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乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 本文简介：YouvegottofindwhatyouloveIamhonoredtobewithyoutodayforyourcommencementfromoneofthefinestuniversitiesintheworld.Truthbetold,Inevergraduatedfromcollege.
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 本文内容：
You
ve
got
to
find
what
you
love
I
am
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.
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
for
another
18
months
or
so
before
I
really
quit.
So
why
I
droped
out?
It
started
before
I
was
born.
My
biological
mother
was
a
young,unwed
college
graduate
student,and
she
decided
to
put
me
up
for
ad
option.
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
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
someday
go
to
college.
This
is
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
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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
in
paperback
form,35
years
before
came
along:
it
was
idealistic,and
overflowing
with
neat
tools
and
great
notions.
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
mid-1970s,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.
Stay
Hungry.
Stay
Foolish.
Thank
you
all
very
much.