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1、喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿英文 演講稿 喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿英文篇一史蒂夫喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿(中英文)[1] 史蒂夫喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講 我堅(jiān)信讓我一往無(wú)前

2、的唯一力量就是我熱愛(ài)我所做的一切 史蒂夫S226;喬布斯（Steve Jobs）今年6 月在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講在經(jīng)過(guò)了一個(gè)夏天之后依然為人所提及。這位蘋果電腦公司（Apple Computer）和皮克斯動(dòng)畫公司（Pixar Animation Studios）首席執(zhí)行官在演講中談到了他生活中的三次體驗(yàn)，這三次體驗(yàn)不僅在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)生、也

3、在硅谷乃至其他地方的技術(shù)同行中引起了巨大反響。他們將他的演講登在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上，在博客上展開(kāi)討論，通過(guò)電子郵件互相發(fā)送，在全球傳閱。我們?cè)诖丝侨?，以饗還沒(méi)有看到該演講的讀者。 Youve got to find what you love, Jobs says

4、 This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, .

5、 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 Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Tod

6、 ay I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories.

7、 很榮幸和大家一道參加這所世界上最好的一座大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。我大學(xué)沒(méi)畢業(yè)，說(shuō)實(shí)話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。今天我想給大家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。 The first story is about connecting the dots.

8、 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 They

9、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 colle

10、ge. 這得從我出生前講起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給他人收養(yǎng)。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是具有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。沒(méi)想到我落地的霎那間，那對(duì)夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母─當(dāng)時(shí)他們還在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢─半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒(méi)人要的男嬰，你們

11、要么？”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。但是，我的生母后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒(méi)有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。不過(guò)，沒(méi)過(guò)幾個(gè)月她就心軟了，因?yàn)槲业酿B(yǎng)父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。 And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a colle

12、ge 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 couldnt 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

13、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 d

14、idnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. 17 年后，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。當(dāng)時(shí)我很天真，選了一所

15、學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，當(dāng)工人的養(yǎng)父母傾其所有的積蓄為我支付了大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么，也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。這時(shí)，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來(lái)的錢了。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來(lái)，這還真是我有生以來(lái)做出的最好的決定之一。從退學(xué)那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無(wú)興趣的必修課，開(kāi)始旁聽(tīng)一些看上去有意思的課。

16、 It wasnt all romantic. I didnt 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 wee

17、k 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: 那些日子一點(diǎn)兒都不浪漫。我沒(méi)有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。我去退還可樂(lè)瓶，用那五分錢的押金來(lái)買吃的。每

18、個(gè)星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾－科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜歡這樣。我憑著好奇心和直覺(jué)所干的這些事情，有許多后來(lái)都證明是無(wú)價(jià)之寶。我給大家舉個(gè)例子: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy truction in the

19、country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on eve ry drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the nor

20、mal 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

21、 science cant capture, and I found it fascinating. 當(dāng)時(shí)，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國(guó)最好的。校園里所有的公告欄和每個(gè)抽屜標(biāo)簽上的字都寫得非常漂亮。當(dāng)時(shí)我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我學(xué)_寫帶短截線和不帶短截線的印刷字體，根據(jù)不同字母組合調(diào)整其間距，以及怎

22、樣把版式調(diào)整得好上加好。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺(jué)得它妙不可言。 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 desig

23、ned 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

24、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 back

25、wards ten years later. 喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿英文篇二喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)演講稿(中英對(duì)照) 這是蘋果公司和Pixar動(dòng)畫工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于年6月12號(hào)在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮上面的演講稿。

26、 謝謝大家。很榮幸能和你們，來(lái)自世界最好大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)生們，一塊兒參加畢業(yè)典禮。老實(shí)說(shuō)，我大學(xué)沒(méi)有畢業(yè)，今天恐怕是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次了。 今天，我想告訴大家來(lái)自我生活的三個(gè)故事。不是長(zhǎng)篇大論，只是三個(gè)故事而已。 第一個(gè)故事，如何串連生命中的點(diǎn)滴。 我 在里得大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月就退

27、學(xué)了，但是在__個(gè)月之后--我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前說(shuō)起。我的生母是一個(gè)年 輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。她有一個(gè)很強(qiáng)烈的信仰，認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該被一個(gè)大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。于是，一對(duì)律師夫婦說(shuō)好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然而最后一 秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個(gè)女孩兒。然后我的排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個(gè)深夜接到電話，“很意外，我們多了一個(gè)男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當(dāng)然要！”但 是我的生母后來(lái)又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒(méi)有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒(méi)有畢業(yè)。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書上簽字。幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她妥協(xié)了。

28、 這 是我生命的開(kāi)端。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了，但是我很無(wú)知地選了一所差不多和斯坦福一樣貴的學(xué)校，幾乎花掉我那藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。六個(gè)月后，我覺(jué)得不 值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學(xué)會(huì)怎樣幫我指點(diǎn)迷津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒(méi)有做錯(cuò)。一開(kāi)始非常嚇人，但 回憶起來(lái)，這卻是我一生中作的最好的決定之一。從我退學(xué)的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感興趣的必修課，開(kāi)始旁聽(tīng)那些有意思得多的課。

