乔布斯我生命中的三个故事
乔布斯三个故事
在二零零五年六月一个温暖的日子里，史蒂夫.乔布斯第一次出席了大学毕业典礼，以毕业典礼致辞人的身份。
这位亿万富翁的创始人，苹果电脑公司的老闆绝非仅仅只是个商人。
虽然他才五十岁，但是这位大学辍学者却是个科技奇才，对这个世界上成千上万的人来说更是活著的传奇。
在他早期的二十年里，乔布斯几乎是单枪匹马的为这个世界带来第一台能放到你桌面上的电脑并且它可以完全自动的处理一些事情。
他通过iPod这个时尚小巧的音乐播放器彻底的改变了人们听歌的方式。
他创办的新公司---皮克斯电影公司（Pixar）制作了最令人称奇的计算机动画电影---玩具总动员、汽车总动员以及海底总动员。
他在科技领域最伟大的成就---iPhone和iPad在六月的这一天已经在开发中。
这四者之父被人们反复的与历史上其他的发明家们相提并论，他们都为改变美国人过去的生活方式带来了廉价的、改变生活的便利。
然而，即使他这麽的成功，乔布斯也经历了许多次沉痛的当众失败。
在他三十岁的时候，因为难以共事而被苹果解雇。
他一会十分易怒，对同事、竞争对手及记者大吼大叫；一时又哭得稀里哗啦的因为事不如其愿而且他还时常据别人的好点子为己有。
他是一个既赋魅力又令人恼怒的人，一个敏感而又残酷的人。
他让人又爱又恨，他深受赞扬却又令人敬而远之。
人们给他贴上了各种鲜明的标签：空想家、节目主持人、艺术家、恶霸、天才及怪人。
穿著牛仔裤和便鞋，外面套著毕业典礼服，乔布斯走到麦克风前面，带著他做任何事情的力量与激情开始了演讲。
“今天我想跟大家分享下我生命中的三个故事，”他说到。
“第一个故事是关于如何把生命过往中的点点滴滴串联起来。
我在里德学院就读6个月后便选择了辍学。
这样我就可以去听我想听的课。
我当时决定的是去上上书法课。
十年后，它为我所用，我们把它设计到Mac系统里面去了。
如果我不是辍学，我就绝不会去旁听书法课，而个人电脑或许也不会有你在屏幕上看到的好看的字体。
向未来看，我们无法将生命中的点点滴滴串联起来，而当我们回首过去时，他们就条理清晰了。
乔布斯的演讲三个故事读后感
乔布斯的演讲三个故事读后感读完乔布斯演讲里的那三个故事，就感觉像是跟一个特酷的老大哥聊了会儿天，他把自己那些压箱底儿的人生经验就这么掏出来给你看了。
先说说第一个故事，关于串起生命中的点滴。
乔布斯讲他上大学的时候，各种瞎晃悠选课，还去学什么书法，当时看起来完全就是浪费时间嘛。
可是后来做苹果电脑的时候，那些书法知识就像魔法一样，让苹果电脑的字体和排版变得超级酷炫。
这就跟我们自己的生活一样啊，有时候我们干一些事儿，当下觉得没个卵用，就像我小时候特别爱拆小电器，我妈老骂我不务正业，可后来我对电子设备那些小零件啥的就特熟悉，捣鼓电脑啥的都比别人快。
乔布斯这故事就是告诉咱，人生就像一场寻宝游戏，那些看似没用的经历，指不定啥时候就变成宝藏了。
第二个故事是关于爱和失去。
他被自己亲手创立的苹果公司给踢出去了，这得多惨啊，就像自己养的娃突然不认自己了。
换做是我，估计得在家哭上个把月，然后就自暴自弃了。
可乔布斯呢，他说这是他人生中最棒的经历之一。
他在这期间又创立了皮克斯，做出了那些超棒的动画电影。
他就像是一个打不死的小强，而且在这个过程中，他发现了自己新的热爱。
这就好比你失恋了，觉得天都塌了，结果发现单身的时候能有更多时间做自己喜欢的事儿，还能遇见更好的人。
这个故事给我最大的启发就是，别害怕失败和失去，有时候这些就像是人生的一个急转弯，你以为要翻车了，其实是通往另一个精彩地方的入口。
最后那个关于死亡的故事，真的有点沉重但又特别醒脑。
乔布斯知道自己得了癌症，他把每一天都当成最后一天来过。
这让我想起我爷爷生病的时候，他就特别珍惜和家人在一起的时间。
乔布斯这么一说，我就觉得我们平常那些纠结的小事儿都太不值得了。
什么跟同事闹别扭啊，为了一点钱的事儿斤斤计较啊，在死亡面前都跟个屁似的。
我们就应该像乔布斯说的那样，勇敢地去追随自己的内心，别到死的时候才后悔自己没干这没干那。
乔布斯这三个故事啊，就像三把钥匙，打开了我对人生理解的新大门。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲即生命中的三个故事-中英双语
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲(英文) 2011年10月06日12:52(英文原文)及（中文译文）New York: 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 highschool. 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¢ deposit s 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 classto 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, it's 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 sureabout 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 returned 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 themin 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 it's 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 others' 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.(中文译文)我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲即生命中的三个故事-中英双语
