乔布斯哈佛演讲稿.doc

乔布斯哈佛演讲稿 I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world? Truth be toId, I never graduated from college? And this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life? That，s it. No big dea1. Just three stories? 今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的 毕业典礼上。我从来没从大学毕业。说实话，这是我离大学 毕业最近的一刻。今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三 个故事就好。 The first story is about connecting the dots? 第一个故事，是关于人牛中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一 起。 I dropped out of Reed College after the first months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another Imonths or so before I really quit? So why did I drop out? 我在里德学院待了六个月就办休学了。到我退学前，一 共休学了十八个月。那么，我为什么休学？ 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 1 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: 〃0f 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? This was the start in my life? 这得从我出牛前讲起。我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生， 年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。她强烈觉得应该让有 大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对 律师夫妇收养。但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想 收养女孩。所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母, 在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们“有一名意外出生的男 孩，你们要认养他吗？ ”而他们的回答是“当然要”。后来, 我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的 爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签 字。直到儿个月后，我的养父母同意将来一沱会让我上大学， 她才软化态度。 And lyears la/ter 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 spe