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第一篇：小喬布斯thomas_suarez英語演講稿ted
小喬布斯thomas suarez英語演講稿ted
hello everyone，my name is thomas suarez. i've always had a fascination for computers and technology, and i made a few apps for the iphone, ipod touch and ipad. i’d like to share a couple with you today; my first step was a unique fortune terror called earth fortune, that explain different codes of earth depending on what your fortune was, my favorite and most successful app is bustin jieber, which is the justin bieber wac more, i created it because a lot of people at school dislike justin bieber a little bit, so i decided to make the app, so i went to work programming it and i really suggest for holidays in 2014.
大家好，我叫托馬斯·斯沃斯，我一直以來對計算機技術着迷。我就給iphone、ipod touch、ipad做了一些應用程序，今天我就來給大家展示幾個。第一個應用叫做地球算命，它根據你的運勢來改變地球的顏色。我最有名、最成功的應用程序是比斯汀.賈伯，它是一個惡搞賈斯汀·比伯程序。這是因為在我的學校裏，許多人有點不喜歡賈斯汀·比伯。所以我就開始做了這個應用了，開始編程，並在2014年的暑假推出了我的作品。
a lot of people asked me: how did i make(請關注) this, a lot of time just because the person you ask a question wants to make an app also, a lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them and it’s difficult. because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. i mean for soccer you could go to a soccer team, for violin you could get lessons for violin, but what if you want to make an app and kid’s parents might have done these things when they were young, but not many parents made apps. where would you go to find out how to make an app, while this is how i approached, this is what i did.
許多人問我，我是怎麼做出這些東西來的？大多數情況下，問我這個問題的人也想做一個應用程序試試。現在有許多孩子曾喜歡玩遊戲，現在他們可以自己創作遊戲了，這很難，因為大多數孩子不知道去哪裏學編程。我是説，如果你想學足球，你可以加入一個足球隊，如果學拉小提琴，你可以去興趣班。如果想做應用程序，你該怎麼辦呢？父母一般叫孩子們做一些事，但是有多少父母會編程呢？你去哪裏可以學到編程呢？以下就是我怎麼做到的，這就是我做的。
first of all, i’ve been programming in multiple other programs just get the basics down, such as python, c, java etc. and then apple released the iphone and with the iphone soft developing, and software development kit is a swift tool for creating and programming an iphone app. this opened up a whole new world possibilities for me, and after playing with the soft developing a little bit i made a couple apps and made some test apps, one of them happen to be earth fortune was ready to put fortune on the app store, and so i persuaded my parents to pay the 99-dollar-fee to be able to put my app on the app stock. they agreed and now my apps are on the app store.
首先，我先學了另外的編程，作為基礎，比如python、c語言、java編程。不久蘋果公司推出了iphone和iphone軟件開發工具包。iphone軟件開發工具包是一個給iphone編寫應用程序的很好的工具。這給我帶來了發現新世界一般的可能性，我在小小地玩了一下iphone軟件開發工具包之後，我就做了幾個應用，並作了測試，其中之一就是地球算命。我很想把我的地球算命放上蘋果的應用商店，我就説服我父母去支付進入蘋果應用超市所需的99美元。結果他們同意了，我的應用上線了。
i’ve got a lot interesting encouragement for my family friends teachers and even people of the app store, that’s been a huge chap for me, i’ve got a lot of inspiration from steve jobs, as started the app club at the school and a teacher my school is kindly sponsoring my app club, any students on my school can come and design, learn how to design an app. this is all i can share my experience with others.
