乔布斯毕业演讲稿
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乔布斯毕业演讲稿1
我当时没有觉察，但后来发现，被苹果公司解雇可能是我这辈子发生的最好的事情。一个成功者的包袱没有了，有的只是一个初出茅庐者的轻松感觉，我对各种事情也不再那么胸有成竹。这让我轻装上阵，进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段之一。
今天，我很荣幸能来到贵校这所世界顶尖大学，参加你们的毕业典礼。我没有念完大学。老实说，今天是我一生中最接近大学毕业的日子。今天我想告诉你们我生活中的三个故事，仅此而已。不是什么大不了的事情，只是三个故事。
第一个故事是关于串连起生活的点滴
我在里德大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但之后我又像在校生一样读了十八个月左右才彻底退学。那么，我为什么要退学呢？
这要从我出生前讲起。我母亲生我的时候还是一个年轻、未婚的在校研究生，所以她决定让别人收养我。她十分希望收养者是大学毕业生，并办妥了一切，我出生后就会由一位律师和他的妻子收养。意外的是，我出生后，那对夫妻突然变卦，说他们其实想要一个女孩。于是，当时还在等待名单上的我的养父母在半夜接到了一个电话，问他们说：“我们这儿有一个未婚出生的男婴，你们想要他吗？”他们回答：“当然要。”但是，随后我的生母发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至连高中都没读完。她拒绝签订收养合同。几个月以后，我的养父母承诺一定会让我上大学，她才让步。
十七年之后，我真的上了大学。但是，我很幼稚地选择了一所学费几乎和你们斯坦福一样贵的学校。我父母是工薪阶层，他们倾尽积蓄，支付了我的学费。过了六个月，我却看不到这笔钱的价值。我不知道我想要做什么，也不知道大学会怎样帮我找到答案，而我却在浪费着我父母一辈子的积蓄。所以我决定退学，并坚信这是个正确的决定。我当时非常害怕，但是现在回头看，那是我一生中最棒的决定之一。一退学，我就可以不去读那些我不感兴趣的必修课，并开始上那些看起来很有意思的课程。
但是，这并没有多浪漫。我没有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我收集别人喝完的可乐瓶子，来换5美分买吃的。每周日晚上，我都会步行七英里，穿越城市到Hare Krishna神庙，去免费饱餐一顿。我喜欢那里的饭菜。后来我发现，先前追随好奇和直觉而经历的种种遭遇其实是无价之宝。
我给你们举个例子：
当时，里德大学的书法课也许是全国最好的。校园里的每一张海报，抽屉上的每一张标签，全都是漂亮的手写字。因为我退学了，不用去上常规课程，所以我决定去上书法课，学学怎样写。我学会了serif 和san serif字体，学会了怎样调整字母组合的间距，学会了怎样做出最棒的印刷排字式样。那种美丽、典雅和精雕细琢，是科学无法体现的，它令我着迷。
当时，在我的生命中，这些东西连一线实际应用的希望都没有。但是十年后，当我们设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候，就完全不同了。我们把当时我学的那些东西全都融入进了Mac的设计中。那是第一台使用漂亮字体的电脑。如果我当时没有去上那门课，Mac就绝不会有这些丰富多彩、赏心悦目的字体。Windows只是纯粹地抄袭Mac，所以，我们可以说，除了Mac，没有一台个人电脑会有这些字体。如果我当时没有退学，我就不可能去上这门书法课，那么个人电脑可能也就不会有如今这么美妙的字体了。当然，我在大学的时候，还不可能先知先觉地把这些点滴串连起来。但是，十年后回顾这一切的时候，却豁然开朗，无比清晰。
再说一遍，你在向前看的时候，不可能将这些点滴串连起来，只有在往回看的时候可以。所以你必须坚信，这些点滴一定会在将来的某一天以某种形式串连起来。你必须执着于某些东西——你的勇气、命运、生命、因果，等等。这个想法屡试不爽，而且还是我生命中一切改变的源泉。
我的第二个故事是关于爱和失去
我很幸运，因为我很早就找到了自己爱做的事。我二十岁时和Woz在我父母的车库里面创立了苹果公司。我们努力工作，十年之后，苹果公司已经从车库里两个人的小打小闹发展成了拥有四千多名员工、价值二十亿美元的大公司。当时，我们最好的产品——Macintosh——才推出仅仅一年，我也刚刚年满三十。然后，我被解雇了。你怎么可能被你自己亲手创立的公司解雇呢？嗯，在苹果公司不断壮大的过程中，我们雇用了一个我觉得很有才能的人和我一起管理公司。第一年，一切顺利。但后来我们对未来的设想产生了分歧，最终我们吵了起来，当时董事会站在了他那边。所以，三十岁时，我出局了，在众目睽睽之下出局。我生命的支柱崩塌了，这次打击是毁灭性的。
在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我觉得，我令上一代的企业家们失望了，我把他们传给我的接力棒弄掉了。我与David Pack和Bob Noyce见了面，为自己把事情弄糟向他们道歉。我的失败众所周知，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是，我渐渐想通了一些事情——我依然喜爱我做的事情，在苹果公司的滑铁卢丝毫没有改变这一点。我被解雇了，但我仍然喜爱我做的事情。所以，我决定东山再起。
我当时没有觉察，但后来发现，被苹果公司解雇可能是我这辈子发生的最好的事情。一个成功者的包袱没有了，有的只是一个初出茅庐者的轻松感觉，我对各种事情也不再那么胸有成竹。这让我轻装上阵，进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段之一。
