乔布斯演讲稿英文版
以下是由小编为大家整理出来的乔布斯演讲稿英文版，希望能够帮到
大家。 史蒂夫·保罗·乔布斯(—)，美国发明家、
企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人。 乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱
乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，先后领导
和推出了麦金塔计算机(Macintosh)、 iMac、iPod、iPhone、iPad等风
靡全球的电子产品，深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。乔布斯同
时也是前 Pixar动画公司的董事长及行政总裁。 2019年 10月 5日，
因胰腺癌病逝，享年 56岁。 'You've got to find what you love,'
Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation
Studios, delivered on June 12, 2019. 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. 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 did I
drop 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 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. 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.
