时，会问我们要笔记本。他在本子上画出了一种在病床上支撑iPad的装置，还设计了新的流体监视器和 X光设备。他把那间不够特别的重症监护室重新画了一遍。每次他妻子走进病房时，我都能看见他的脸上重现笑容。
相信我，对于那些真正非常重要的事，他会写在本子上，会经常翻查。必须这样。他的意思是说，我们应该违背医生的嘱咐，给他一块冰吃。
我们都不知道会在重症监护室待多久。即便是他生命中的最后一年，只要情况稍有好转，史蒂夫就要构思新计划，并要求他在苹果的朋友们保证将它们完成。荷兰的几间造船厂造出了非常漂亮的不锈钢船体，就等着铺上木皮。三个女儿待字闺中，其中两个小女儿尚未长大成人。他已经见证了我的婚姻，现在想的是带领女儿们走向婚姻殿堂。世间有许多故事，而我们最终都会在故事的一半死去。
死亡对于一个与癌症共同生活了许多年的人来说并不意外，但史蒂夫的死让我们感到意外。哥哥的死让我懂得性格的重要性：他是什么样的人，就会以什么样的方式死去。
周二早晨，他打电话叫我快去帕洛奥托，声调亲切而充满关爱，但也像是一个已经把行李搬上车的人，一个即将开始旅行的人，虽然，他非常、真的非常舍不得离开我们。他开始道别，我叫他不要再说。“等着，我现在过去。我在出租车上往机场走。等我。” “我现在要跟你说，因为我担心你来不及了，亲爱的。”
我到的时候，他跟劳伦在一起说笑，像一对从出生以来就共同度过的伴侣。他看着孩子们的眼睛，仿佛无法将目光移开。
下午二时许，妻子将他唤醒，和苹果的朋友们聊天。又过了一会，我们都清楚他不会再醒了。他的呼吸变了，更加粗重，更加缓慢，一下，又一下。我能感觉到他又在数步数，每次多几步。
我明白了：即便是这样的时刻，他仍然在练习，在“工作”。并不是死神带走了史蒂夫，而是他达成了死亡。
弥留之际，他向我道别，他说他很遗憾，遗憾没能向计划好的那样和我一起变老。他说他要去更好的地方了。
费舍医生说他有一半几率度过今晚。
他度过了。守在床边的劳伦有时会因为他的呼吸暂停了较长时间而被吓到。我们互相看着，然后他又会长吸一口气，继续下去。
必须继续。即便那时，他的面容仍然坚决而英俊。那是一张绝对论者和浪漫派的面孔。他的呼吸表明他在进行一场艰苦的旅程，充满了陡峭的小径，和高度。他似乎在往上爬。
但除了那样的意志、那样的工作伦理、那样的力量之外，史蒂夫还有令人惊讶的可爱一面，对理想的艺术家式的信念，以及那些“随后显示出美”的东西。
数小时后，史蒂夫说出了最后几个单词。全是单音节词，重复了三遍。
启程之前，他望了一眼妹妹帕缇（Patty），对着孩子们看了很长时间，然后凝视着他终生的伴侣劳伦，最后，朝她们身后望去。史蒂夫最后的话是：
OH WOW.OH WOW.OH WOW.翻译：李如一
October 30, 2011 A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs By MONA SIMPSON I grew up as an only child, with a single mother.Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives(and our not yet furnished apartment)and help us.Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding addre because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people.Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me.For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father.When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.By then, I lived in New York, where I was trying to write my first novel.I had a job at a small magazine in an office the size of a closet, with three other aspiring writers.When one day a lawyer called me-me, the middle-cla girl from California who haled the bo to buy us health insurance-and said his client was rich and famous and was my long-lost brother, the young editors went wild.This was 1985 and we worked at a cutting-edge literary magazine, but I’d fallen into the plot of a Dickens novel and really, we all loved those best.The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name and my colleagues started a betting pool.The leading candidate: John Travolta.I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James-someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying.When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab-or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif.We took a long walk-something, it happened, that we both liked to do.I don’t remember much of what we said that first day, only that he felt like someone I’d pick to be a friend.He explained that he worked in computers.I didn’t know much about computers.I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.I told Steve I’d recently considered my first purchase of a computer: something called the Cromemco.Steve told me it was a good thing I’d waited.He said he was making something that was going to be insanely beautiful.I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him.They’re not periods of years, but of states of being.His full life.His illne.His dying.Steve worked at what he loved.He worked really hard.Every day.That’s incredibly simple, but true.He was the opposite of absent-minded.He was never embarraed about working hard, even if the results were failures.If someone as smart as Steve wasn’t ashamed to admit trying, maybe I didn’t have to be.When he got kicked out of Apple, things were painful.He told me about a dinner at which 500 Silicon Valley leaders met the then-sitting president.Steve hadn’t been invited.He was hurt but he still went to work at Next.Every single day.Novelty was not Steve’s highest value.Beauty was.For an innovator, Steve was remarkably loyal.If he loved a shirt, he’d order 10 or 100 of them.In the Palo Alto house, there are probably enough black cotton turtlenecks for everyone in this church.He didn’t favor trends or gimmicks.He liked people his own age.His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: “Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later;art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”
Steve always aspired to make beautiful later.He was willing to be misunderstood.Uninvited to the ball, he drove the third or fourth iteration of his same black sports car to Next, where he and his team were quietly inventing the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee would write the program for the World Wide Web.Steve was like a girl in the amount of time he spent talking about love.Love was his supreme virtue, his god of gods.He tracked and worried about the romantic lives of the people working with him.Whenever he saw a man he thought a woman might find dashing, he called out, “Hey are you single? Do you wanna come to dinner with my sister?”