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲(英文)New York: 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 birthby 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 signthe 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, it's 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 thedots 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 DavidPackard 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 returned 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 abrick. 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, allfear 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 isdoctor'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 avery 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 it's 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 others' 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.(中文译文)我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：我人生的三个故事_高一作文
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：我人生的三个故事这是苹果电脑公司兼皮克斯动画公司的ＣＥＯ史蒂夫·乔布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦佛大学毕业典礼上作的极富启发意义的演讲。
今天，我很荣幸能与你们一起参加你们的毕业典礼，斯坦佛大学是世界上最优秀的大学之一。
我根本不是一个大学毕业生。
说实话，这一次是我与大学毕业典礼最近距离的接触。
今天，我想给大家讲三个故事，它们来源于我的生活。
仅此而已，没什么大不了的，只是三个故事。
第一个故事是有关生活中的一切来龙去脉。
在呆了六个月之后，我便从里德学院辍学了，但在那之后，我以旁听者的身份在学院里又呆了18个月才真正离开大学。
那么，我为什么要辍学呢？话还要从我出生之前说起。
我的生母是一个年轻的未婚大学毕业生，她决定把我送去他人家收养，并坚持认为，收养我的人必须是大学毕业生。
在我出生前，所有关于收养我的事宜都已经安排妥当了。
我本该被一个律师和他的妻子收养，但等到我真正出生了，他和他的妻子却在最后时刻决定他们真正想要的是个女孩。
所以，我现在的养父母（他们当时在等候名单上）在半夜接到一通电话，“我们有一个意外出生的男孩，你们想收养他吗？”他们答复说，“当然想。
”但后来，我的生母发现了我的养母不是大学毕业生，而我的养父甚至连高中中学都没有毕业，于是她回绝在最终的收养文件上签字。
几个月后，她才最后妥协了，因为我的养父母保证以后会送我去上大学。
十七年过去了，我真地上了大学。
但我却很天真地挑了一个和斯坦福大学一样学费昂贵的学校，光是学费就花掉了我养父母辛辛苦苦积累多年的积蓄，他们只是工薪阶层。
在学校待了六个月后，我看不出这学费花得值得。
我不知道我的人生计划是什么，也不知道大学能够如何帮助我找到这一目的。
而且，我在学校念书会花掉养父母一生的积蓄。
于是，我决定辍学，并深信这是一个正确的决定。
当时，这是一个相当冒险的举动，但今天回头看看，那是我做出的最明智的决定之一。
辍学之后，我马上逃离了那些我对之乏味的课程，转而开始旁听那些看起来很有趣的科目。
乔布斯的三个故事