我得到了來自我的家庭、朋友、老師，甚至是蘋果應用超市的工作人員的鼓勵，他們對我有了很大的影響。我從喬布斯身上得到了許多靈感，我在學校裏組建了蘋果俱樂部。老師對我的俱樂部做出了積極地響應。 在我的學校裏，每個人都可以來我的俱樂部裏學習如何編寫應用程序。這就是我與他人分享經驗的方式。
there are these programs called the ipad pallid program, and some districts have them. i’m fortunate to be part of one; a big challenge is how should the ipad be used on what apps shall we put on the ipads. so we’re getting feedback from teachers at this school to see what kind of apps they like when we design the app and we sell it, it would be free to local districts and other districts we sell to. all the money from that goes to local foundations, these days students usually know a little
bit more than teachers with the technology, so, sorry, this is the resource of the teachers and educators should recognize this resource and make good use of it.
有一種叫ipad平板電腦編程的組織，有些區裏有這類的組織，我有幸成為他們當中的一員。我最大的挑戰是怎麼利用ipad，我們應該給ipad做什麼樣的程序。我們在學校裏向老師做了反饋信息調查，看看他們喜歡什麼樣的應用程序。在我們設計好後，我們出售那些應用。本地區的用户可以免費獲得，別的地區的用户收費。從中的利潤會投入到當地基金會中。現在，學生們，在技術方面，通常會比老師們懂得多。如此看來...對不起，這是老師們的資源，教育工作者應該好好認識並利用它。
i’d like to finish up by saying what i like to do in the future. first of all i’d like to create more apps, more games. i’m working with a third party company to make an app. i’d like to get into android programming and development, and i’d like to continue my app club and find other ways for students to share knowledge with others. thank you.
ted演講是由ted從每年1000人的俱樂部變成了一個每天10萬人流量的社區。為了繼續擴大網站的影響力，ted還加入了社交網絡的功能，以連接一切“有志改變世界的人”。從2014年起，ted演講的視頻被上傳到網上。截至2014年4月，ted官方網站上收錄的ted演講視頻已達650個，有逾五千萬的網民觀看了ted演講的視頻。
ted是一下三個英文單詞的首字母大寫
【t】technology技術 【e】entertainment娛樂 【d】design設計它是美國的一傢俬有非盈利機構，該機構以它組織的ted大會著稱。the theme of the ted：ideas worth spreading.
ambulance 救護車 ——俺不能死；ponderous 肥胖的 ——胖的要死；pest害蟲——拍死它；ambition雄心——俺必勝；admire羨慕——額的媽呀
第二篇：從喬布斯演講看如何寫作英語演講稿
從喬布斯演講看如何寫作英語演講稿
無論在學習還是工作中，我們都會接觸或用到各類英語演講，小到課堂作業和工作彙報，大到會議發言和職位競選。那麼如何才能打造一篇精彩的英語演講稿呢？下面蘇州英語培訓的沃爾得小編就以喬布斯2014年斯坦福大學畢業演講稿為範本來具體剖析一下英語演講稿的寫作要點，幫助大家瞭解其基本寫作要領。
結構清楚，邏輯清晰
由於公共演講的聽眾一般有數十人甚至數百、數千人，再加上演講環境的不確定性（比如觀眾的歡呼或者抱怨），演講者最好在進入主題之後馬上給出所講內容的框架結構，使聽眾能跟隨演講者的思路，更好地預判整個演講內容，以達到良好的演講效果。比如，喬布斯在2014年斯坦福大學畢業典禮上的演講中，開篇稍微寒暄之後就進入正題：“today i want to tell you three stories from my life. that’s it. no big deal. just three stories.”聽眾馬上能對演講內容做出預判——今天會聽到喬布斯談三點，然後他們會關注具體是哪三點。這種演講就具備了“以觀眾為中心”的特質。喬布斯在隨後的演講中分別提到，“the first story is about connecting the dots.”“my second story is about love and loss.”“my third story is about death.”由於演講思路非常明晰，聽眾在聽完之後也會記憶猶新。
當然，演講稿在結構方面的邏輯順序有許多種，喬布斯的這篇演講是按照話題順序和時間順序來安排的。除此之外，還有空間順序，“提出問題——分析問題——解決問題”的順序等。大家可以根據不同演講內容的需要來安排自己演講稿的邏輯順序和整體結構。
開篇出彩，吸引聽眾
演講稿的開篇往往需要花費大量的功夫去設計。在寫作開篇時，演講者需要結合聽眾特點、演講場合和演講主題等因素，爭取在一開始就緊緊抓住聽眾的注意力和興趣。下面蘇州英語培訓的沃爾得就介紹一下基本的演講開篇模式，供大家以後寫作演講稿參考。
