《乔布斯_Steve Jobs_在斯坦福大学2016年毕业典礼上的演讲》.pdf

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. 史蒂夫 乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005 年毕业典礼上的演讲 Thank you. Im honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. 谢谢大家。很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。老实说， 我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。 Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. 今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情，只是三个故事而已。 The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。 I dropped out of Reed College after the first six 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 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, Weve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him? They said, Of course. My biological mother found out later 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 go to college. 我在里得学院( Reed College )读了六个月就退学了。但是在 18 个月之后——我真正退学之前，我还 常去学校。为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前说起。我的生母是一个年轻、未婚的大学毕 业生，她决定让别人收养我。她有一个很强烈的信仰，认为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。于 是，一对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。然后我 排在收养人名单中的养父