29、 事情并不那么美好。我沒(méi)有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房間的地上。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個(gè)的舊可樂(lè)瓶，每個(gè)星期天晚上步行七英里到哈爾-克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。我喜歡這種生活方式。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺(jué)前行后來(lái)被證明是多么的珍貴。讓我來(lái)給你們舉個(gè)例子吧。 當(dāng) 時(shí)的里得大學(xué)提供可能是全國(guó)最好的書法指導(dǎo)。

30、校園中每一張海報(bào)，抽屜上的每一張標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于我已退學(xué)，不用修那些必修課，我決定選一門書 法課上上。在這門課上，我學(xué)會(huì)了“serif”和sans-serif兩種字體、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣在不同的字母組合中改變字間距、學(xué)會(huì)了怎樣寫出好的字來(lái)。 這是一種科學(xué)無(wú)法捕捉的微妙，楚楚動(dòng)人、充滿歷史底蘊(yùn)和藝術(shù)性，我覺(jué)得自己被完全吸引了。 當(dāng) 時(shí)我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實(shí)用價(jià)值。但是，十年之后，我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái) Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前

31、。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這 么一門課，Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個(gè)人電腦可能不會(huì)有這些字體和字號(hào)。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會(huì)碰巧選了這門書法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。 當(dāng) 然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來(lái)的關(guān)系。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間關(guān)系就非常、非常清

32、楚了。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來(lái)；只有回 頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。所以你必須相信，那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，會(huì)在你未來(lái)的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來(lái)。你必須相信一些東西--你的勇氣、宿命、生 活、因緣，隨便什么--因?yàn)橄嘈胚@些點(diǎn)滴能夠一路連接會(huì)給你帶來(lái)循從本覺(jué)的自信，它使你走離平凡，變得與眾不同。 第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于愛(ài)與失的。 我

33、很幸運(yùn)。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。我二十歲的時(shí)候就和沃茨在父母的車庫(kù)里開(kāi)創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長(zhǎng)為擁有四千名員工， 價(jià)值二十億的大公司。我們只是推出了最好的創(chuàng)意，Macintosh操作系統(tǒng)，在這之前的一年，也就是我剛過(guò)三十歲，我被解雇了。你怎么可能被一個(gè)親手創(chuàng) 立的公司解雇？事情是這樣的，在公司成長(zhǎng)期間，雇傭了一個(gè)我們認(rèn)為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營(yíng)公司的人。一年后，我們對(duì)公司未來(lái)的看法產(chǎn)生分歧，董事會(huì)站 在了他的一邊。于是，在我三十歲的時(shí)候，我出局了，很公開(kāi)地出局了。我整個(gè)成年生活的焦點(diǎn)沒(méi)了，這很要命。一開(kāi)始的幾個(gè)月我真的不知道該干什么。我覺(jué)得我 讓公司的前一代創(chuàng)

34、建者們失望了，我把傳給我的權(quán)杖給弄丟了。我與戴維德-帕珂德和鮑勃-諾埃斯見(jiàn)面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。我敗得如此之慘以至于我 想要逃離這兒。有些東西在呼喚我：我還愛(ài)著我從事的行業(yè)。這次失敗一點(diǎn)兒都沒(méi)有改變這一點(diǎn)。我被逐了，但我仍愛(ài)著。我決定重新開(kāi)始。 當(dāng) 時(shí)我沒(méi)有看出來(lái)，但事實(shí)證明“被蘋果開(kāi)除”是發(fā)生在我身上最好的事。成功的重

35、擔(dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，對(duì)任何事情都不再特別看重。這讓我感覺(jué)如此自由，進(jìn) 入一生中最有創(chuàng)造力的階段。接下來(lái)的五年，我創(chuàng)立了一個(gè)叫NeXT的公司，接著又建立了Pixar，然后與后來(lái)成為我妻子的女人相愛(ài)。Pixar出品了世 界第一個(gè)電腦動(dòng)畫電影：“玩具總動(dòng)員”，現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界最成功的動(dòng)畫制作工作室了。 在一系列的成功運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)后，蘋果收購(gòu)了NeXT，我又回到了蘋果。我們?cè)贜eXT開(kāi)發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個(gè)幸福的家庭。

36、 我 非常確信，如果我沒(méi)有被蘋果炒掉，這些就都不會(huì)發(fā)生。這個(gè)藥的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。有些時(shí)候，生活會(huì)給你迎頭一棒。不要喪失信心。我確信唯一 讓我一路走下來(lái)的是我對(duì)自己所做事情的熱愛(ài)。你必須去找你熱愛(ài)的東西，對(duì)工作如此，對(duì)你的愛(ài)人也是這樣的。工作會(huì)占據(jù)你生命中很大的一部分，你只有相信自 己做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你還沒(méi)有找到，那么就繼續(xù)找，不要停。全心全意地找，當(dāng)你找到時(shí)，你會(huì)知道的。就像任何真誠(chéng)的關(guān)系，隨著時(shí)間的 流逝，只會(huì)越來(lái)越緊密。所以繼續(xù)找，不要停。