演講稿開篇的目的是吸引聽眾。喬布斯在他的演講稿開篇使用的是“關聯話題與聽眾”的方式。這是一種比較有效的方法，因為人們一般對自己的事情都很關注，和自己相關的事情也會格外留意。喬布斯在演講開篇説道：“i am 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.”高度讚美斯坦福大學——這就是在與聽眾發生關聯。喬布斯就是通過這種方式讓聽眾一開始就對自己產生好感或對自己的演講內容產生興趣。當然，喬布斯還用了適當的幽默，更好地融洽了與聽眾的關係。
除了喬布斯的這種開篇方式外，我們還需要了解和掌握其他一些開篇方式：①指出演講話題的重要性。比如要做一場關於“英語演講的藝術”的演講，演講者在一開始就可以指出該演講對於聽眾今後的學習、工作將會有很大幫助，甚至可以給出一些數據和實例，讓聽眾明白不聽這個演講將會是一個損失，這樣聽眾就會樂於認真聽演講了。②使聽眾感到震驚。例如要做一場關於“生活方式與疾病”的演講，開篇就可以給出一組極具衝擊力的數據，讓聽眾看到生活方式不健康將會產生多麼可怕的後果，這樣的震驚能夠使聽眾快速調整狀態，投入到聽演講中去。③引起聽眾的好奇心。演講者可以在開篇指出一種特別的現象，聽眾出於好奇就會認真聽演講，想知道演講者如何分析或解釋。④向觀眾提問。演講者可以在開篇提出一個問題，這樣可以引發聽眾的思考，也會引導他們去聽演講者如何解答問題。此外，也可以在開篇引用一段
名言，或是講述一個故事等，這些基本的開篇方式被無數的演講證明是實用而且有效的。
觀點明確，支撐有效
毫無疑問，在演講稿中，主體段的信息量最大，寫作量也最大。如何清晰地闡釋演講者的觀點或演講要點，如何用相關事實有效地支撐演講者的各個論點或要點，是演講稿主體段寫作時應該把握的關鍵。喬布斯在斯坦福大學的畢業演講中明確給出了三個要點：① the first story is about connecting the dots. ② my second story is about love and loss. ③ my third story is about death.為了清晰、有效地闡述自己想要表達的這三個要點，他運用了以下三種手段：首先是舉例子。喬布斯在演講中用了大量的事例來説明他怎麼對待學習、工作和死亡。比如他説自己讀書時旁聽有意思的書法課程，這些課在當時對他沒什麼實質幫助，但是十年後在當他設計第一款macintosh電腦的時候，這些東西全派上了用場，這個例子充分説明了他演講的第一個要點——串起生命中的點滴。另一個手段是引用。喬布斯在演講中引用了一些名言警句來闡述自己的觀點。比如在講到死亡時，他引用了一句格言：“if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”這句話表明了他對於生命和死亡的看法，使聽眾印象深刻。第三個手段是數據支持。在講第二個故事——關於愛和失去時，喬布斯用了一系列數據來支撐自己的觀點。他説自己是幸運的，因為“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’d just released our finest creation—the
macintosh—a year earlier, and i’d just turned 30.”數據很直觀，能讓聽眾更直接地認識和理解演講內容。
結尾有“道”，畫龍點睛
演講的結尾往往需要起到“畫龍點睛”的作用，要儘量做到意味深長、啟發思考。開篇和正文再好，如果結尾過於平淡，整個演講的精彩程度也會大打折扣。那麼如何做到結尾有“道”呢？首先我們來看看喬布斯的這篇演講稿，他的結尾比開篇更加出彩，採用的是“引文結尾”的方式，達到了引人深思的效果。他在結尾説道：“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.”喬布斯不僅在演講結尾引用了這句“stay hungry. stay foolish”（求知若渴，虛懷若谷），而且重複三遍，強化了聽眾的印象。這句話後來也被廣泛傳播，被譽為該篇演講的精髓。
除了喬布斯這種“引文結尾”的方式，常見的演講結尾方式還有如下幾種：①總結演講。對演講中的各個論點或要點進行簡單總結和梳理，加深聽眾的印象。②強有力的陳述。這種方式不同於引用他人之言，往往是演講者自己的總結和心聲。一個非常經典的例子是patrick
henry的演講“liberty or death”。他在結尾時説道：“is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? forbid it, almighty god! i know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”③首尾呼應。在演講結尾對開篇提到的主題和重點進行重新闡述，這是體現演講內在統一性的經典形式，值得借鑑。
為了更加有效地掌握文中講到的寫作演講稿的要點，作為蘇州商務英語培訓的沃爾得建議大家做到以下三點：①多看。多看一些演講素材，比如名人演講、演講比賽優秀選手的演講等，積累大量的一手素材；也有必要閲讀一些關於英語公共演講的書籍，筆者在此推薦
stephen e. lucas的《演講的藝術》（the art of public speaking）一書。②多想。學會分析這些演講之所以精彩的原因，可以從筆者上面講的幾點入手分析。③多練。在有了一定的積累之後，要大量練習寫作演講稿，話題可以從日常學習和工作中選取，這樣練習起來會更有興趣和成就感。
第三篇：小喬布斯thomas suarez英語演講稿ted
小喬布斯thomas suarez英語演講稿ted