第一个故事：关于生命中地点点滴滴我在里德大学呆了个月就退学了，但之后仍作为旁听生混了个月后才最终离开.我为什么要退学呢？故事要从我生之前说起，我地生母是一名未婚地妈妈，当时他还是一所大学在读地研究生.于是决定把我送给其他人收养.她坚持我应该被一对念过大学地夫妇收养，所以在我出生地时候，她已经为我被一个律师和他地太太收养做好了所有地准备.但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改变了主意，决定收养一名女孩.候选名单上地另外一对夫妇，也就是我地样父母，在一天午夜接通了一个电话：“有一个不请自来地男孩，你们想收养吗？”他们地回答是：“当然，想.”事后，我地生母亲才发现我地养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而我地养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以他拒绝了签署最后地收养条件.直到几个月后，我地养父母保证会把我送到大学，她地态度才有所改变.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习年后，我真上了大学，但因为年幼无知，我选择了一所和斯坦福一样昂贵地大学.我地父母都是工人阶级，他们倾其所有资助我地学业.在个月之后，我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去究竟有什么用.当时，我地人生毫无目标，也不知道大学能对我起什么帮助.为了念书，还花光了父母地毕生积蓄.所以我决定退学，我相信车到山前必有路.作出这个决定地时候我非常害怕，但现在回头去看，这是我这一生所作出地最正确地决定之一.从我退学地那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些毫无兴趣地必修课了，我开始旁听那些比较有意思地科目.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习这件事做起来一点也不浪漫，因为没有自己地宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房间地地板上，可乐瓶地押金是分钱，我把瓶子还回去好用押金地钱买吃地.我跟随好奇心和直觉所做地事，事后证明大多数是极其珍贵地经验.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习由于已经退学，不用再去上那些常规地课程.于是我选择了一个书法班，想学怎么写一手漂亮地字.在这个班上，我学会了各种衬线和无衬线字体，如何改变不同字体组合之间地字间距，以及如何做出漂亮地版式.那是一种科学永远无法捕捉地充满美感，历史感和艺术感地微妙.我发现这太有意思了.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习当时，我压根没有想想到这些知识在我地生命中有什么实际运用价值；但年之后，当我们设计出第一款电脑时，这些东西全派上了用场.如果我没有退学，我就不会去书法班旁听，而今天地个人电脑大概也不会有出色地排版功能.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习当然，你不可能充满预见地将生命中地点滴串联起来，只有在你回头看地时候，你才会发现这些点点滴滴之间地联系.所以，你要坚信，你现在所经历地将在你未来地生命中串联起来.你不得不相信某些东西，你地直觉，命运，生活.因缘.际会……正是这种信仰让我不会失去希望，它让我地人生变得与众不同.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习第二个故事：关于爱与失去我是幸运地，在年轻地时候就知道了自己爱做什么.在我岁地时候，就和沃兹在我父母地车库里开创了苹果电脑公司，我们勤奋工作，只用了年时间，苹果电脑就从车库里地两个小伙子扩展成拥有名员工，价值亿美元地企业.而在此之前地一年，我们我们刚推出了我们最好地产品电脑当时我刚过而立之年.然后我就被抄了鱿鱼.一个人怎么可以被他所创立地公司解催呢？这么说吧，随着苹果电脑地成长，我们请了一个原以为很能干地家伙和我一起管理这家公司.在头一年左右，他干得还不错，但后来，我们对公司未来前景地看法出现了分歧，于是我们之间出了矛盾，由于董事会站在他那边，所以在我岁地时候，我就被踢出局了.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习在头几个月，我真不知道要做些什么.我成了人人皆知地失败者，我甚至想过逃离硅谷.但曙光渐渐出现了，我还是喜欢做我作过地事情.虽然被抛弃了，但我地热枕不改，我决定从新开始.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习我当时没有看出来，但事实证明，我被苹果开掉是我这一生所经历地最棒地事情.每件事情都不那么确定，我一自由之躯进入了我整个生命当中最有创意地时期.在接下来地年时间里，我开创了一家叫做地公司，接着是一家叫地公司，并结识了后来成为我地妻子地蔓妙女郎，制作世界上第一部全电脑动画地电影《玩具总动员》，现在这个公司是世界上最成功地动画制作公司之一.后来经历了一系列事件，苹果买下了，于是我有回到了苹果.我们在研发地技术成为我们推动苹果复兴地核心动力.我和劳伦斯也有了美满地家庭.