乔布斯斯坦福演讲

Jobs has gone, and story will continue. In this speech, he told me three stories about his life.The first one he tells me about connecting the dots and do the real important work.Don't wast time in the things not important and no interested .And net the dots
backward,not forward. The second one, he tells me finding what i turly love to do.Whenever i don't find it, keep looking and don't settle. The third story is about death. Through the story, i know someone may notalways follow others and must listen to the
voice of your own. Just follow your heart.At the end of the story, he give me an advise Keep hungry, Keep foolish.

Thank you for him, the pioneer.

Jobs,

thank you!

i am honor to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest university 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 is it .no big deal.Just three stories.

the first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out from the Reed College after the first six months.and then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months before i really quit.So why did i drop out? It started before i was born. My biology
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 every thing 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 realyy wanted a girl. So my parents who are on the waiting list got a all in the middle of the night asking we got an unexpected baby boy, do you want it? They said Of Course. My biological mother
found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and my father had never graduated from high school. So she refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would go to college. This
was the start in my life.

And 17 years later i did go to college.But i naively choose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford.And all of my working_class parents'savings were spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I have 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 the entire life. So i decieded 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 che best decisions i ever made.The minute
I dropped out , I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin to drop in the class that far more interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' room. I returned the coke bottles
for the 5 cents deposits to buy food with. And I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to bepriceless
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 very beautifully hand calligrapher. Because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal
classes I decided to take the calligrapher 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 fanscinating. 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 the Windows just copied
the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would 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 something, your god, destiny, life, karma whaterver. Because believing the dots will be connected down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when lead you of all one path. And that would make all
difference.

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky i found what i loved to do early in life. Wiz and I started Apple in my parent's garage when i was 20. we worked hard and in 10 years Apple had grown from just two of us in a garage into a $2 billion
company with over 4000 employees.we just released the finest creation the Macintosh a year early. 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, everything went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge.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 how to do in a few month, I felt i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs dowm that i had dropped
the baton as it passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob nonce 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....I still love. So i decided to start over.I didn't see at then ,but true that getting fired of 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 the NeXT, another company named Pixal. And fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my life. Pixar
went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film "toy story".And is now the most sucessful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple. And the technology we developed at Next is the
heart of Apple's current renaissance.Laurence and I had a wonderful family together. I am pretty sure none of this would have happened If i hadn't been fired from Apple. It is 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 am 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 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 a great work. And the only way to do the great work is to love what you do. If you hadn't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart,

you will know when you find it. And like any relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, Don't settle.

My third story is about death. when i was 17, i read a quote like 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 was 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 will be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered tool 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.Remenbering 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 did'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 endscope down my throat,through
my stomach 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 doctor started to cry. Because it turned out to be a very
rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully i'm fine now. This was the closest i've been to facing death, and i hope it's 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 intllectual 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 ture. 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 is amazing publication called the Whole Earth Catalog which is 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 late in the 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. overflowing with

neat tootls and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issuse of the Whole Earth Catalog and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mdi 1970s and i was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograh
of an early morning country road. The kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it was the words Stay hungry, Stay foolish. It is the farewell message when they signed off. Stay hungry, Stay foolish .And i am always wish
that for myself.And now as you graduate to begin a new, i wish that for you.Stay hungry, Stay foolish.

Thank you all very much.