Name: 賈伯斯史丹福演講2005 (Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005)
Uploaded: 2016-01-04T03:22:02.000Z
Duration: 14 min 26 s

I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement

我很榮幸今天能和你們一起參加你們的畢業典禮。

from one of the finest universities in the world.

and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

這是我最接近的一次大學畢業典禮。

Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.

今天，我想給大家講三個我生活中的故事。

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,

我在前半年就從裡德學院退學了。

but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.

但後來又在這裡做了18個月左右的投遞員，才真正退出。

My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student,

我的生母是一個年輕的未婚研究所學生。

and she decided to put me up for adoption.

She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates,

她非常強烈地覺得，我應該被大學畢業生收養。

so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.

所以一切都準備好了，我一出生就被一個律師和他的妻子收養了。

they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

他們在最後一刻決定 他們真的想要一個女孩。

So my parents, who were on a waiting list,

所以，我的父母，是在等待的名單上。

got a call in the middle of the night asking,

My biological mother found out later that

my mother had never graduated from college

and that my father had never graduated from high school.

而我的父親從來沒有從高中畢業。

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

她拒絕在最後的收養文件上簽字。

She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that

幾個月後，我父母答應她，她才肯罷休。

But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford,

但我天真地選擇了一所和斯坦福差不多貴的大學。

and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.

而我工薪階層父母的所有積蓄都花在了我的大學學費上。

After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life

我不知道我想做什麼，我的生活。

and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

也不知道大學怎麼幫我想辦法。

And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.

而我卻在這裡花光了父母一輩子攢下的錢。

It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back

當時是挺嚇人的，但現在回想起來

it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

這是我做過的最好的決定之一。

I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me,

我可以不選那些我不感興趣的必修課了。

on the ones that looked far more interesting.

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms.

我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在朋友房間的地板上。

I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with,

我把可樂瓶還給了5分錢的押金，用它來買菜。

And I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night

我每週日晚上都會走7英里的路過鎮上。

to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

以期每週能在哈里-克里希納寺吃上一頓好飯。

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

而我按照自己的好奇心和直覺偶然發現的很多東西，在後來都變成了無價之寶。

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.

勵志學院在當時提供的書法教學也許是全國最好的。

every poster, every label on every drawer,

每張海報，每張抽屜上的標籤。

Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes,

因為我已經退學了，不用再上正常的課。

I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.

我決定參加一個書法班，學習如何做這件事。

I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces,

我瞭解了襯線字體和無襯線字體。

about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations,

關於改變不同字母組合之間的空間大小。

artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture,

藝術上的微妙，是科學無法捕捉的。

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.

這一切在我的生活中甚至沒有任何實際應用的希望。

when we were designing the first Macintosh computer,

當我們在設計第一臺Macintosh電腦的時候。

而我們把這一切都設計到了Mac中。

It was the first computer with beautiful typography.

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,

如果我在大學裡沒有落下那一門課程。

the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.

Mac本來就不會有多種字體或按比例間隔的字體。

it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

很可能沒有個人電腦會有這些東西。

I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class,

我是絕對不會掉進那個書法班的。

and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

和個人電腦可能沒有他們的精彩排版。

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.

當然，在我上大學的時候，向前看是不可能連成一片的。

But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

但十年後往後看，非常非常清楚。

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;

同樣，你也不能連接點向前看。

you can only connect them looking backwards.

你只能把它們連接起來向後看。

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

所以你要相信，在你的未來，這些點會以某種方式連接起來。

Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

你的直覺，命運，生命，業力，什麼的。

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road

因為相信點點滴滴都會連成一線

will give you the confidence to follow your heart,

會讓你有信心跟隨自己的內心。

even when it leads you off the well-worn path,

I found what I loved to do early in life.

我很早就找到了自己喜歡做的事情。

Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.

Woz和我在20歲的時候，在我父母的車庫裡創辦了蘋果公司。

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