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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.

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, 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.

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 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:

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.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

去年的片子啦，flickr的图片总是显示不出来，莫名其妙。只好放在这里喽！

一个人可以在一年只做一件事那是最大的幸福，十年只做一件事是超级大幸福。任何毛毛虫都会变得蝴蝶，我们难道比它们不如吗？只要摆自己在对的位置上，毛毛虫的妈妈把它摆在桑树上，几百万种树，它只吃自己的叶子。所以每个人都可以，不要把整个精力拿来做所有事。（蔡志忠）（点评：写了一个礼拜的代码，后来客户让你修改了一个月，我很HAPPY!）

Apple对Adobe竖起了中指，OK，MAC将不会支持ADOBE的任何产品了！

Google还是走了，之前就为他伤心了一次，相信谷粉们都这样吧，国内的各大网站都被五毛党围剿，就连唐骏也加入了他们的阵营，那就不知道这5的后面会有多少个0啊，不过还好，他在HK落脚了，现在仍然费解，虽然是两个制度，但是帝都一跺脚，HK不也得颤颤吗？
最后留下连个链接欢迎您来到谷歌搜索在中国的新家
谷歌产品在中国的服务可用性

In Gcd I Trust!已经三个多月了，我的备案已经被退回了三次，至于退回原因我也不敢多想，当时都抱着跟随韩祥在国外弄个地方来的！韩祥是和我基本上一天备的案，昨天我还故意气气他，啊哈哈！这次备案是公司的同事帮弄的，谢谢赵英华同学，呵呵！现在我的笔记本里还有一些我翻译的文章，忙过这阵子就发布出来，呵呵！

李开复说过，”FLLOW YOUR HEAER”,没做，我是这么做了，这个礼拜我提出了辞职，当我告诉我的家人和朋友的时候，他们都很吃惊，他们都劝我做到明年，我知道他们是怎么想的！ALEX让我再好好考虑，我很感激，起码是公司对我的认可，我很知足了，但是我还是坚持了我的选择，否则的话对自己和对公司都不负责任。做完这个三星的项目，我就该离开这里了，当我提出辞职之后来到公司，我的心情很矛盾，希望时间过得慢一些，这样我就可以很好的享受和同事们在一起的时光，又希望时间过的快一些，这样我可以好好的休息一下，学习自己想学的东西！从最最stupid的来说吧,我学会了如何用PS导出jpg,png,天啊,看见那些LAYER我就很反感,当然还有FLASH的TIMELINE,大多数的PROGRAMMER都这样吗?呵呵,我喜欢用键盘,不喜欢用鼠标,呵呵!最近业余的时间很少,学习的时间自然就相对减少了,这不是我想要的生活,而且我发现我对互动广告不是特别的感冒,我喜欢的是DEVELOP而不是USE,我更喜欢逻辑,表现的东西就差那么一点!

我是今年6月13日来的北京，7月13日来到了OPENGLOW，转眼间在公司已经五个月了，太快了，这里给我留下了太多美好的回忆，我喜欢公司的环境，喜欢公司的每一个员工，我真想大声的喊出他们的名字，我们就像兄弟一样，喜欢公司的冰箱，因为总有喝不完的可乐与啤酒，喜欢公司的沙发，它比任何的床都舒服，最主要的是可以10点起床.etc.

刚来到这里，我不是很适应加班，但是短短一个星期，我发现我很享受加班，说不出个为什么，也许我太爱FLASH了吧，呵呵！因为我总能发新它的一些新的东西，呵呵，每一次加班都有一个美好的故事，还记得我，大李，刘，田，我们加班到凌晨4点，每个人都很兴奋，不知道为什么，就是想出去玩，阳阳说要去香山，虽然我不知道在哪，但是想法很疯狂，但是由于时间紧迫，搁浅了，于是我们就开车找火锅店，呵呵，吃完的时候已经凌晨6点多了，隔壁的包子铺都开张了，有人说了一句，咱们吃的是夜宵，呵呵！然后驱车回到了公司，睡到了10点，第二天精神饱满，我都问自己WHY!还记得我们去十渡吗，哈哈！什么事都没有做成，烤全羊和兔子一样大，哈哈！事后，大李鞠了一个日本人的躬（因为是他找的地方），哈哈！公司的聚会很多，每次我都喝的很迷幻，大李说我不是东北人，不能喝酒，呵呵，我很不服，有机会我一定把你撩倒！

刘是第一个叫我华子的人，从来没有人这么叫过，从此公司的同时就都这么叫了，我也就习惯了，后来他们说我很OUT，所以我又有一个新的名字，叫OUT-MAN，而且在OPENGLOW，华子是OUT的替代词，“超，你又华子了”！哈哈！

故事很多，就让它们经常的出现在梦想吧！因为我喜欢做美梦！再见了，OPENGLOW,LOVE  YOU  SPONGEBOB!

既然是做技术博客，所以自身的技术的高低直接影响网站的流量，所以我用一个间接的技术成长的经历来描述网站的成长的历程！

读国人写的技术文档—–读国人翻译的技术文档—–读老外的文档——国人参考jianhualee的技术文档——老外翻译jianhualee的技术文档——老外登录jianhualee!

注解（1并不是鄙视国人的技术不行，国内也有我很多敬仰的高人，2如果最后一个阶段没看明白的话，只能怪你智商不行了，哈哈）