這是一篇很長的英文, 是一篇很好的文章, 我第一次那麼有耐心的一次看完全部....
我想你們應該沒有人會真的來把他看完吧~~
你們可以直接看最後一句, 也是他送給所有畢業生的話
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
不知怎的....莫名就想到愛睏姨....呵呵....
有興趣的我很建議你們找時間慢慢看這篇文章囉!
嘟嘟, 你應該看一下的....看你那ipod是從哪來的~~
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
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.
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 Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google 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.
- 留言者: bipaya
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在你所有的網誌中
這篇是我花最短的時間看完的
哈哈
捲軸不停往下拉就對啦!!
哇哈哈~~~~
- 留言者: sophia
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- 日期: 2006-03-05 12:51:51
明天再看..很適合美姨夫妻看...也許你們的小表弟
將來也可以發表這樣的演講..
- 留言者: dodo
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- 日期: 2006-03-06 02:14:07
What did i do to respond the situation ? Nothing !
I just keep going to classes , playing drums ,reading and listening something that i think may do good to my musicianship .
I can't just leave my families' expectation behind . Also , i don't have courage and confidence so strong to do so .
We all have some dreams , but we scare of being failure . We said that dreams are not reality .
That's why we are sitting here and just reading the other's speech .
The concept which he mentioned that seeing everyday as your last is interesting .
It's not a new concept , but we never keep it in mind .
But i don't think that even if i keep the concept in mind can change anything .
My families told me there is nothing bad to be mediocrity .
But that's not what i want .
Whenever we talk about
- 留言者: dodo
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I had been taught that i can do nothing but being mediocrity from school , families and society .
It's dound sorrily but true .
The speech by Steve will alway be some stories to me .
But there is one thing i can do .
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Learning and practicing is the only way to make perfect .
It's sound like a good approach to reach my dreams !
- 留言者: dodo
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- 日期: 2006-03-06 02:16:25
Whenever we talk about this , they always use some words that are not turn me down directly but discouraged me .
- 留言者: hunk
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- 日期: 2006-03-06 13:19:42
很不錯的演講阿，不過是真的有點長
杜家小弟不錯喔，都看完了，還發表自己目前的感受
"Just follow your heart and inner voice...do great things, that
is do what you love to do!!"
發現自己的興趣，做自己喜歡，發揮所長，勇往直前，像你姐一樣
他現在很有成就感阿
有時候長輩的期望與關愛，現實上的總總，可能會是種阻力
但壓力躲也躲不掉，就轉化成刺激的動力，或視作另一種形式的挑戰
更何況，你的家人很支持你阿，很多人沒那麼幸福的
加油吧，青春鼓王 !!
- 留言者: 小阿姨
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說的真好!
來賓
掌聲鼓勵鼓勵!!
- 留言者: sophia
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- 日期: 2006-03-06 21:42:31
我在泳池的另一畔..看著他強忍淚水..無助的眼神
看著他憋氣在水中 我不太敢看...我怕我會不忍心
帶他回家.....雖然知道該放手..但卻有那麼 一點擔心
...
- 留言者: 小阿姨
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- 日期: 2006-03-06 22:09:56
很像似曾相識
速不速跟杜小弟剛開完美容下巴刀 麻藥退時
那個眼神是一樣的??
杜小弟
你真幸福~
有個這麼注意你眼神的老媽......................
- 留言者: dodo
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Maybe i can't make a huge decision such as leaving college and do what i want .
But i know clearly that i already have enough freedom to do what i love .
The problem is on myself .
I don't have enough confidence to convince myself that i can do it , i can be a legend !!!!
I CAN BE A LEGEND~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 留言者: sophia
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Dear DoDo,
Suddenly I find my English is not good enough to dicuss seriously topic.
What I want to say is you must be understsnd the formal education
system may be not suitable for few genius. But it still the best way
to teach most of young people before they are ready to be independence
right now.
Do not forget many great man also graduated from good university.
Father
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First, ur english is good! I m surprised! I m glad that u read it all and u have ur thought
about this. I m proud of u.Here is the thing. Although whenever we talked about ur dream,
no one in the family turned u down directly but somehow discouraged u. What I want to
say is, keep what they said in mind, because one day, u may find out that they
r right. This is what I learned through those years since I come to the US. I may not
agree with every word form each one of the families, but I would listen and remember.