I remember when he phoned the day he met Laurene.“There’s this beautiful woman and she’s really smart and she has this dog and I’m going to marry her.”
When Reed was born, he began gushing and never stopped.He was a physical dad, with each of his children.He fretted over Lisa’s boyfriends and Erin’s travel and skirt lengths and Eve’s safety around the horses she adored.None of us who attended Reed’s graduation party will ever forget the scene of Reed and Steve slow dancing.His abiding love for Laurene sustained him.He believed that love happened all the time, everywhere.In that most important way, Steve was never ironic, never cynical, never peimistic.I try to learn from that, still.Steve had been succeful at a young age, and he felt that had isolated him.Most of the choices he made from the time I knew him were designed to diolve the walls around him.A middle-cla boy from Los Altos, he fell in love with a middle-cla girl from New Jersey.It was important to both of them to raise Lisa, Reed, Erin and Eve as grounded, normal children.Their house didn’t intimidate with art or polish;in fact, for many of the first years I knew Steve and Lo together, dinner was served on the gra, and sometimes consisted of just one vegetable.Lots of that one vegetable.But one.Broccoli.In season.Simply prepared.With just the right, recently snipped, herb.Even as a young millionaire, Steve always picked me up at the airport.He’d be standing there in his jeans.When a family member called him at work, his secretary Linetta answered, “Your dad’s in a meeting.Would you like me to interrupt him?”
When Reed insisted on dreing up as a witch every Halloween, Steve, Laurene, Erin and Eve all went wiccan.They once embarked on a kitchen remodel;it took years.They cooked on a hotplate in the garage.The Pixar building, under construction during the same period, finished in half the time.And that was it for the Palo Alto house.The bathrooms stayed old.But-and this was a crucial distinction-it had been a great house to start with;Steve saw to that.This is not to say that he didn’t enjoy his succe: he enjoyed his succe a lot, just minus a few zeros.He told me how much he loved going to the Palo Alto bike store and gleefully realizing he could afford to buy the best bike there.And he did.Steve was humble.Steve liked to keep learning.Once, he told me if he’d grown up differently, he might have become a mathematician.He spoke reverently about colleges and loved walking around the Stanford campus.In the last year of his life, he studied a book of paintings by Mark Rothko, an artist he hadn’t known about before, thinking of what could inspire people on the walls of a future Apple campus.Steve cultivated whimsy.What other C.E.O.knows the history of English and Chinese tea roses and has a favorite David Austin rose? He had surprises tucked in all his pockets.I’ll venture that Laurene will discover treats-songs he loved, a poem he cut out and put in a drawer-even after 20 years of an exceptionally close marriage.I spoke to him every other day or so, but when I opened The New York Times and saw a feature on the company’s patents, I was still surprised and delighted to see a sketch for a perfect staircase.With his four children, with his wife, with all of us, Steve had a lot of fun.He treasured happine.Then, Steve became ill and we watched his life compre into a smaller circle.Once, he’d loved walking through Paris.He’d discovered a small handmade soba shop in Kyoto.He downhill skied gracefully.He cro-country skied clumsily.No more.Eventually, even ordinary pleasures, like a good peach, no longer appealed to him.Yet, what amazed me, and what I learned from his illne, was how much was still left after so much had been taken away.I remember my brother learning to walk again, with a chair.After his liver transplant, once a day he would get up on legs that seemed too thin to bear him, arms pitched to the chair back.He’d push that chair down the Memphis hospital corridor towards the nursing station and then he’d sit down on the chair, rest, turn around and walk back again.He counted his steps and, each day, preed a little farther.Laurene got down on her knees and looked into his eyes.