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习我非常肯定，如果我没有被苹果炒掉，这一切都不困难在我身上发生.生活有时候就像一块板砖拍向你地脑袋，但不要丧失信心.热爱我所从事地工作，是一直支持我不断前进地唯一理由，你得找出你地最爱，对工作如此，对爱人亦是如此.而从事一分伟大地工作地唯一方法，就是去热爱这份工作.伟大地工作只会在岁月地酝酿中越陈越香.所以，在你终有所获之前，不要停下你寻觅地脚步，不要停下.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习第三个故事：关于死亡在岁那年我读过一句格言，好象是：“如果你把每一天都当成你生命里地最后一天，你将在某一天发现一切皆在掌握之中.”这句话从我读到之日起，就对我产生了深远地影响，在过去地年里，我每天早上都对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中地最后一天，我还愿意做本来应该做地事情吗？”当一连好几天答案都地否定地时候，我就知道做出改变地时候到了.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习因为所有事情在面临死亡地时候，都将烟消云散，只留下真正重要地东西.在我所知道地各种方法中，提醒自己即将死去是避免掉入畏惧，失去这个陷阱地最好办法.人赤条条地来，赤条条地走，没有理由不听从你内心地呼唤.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习大约一年前，我被诊断出癌症.在早上点分我做了一个检查，扫描地结果清楚地显示我地胰脏发现了一个肿瘤.我当时甚至不知道胰脏究竟是什么.医生告诉我，几乎可以确定这是一种不治之症.顶多还可以活—月.大夫建议我回家，把诸事安排妥当，这是医生对临终病人地标准用语.这就意味着你今后年要对你子女说地话用几个月时间说完；这意味着向众人告别地时间到了.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习我整天都想着诊断结果，那天晚上做了一个切片检查，我打了镇静剂，但我地太太当时在场.她后来告诉我说，当大夫们从显微镜下观察了细胞组织之后，都哭了起来，应为这是一种非常罕见地，可以通过手术治疗地胰脏癌.我接受了手术，现在已经康复了.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习这是我最接近死亡地一次，在经历了这次与死神擦肩而过地体验之后，死亡对我来说只不过是一个有效地判断工具，相对一个纯粹性地理论性概念.我可以肯定地告诉你们以下事实：没有人想死，即使想去天堂地人也是希望活着进去.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习你们还是新生代，但不久地将来你们也将渐渐地老去，被送出人生地舞台，很抱歉我说得怎么有戏剧性.但生命就是如此，你们地时间很有限，所以不要把时间浪费在别人地生活里.不要被条条框框束膊，否则你就会生活在他人思考地结果里.不要让别人地观点所发出地噪音淹没你内心地声音.最重要地是，要有尊从你地内心和直觉地勇气，它们已经知道你其实想成为一个什么样地人.其他事物都是次要地.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习在我年轻地时候，有一本非常棒地杂志叫《全球目录》，这本杂志地创始人是一个叫斯图尔特，布兰德地家伙，他把这本杂志办得充满诗.斯图尔特和他地团队做了几期《全球目录》，快无疾而终地时候，他们出版了最后一期.那是年代中期，我处在你们地年龄.在最后一期地封底有一张清晨乡间公路地照片，如果你喜欢搭车冒险旅行地话，经常会看到那种小路.在照片下面有一行字：“物有所不足，智有所不明.”这是他们停刊地告别留言.我总是以此自律.现在，在你们毕业开始新生活地时候，我把这句话送给你们.文档收集自网络，仅用于个人学习。
乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲：我生命中的三个故事
"You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says ★★★★★乔布斯说：你必须要找到你所钟爱的东西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.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一（欢呼）。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了（笑）。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,也不是讲大道理，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在里德学院（Reed College）读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在大约一年半以后——我真正作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校旁听。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?（呼声）故事的从我出生前讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的在校研究生。
