Steven Jobs 困境 Steven 挂了后，苹果的股市是暴涨好还是暴跌好呢？或许暴跌之后回升到最初状态是对 Steven 最好的致敬，实际上， 公司股价微跌0.2% ； Steven 走了后，苹果的最新产品是 iSad 呢？还是 iDead 呢？或许 iPhone4S 是最佳也是最终的选择——对 Steven 无声的纪念。
I like this speech, here I want to share with you, all the people who got a dream, gotta protect it, and never give up. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish! May Steve Jobs rest in peace! -------------------- 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, 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 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 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 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.
上午来到实验室，打开计算机，看到腾讯新闻的头条是苹果创始人乔布斯（ Jobs ）去世的消息【 1 】。俺的脑袋里立刻蹦出了一个博文标题——完了，很多人的工作没了。。。 Job 是工作的英文单词， Jobs 似乎意味着许多工作或者许多人的工作。乔布斯这个爱剔（ IT ）业的传奇人物，在其不算很长的一生中做出的 N 多发明创造，也的确给许多人创造了工作的机会，不但是电子工程师、程序员和富士康们的工人，还有更多其他行业的人甚至未成年人，在“爱”着神马“风”（ iPhone ）或者“爱”神马“牌得”（ iPad ）之类，例如，我前天回家，看到我那个十几岁的外甥女就在一直聚精会神地玩她的苹果手机，以至于让我感觉她在做一件不知有多重要的工作了。现在， Jobs 先生没了，很多靠着 Jobs 的创意创造出的就业机会而获得工作的人，例如设计师、工程师、产业工人、销售商们，都不免会受到不同程度的影响，不夸张地说，很多人可能会失去当下的工作。我们有理由担心，如今的 Jobs 没了，那些天才的创意如果不能在其他人的头脑中迸发出来并被极有效率地付诸实施， IT 产品可能会变得很“挨踢”，变得不那么受欢迎，这意味着许多喜欢时尚并贪玩的人们，将失去一个真正能带给他们和她们乐趣和期盼的“工作”。至少，前几天刚刚看到的苹果新品 iPhone4S 新闻标题之时，我是无论如何也没想到他们起这个莫名其妙的名字居然是“一语成谶”，结果真的马上让 iPhone 的灵魂人物逝世了。 不过，哀叹了这位传奇人物之后，俺最终还是想起了那句据说出自毛主席之口的著名的俗话——“没有张屠夫，就吃连毛猪？”今天世人失去了一个 Jobs ，明天应该会有另一个、甚至更多的 Jobs 诞生。 一个人的寿命和健康是有限度的，但只要人类的需求是不断增长的，那么发明家们的创意几乎可以是无限的。 Jobs 的逝去，对于苹果迷和依靠苹果订单的人们绝对是个坏消息，没准真的可能导致许多人失掉，但如果能就此“化悲痛为力量”，自己去形成创意并继续创造新的“工作”或者“ Jobs ”，续写新的传奇，未尝不能把坏消息变成好消息。不管你们信不信，反正我是信的。 参考： 【 1 】 http://tech.qq.com/zt2011/jobs_forever/index.htm?pgv_ref=aio
"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." "Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life." "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me." "That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." " A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." 史蒂夫·乔布斯 （照片来源于网络）
Steven Paul Jobs （ 1955.2.24----2011.10.05 ）永垂不朽 黄安年文 黄安年的博客 /2011 年 10 月 05 日 ( 美东时间 ) 发布 苹果公司前首席执行官乔布斯今天去世 , 他在计算机网络和传媒创新发展历史上占有极其辉煌的一页 , 他为苹果公司再创辉煌做出了杰出的奉献 , 今天引领网络新潮流的 iPhone 、 ipad 、 iPod 、的发展离不开他的策划和决策。这位独创性的领军任人物英年早逝不能不对苹果公司和整个网络界带来影响。 以下是相关报道和信息， 图片 11 张选自凤凰网 ************************* 苹果公司前首席执行官乔布斯去世 2011 年 10 月 06 日 08:00:03 来源： 新华网 新华微博 美国媒体 10 月 5 日报道说，苹果公司前首席执行官乔布斯 ')" name="HL_TAG" 乔布斯已经去世。美联 / 新华社发 新华网旧金山１０月５日电 美国苹果公司５日宣布，该公司前首席执行官史蒂夫·乔布斯已经去世。 苹果公司网站发布的消息说：“苹果失去了一位富有远见和创造力的天才，世界失去了一个不可思议之人。” 苹果公司网站首页目前已换成乔布斯大幅照片，以及“１９５５－２０１１”字样。 http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-10/06/c_122122056.htm# ******************************** Steve Jobs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about a person who has recently died. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person's death and surrounding events, may change as more facts become known. Steve Jobs Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 Born Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955(1955-02-24) San Francisco, California, U.S. Died October 5, 2011(2011-10-05) (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, U.S. Residence Palo Alto, California, U.S. Alma mater Reed College (one semester in 1972) Occupation Chairman, Apple Inc. Net worth $8.3 billion (2011) Board member of The Walt Disney Company, Apple, Inc. Religion Buddhism Spouse Laurene Powell Jobs (1991 – 2011) (His Death) Children 4 Relatives Mona Simpson (sister) Signature Website Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. His aim to develop products that are both functional and elegant earned him a devoted following. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO. In his letter of resignation, Jobs strongly recommended that the Apple executive succession plan be followed and Tim Cook be named as his successor. Per his request, Jobs was appointed chairman of Apple's board of directors. On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Steve Jobs had died at the age of 56. Contents * 1 Early years * 2 Career o 2.1 Beginnings of Apple Computer o 2.2 NeXT Computer o 2.3 Pixar and Disney o 2.4 Return to Apple o 2.5 Resignation * 3 Business life o 3.1 Wealth o 3.2 Stock options backdating issue o 3.3 Management style o 3.4 Inventions o 3.5 Philanthropy * 4 Personal life o 4.1 Illness and death * 5 Honors * 6 In popular culture * 7 Notes * 8 References * 9 External links o 9.1 Articles o 9.2 Interviews Early years Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07 Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (n é e Hagopian) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, whom they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim graduate student from Homs who later became a political science professor, and Joanne Simpson (n é e Schieble), an American graduate student who went on to become a speech language pathologist – eventually married. Together, they gave birth to and raised Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson. Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts." In autumn 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things done in life". He has said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking. Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board for the game Breakout. According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari had offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 (instead of the actual $5000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350. Career Beginnings of Apple Computer See also: History of Apple Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in 2007 In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, with later funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula Jr., founded Apple. Prior to co-founding Apple, Wozniak was an electronics hacker. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for several years, having met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to interest Wozniak in assembling a computer and selling it. As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion. In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" The following year, Apple aired a Super Bowl television commercial titled "1984". At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as "pandemonium". The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. The development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs. While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the end of 1984 caused a deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley, and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division. He later claimed that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could happen to him; “ 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. ” NeXT Computer See also: NeXT Steve Jobs on computer graphics. Interview excerpt from 1995. The NeXT used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN that became the first server in the World Wide Web. Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced; however, it was largely dismissed by industry as cost-prohibitive . Among those who could afford it, however, the NeXT workstation garnered a strong following because of its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development system . Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port) . The NeXTcube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next step after "personal" computing. That is, if computers could allow people to communicate and collaborate together in an easy way, it would solve many of the problems that "personal" computing had come up against. During a time when e-mail for most people was plain text, Jobs loved to demo the NeXT's e-mail system, NeXTMail, as an example of his "interpersonal" philosophy . NeXTMail was one of the first to support universally visible, clickable embedded graphics and audio within e-mail . Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by such things as the NeXTcube's magnesium case. This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel. Pixar and Disney In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital. The new company, which was originally based at Lucasfilm's Kerner Studios in San Rafael, California, but has since relocated to Emeryville, California, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute. The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company would produce the box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films once its contract with Disney expired. In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock. Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and of Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who until his 2009 death held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner – especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar – accelerated Eisner's ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger. Jobs also helped oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six person steering committee. Return to Apple Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference Expo, San Francisco, January 11, 2005 See also: "1998 – 2005: Return to profitability" in Apple Computer, Inc. In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he had co-founded. Jobs became de facto chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was ousted in July. He was formally named interim chief executive in September 1997. In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs terminated a number of projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc. In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs' summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company." Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines. With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products, most notably NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs's guidance the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products; since then, appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the "interim" modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO. Jobs quipped at the time that he would be using the title 'iCEO.' In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances. With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminded his employees that "real artists ship", by which he meant that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and attractive design. Jobs was both admired and criticized for his consummate skill at persuasion and salesmanship, which has been dubbed the "reality distortion field" and was particularly evident during his keynote speeches (colloquially known as "Stevenotes") at Macworld Expos and at Apple's own Worldwide Developers Conferences. In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the U.S. by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. However, a few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer TakeBack Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve — Don't be a mini-player recycle all e-waste". In 2006, he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems. Resignation Wikinews has related news: Apple executive Steve Jobs resigns In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board. Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped 5% in after-hour trading. The relatively small drop, when considering the importance of Jobs to Apple, was associated with the fact that Jobs' health had been in the news for several years, and he was on medical leave since January 2011. It was believed, according to Forbes, that the impact would be felt in a negative way beyond Apple, including at The Walt Disney Company where Jobs served as director. In after-hour trading on the day of the announcement, Walt Disney Co. (DIS) shares dropped 1.5%. Business life Wealth Even though Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he had received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar). Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American. Stock options backdating issue In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30, which allegedly should have been $21.10, thereby incurring taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. This indicated backdating. Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. If found liable, Jobs might have faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting. Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive $20 million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006, found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003. On July 1, 2008, a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud. Management style Jobs demonstrating the iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 23, 2010 Much was made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs". Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom, one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young William L. Simon. In 1993, Jobs made Fortune's list of America's Toughest Bosses in regard to his leadership of NeXT. Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable . . . ut the lows were unimaginable," to which Jobs's office replied that his personality had changed since then. Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France," alluding to Jobs' compelling and larger-than-life persona. Jobs always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky: There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will. — Steve Jobs Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers. In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs. In its 2010 annual earnings report, Wiley said it had "closed a deal ... to make its titles available for the iPad." Inventions Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages. Philanthropy After Bloomberg accidentally published Jobs' obituary in 2008, Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek magazine noted that "Jobs isn ’ t widely known for his association with philanthropic causes", compared to Bill Gates' efforts. After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs. Personal life Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa. The couple have a son and two daughters. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter. In the unauthorized biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan." In another unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children. Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied: My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people. In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 singer Bono. Jobs had never moved in. In 1984, Jobs purchased a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2), 14-bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by George Washington Smith, in Woodside, California (also known as Jackling House). Although it reportedly remained in an almost unfurnished state, Jobs lived in the mansion for almost ten years. According to reports, he kept an old BMW motorcycle in the living room, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998. Since the early 1990s, Jobs has lived in a house in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood of Palo Alto. President Clinton dined with Jobs and 14 Silicon Valley CEOs there on August 7, 1996 on a meal catered by Greens Restaurant. Clinton returned the favor and Jobs, who was a Democratic donor, slept in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House. Jobs allowed Jackling House to fall into a state of disrepair, planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property; but he met with complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people expressed interest, including several with experience in restoring old property, but no agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began seeking legal action to prevent demolition. In January 2007 Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property, by a court decision. The court decision was overturned on appeal in March 2010 and the mansion was demolished beginning February 2011. Jobs usually wore a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers. He was a pescetarian, one whose diet includes fish but no other meat. His car was a silver 2008 Mercedes SL 55 AMG, which does not display its license plates. Jobs had a public war of words with Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes". On October 6, 1997, in a Gartner Symposium, when Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." In 2006, Steve Jobs sent an email to all employees when Apple's market capitalization rose above Dell's. The email read: Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve. Illness and death In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, Jobs underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004 that appeared to successfully remove the tumor. Jobs apparently did not require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy. During Jobs' absence, Timothy D. Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company. Jobs at the 2008 Macworld Conference Expo In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His "thin, almost gaunt" appearance and unusually "listless" delivery, together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters, inspired a flurry of media and Internet speculation about his health. In contrast, according to an Ars Technica journal report, WWDC attendees who saw Jobs in person said he "looked fine". Following the keynote, an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust." Two years later, similar concerns followed Jobs' 2008 WWDC keynote address. Apple officials stated Jobs was victim to a "common bug" and was taking antibiotics, while others surmised his cachectic appearance was due to the Whipple procedure. During a July conference call discussing Apple earnings, participants responded to repeated questions about Steve Jobs' health by insisting that it was a "private matter". Others, however, voiced the opinion that shareholders had a right to know more, given Jobs' hands-on approach to running his company. The New York Times published an article based on an off-the-record phone conversation with Jobs, noting that "while his health issues have amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren ’ t life-threatening and he doesn ’ t have a recurrence of cancer." On August 28, 2008, Bloomberg mistakenly published a 2500-word obituary of Jobs in its corporate news service, containing blank spaces for his age and cause of death. (News carriers customarily stockpile up-to-date obituaries to facilitate news delivery in the event of a well-known figure's untimely death.) Although the error was promptly rectified, many news carriers and blogs reported on it, intensifying rumors concerning Jobs' health. Jobs responded at Apple's September 2008 Let's Rock keynote by quoting Mark Twain: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." At a subsequent media event, Jobs concluded his presentation with a slide reading "110/70", referring to his blood pressure, stating he would not address further questions about his health. On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that marketing vice-president Phil Schiller would deliver the company's final keynote address at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2009, again reviving questions about Jobs' health. In a statement given on January 5, 2009 on Apple.com, Jobs said that he had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" for several months. On January 14, 2009, in an internal Apple memo, Jobs wrote that in the previous week he had "learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought" and announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who had previously acted as CEO in Jobs' 2004 absence, became acting CEO of Apple, with Jobs still involved with "major strategic decisions." In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. Jobs' prognosis was "excellent". On January 17, 2011, one and a half years after Jobs returned from his liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted a medical leave of absence. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees, stating his decision was made "so he could focus on his health". As during his 2009 medical leave, Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company. Despite the leave, he made appearances at the iPad 2 launch event (March 2), the WWDC keynote introducing iCloud (June 6), and before the Cupertino city council (June 7). Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO on August 24, 2011. In the letter, Jobs wrote that he could "no longer meet duties and expectations as Apple ’ s CEO". His family, in a statement, said Mr. Jobs "died peacefully today surrounded by his family ..." Screenshot of Apple.com's tribute to Steve Jobs On October 5, 2011, Apple released a statement saying that Jobs had died. The statement read "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts". Also on October 5, 2011, apple.com greeted visitors with a simple message: Steve Jobs' black-and-white picture, his name and his years of birth and death. Clicking on Jobs' image led to an obituary that read: "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." An email address was also posted for the public to share their memories, condolences, and thoughts. Bill Gates released statement saying "I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely." Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, to whom he was married for 20 years, their three children, and a fourth child Lisa Brennan-Jobs from a previous relationship. Honors He was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 with Steve Wozniak (among the first people to ever receive the honor), and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" (a.k.a. the Samuel S. Beard Award) in 1987. On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine. On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. In August 2009, Jobs was selected as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers in a survey by Junior Achievement. On November 5, 2009, Jobs was named the CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine. In September 2011, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People. In December 2010, the Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010, ending its essay by stating, "In his autobiography, John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive who once ran Apple, said this of the ambitions of the man he had pushed out: 'Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High-tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.' How wrong can you be". In popular culture Due to his young age, great wealth, and charisma, after Apple's founding Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When Time named the computer as the 1982 "Machine of the Year", it published a long profile of him as "the most famous maestro of the micro". . In 2011 Jobs was voted Best Business Entrepreneur On Earth. 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Steve Jobs 今天去世了，在苹果昨天发布新版iPhone以后。深切悼念！ 乔布斯前无古人后无来者，一代传奇。 http://www.apple.com/ If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com
最近开始启用沾满灰 尘的iPad，读苹果 Steve Jobs 的传记。 我已经太多年不读纸质书不写字了（1986年的硕士论文是打字进入电脑的，自那以后，就几乎没有写过成块的字，读书就更少了），所以决定还是使用 iBook 读电子版吧。电子版的好处是我可以随时随地带着 iPad 读书，不认识的词点击一下词典就出来了。iBook 读书果然很爽。 话说乔布斯被踢出苹果多年后，在苹果濒临破产的边缘，重返苹果。他的前任召集管理层开会，说：time for me to leave now，悻然而去。这时候，门开了，乔布斯进来了。还没等大家回过味来，乔布斯说： What the hell is going on here? 停顿片刻，他自己回答说： Product sucks! There is no sex in it. 果不其然，自从乔布斯接手，苹果产品一件件都做得象艺术品似的，非常时髦性感，让人不忍下手。 科学网-李维的博客- 《图片新闻： 苹果 体验》 温故知新：iPhone 是上帝送来的礼物 苹果 之父 传奇人物 Steve Jobs 是最成功的机会主义者 http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=362400do=blogid=335191
I am 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 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. 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，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。 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? 我在里德学院（ Reed college ）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 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. This was the start in my life. 这得从我出生前讲起。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。 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 *****uld 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 far more interesting. 十七年后，我上大学了。但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。六个月后，我看不出念这个书的价值何在。那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄，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。 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: 这一点也不浪漫。我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的 Hare Krishna 神庙吃顿好料。我喜欢 Hare Krishna 神庙的好料。追寻我的好奇与直觉，我所驻足的大部分事物，后来看来都成了无价之宝。举例来说： 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. 当时里德学院有着大概是全国最好的书法指导。在整个校园内的每一张海报上，每个抽屉的标签上，都是美丽的手写字。因为我休学了，可以不照正常选课程序来，所以我跑去学书法。我学了 serif 与 san serif 字体，学到在不同字母组合间变更字间距，学到活版印刷伟大的地方。书法的美好、历史感与艺术感是科学所无法捕捉的，我觉得那很迷人。 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. 我没预期过学的这些东西能在我生活中起些什么实际作用，不过十年后，当我在设计第一台麦金塔时，我想起了当时所学的东西，所以把这些东西都设计进了麦金塔里，这是第一台能印刷出漂亮东西的电脑。如果我没沉溺于那样一门课里，麦金塔可能就不会有多重字体跟变间距字体了。又因为 Windows 抄袭了麦金塔的使用方式，如果当年我没这样做，大概世界上所有的个人电脑都不会有这些东西，印不出现在我们看到的漂亮的字来了。当然，当我还在大学里时，不可能把这些点点滴滴预先串在一起，但是这在十年后回顾，就显得非常清楚。 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. Because believing in the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when they leave you off the well-worn path. And it has made all the difference in my life. 我再说一次，你不能预先把点点滴滴串在一起；唯有未来回顾时，你才会明白那些点点滴滴是如何串在一起的。所以你得相信，你现在所体会的东西，将来多少会连接在一块。你得信任某个东西，直觉也好，命运也好，生命也好，或者业力。这种作法从来没让我失望，也让我的人生整个不同起来。 My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二个故事，有关爱与失去。 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. 我好运－年轻时就发现自己爱做什么事。我二十岁时，跟 Steve Wozniak 在我爸妈的车库里开始了苹果电脑的事业。我们拼命工作，苹果电脑在十年间从一间车库里的两个小夥子扩展成了一家员工超过四千人、市价二十亿美金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我们最棒的作品－麦金塔，而我才刚迈入人生的第三十个年头，然后被炒鱿鱼。要怎么让自己创办的公司炒自己鱿鱼？好吧，当苹果电脑成长后，我请了一个我以为他在经营公司上很有才干的家伙来，他在头几年也确实干得不错。可是我们对未来的愿景不同，最后只好分道扬镳，董事会站在他那边，炒了我鱿鱼，公开把我请了出去。曾经是我整个成年生活重心的东西不见了，令我不知所措。 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. 有几个月，我实在不知道要干什么好。我觉得我令企业界的前辈们失望－我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我见了创办 HP 的 David Packard 跟创办 Intel 的 Bob Noyce ，跟他们说我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厉害了。我成了公众的非常负面示范，我甚至想要离开硅谷。但是渐渐的，我发现，我还是喜爱着我做过的事情，在苹果的日子经历的事件没有丝毫改变我爱做的事。我被否定了，可是我还是爱做那些事情，所以我决定从头来过。 I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the***** 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. 当时我没发现，但是现在看来，被苹果电脑开除，是我所经历过最好的事情。成功的沉重被从头来过的轻松所取代，每件事情都不那么确定，让我自由进入这辈子最有创意的年代。 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 world’s 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. 接下来五年，我开了一家叫做 NeXT 的公司，又开一家叫做 Pixar 的公司，也跟后来的老婆谈起了恋爱。 Pixar 接着制作了世界上第一部全电脑动画电影，玩具总动员，现在是世界上最成功的动画制作公司。然后，苹果电脑买下了 NeXT ，我回到了苹果，我们在 NeXT 发展的技术成了苹果电脑后来复兴的核心。我也有了个美妙的家庭。 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. Don't settle. 我很确定，如果当年苹果电脑没开除我，就不会发生这些事情。这帖药很苦口，可是我想苹果电脑这个病人需要这帖药。有时候，人生会用砖头打你的头。不要丧失信心。我确信，我爱我所做的事情，这就是这些年来让我继续走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你爱的，工作上是如此，对情人也是如此。