在之后的五年里，我创立了一家名叫NeXT的公司和一家叫Pixar的公司，并和一个非凡的女子坠入爱河，她后来成为了我的妻子。Pixar 制作了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画电影《玩具总动员》。Pixar现在是全世界最成功的动画工作室。在一系列因缘际会之后，苹果公司收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果公司。我们在NeXT开发的技术成了今天苹果公司复兴的关键。我还和Laurence建立了一个幸福的家庭。
我确信，如果我不被苹果公司解雇，这些事情都不会发生。这是苦口良药，但我觉得病人需要它。有些时候，生活会用砖头砸你的脑袋，但不要丧失信念。我坚信，让我前行的惟一动力，就是我在做自己喜爱的事情。你要找到你爱做的事情。工作如此，爱情也是如此。你的工作将会占据你生活中的很大一块。你只有相信自己在做着伟大的工作，才能真正心满意足。而做伟大的工作的前提，是你喜爱自己所做的事情。如果你现在还没有找到，那么继续找，不要停。只要是内心向往的东西，你就会找到。这和任何美好的爱情一样，随着岁月的流逝只会渐入佳境。所以继续找，直到你找到，不要停。
我的第三个故事是关于死亡
我十七岁时读到过一句话，大意是：“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去过，那么有一天你会走上人生的正轨。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时起，之后33年的每天早晨，我都会对着镜子问自己：“假如今天是我生命中的最后一天，我会不会想要做今天本要做的事情？”只要连续很多天得到的答案都是“不”的时候，我就知道自己需要做些改变了。
牢记我即将死去是帮助我做出生命里重大决定的最重要手段。因为几乎所有的事情——所有外界的期待，所有的荣耀，所有对难堪和失败的恐惧——所有这些在死亡面前都不堪一击，剩下的才是真正重要的东西。牢记你即将死去是我知道的最好的方法，可以使你避开觉得有所损失的思维陷阱。当你已经赤条条、无牵无挂的时候，就没有理由不去追随自己的心声。
大约一年前，我被诊断出患有癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个扫描，清楚地显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时甚至不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我，可以肯定那是一种无法治愈的癌症，我还可以活三到六个月。我的我回家，安顿好我的一切，那是医生对临终病人的暗示。那意味着要把在未来十年对你小孩说的话在短短几个月里说完。那意味着把每一件事都安排妥当，让你的家人会尽可能轻松地生活。那意味着说再见。
我拿着那份诊断书过了一整天，那天晚上我做了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去，通过我的胃，然后进入我的肠子，把一根针插进我的胰腺，在肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时被麻醉了，但我的妻子在那里。后来她告诉我，医生在显微镜下观察这些细胞时欣喜若狂，因为这是一种极其罕见的可以手术治愈的胰腺癌。我做了手术，现在我痊愈了。
那是我最接近死亡的时刻，我希望这也是在以后的几十年里我最接近死亡的一次。以前，死亡对于我只是一个有用的、但是仅限于知识层面的概念。从死亡线上活过来后，我现在可以更加确定地告诉你们：
没有人想死。即使是想上天堂的人，也不会以死亡为手段。但死亡又是我们每个人共同的终点，从来没有人能够逃脱。死亡就应该这样。因为死亡很可能是生命最好的一个创造。死亡是改变生命的因子，推陈出新。现在，你们是新的，但是不久之后，你们将会逐渐变旧，然后被清除。很抱歉，这样说太戏剧性，却是事实。
你们的时间是有限的，所以不要把它浪费在重复他人的生活上。不要被教条束缚——那是生活在他人思维的产物之下。不要让他人喧嚣的观点淹没你自己内心的声音。最重要的是，你要有勇气去追随你的心声和直觉。在某种程度上，它们知道你想要变成什么样子，其他的事都是次要的。
我年轻时，有一本精彩的书，名叫《全球目录》，它是我们那代人的圣经之一。它由一个叫Stewart Brand的人创办，创办地点是离这里不远的门罗公园。他如诗一般的魔力让这本书异彩纷呈。那是六十年代后期，还没有个人电脑和桌面出版，所以这本书全部是用打字机、剪刀还有偏光镜制作的。它有点像书本形式的Google，在真正的Google诞生的三十五年前：它是理想主义的，充满了灵巧的方法和非凡的想法。
Stewart和他的团队出版了几期《全球目录》，后来当它完成了自己的使命时，他们出版了最后一期。那是在七十年代的中期，当时我和你们现在一样大。在最后一期的封底上是一条清晨乡间道路的照片，就是那种如果你喜欢探险，自己搭便车会去的路。照片下方有这样一段话：求知若渴，大智若愚。这是他们停刊的告别语。求知若渴，大智若愚。这是我一直以来的座右铭。现在，在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候，我与你们共勉。
求知若渴，大智若愚。
谢谢大家！
乔布斯毕业演讲稿2
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.