她决定让别人收养我, 非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人。
所以，她已经安排好了一切，能使我一出生就被一名律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。
所以她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
没几个月,我的生母心软了，因为我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
乔布斯励志故事
乔布斯励志故事篇一：励志故事：乔布斯的三个故事励志故事：乔布斯的三个故事史蒂夫乔布斯(stevepauljobs)苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司(pixar)首席执行官。
以下是stevejobs在2021年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
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。
第一个故事：关于生活的点点滴滴是如何联系在一起的。
我在里德学院(reedcollege)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？这必须在我出生之前开始。
我的生母是一名研究生，也是一位年轻的未婚母亲。
她决定让别人收养我。
她强烈认为大学毕业生应该收养我，所以当我出生时，她打算让我被一位律师和他的妻子收养。
但这对夫妇在最后一刻又回去了。
他们想收养这个女孩。
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。
直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
1七年后，我上了大学。
但当时，我选择了一所学费几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的大学，我的工薪阶层父母的所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上。
六个月后，我看不出读这本书的价值。
当时，我不知道我的人生该做些什么，我也不知道大学会对我有什么帮助。
此外，我花了我父母一生中所有的积蓄来学习这本书。
所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。
当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。
当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
一点也不浪漫。
我没有宿舍，所以我睡在朋友家的地板上，用回收空可乐罐的五先令退款买食物，每个星期天晚上必须绕着镇上大部分地方走七英里，才能在印度教的哈雷克里希纳神庙吃到美味的食物。
斯蒂夫·乔布斯：我生命中的三个故事
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【著名演讲】Three Stories From My Life 我生命中的三个故事 Steve Jobs 史蒂夫·乔布斯
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,
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;
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
in the world. Truth be told I never graduated from college. this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
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乔布斯：我生命中的三个故事第一个故事，是关于串起生命中的点点滴滴。
我在里德大学待了6个月就退学了，但之后仍作为旁听生混了18个月后才最终离开。
我为什么要退学呢?故事要从我出生之前开始说起。
我的生母是一名年轻的未婚妈妈，当时她还是一所大学的在读研究生，于是决定把我送给其他人收养。
她坚持我应该被一对念过大学的夫妇收养，所以在我出生的时候，她已经为我被一个律师和他的太太收养做好了所有的准备。
但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改了主意，决定收养一个女孩。
侯选名单上的另外一对夫妇，也就是我的养父母，在一天午夜接到了一通电话：“有一个不请自来的男婴，你们想收养吗?”他们回答：“当然想。