你的工作将填满你的一大块人生，唯一获得真正满足的方法就是做你相信是伟大的工作，而唯一做伟大工作的方法是爱你所做的事。如果你还没找到这些事，继续找，别停顿。尽你全心全力，你知道你一定会找到。而且，如同任何伟大的关系，事情只会随着时间愈来愈好。所以，在你找到之前，继续找，别停顿。 My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事，关于死亡。 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. 当我十七岁时，我读到一则格言，好像是“把每一天都当成生命中的最后一天，你就会轻松自在。”这对我影响深远，在过去 33 年里，我每天早上都会照镜子，自问：“如果今天是此生最后一日，我今天想做我将要做的事情吗？”每当我连续太多天都得到一个“不”的答案时，我就知道我必须有所变革了。 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. 提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大决定时，所用过最重要的工具。因为几乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有名誉、所有对困窘或失败的恐惧－在面对死亡时，都消失了，只有最重要的东西才会留下。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入自己有东西要失去了的陷阱里最好的方法。人生不带来，死不带去，没什么道理不顺心而为。 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 *****ll be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. 一年前，我被诊断出癌症。我在早上七点半作断层扫描，在胰脏清楚出现一个肿瘤，我连胰脏是什么都不知道。医生告诉我，那几乎可以确定是一种不治之症，我大概活不到三到六个月了。医生建议我回家，好好跟亲人们聚一聚，这是医生对临终病人的标准建议。那代表你得试着在几个月内把你将来十年想跟小孩讲的话讲完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才会尽量轻松。那代表你得跟人说再见了。 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 thankfully I'm fine now. 我整天想着那个诊断结果，那天晚上做了一次切片，从喉咙伸入一个内视镜，从胃进肠子，插了根针进胰脏，取了一些肿瘤细胞出来。我打了镇静剂，不醒人事，但是我老婆在场。她后来跟我说，当医生们用显微镜看过那些细胞后，他们都大叫起来，因为那是非常少见的一种胰脏癌，可以用手术治好。所以我接受了手术，康复了。 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: 这是我最接近死亡的时候，我希望那会继续是未来几十年内最接近的一次。经历此事后，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念时要更肯定告诉你们下面这些： 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. 没有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活着上天堂。但是死亡是我们共有的目的地，没有人逃得过。这是注定的，因为死亡简直就是生命中最棒的发明，是生命变化的媒介，送走老人们，给新生代留下空间。现在你们是新生代，但是不久的将来，你们也会逐渐变老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉讲得这么戏剧化，但是这是真的。 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. 你们的时间有限，所以不要浪费时间活在别人的生活里。不要被信条所惑－盲从信条就是活在别人思考结果里。不要让别人的意见淹没了你内在的心声。最重要的，拥有跟随内心与直觉的勇气，你的内心与直觉多少已经知道你真正想要成为什么样的人。任何其他事物都是次要的。 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. 在我年轻时，有本神奇的杂志叫做 Whole Earth Catalog ，当年我们很迷这本杂志。那是一位住在离这不远的 Menlo Park 的 Stewart Brand 发行的，他把杂志办得很有诗意。那是 1960 年代末期，个人电脑跟桌上出版还没发明，所有内容都是打字机、剪刀跟拍立得相机做出来的。杂志内容有点像印在纸上的 Google ，在 Google 出现之前 35 年就有了：理想化，充满新奇工具与神奇的注记。 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. Stewart 跟他的出版团队出了好几期 Whole Earth Catalog ，然后出了停刊号。当时是 1970 年代中期，我正是你们现在这个年龄的时候。在停刊号的封底，有张早晨乡间小路的照片，那种你去爬山时会经过的乡间小路。在照片下有行小字：求知若饥，虚心若愚。 那是他们亲笔写下的告别讯息，我总是以此自许。当你们毕业，展开新生活，我也以此期许你们。
《我就不信，好莱坞风格短片不能走入千家万户》 人不能太超前，过犹不及，超前等价于落伍，在潮流之外。 有此感叹，是因为最近精心打造的三个好莱坞风格短片居然不起波澜，少有问津。在多数网友热衷于摄影的时候，玩好莱坞录像无疑是一种超越，只是超越太过。 话说回来，技术产品也大都是如此命运。在市场不成熟的时候，太超过的产品往往无法流行，甚至被淘汰。市场需要一个自适应和他教育的过程。当年 Steve Jobs 被逐出苹果，他带领一帮人马励精图治，推出了 NeXT workstation, 装备了当时最先进的操作系统，满以为可以引领电脑新潮流，结果遭遇了市场的滑铁卢。好在他毕竟是奇人，市场没有成功，他却把这套先进的系统以不菲的价格卖回给苹果，趁着他返回苹果的东风，这套技术为苹果的重新起飞奠定了坚实的基础（苹果的 OS 重新来过，用的就是 NeXT 内核），也算有了善终。更多的超越就没有这么幸运，技术史上不乏“红颜薄命”的例子。 如此想来，我的视频不走红，也没有引起网友对苹果傻瓜软件iMovie的好奇，也是可以理解的。太超过了。呵呵。 不过，如果你还没看到，我保证你点击下列三个短片后不会后悔你花费的几分钟： 这是「太平洋与春花的浪漫故事」 这是「湘女佳娜的传奇」的广告片 这是「硅谷女性母亲节」的公益宣传片 如果您看过了，后悔了，请砸了我的苹果电脑。如果您认为我的制作不够专业，离开好莱坞名导距离太远，请黑了我的博客。如果您喜欢，请推荐到科网首页，并与我一起为 Steve Jobs 祈祷，祈祷这位电脑传奇人物躲过一劫，早日康复。
Hohoho，时间过得真快，眼看着二十一世纪的头十年就要飞走了！正捉摸着今年的最后一篇博文写点儿什么纪念纪念，正好在网上看到了这一篇，是苹果总裁Steve Jobs 于2005年6月12日在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上的讲演。 乔布斯二十岁在父母家的车库里跟好友伍兹尼亚克一起造出了第一台苹果电脑，三十岁时被从自己创建的苹果公司扫地出门；后来又因为他建立的另一公司NeXT跟苹果公司的合并被重新请回苹果，带领苹果又开创了iPhone，iPad 时代的新的辉煌。 他在生活和事业上经历过的大起大落使他成为一代传奇人物，也许同样是这些大起大落，使他把人生看得如此透彻和深刻。 今年的苹果公司因为 iPhone4 和 iPad 的火爆一度市值超过微软，成为世界上最值钱的软件公司。好啦，就用这篇转载作为今年的最后一篇博文吧，作为对自己和各位博友的新年激励。明年再见！ 又：感谢不知姓名的记录者和翻译者，在此我代表科学网的读者为您(们)的劳动表示深深谢意。（版权归原作者，我仅对中译文作了一点校正和润色） YouTube上的演讲连接： http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc 演讲原文记录和中译文： ‘ You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says Jobs说，你要去追寻真爱。 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. 这是苹果公司和 Pixar 动画工作室的 CEO Steve Jobs 于 2005 年 6 月 12 号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。 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. 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。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话 , 今天也许是我这辈子离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲讲我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情 , 只是三个故事而已。 The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。 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 ,可在那之后的 十八个月里 , 我还时不时地去旁听。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. 故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的 , 没有结婚的研究生。她决定让别人收养我 , 并且 十分希望收养我的人有大学学历。所以在我出生之前，她已经准备好了让我被一位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。 所以我的养父母，那时还在收养人的候选名单上，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！ ” 但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母没有大学毕业 , 我的养父连高中都没毕业。她拒绝签这个收养合同，直到几个月以后 , 我的养父母答应她一定要让我上大学 时 她才同意。 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. 十七年之后 , 我真的上了大学。但是我天真地选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校 , 差点儿花掉了我的蓝领养父母的所有积蓄。六个月后 , 我还是看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我这辈子想要做什么 , 也不知道大学能怎么帮助我找到答案。 可在这儿，我却要花光我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学 , 并说服自己相信这是个正确的决定。 我当时确实非常的害怕 , 但是现在回头看看 , 那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定之一。在我做出退学决定的那一刻 , 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课，而去旁听那些看起来有点意思的课程。 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: 但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我没有宿舍 , 只能在朋友房间的地板上睡觉 。 我去捡 那些可以回收5 美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子 , 在星期天的晚上 , 我需要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市到 Hare Krishna 寺庙 , 只是为了能吃上饭 —— 这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走 , 遇到的很多东西 , 此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧： 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. Reed 大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报 , 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的手写的美术字。因为我退学了 , 用不着上必修课 , 所以我决定去参加这个课程，去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了 san serif 和 serif 字体 , 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度 , 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙 , 我发现那实在是太美妙了。 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. 当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后 , 当我们在设计第一台 Macintosh 电脑的时候 , 就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些东西全都设计进了 Mac 。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学 , 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程 , Mac 就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。因为Windows只不过是抄袭Mac，那么现在的个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把这些点点滴滴串连起来 , 但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候 , 一切都豁然开朗了。 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. 还是那句话， 你在向前展望的时候不可能看隔那么清；你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你得相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘，不管是什么。这个过程从来没有令我失望（ let me down ） , 只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。 