37、 我的第三個(gè)故事關(guān)于死亡。 我 十七歲的時(shí)候讀到過(guò)一句話“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作最后一天過(guò)，有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的”。這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。從那以后，過(guò)去的三十三年，每天 早上我都會(huì)對(duì)著鏡子問(wèn)自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我會(huì)不會(huì)做我想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案持續(xù)否定一些次數(shù)后，我知道我需要改變一些東西了。提醒自己就 要死了是我遇見(jiàn)的

38、最大的幫助，幫我作了生命中的大決定。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问隆械臉s耀、驕傲、對(duì)難堪和失敗的恐懼——在死亡面前都會(huì)消隱，留下真正重要的 東西。提醒自己就要死亡是我知道的最好的方法，用來(lái)避開(kāi)擔(dān)心失去某些東西的陷阱。你已經(jīng)赤裸裸了，沒(méi)有理由不聽(tīng)從于自己的心愿。 大 約一年前，我被診斷出患了癌癥。我早上七點(diǎn)半作了掃描，清楚地顯示在我的胰腺有一個(gè)腫瘤。我當(dāng)時(shí)都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生們告訴我這幾乎是無(wú)法治愈 的，還有三到六個(gè)月的時(shí)間。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。在醫(yī)生的辭典

39、中，這就是“準(zhǔn)備死亡”的意思。就是意味著把要對(duì)你小孩說(shuō)十年的話在幾個(gè)月內(nèi)說(shuō) 完；意味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點(diǎn)；意味著你要說(shuō)“永別”了。 我 整日都想著那診斷書的事情。后來(lái)有天晚上我做了一個(gè)活切片檢查，他們將一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡伸進(jìn)我的喉嚨，穿過(guò)胃，到達(dá)腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個(gè)細(xì) 胞。我當(dāng)時(shí)是被麻醉的，但是我

40、的妻子告訴我，那些醫(yī)生在顯微鏡下看到細(xì)胞的時(shí)候開(kāi)始尖叫，因?yàn)榘l(fā)現(xiàn)這竟然是一種非常罕見(jiàn)的可用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥。我做了 手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。 這 是我最接近死亡的時(shí)候，我也希望是我未來(lái)幾十年里最接近死亡的一次。這次死里逃生讓我比以往只知道死亡是一個(gè)有用而純粹書面概念的時(shí)候更確信地告訴你們， 沒(méi)有人愿意死，即使那些想上天堂的人們也不愿意通過(guò)死亡來(lái)達(dá)到他們的目的。但是死亡是每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)，沒(méi)有人能夠逃脫。也應(yīng)該如此，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧?命最好的發(fā)明。它去陳讓新?，F(xiàn)在

41、，你們就是“新”。但是有一天，不用太久，你們有會(huì)慢慢變老然后死去。抱歉，這很戲劇性，但卻是真的。你們的時(shí)間是有限 的，不要浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)別人的生活上。不要被教條束縛，那意味著會(huì)和別人思考的結(jié)果一塊兒生活。不要被其他人的喧囂觀點(diǎn)掩蓋自己內(nèi)心真正的聲音。你的直覺(jué)和內(nèi) 心知道你想要變成什么樣子。所有其他東西都是次要的。 我 年輕的時(shí)候，有一份叫做“完整地球目錄”的好雜志，是我們這一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。它是一個(gè)叫斯糾華特-布蘭得，住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的曼羅公園的家伙創(chuàng)立的。他用詩(shī) 一般的

42、觸覺(jué)將這份雜志帶到世界。那是六十年代后期，個(gè)人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，所以這份雜志全是用打字機(jī)、剪刀和偏光鏡制作的。有點(diǎn)像軟皮包裝的Google，不 過(guò)卻早了三十五年。它理想主義，全文充斥著靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。斯糾華特和他的小組出版了幾期“完整地球目錄”，在完成____之前，他們出版了最后一 期。那是七十年代中期，我和你們差不多大。最后一期的封底是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)村小路的照片，如果你有冒險(xiǎn)精神，可以自己找到這條路。下面有一句話，“求知若渴， 虛心若谷”。這是他們的告別語(yǔ)，“求知若渴，虛心若谷”。我常以此勉勵(lì)自己。現(xiàn)在，在你們即將踏上新旅程的時(shí)候，我也希望你們能這樣。

43、 求知若渴，虛心若谷。 非常感謝。 This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation

44、 Studios, delivered on June 12, . Thank you. Im honored to be with you today for your commencement fro

45、m 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. Today I wa

46、nt to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for anoth

47、er eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out 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. S

48、he 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 seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose

49、 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 couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and

50、 here I was, spending all 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. 喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿英文篇三喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講英文原文{喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講稿英文}.

51、 喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講英文原文： Stanford Report, June 14, ?You?ve got to find what you love

52、,? Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, .

53、 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

54、from my life. That?s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

55、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” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had nev

56、er 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 chos

57、e 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

58、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

59、 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.

60、 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 t

61、he 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:

62、 Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy truction 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

63、 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 subt

64、le 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 wer

65、e 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

66、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.