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※ 引述《NEWO (Into the face)》之銘言：
: Steve Jobs說，你得找出你愛的 (You've got to find what you love.)。
: 以下是蘋果電腦公司與Pixar動畫製作室執行長Steve Jobs在2005年六月12日對全體史丹
: 佛大學畢業生的演講內容。
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: 今天，有榮幸來到各位從世界上最好的學校之一畢業的畢業典禮上。我從來沒從大學畢業
: 。說實話，這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故
: 事就好。
: 第一個故事，是關於人生中的點點滴滴怎麼串連在一起。
: 我在里德學院（Reed college）待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前，一共休學了十八個
: 月。那麼，我為什麼休學？
: 這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親當時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養
: 我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我，所以我出生時，她就準備讓我被一對律師
: 夫婦收養。但是這對夫妻到了最後一刻反悔了，他們想收養女孩。所以在等待收養名單上
: 的一對夫妻，我的養父母，在一天半夜裡接到一通電話，問他們「有一名意外出生的男孩
: ，你們要認養他嗎？」而他們的回答是「當然要」。後來，我的生母發現，我現在的媽媽
: 從來沒有大學畢業，我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文件上做最後簽字
: 。直到幾個月後，我的養父母同意將來一定會讓我上大學，她才軟化態度。
: 十七年後，我上大學了。但是當時我無知選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學，我那
: 工人階級的父母所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月後，我看不出唸這個書的價值何在。
: 那時候，我不知道這輩子要幹什麼，也不知道唸大學能對我有什麼幫助，而且我為了唸這
: 個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直。當時這
: 個決定看來相當可怕，可是現在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當我休學之後
: ，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課。
: 這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的五先
: 令退費買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮去印度教的Hare Krishna神廟
: 吃頓好料。我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。追尋我的好奇與直覺，我所駐足的大部分事
: 物，後來看來都成了無價之寶。舉例來說：
: 當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好的書法指導。在整個校園內的每一張海報上，每個抽屜
: 的標籤上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去學
: 書法。我學了serif與san serif字體，學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學到活版印刷
: 偉大的地方。書法的美好、歷史感與藝術感是科學所無法捕捉的，我覺得那很迷人。
: 我沒預期過學的這些東西能在我生活中起些什麼實際作用，不過十年後，當我在設計第一
: 台麥金塔時，我想起了當時所學的東西，所以把這些東西都設計進了麥金塔裡，這是第一
: 台能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。如果我沒沉溺於那樣一門課裡，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字
: 體跟變間距字體了。又因為Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，如果當年我沒這樣做，大
: 概世界上所有的個人電腦都不會有這些東西，印不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。當然
: ，當我還在大學裡時，不可能把這些點點滴滴預先串在一起，但是這在十年後回顧，就顯
: 得非常清楚。
: 我再說一次，你不能預先把點點滴滴串在一起；唯有未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點點滴
: 滴是如何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你現在所體會的東西，將來多少會連接在一塊。你
: 得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者業力。這種作法從來沒讓我失望
: ，也讓我的人生整個不同起來。
: 我的第二個故事，有關愛與失去。
: 我好運－年輕時就發現自己愛做什麼事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫
: 裡開始了蘋果電腦的事業。我們拼命工作，蘋果電腦在十年間從一間車庫裡的兩個小夥子
: 擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我們最棒的
: 作品－麥金塔，而我才剛邁入人生的第三十個年頭，然後被炒魷魚。要怎麼讓自己創辦的
: 公司炒自己魷魚？好吧，當蘋果電腦成長後，我請了一個我以為他在經營公司上很有才幹
: 的傢伙來，他在頭幾年也確實幹得不錯。可是我們對未來的願景不同，最後只好分道揚鑣
: ，董事會站在他那邊，炒了我魷魚，公開把我請了出去。曾經是我整個成年生活重心的東
: 西不見了，令我不知所措。
: 有幾個月，我實在不知道要幹什麼好。我覺得我令企業界的前輩們失望－我把他們交給我
: 的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦HP的David Packard跟創辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說我
: 很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾的非常負面示範，我甚至想要離開矽谷。但是
: 漸漸的，我發現，我還是喜愛著我做過的事情，在蘋果的日子經歷的事件沒有絲毫改變我
: 愛做的事。我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。
: 當時我沒發現，但是現在看來，被蘋果電腦開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重
: 被從頭來過的輕鬆所取代，每件事情都不那麼確定，讓我自由進入這輩子最有創意的年代
: 。
: 接下來五年，我開了一家叫做 NeXT的公司，又開一家叫做Pixar的公司，也跟後來的老婆
: 談起了戀愛。Pixar接著製作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影，玩具總動員，現在是世界
: 上最成功的動畫製作公司。然後，蘋果電腦買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發展
: 的技術成了蘋果電腦後來復興的核心。我也有了個美妙的家庭。
: 我很確定，如果當年蘋果電腦沒開除我，就不會發生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口，可是我想
: 蘋果電腦這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信
: ，我愛我所做的事情，這就是這些年來讓我繼續走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你愛的，工