My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的 。 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. 我非常幸运 , 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。 Woz 和我在我二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力 , 十年之后 , 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年 , 我们刚刚发布了最好的产品 , 那就是 Macintosh 。在我刚到三十，就 被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢 ? 嗯 , 在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司 , 在最初的几年 , 公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧 , 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候 , 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候 , 我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去 , 这真是毁灭性的打击。 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. 在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。 我觉得我让我的创业前辈们很丢脸，接力棒刚到我手上就掉了。我和 David Pack 和 Bob Boyce 见面，想跟他们道歉。我是众人瞩目的失败者，一度想逃离硅谷。但是我渐渐发现了曙光 , 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些 , 一点也没有。我被驱逐了 , 但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。 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. 我当时没有觉察 , 但是事后证明 , 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的沉重被作为一个从头再来者的轻松所代替 : 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这给了我自由 , 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。 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. 在接下来的五年里 , 我创立了一个名叫 NeXT 的公司 , 还有一个叫 Pixar 的公司 , 并爱上了一位 后来成为我妻子的美妙的女人。 Pixar 完成了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画电影 ——“” 玩具总动员 ” ， 现在它也是世界上最成功的电脑动画制作工作室。后来时来运转 ,Apple 收购了 NeXT, 我也回到了 Apple 公司。我们在 NeXT 发展的技术在 Apple 的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和 Laurene 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。 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. 我可以非常肯定 , 如果我不被 Apple 开除的话 , 这其中任何一件事情也不会发生。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了 , 但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候 , 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信念。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你的挚爱。找到挚爱的工作跟找到 挚爱的伴侣是一样的。你的工作将会占据你生活的很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作 , 你才能怡然自得。能做出伟大工作的唯一办法，就是深深热爱你所作的事情。如果现在还没有找到 , 那么继续找，不要将就。需要用心去找的， 当你找到的时候你的心就会知道。就像任何真诚的感情 , 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。要继续找，直到你找到它，不要将就。 My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 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. 当我十七岁的时候 , 我读到了一句话 : “ 如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去过的话 , 那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。 ” 这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时之后的 33 年 , 我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己 : “ 如果今天是我生命中的最后一天 , 你会不会去做你今天想做的事情呢？ ” 当答案连着很多天是 “ 不 ” 的时候 , 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。 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. 记住我将不久于世， 是我这辈子的最重要的工具，帮我做出生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的身外之事 , 所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧 , 这些在死亡面前都会消失。剩下的才是真正重要的东西。 记住你即将不久于世， 是我所知道的避免不停地计较利害得失的最好办法。你已经赤身裸体了 , 你没有理由不去追寻自己的心。 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. 大概一年以前 , 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查 , 检查清楚地显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症 , 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家 准备后事 , 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完 ；那意味着把每件事情都搞定 , 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说 “ 再见了 ” 。 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. 我那一整天伴着那个诊断书。结果那个晚上我又作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去 , 通过我的胃 , 然后进入我的肠子 , 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静 , 因为我被注射了镇定剂。但是我的妻子在那里 , 后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫 , 因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症。我做了这个手术 , 现在我痊愈了。 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: 那是我最接近死亡的一刻 , 我希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来 , 死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定地对你们说： 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. 没有人愿意死 , 即使人们想上天堂 , 人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。 因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的 , 但是从现在开始不久以后 , 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很戏剧性 , 但是这十分的真实。 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else’ 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. 你们的时间很有限, 所以不要将它浪费在重复别人的生活上。不要被教条束缚,那意味着你和别人思考的结果一起生活。不要被别人喧嚣的观点掩盖住你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是, 你要有勇气去听从你的直觉和你的心—— 它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。 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. 当我年轻的时候 , 有一本叫做 “ 整个地球的目录 ” 的振聋发聩的杂志，它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。它是一个叫 Stewart Brand 的家伙在离这里不远的 Menlo Park 写的 , 他象诗一般神奇地将这本书带到了这个世界。那是六十年代后期 , 在个人电脑出现之前 , 所以这本书全部是用打字机 、剪刀还有偏光镜制造的。有点像平装本的 Google, 在 Google 出现三十五年之前：这是理想主义的， 其中有许多灵巧的工具和伟大的想法。 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. Stewart 和他的伙伴出版了好几期的 “ 整个地球的目录 ” , 当它完成了自己使命的时候 , 他们做出了最后一期的目录。那是在七十年代的中期 , 我象你们那么大的时候。在最后一期的封底上是一幅清晨时分一条乡村道路的照片--如果你有冒险精神的话，你可以自己找到这种路的，在照片的下面有这么几个字： “ 求知若饥 , 大智若愚 。 ” 这是他们停止了发刊的告别语。 “ 求知若饥 , 大智若愚 。 ” 我总是希望自己能够那样 。 现在 , 在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候 , 我也希望你们能这样： Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 求知若饥 , 大智若愚。 Thank you all very much. 非常感谢你们。 Yours sincerely / 此致敬礼
The Institute for Study of the Earth'sInterior (ISEI), Okayama University Misasa, Japan, invites an application for the following position. http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/ http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/announcement/?eid=00451 Application Deadline$B!'(BAugust 31, 2010 Tatsuki Tsujimori -- Dr. Tatsuki Tsujimori,Associate Professor ISEI, Okayama U. Misasa, Tottori 682-0193, Japan PhD Position in Metamorphic Petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University Project The inverted metamorphic sequence (IMS) of the Sikkim Himalayas is characterized by a continuous increase of metamorphic grade with structural height. It contains one of the best developed Barrovian sequences of metapelitic rocks world-wide but its tectonic evolution is still unresolved. Due to its wide extent and continuous nature, the IMS serves as an excellent natural laboratory to study various rock-forming processes that occur during regional metamorphism. The successful PhD student will derive detailed information on the metamorphic history of the IMS that will help to constrain models of its tectonic evolution. Electron probe micro-analysis will be carried out and linked to results obtained through X-ray computed tomography and thermodynamic modelling. In close collaboration with an international research team, these findings will be integrated with monazite