”事后，我的生母才发现我的养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而我的养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以她拒绝签署最后的收养文件，直到几个月后，我的养父母保证会把我送到大学，她的态度才有所转变。
17年之后，我真上了大学。
但因为年幼无知，我选择了一所和斯坦福一样昂贵的大学，(笑声)我的父母都是工人阶级，他们倾其所有资助我的学业。
在6个月之后，我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去究竟有什么用。
当时，我的人生漫无目标，也不知道大学对我能起到什么帮助，为了念书，还花光了父母毕生的积蓄，所以我决定退学。
我相信车到山前必有路。
当时作这个决定的时候非常害怕，但现在回头去看，这是我这一生所作出的最正确的决定之一。
(笑声)从我退学那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫无兴趣的必修课了，我开始旁听那些看来比较有意思的科目。
这件事情做起来一点都不浪漫。
因为没有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上;可乐瓶的押金是5分钱，我把瓶子还回去好用押金买吃的;在每个周日的晚上，我都会步行7英里穿越市区，到Hare Krishna教堂吃一顿大餐，我喜欢那儿的食物。
我跟随好奇心和直觉所做的事情，事后证明大多数都是极其珍贵的。
我举一个例子：那个时候，里德大学提供了全美国最好的书法教育。
整个校园的每一张海报，每一个抽屉上的标签，都是漂亮的手写体。
由于已经退学，不用再去上那些常规的课程，于是我选择了一个书法班，想学学怎么写出一手漂亮字。
在这个班上，我学习了各种衬线和无衬线字体，如何改变不同字体组合之间的字间距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。
那是一种科学永远无法捕捉的充满美感、历史感和艺术感的微妙，我发现这太有意思了。
当时，我压根儿没想到这些知识会在我的生命中有什么实际运用价值;但是10年之后，当我们的设计第一款Macintosh电脑的候，这些东西全派上了用场。
我把它们全部设计进了Mac，这是第一台可以排出好看版式的电脑。
如果当时我大学里没有旁听这门课程的话，Mac就不会提供各种字体和等间距字体。
自从视窗系统抄袭了Mac以后，(鼓掌大笑)所有的个人电脑都有了这些东西。
如果我没有退学，我就不会去书法班旁听，而今天的个人电脑大概也就不会有出色的版式功能。
当然我在念大学的那会儿，不可能有先见之明，把那些生命中的点点滴滴都串起来;但10年之后再回头看，生命的轨迹变得非常清楚。
再强调一次，你不可能充满预见地将生命的点滴串联起来;只有在你回头看的时候，你才会发现这些点点滴滴之间的联系。
所以，你要坚信，你现在所经历的将在你未来的生命中串联起来。
你不得不相信某些东西，你的直觉，命运，生活，因缘际会……正是这种信仰让我不会失去希望，它让我的人生变得与众不同。
我的第二个故事，是关于爱与失去。
我是幸运的，在年轻的时候就知道了自己爱做什么。
在我20岁的时候，就和沃兹在我父母的车库里开创了苹果电脑公司。
我们勤奋工作，只用了10年的时间，苹果电脑就从车库里的两个小伙子扩展成拥有4000名员工，价值达到20亿美元的企业。
而在此之前的一年，我们刚推出了我们最好的产品Macintosh电脑，当时我刚过而立之年。
然后，我就被炒了鱿鱼。
一个人怎么可以被他所创立的公司解雇呢?(笑声)这么说吧，随着苹果的成长，我们请了一个原本以为很能干的家伙和我一起管理这家公司，在头一年左右，他干得还不错，但后来，我们对公司未来的前景出现了分歧，于是我们之间出现了矛盾。
由于公司的董事会站在他那一边，所以在我30岁的时候，就被踢出了局。
我失去了一直贯穿在我整个成年生活的重心，打击是毁灭性的。
在头几个月，我真不知道要做些什么。
我觉得我让企业界的前辈们失望了，我失去了传到我手上的指挥棒。
我遇到了戴维·帕卡德(普惠的创办人之一——译注)和鲍勃·诺伊斯(英特尔的创办人之一——译注)，我向他们道歉，因为我把事情搞砸了。
我成了人人皆知的失败者，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。
但曙光渐渐出现，我还是喜欢我做过的事情。
在苹果电脑发生的一切丝毫没有改变我，一个比特(bit)都没有。
虽然被抛弃了，但我的热忱不改。
我决定重新开始。
我当时没有看出来，但事实证明，我被苹果开掉是我这一生所经历过的最棒的事情。
成功的沉重被凤凰涅槃的轻盈所代替，每件事情都不再那么确定，我以自由之躯进入了我整个生命当中最有创意的时期。
在接下来的5年里，我开创了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接着是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并且接识了后来成为我妻子的曼妙女郎。
Pixar制作了世界上第一部全电脑动画电影《玩具总动员》，现在这家公司是世界上最成功的动画制作公司之一。