我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。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.
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的.点点滴滴串连起来。
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?
我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？
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.
故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的、没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我，她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候，她已经做好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到，当我出生之后，律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话：“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道：“当然！”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后，我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学，那个时候她才同意。
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.
在十七岁那年，我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校，我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后，我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么，我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学，我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认，我当时确实非常的害怕，但是现在回头看看，那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻，我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
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:
但是这并不是那么浪漫。我失去了我的宿舍，所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉，我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子，在星期天的晚上，我需要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙(注：位于纽约Brooklyn下城)，只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到的很多东西，此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：
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.
里德学院在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报，每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了，没有受到正规的训练，所以我决定去参加这个课程，去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif和serif字体，我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度，还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙，我发现那实在是太美妙了。
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.
当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后，当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候，就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了苹果电脑。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学，就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程，苹果电脑就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来，但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候，真的豁然开朗了。
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.
再次说明的是，你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来；你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望，只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。
My second story is about love and loss.
我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。
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 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.
我非常幸运，因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。沃兹和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力，十年之后，这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我们刚刚发布了最好的产品，那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年，我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢?嗯，在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司，在最初的几年，公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧,最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候，董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候，我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去，这真是毁灭性的打击。
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.
在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了，我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光，我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些，一点也没有。我被驱逐了，但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。
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.
我当时没有觉察，但是事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替：对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由，进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。
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.
在接下来的五年里,我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司，还有一个叫Pixar的公司，然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“玩具总动员”，Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运转中，Apple收购了NeXT，然后我又回到了苹果公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。
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.
我可以非常肯定,如果我不被苹果公司开除的话，这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候，生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心，我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西，对于工作是如此，对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到，那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找，当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系，随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来。
My third story is about death.
我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。
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.
当我十七岁的时候，我读到了一句话：“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话，那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始，过了33年，我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢?”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候，我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。
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.
“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情，包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧，这些在死亡面前都会消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西，“记住你即将死去”是我知道的避免这些想法的最好办法。你已经赤身裸体了，你没有理由不去跟随自己的心一起跳动。
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.
大概一年以前，我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查，检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症，我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家，然后整理好我的一切，那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完;那意味着把每件事情都搞定，让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活;那意味着你要说“再见了”。
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.
我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃，然后进入我的肠子，用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静，因为我被注射了镇定剂。但是我的妻子在那里，后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫，因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症。我做了这个手术，现在我痊愈了。
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:
那是我最接近死亡的时候，我还希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来，死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定一点地对你们说：
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.
没有人愿意死，即使人们想上天堂，人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的，但是从现在开始不久以后，你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很戏剧性，但是这十分的真实。
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.
你们的时间很有限，所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上。不要被教条束缚，那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活。不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是，你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示——它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。
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.
当我年轻的时候，有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志，它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙在离这里不远的Menlo Park书写的，他象诗一般神奇地将这本书带到了这个世界。那是六十年代后期，在个人电脑出现之前，所以这本书全部是用打字机、剪刀还有偏光镜制造的。有点像用软皮包装的google，在google出现三十五年之前：这是理想主义的，其中有许多灵巧的工具和伟大的想法。
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.
Stewart和他的伙伴出版了几期的“整个地球的目录”，当它完成了自己使命的时候，他们做出了最后一期的目录。那是在七十年代的中期，你们的时代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨乡村公路的照片(如果你有冒险精神的话，你可以自己找到这条路的)，在照片之下有这样一段话：“求知若饥，虚心若愚。”这是他们停止了发刊的告别语。“求知若饥，虚心若愚。”我总是希望自己能够那样，现在，在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候，我也希望你们能这样：
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
求知若饥，虚心若愚。
Thank you all very much.
非常感谢你们。
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