U-Th-Pb geochronology and high-precision Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf age dating. Requirements Applicants should hold a Master's degree in geosciences, chemistry or physics and should be fluent in English. The ideal candidate has a background in hard-rock geology and is interested in thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of mineral reactions. The ability to actively participate in and cooperate with an international research team will be an advantage. Funding The position will be funded for 4 years including salary, tuition, field and laboratory expenses. International students are motivated to apply for alternative funding (e.g., https://osap.gov.on.ca/OSAPPortal/en/A-ZListofAid/TCONT003465.html ) to cover tuition fees. Application Applications including a CV with publication list, a statement of research interests, and the mail and e-mail addresses of at least two referees, should be sent by e-mail to Dr. Fred Gaidies ( fgaidies@earthsci.carleton.ca ) AND mail to: Dr. Fred Gaidies Carleton University Department of Earth Sciences 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6 Canada The closing deadline is October 15, 2010 but applications will be considered until the position is filled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laboratory Manager Isotope Geochemistry Facility The Research Group of Isotope Geochemistry at the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen requires a laboratory manager to establish, oversee and manage the new multicollector mass spectrometry and isotope chemistry clean laboratories. Applicants must hold a degree in geology, geochemistry, analytical chemistry or physics and have demonstrated expertise and operational experience in MC-ICPMS and TIMS; holding a PhD would be of advantage. The applicant should have substantial experience in using and maintaining multicollector mass spectrometers and clean laboratories. Preference will be given to Candidates with prior lab manager experience. Fluent German and English language skills (written and spoken) are required. The Laboratory Manager will be responsible for conducting and supervising maintenance and repair of instrumentation and laboratory, developing and improving analytical protocols and instrumentation, oversight of sample preparation, ensuring quality control and tracking of data and supporting internal and external research projects of students, faculty and visiting scientists. The laboratory manager will also participate in research projects pursued by the facility and will be encouraged to launch new initiatives. The incumbent can take an active role in the communication of research results to the scientific community and industry (if desired). The appointment is a permanent position, preferably starting as soon as possible. Salary level is according to German salary system TV-L and will be commensurate with experience (up to 13 TV-L). A curriculum vita, a letter of motivation describing your interest in the position, a statement describing past and current analytical accomplishments and a list of at least two references must be submitted to be considered as an applicant. The facility is under the direction of Simone Kasemann and applications and questions regarding the position should be sent electronically to simone.kasemann@uni-bremen.de . Applications quoting reference A78/10 must be received by August 13th, 2010. As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification priority will be given to disabled persons. Please send only copies of your documents (without hard covers and folders) as we will not be able to send back your application. ---- Simone Kasemann Professor fr Isotopengeochemie Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universitt Bremen Postfach 330 440 28334 Bremen Telefon: +49 421 218-65460 Email: simone.kasemann@uni-bremen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Job offer In the framework of a tectonics and sedimentology research project in the Tadjik basin of Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan, we have a post-doc position (or alternatively 2 PhD positions) available for 2 years (prolongation possible). Main duties are fieldwork on thrust and strike-slip tectonics, section balancing, and thermochronology on the burial history; publication of results is expected. The project is embedded into a multi-Institute and multi-disciplinary project on the Pamirs and Tadjik basin. Starting date: as soon as possible. Information from Lothar Ratschbacher Lothar Ratschbacher Institut fr Geowissenschaften Technische Universitt Bergakademie Freiberg Bernhard-von-Cottastr. 2 D-09596 Freiberg/Sachsen Tel.: +49-3731-393758 Fax.: +49-3731-393599 e-mail: lothar@geo.tu-freiberg.de http://tu-freiberg.de/fakult3/geoarc/ http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/tektono/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist position to operate and manage our new laser ablation ICP-MS/OES facility The University of New Brunswick Geology Department has an opening for a Research Scientist position to operate and manage our new laser ablation ICP-MS/OES facility. The official posting is on the UNB HR website at the following link: http://www.unb.ca/postings/eup/eup1279104716_199.html The newly renovated lab will comprise two new state-of-the-art instruments including an Agilent 7700x quadrupole ICP-MS coupled to a Resonetics M-50 Ar-F 193nm excimer laser system. The facility will also house our existing Spectro CIROS ICP-OES. The new lab will be supported by microbeam instrumentation operated by the UNB Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility and by in-house wet chemistry and sample preparation labs ( http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/geology/facilities.php ). The new LA-ICPMS lab will be focused on producing high quality and high impact research primarily in metamorphic and igneous petrology, ore geology, and regional tectonics. We are seeking a motivated person with a sound understanding of the theory and applications of geochemistry and mass spectrometry to problems in earth sciences. This individual must have a strong work ethic, uncompromising analytical standards and an ability to engage users and assist with the development of new techniques. Please pass this information on to any potentially interested people. Best regards, Chris McFarlane Associate Professor Department of Geology University of New Brunswick Fredericton NB E3B 5A3 office: 506-458-7211 http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/geology/faculty/crmm.