To all,
I think it might be useful for some of you don't like to work very much. He mentioned
that seeing everyday as your last day. I changed it to seeing everyday as the last day
to stay in this environment. Every morning when I think about "If I have to leave the
company tomorrow...", I can feel the joy that I know it's not true. Then I am
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Just for curiosity.....Dad, did u read the article?
- 留言者: dodo
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I never said i am going to do so .
You don't have to tell me that i can't do it or i am not that special so immediately.....
I never heard even once from you or mom said that i am special in my whole life.....
Instead , i heard so many times you said i am not that special....telling me just be a mediocrity .
Maybe i am not , but that depress me a lot .....
Of course i am too old to think all of this .
It's time for me to accept all things and trying to be reality .
Of course it is not mean that my life is going to be boring .
I can also have a wonderful life being with all my families .
Speaking of this , why don't we just trust 柏彰 cousin and give him a hand .
He is definitely a special kid .
Maybe it's a good way to tell him he is special and smart enough to do what he want .
I believe he can be a legend "with families' enco
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Of course i know what things going to be .
I'll do my best !
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not until today did i finish the article, but my only thought is
"oh my god~my sister has a astonishing memory just like her version" haha~
because she already told me the content of the speech before i read it and
she didn't forget any story or any inspiration word inside.
thouth i think the story is interesting and has something we should learn,
i still enjoy being a mediocre because i know there must be something really hard behind the people out of ordinary.
haha~ i am really a person with no big aspiration.
- 留言者: 中和的阿杜
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I m not saying that my English is good .
But i read English magazine almost everyday .
I used to read in English .
I had read a lot of articles that is so inspired .
I want to share them with you , too .
But i don't have an album .
Even if i have one , i don't think u guys would like to read English articles everyday .
- 留言者: 小阿姨
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有誰會講中文的???
- 留言者: sophia
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I had readed it all but honestly I just roughly understend.
Today I want to talk to you about life. First at all you have to know
our life is not like 100Mtters racing from the beginning to the ending.
Our life is a kind of cycle like season from spring to winter. but onething
different is season can repeat year to another year, our life only one cycle.
Because we have one cycle only so the life become very valuable.
So the key point of life is how to handle your cycle completely and beautfully.
- 留言者: sophia
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stage step by step. the timeing is important any moment is important.
God prepare so many days for us but one cycle only.So we must use our
any moment carefully, we can enjoy our life everyday another hand do not forget
work or learning hardly. No any loose is biger then waste time.
If we do our best to handle our life cycle to be beautful everyday I think
we can keep smile when the endingtime come to us.
Father
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他不知如何是好..所以我把它切成兩半了
- 留言者: sophia
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My children,
So as to your age your life cycle of spring almost going to pass.
I am living in my autumn and your grandpa grandma are in the winter.
In this kind of circumstance your job is growth, my job is harvest,
The job of your grandpa and grandma are take rest. That is why
beside to earn money I spend many time to serve my parents to let them
fell life is warmer,and try my best to help you to growth quicker,
biger,stronger and more stable.
( to be continued )
- 留言者: sophia
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Belive me I never try to change your style. I just do my best to help you
to become biger compare to your original ability.
I never expect you become a greatman in any field. What I expect is
your ability growth to strong enough to turn run your life cycle to
reach a level to be wondful and beautiful completely.
When you are ready. Tell me please. Then I want to take rest.
Father
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Though I already knew how well writing talent u have,i was still so moved when i finished reading.
i always feel so lucky that i have the greatest parents in the world,what u taught us is much more different
from what my friends got from their parents. u dont demend us the best grade,best performance in any field.
instead, u just expect ur children to be happy,healthy,and positive.
as u know, always be happy is much more easier for me than be the number one.
but dont worry ! i'm mot a person with nothing in my head.
i have parents both graduated from college, i think i'm from a family so called"literary family"(書香世家) haha~
maybe i'm not so excellent in studying, but believe me, i won't be so lazy in learning.
(be continued)
- 留言者: 2daughter
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from him. oh~and dear Mom, don't be envy about my praise to dad.
u r also a wonderful mom who is so patient,beautiful and clever.
and i love u two so much, type to here, i just cant wait going home in May.
haha~i really have a so so sweet family .
at last, i think we can stop those "life" things.
after all, i bet there is no one besides our family members ( i mean people who live on 和平西路) will see all of those
in English. haha!!
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