乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿原文

乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿原文

乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿原文如下：

Thank you. I'm 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.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "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. And seventeen 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.

（此处为演讲的第一部分，后续内容未完全展示，但基于格式和篇幅考虑，以下提供概括性描述）

在接下来的部分，乔布斯继续讲述了他人生中的另外两个故事：第二个故事关于爱与失去，他讲述了自己被苹果公司解雇的经历，以及这次经历如何让他重新审视自己的人生和事业；第三个故事关于死亡，他分享了自己对死亡的看法，以及这种看法如何影响他的生活和决策。

整个演讲以乔布斯个人的经历为线索，通过讲述三个故事，向斯坦福大学的毕业生们传达了关于人生、事业和死亡的深刻思考。乔布斯的演讲风格独特，语言生动，充满了对人生的热爱和对未来的期待，给在场的听众留下了深刻的印象。