乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲视频乔布斯三个故事的启示

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苹果CEO乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学的演讲稿

Thank you. I am honored to be with you today at 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 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.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.

苹果创始人乔布斯在斯坦福大学最经典演讲：求知若渴，虚心若愚

2005年，苹果公司创始人乔布斯受邀在斯坦福大学进行毕业演讲，演讲中说了他的三个故事，都是很细节不起眼的事，但这三件事却让他受益一生。

他很喜欢书法，在大学的时候选修了一门书法课，这没什么特别的。10年后，他设计出了一台Macintosh(麦金塔电脑），而在其中他学过的书法课就有用了，里面的字体就是乔布斯自己设计的。

乔布斯在20岁的时候创立了苹果公司，30岁的时候被他创办的公司解雇了，他在几个月里都不知道要做什么，他仍然很热爱这个行业，他决定从头再来，重新开始。然后他又开始办起了NeXT和Pixar的公司，在这重新开始的几年里他遇到了他的妻子。他并没有厌恶从新再来，反而很满足与那几年。后来苹果收购了NeXT，乔布斯又回到了苹果，NeXT开发的技术是苹果目前复兴的核心。

第三个故事，他很欣赏这样一句话：“如果你把每一天都当做是最后一天来过，总有一天你会是对的。”他还谈到他得了癌症之后是如何治疗的，最后他还希望毕业生们："Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish."意思是“求知若渴，虚心若愚。”

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