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- JOb at Leicester This is a great opportunity to join our expanding Applied Environmental Geology Group at Leicester! Our Department of Geology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Applied and Environmental Geology for a two year fixed term post to cover a period of secondment. We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong research record in, and ability to contribute to, the teaching of applied and environmental geology. You will contribute to campus based teaching and to the delivery of distance/blended learning programmes, including residential schools overseas. We particularly encourage applications from candidates able to contribute to teaching in one or more of the following fields: industrial rocks and minerals, environmental geoscience, mineral economics, the diamond industry. For further information and to apply on-line, please visit our website: www.le.ac.uk/joinus Ref: SEN00078 The closing date for this post is midnight on 25 July 2010. Dr Gawen RT Jenkin Senior Lecturer Applied Geology Chair Mineral Deposits Studies Group mdsg.org.uk Leicester Geology Department - Top Ranking for Student Satisfaction. Highest % of Student Satisfaction amongst departments teaching full-time Geology degrees for three years running (NSS www.unistats.com). Senior Lecturer Applied Geology direct dial: +44 (0116) 252 3934 Department of Geology general office: +44 (0116) 252 3933 University of Leicester fax: +44 (0116) 252 3918 LE1 7RH, UK skype: gawenjenkin ------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoc scholarship available The School of Geological Sciences at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Durban , South Africa , invites applications for a postdoctoral scholarship. The field (within geology) is not specified, but a research proposal must be part of the application, and the project is supposed to relate to one of the main research areas of the School. Thus, at least one staff member of the School will be directly involved in the application. This particular call is obviously aimed at members of the petrology and/or structural geology / tectonics community. Current projects involve the Namaqua-Natal Belt, the Bushveld Complex and high-grade Archaean terrains of the southern Kaapvaal craton margin. For more details please contact me at the address below. (Sorry, the departmental website is somewhat out of date. The position of webmaster has also not been filled yet) Anyone interested should get in touch a.s.a.p. as the deadlines set by the Faculty Office are just around the corner. Juergen Reinhardt reinhardtj@ukzn.ac.za School of Geological Sciences University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban , 4000 South Africa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Faculty position as Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Geology The Department of Applied Geosciences at GUtech seeks applications for a faculty position as Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Geology Applicants are expected to be experienced as a field geologist, preferably having specialised in soft-rock structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, ... and would be interested to carry out applied, field-oriented research projects in Oman. She or he will be responsible for ca. 10h/week teaching. Courses would center around geological field methods, geological mapping, quantitative field methods and rock microstructures and organising geological excursions. Your Profile: You should hold a PhD degree, are an excellent teacher and researcher. You have contributed to the advancement of research internationally. And you are looking forward to work at a start-up university in an exciting challenging environment. Our Offer: Our enthusiastic and open-minded Omani students will make you really like to teach and never want to leave. Successful applicants will be part of a core team playing a vital role in the further development of the University. Salary packages are competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. The appointment is initially for 4 years and renewable, dependent on a positive performance review. The successful candidate would preferably take up employment in September or October 2010. To apply, email your CV with a covering letter addressing all essential criteria, a statement of teaching experience, copies of relevant certificates, a selection of student evaluations of teaching (if available), and 2-3 reference letters to recruitment@gutech.edu.om no later than 16 July 2010. http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/geoscience/gutech10062.html
IT 业界最传奇的人物之一是苹果之父乔布斯（Steve Jobs）。苹果公司的唯美追求，曲高和寡，曾经一度濒于破产边缘。乔布斯重新回到苹果执掌以来，起死回生，但仍然举步维艰，很长一段时间，苹果电脑（硬件软件）在个人电脑市场只占有微软和PC市场的一个零头，当年主要是比较清高的北美的教育机构印刷娱乐界在使用苹果。可是今天的苹果公司市值已经超过巨人微软。苹果公司的股票在过去几年是节节攀升。这是一个典型的英雄创造历史的例证，而这个英雄是十足的机会主义者，为了市场他会随时改变自己的看法，调整策略，哪怕是前后矛盾。这里面的转机是苹果电脑与日常应用的结合，起先是 iPod 和 iTunes 在数字音乐销售方面的革命性改变，更决定性的转机是手机 iPhone 的普及，如今又出台了平板电脑 iPad. 苹果还在上升阶段，其创新速度令人瞠目结舌，我们这些苹果迷都赶不上趟：iPhone 4 最近出台了，我的 iPhone 3G 还好好的，更新还是不更新，用哈姆雷特的话说，that is a question。 When iPhone 4was launched a few days ago, my friend commented, Did I miss anything? My N95 can do video chat a few years ago ... Time to market is so crucial for a product success ... Here is my response: always like that. Individually, all functions/features are seen before, but Apple makes them to the highlight of the attention and also make them more useful and user-friendly. I played with pre-iPod toys (a Korean product andCreative made inSingapore)for quite a while until iPod dominated the market. Things can change too. I still remember Steve Job ridiculing those early technology products playing videos on small screens: his argument was: who would want to watch video in such a tiny screen? Who can enjoy a video many times (even the best video, one usually watch 3-4 times maximum) like one enjoying music (people can listen to the same piece hundreds of times)? How can you get video content as rich as they can get audio music in iTunes? All those arguments sounded so strong, but one year later Apple launched iPod video (including iPod Mini with really tiny screen) and video became a selling point. Steve Jobs made another strong comment before iPhone when asked whether he would go to the mobile phone market now that iPod was such a success. I remember clearly his claiming not to enter this market, to the effect: this market is fairly mature (major functions are already invented), and is crowded now and dominated by big players like Motorola and Nokia. There is no more room for Apple. Maybe he was deliberately misleading the reporters, and maybe he was telling the truth at the moment, God knows. It was iPhone, exactly the thing he claimed he would not want to do, that changed everything for Apple, making Apple today more valuable than Microsoft. Steve is a fun and legendary guy to watch. 相关文章： 《图片新闻：苹果体验》： http://www.dingding.tv/bbs/read.php?tid=1063
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