乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲.pdf

乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲 译者：阮一峰 （时间：2005 年 6 月 12 日） 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. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories. 今天，我很荣幸和大家在一起，参加这个世界上最好的大学之一的毕业典礼。我从没有大 学毕业。说实话，这是迄今为止我最接近大学毕业的一天。今天我要向你们讲我人生中的 三个故事。不是什么大事，只是三个小故事而已。 The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一个故事讲的是，把生命中的点连接起来。 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 Reed 大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但是又在校园里旁听了十八个月左右，然后才 真正离开。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. 这要从我出生前讲起，我的生母是一个未婚怀孕的年轻大学生，她决定把肚子里的我送给 别人抚养。她强烈希望收养我的家庭具有大学学历，所以在我还没出生的时候，一切都已 经安排好了，一个律师和他的妻子收养我。但是意想不到的是，在我来到人世的那一刻， 他们突然反悔了，决定只收养女孩。因此，在收养名单上排在后面的我的养父母，半夜接 到电话： 我们有一个不在计划之中的男孩，你们想要他吗？ 他们回答： 当然。我的 生母后来发现，我的养母没有大学毕业，我的养父没有高中