乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：保持饥饿,保持愚蠢(Stayhungry,stayfoolish.)解读

我可以停止一切不感兴趣的必修课，

开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。

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

five-cent

deposits

to

buy

food

with,

and

I

would

walk

the

seven

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.

事情并不那么美好。我没有宿舍可 住，睡在朋友房间的地上。为了吃饭，

我收集五分一个的旧可乐瓶，每个星期天晚上步行 七英里到哈尔

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克里什

纳庙里改善一下 一周的伙食。我喜欢这种生活方式。能够遵循自己的好奇

和直觉前行后来被证明是多么的 珍贵。让我来给你们举个例子吧。

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 sans-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.

当时的里德大学提供可能是全国最好的书法指导。校园中每一 张海报，抽

屉上的每一张标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于我已退学，不用修那些必修

课，我决定选一门书法课上上。在这门课上，我学会了“

serif

”

和

两种字体 、学会了怎样在不同的字母组合中改变字间距、学

会了怎样写出好的字来。这是一种科学 无法捕捉的微妙，楚楚动人、充满

历史底蕴和艺术性，我觉得自己被完全吸引了。

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,

it's

likely

that

no

personal

computer would have them.

当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。

但是，

十年之后，

我们在设计第一台

Macintosh

计算机时，它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是，

我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版

式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课，

Macintosh

计

算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是< /p>

Windows

照搬了

Macintosh

，个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that

calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the

wonderful typography that they do.

要不是退了学，我决不会碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能不会有现

在这些漂亮的版式了。

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-- because

believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you

the

confidence

to

follow

your

heart,

even

when

it

leads

you

off

the

well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

当然，我在大学里不可能从这一点 上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回

头看，两者之间关系就非常、非常清楚了。你们同 样不可能从现在这个点

上看到将来；

只有回头看时，