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

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）

刚刚在G里面试探性的搜索了一下jianhualee，结果很另我失望，没有这个网站的任何信息！从技术层面上来讲，因该是我的网站的点击率不够高！所以努力网站做好吧！但是又想了想，人们会在G上搜索jianhualee关键字吗？基本上不会的，如果人们知道jianhualee了，就没有必要在G上搜索了，除非人们想知道我网站的数据量，呵呵！所以通过这些信息我又得到了一个反馈，我的网站是专注于FLASH AS的，所以我的目标是在G上搜索 FLASH 或者AS，我的网站会出现在首页，哈哈！很伟大的想法啊！

最近李开复博士的辞职对互联网的影响很大啊，毕竟是他把GOOGLE这么好的东西带到中国，就像他刚开始在中国创建亚洲研究一样，让我们有机会接触天才工程师们设计出来的产品。呵呵～～
他最近有本书要上市了—-《世界因你不同》，官方时间为09-15，有时间去书店买一本，呵呵！刚刚在网上搜了一下索引，快速的扫描了一下，很棒的，现在我就在这里粘贴一下里面的我认为相对有价值的东西（其实都很有价值）！
1苹果公司的副总裁戴夫·耐格尔对我说的话，他举着一杯透亮的自酿葡萄酒对我发出邀约： 开复，你是想一辈子写一堆像废纸一样的学术论文呢？还是想用产品改变世界？（这句话让我想起了乔布斯邀请百事可乐的高管是说的话，你是想改变世界还是想卖一辈子碳酸饮料，哈哈，苹果就是牛啊！挖墙角的风格这么统一，怪不得产品的用户体验永远是一流的“）
2在这个 平坦的世界 里，Google用自己的正直、谦和、天才的创意以及商业社会少有的自尊赢得了世界互联网用户的心，也曾经带给我一种幸福的归属感.
3什么，你开玩笑？世界上还有更好的工作吗？
4Lead your life not Live your life
5我恍然大悟，原来坐在教室右后方的角落里，总是戴着一个大帽子睡觉的那位，就是如今的美国总统奥巴马啊。而当时的我，总是坐在教室的左后方睡觉。
6我知道，这样的求婚对你来说有点突然，我们的年龄也比较小。但是我已经认定你了，我相信你也认定我了。所以， 我顿了顿说： 你愿意嫁给我，让我成为世界上最快乐的男人吗？ 电话那一头几乎是沉默的半分钟，后来我听到了一声 愿意 。后来，她告诉我，她感动地哭了。
7这样传奇的一个学校，竟然看中了我，我一时不敢相信这是真的。来到卡内基·梅隆，我终于感觉到了天外有天，我还以为自己是最厉害的编程高手，哪知道卡内基·梅隆大学的博士生们，早已在玩着更帅的技术。
8我不同意你，但是我支持你
9公司创办初期，乔布斯曾在楼顶悬挂一面巨大的海盗旗，向世人宣称：我就是与众不同
10一些被裁的员工回来游行了，但他们不是抗议被裁，而是为公司加油！他们拿着类似 生为苹果人，死为苹果鬼 的标语，流着眼泪说， 我们流出的血也是六个颜色的 。
11我们一想到这个技术如果实现会有多酷，就激动不已。但是，我们并没有想到用户到底需要三维来做什么。可以说，我们犯了一个工程师最容易犯的错误，为了自己的技术而牺牲了用户真正的需要。(说的太对了，现在的FLASH3D技术很流行，但是主流的开源PV3D引擎效率简直没法和那个不开源的日本动物园引擎无法比拟，而且，3D的效果确实是好看，但是牺牲的是一部分的用户体验)
12聪明人与聪明人在一起，会变得更聪明，随之吸引的聪明人就越多，重力场也会变得越来越大。
13白板文化代表着一种开放的精神。它意味着每个人都是平等的，每个人的想法都可以大胆地说出来、写出来，而且允许犯错误，因为白板上的字是很容易抹去的。它更意味着一种团队精神，每个人都不是封闭的，你的思想可以建立在别人的灵感上。
14它开始训练所有的高级员工，不可以说捆绑，只能说整合创新、用户价值等词。
15灾难 Windows Vista全部重写！
16所有能被邀请去谷歌面试的人，都已经被贴上了 聪明人 的标签。毫无疑问，我的首要任务就是把这种招聘风格带到中国，吸引全中国的计算机人才。
17我想，对于天才工程师们来说，最有吸引力的制度，无疑是让他们的天分得以发挥的制度
FOLLOW YOUT HEART
2009-09-08-01-36

这本书是我在高二的时候看的，充分的利用了上课的时间！到现在我都认为我的时间分配是正确的，正确的时间读正确的书,远比我被动的接收中国式的教育要好！最近遇到一点困扰，希望它还能带给我能量！
1、拥有奶酪，就拥有幸福！