(掌声)后来经历一系列的事件，苹果买下了NeXT，于是我又回到了苹果，我们在NeXT研发出的技术在推动苹果复兴的核心动力。
我和劳伦斯也拥有了美满的家庭。
我非常肯定，如果没有被苹果炒掉，这一切都不可能在我身上发生。
对于病人来说，良药总是苦口。
生活有时候就像一块板砖拍向你的脑袋，但不要丧失信心。
热爱我所从事的工作，是一直支持我不断前进的惟一理由。
你得找出你的最爱，对工作如此，对爱人亦是如此。
工作将占据你生命中相当大的一部分，从事你认为具有非凡意义的工作，方能给你带来真正的满足感。
而从事一份伟大工作的惟一方法，就是去热爱这份工作。
如果你到现在还没有找到这样一份工作，那么就继续找。
不要安于现状，当万事了于心的时候，你就会知道何时能找到。
如同任何伟大的浪漫关系一样，伟大的工作只会在岁月的酝酿中越陈越香。
所以，在你终有所获之前，不要停下你寻觅的脚步。
不要停下。
我的第三个故事，是关于死亡。
在17岁的时候，我读过一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都当成你生命里的最后一天，你将在某一天发现原来一切皆在掌握之中。
”(笑声)这句话从我读到之日起，就对我产生了深远的影响。
在过去的33年里，我每天早晨都对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我还愿意做我今天本来应该做的事情吗?”当一连好多天答案都否定的时候，我就知道做出改变的时候到了。
提醒自己行将入土是我在面临人生中的重大抉择时，最为重要的工具。
因为所有的事情——外界的期望、所有的尊荣、对尴尬和失败的惧怕——在面对死亡的时候，都将烟消云散，只留下真正重要的东西。
在我所知道的各种方法中，提醒自己即将死去是避免掉入畏惧失去这个陷阱的最好办法。
人赤条条地来，赤条条地走，没有理由不听从你内心的呼唤。
大约一年前，我被诊断出癌症。
在早晨7：30我做了一个检查，扫描结果清楚地显示我的胰脏出现了一个肿瘤。
我当时甚至不知道胰脏究竟是什么。
医生告诉我，几乎可以确定这是一种不治之症，顶多还能活3至6个月。
大夫建议我回家，把诸事安排妥当，这是医生对临终病人的标准用语。
这意味着你得把你今后10年要对你的'子女说的话用几个月的时间说完;这意味着你得把一切都安排妥当，尽可能减少你的家人在你身后的负担;这意味着向众人告别的时间到了。
我整天都想着诊断结果。
那天晚上做了一个切片检查，医生把一个内诊镜从我的喉管伸进去，穿过我的胃进入肠道，将探针伸进胰脏，从肿瘤上取出了几个细胞。
我打了镇静剂，但我的太太当时在场，她后来告诉我说，当大夫们从显微镜下观察了细胞组织之后，都哭了起来，因为那是一非常罕见的，可以通过手术治疗的胰脏癌。
我接受了手术，现在已经康复了。
这是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在随后的几十年里，都不要有比这一次更接近死亡的经历。
在经历了这次与死神擦肩而过的经验之后，死亡对我来说只是一项有效的判断工具，并且只是一个纯粹的理性概念时相比，我能够更肯定地告诉你们以下事实：没人想死;即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活着进去。
(笑声)死亡是我们每个人的人生终点站，没人能够成为例外。
生命就是如此，因为死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走老者，给新生代让路。
现在你们还是新生代，但不久的将来你们也将逐渐老去，被送出人生的舞台。
很抱歉说得这么富有戏剧性，但生命就是如此。
你们的时间有限，所以不要把时间浪费在别人的生活里。
不要被条条框框束缚，否则你就生活在他人思考的结果里。
不要让他人的观点所发出的噪音淹没你内心的声音。
最为重要的是，要有遵从你的内心和直觉的勇气，它们可能已知道你其实想成为一个什么样的人。
其他事物都是次要的。
在我年轻的时候，有一本非常棒的杂志叫《全球目录》(The Whole Earth Catalog)，它被我们那一代人奉为圭臬。
这本杂志的创办人是一个叫斯图尔特·布兰德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，距离这儿不远。
他把这本杂志办得充满诗意。
那是在60年代末期，个人电脑、桌面发排系统还没有出现，所以出版工具只有打字机、剪刀和宝丽来相机。
这本杂志有点像印在纸上的Google，但那是在Google出现的35年前;它充满了理想色彩，内容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的见解。
斯图尔特和他的团队做了几期《全球目录》，快无疾而终的时候，他们出版了最后一期。
那是在70年代中期，我当时处在你们现在的年龄。
在最后一期的封底有一张清晨乡间公路的照片，如果你喜欢搭车冒险旅行的话，经常会碰到的那种小路。
在照片下面有一排字：物有所不足，智有所不明(Stay Hungry， Stay Foolish.)这是他们停刊的告别留言。
物有所不足，智有所不明。
我总是以此自诩。
现在，在你们毕业开始新生活的时候，我把这句话送给你们。
物有所不足，智有所不明。
(Stay Hungry，Stay Foolish.)。