乔布斯在斯坦福的演讲.doc

只是想与大家分享一下,看看这个作为整个科技领域最好执行总裁之一的大人物,在一群充满才气的学生?就要离校,面对真实世界之际,想要对他们说些什么”???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. The first story is about connecting the dots.??今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事?没什么大不了的,只是三个故事而已?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 eighteen 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.??我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了,但是在十八个月之后--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,他们改变了注?意,决定要个女孩儿?然后我的排在收养人名单中的养父母在一个深夜接到电话,“很?意外,我们多了一个男婴,你们要吗?”“当然要!”但是我的生母后来又发现我的养?母没有大学毕业,养父连高中都没有毕业?她拒绝在领养书上签字?几个月后,我的养?父母保证会让我上大学,她妥协了???This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to ?college, but