2、奶酪对你越重要，你就越想抓住他！

3、如果你不改变，你就会被淘汰！

4、如果你无所畏惧，你会怎样做呢？

5、经常闻一闻你的奶酪，你就会知道，它什么时候开始变质！

6、朝新的方向前进，你会发现新的奶酪！

7、当你超越了自己的恐惧时，你就会感觉轻松自在！

8、在我发现奶酪之前，想象我正在享受奶酪，这会帮我找到新的奶酪！

9、越早放弃旧的奶酪，你就会越早发现新的奶酪！

10、在迷宫中搜寻比停在没有奶酪的地方更安全！

11、陈旧的信念不会帮助你找到新奶酪！

12、当你发现你会找的新的奶酪并能够享用它时你就会改变你的路线！

13、尽早注意细小的变化，这将有助于你适应即将来临的更大的变化！

唧唧忽然发现，他已经学会自嘲了，而当人们学会自嘲，能够嘲笑自己的愚蠢和所做的错事时，他就在开始改变了。他甚至觉得，改变自己的最快捷的方式，就是坦然嘲笑自己的愚笨，这样，你就能对过往云烟轻松释然，迅速行动起来，直面变化。

唧唧不断地反思自己过去犯下的错误，他要汲取这些经验教训，去构划自己的未来。他知道，自己完全可以通过总结和学习，掌握如何应对变化。

首先，要更清醒的认识到，有时需要简单的看待问题，以及灵敏快速的行动。

你不必把事情过分复杂化，或者一味的让那些惊恐的念头使自己感到慌乱。

其次，必须要善于发现一开始发生的那些细微的变化，以便你为即将来临的更大的变化做好准备。

他知道，他需要做出更快的调整，因为，如果不能及时调整自己，就可能永远找不到属于自己的奶酪。

还有一点必须承认，那就是阻止你发生改变的最大的制约因素就是你自己。只有自己发生了改变，事情才会开始好转。

最重要的是，新奶酪始终总是存在于某个地方，不管你是否已经意识到了它的存在，只有当你克服了自己的恐惧念头，并且勇于走出久已习惯的生活，去享受冒险带来的喜悦的时候，你才会得到新奶酪带给你报偿和奖赏。

唧唧还认识到，有些畏惧是需要加以认真对待的，它会帮助你避开真正的危险。但绝大部分的恐惧都是不明智的，它们只会在你需要改变的时候，使你回避这种改变。

唧唧曾经那样地惧怕改变，他真的希望生活能够永远按照原有的样子继续，但现在他意识到，生活并不会遵从某个人的愿望发展。改变随时有可能降临，但积极地面对改变却会让你发现更好的奶酪，真的是塞翁失马，焉知非福。
（2009-09-21-22-34）（来自GOOGLE SITES）

我最开始了解李开复博士是从我使用GOOGLE开始的,我一直都是一个铁杆的GOOGLE迷,所有就搜索了一些他的资料,千篇一律的内容无非就是介绍他的从业经历,不过这些经历足可以让一个程序员疯掉,啊哈哈!偶像啊!说实话,,黄种人能做到这样很不容易了(当然唐骏也很厉害,哈哈,不过感觉他的情商要高于他的智商,可惜了他这个工程师啊,现在没有做开发的工作,当然了,不是底层的,呵呵,看看BILL吧,,最后他选择的还是架构师,呵呵!).他在谷歌的4年里给中国用户带来了不少的好产品,这也是我们的福气啊!相对来说比较细致的了解李开复博士是从今年的5月份吧,好朋友送我一本李开复博士写的书<<BE YOUR PERSONAL BEST>>中文为<<做最好的自己>>,拜读了两遍,呵呵,说些的非常中肯,值得学习的地方很多,他的这种思维方式是很”程序员’的那种,啊哈哈!书中说到,自己上学的时候是学的法律,后来不敢兴趣,放弃了很多东西然后专注于计算机,天啊,我读懂到这里都快激动的不行了,我也是不愿意学习旅游才退学的,之后接触了计算机,哈哈!现在看到李开复博士说到”每当我想到我将迈出的一步，我就会想起苹果创始人乔布斯的名言：“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。任何其它事物都是次要的。””说的太好了!相信自己的直觉!
最后转一下李开复博士对他所工作过的公司的理解吧!
苹果（公司）是不惜血本的为了用户体验可以牺牲一切，而且是要靠大老板拍脑袋想出的天才点子，大家跟着他走；微软是一个航空母舰，能够把最多的上万个工程师组织起来，让他们做一个非常困难的非常大的软件，比如说像视窗，然后做什么都要做成第一；谷歌我觉得是一个非常迅速的互联网公司，能够用最快的速度最少的人，做出最有创意的产品，然后一定是把用户放在第一位。”
哎呀,又02:00了,睡觉了!（来自GOOGLE）