: 作上是如此，對情人也是如此。你的工作將填滿你的一大塊人生，唯一獲得真正滿足的方
: 法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。如果你還沒找
: 到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何偉大
: 的關係，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續找，別停頓。
: 我的第三個故事，關於死亡。
: 當我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是「把每一天都當成生命中的最後一天，你就會輕
: 鬆自在。」這對我影響深遠，在過去33年裡，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自問：「如果今天
: 是此生最後一日，我今天要幹些什麼？」每當我連續太多天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案
: 時，我就知道我必須有所變革了。
: 提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大決定時，所用過最重要的工具。因為幾乎每件事－
: 所有外界期望、所有名譽、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最
: 重要的東西才會留下。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入自己有東西要失去了的陷阱裡
: 最好的方法。人生不帶來，死不帶去，沒什麼道理不順心而為。
: 一年前，我被診斷出癌症。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤，我連
: 胰臟是什麼都不知道。醫生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之症，我大概活不到三到
: 六個月了。醫生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那
: 代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定
: ，家人才會盡量輕鬆。那代表你得跟人說再見了。
: 我整天想著那個診斷結果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡，從胃進腸子
: ，插了根針進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場
: 。她後來跟我說，當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞後，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的
: 一種胰臟癌，可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術，康復了。
: 這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事後，
: 我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時要更肯定告訴你們下面這些：
: 沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。但是死亡是我們共有的目的地，
: 沒有人逃得過。這是註定的，因為死亡簡直就是生命中最棒的發明，是生命變化的媒介，
: 送走老人們，給新生代留下空間。現在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變
: 老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉講得這麼戲劇化，但是這是真的。
: 你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被信條所惑－盲從信條就是
: 活在別人思考結果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要的，擁有跟隨內心
: 與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人。任何其他事物
: 都是次要的。
: 在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做 Whole Earth Catalog，當年我們很迷這本雜誌。那是
: 一位住在離這不遠的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發行的，他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。那是
: 1960年代末期，個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒發明，所有內容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機
: 做出來的。雜誌內容有點像印在紙上的Google，在Google出現之前35年就有了：理想化，
: 充滿新奇工具與神奇的註記。
: Stewart跟他的出版團隊出了好幾期Whole Earth Catalog，然後出了停刊號。當時是1970
: 年代中期，我正是你們現在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底，有張早晨鄉間小路的照片
: ，那種你去爬山時會經過的鄉間小路。在照片下有行小字：
: 求知若飢，虛心若愚。
: 那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當你們畢業，展開新生活，我也以此期
: 許你們。
: 求知若飢，虛心若愚。
: 非常謝謝大家。
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: 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
: 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.
: 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.
: The first story is about connecting the dots.
: 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?
: 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.
: 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.
: 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:
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: My second story is about love and loss.
: 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 $2 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: My third story is about death.
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
: 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:
: 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.
: 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 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.
: 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.
: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
: Thank you all very much.