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基礎被動語態

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities

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.

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.

My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me

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

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?”

My biological mother found out later 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

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

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

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.

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.

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be

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

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.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.

But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came

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

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 backward 10 years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking

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.

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 4,000 employees.

We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just

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.

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

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.

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.