“You can do this, Steve,” she said.His eyes widened.His lips preed into each other.He tried.He always, always tried, and always with love at the core of that effort.He was an intensely emotional man.I realized during that terrifying time that Steve was not enduring the pain for himself.He set destinations: his son Reed’s graduation from high school, his daughter Erin’s trip to Kyoto, the launching of a boat he was building on which he planned to take his family around the world and where he hoped he and Laurene would someday retire.Even ill, his taste, his discrimination and his judgment held.He went through 67 nurses before finding kindred spirits and then he completely trusted the three who stayed with him to the end.Tracy.Arturo.Elham.One time when Steve had contracted a tenacious pneumonia his doctor forbid everything-even ice.We were in a standard I.C.U.unit.Steve, who generally disliked cutting in line or dropping his own name, confeed that this once, he’d like to be treated a little specially.I told him: Steve, this is special treatment.He leaned over to me, and said: “I want it to be a little more special.”
Intubated, when he couldn’t talk, he asked for a notepad.He sketched devices to hold an iPad in a hospital bed.He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment.He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit.And every time his wife walked into the room, I watched his smile remake itself on his face.For the really big, big things, you have to trust me, he wrote on his sketchpad.He looked up.You have to.By that, he meant that we should disobey the doctors and give him a piece of ice.None of us knows for certain how long we’ll be here.On Steve’s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to finish them.Some boat builders in the Netherlands have a gorgeous stainle steel hull ready to be covered with the finishing wood.His three daughters remain unmarried, his two youngest still girls, and he’d wanted to walk them down the aisle as he’d walked me the day of my wedding.We all-in the end-die in medias res.In the middle of a story.Of many stories.I suppose it’s not quite accurate to call the death of someone who lived with cancer for years unexpected, but Steve’s death was unexpected for us.What I learned from my brother’s death was that character is eential: What he was, was how he died.Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto.His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us.He started his farewell and I stopped him.I said, “Wait.I’m coming.I’m in a taxi to the airport.I’ll be there.”
“I’m telling you now because I’m afraid you won’t make it on time, honey.”
When I arrived, he and his Laurene were joking together like partners who’d lived and worked together every day of their lives.He looked into his children’s eyes as if he couldn’t unlock his gaze.Until about 2 in the afternoon, his wife could rouse him, to talk to his friends from Apple.Then, after awhile, it was clear that he would no longer wake to us.His breathing changed.It became severe, deliberate, purposeful.I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before.This is what I learned: he was working at this, too.Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn’t be able to be old together as we’d always planned, that he was going to a better place.Dr.Fischer gave him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night.He made it through the night, Laurene next to him on the bed sometimes jerked up when there was a longer pause between his breaths.She and I looked at each other, then he would heave a deep breath and begin again.This had to be done.Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic.His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude.He seemed to be climbing.But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.Steve’s final words were: OH WOW.OH WOW.OH WOW.Mona Simpson is a novelist and a profeor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct.16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University.
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Honorable Judges, fellow students:
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night.All the stars are abloom with flowers.”——These are the sentences from “The Little prince”.Well, I just have a person who is as important for me as the proud rose is for the little prince.We grew up together and we almost know everyth
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中英双语比赛演讲稿
Hello everyone, my name is HuWei I come from Guangshui,Hubei province ,It is my honor to stand here to give my speech.It is well known that a good habit will be beneficial all your life.when we enter the college ,parents and teacher will barely supervise us ,so we should be more strict with us.everyone wants to become an excellent student ,