hello everyone，my name is thomas suarez. i a fascination for computers and technology, and i made a few apps for the iphone, ipad touch and ipad. i’d like to share a couple with you today; my first step was a unique fortune terror called earth fortune, that explain different codes of earth depending on what your fortune was, my favorite and most successful app is bustin jieber, which is the justin bieber wac more, i created it because a lot of people at school dislike justin bieber a little bit, so i decided to make the app, so i went to work programming it and i really suggest for holidays in 2014.
a lot of people asked me: how did i make this, a lot of time just because the person you ask a question wants to make an app also, a lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them and it’s difficult. because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. i mean for soccer you could go to a soccer team, for violin you could get lessons for violin, but what if you want to make an app and kid’s parents might have done these things when they were young, but not many parents made apps.
where would you go to go to find out how to make an app, while this is how i perched, this is what i did, first of all, i’ve been programming in multiple other programs just get the basics down, such as the piesound see job etc. and then apple released the iphone and with the iphone soft develming, and is a sweet of tools for creating and programming an iphone app. this opened up a whole new world possibilities for me, and after playing with the soft divelming a little bit i made a couple apps and made some test apps, one of them happen to be earth fortune was ready to put fortune on the apps store, and so i
persuaded my parents to pay the 99-dollar-fee to be able to put my app into the app stock. they agreed and now i on the app stock.
i’ve got a lot interesting encouragement for my family friends teachers and even people of the app store, that’s been a huge chap to me, i’ve got a lot of inspiration from steve jobs, as started the app club at school and a teacher my school is kindly sponsary my app club, any students on my school can come and design, learn how to design an app. this is all i can share my experience with others.
there is the program called the ipad pallid program, and some districts have them. i’m fortunate to be part of one; a big challenge is how should the ipad be used on what apps shall we put on the ipads. so we’re getting feedback from teachers at this school to see what kind of apps they like when we design the app and we sell it, it would be free to local districts and other districts that we sell to or the money from that local foundations, these
days students usually know a little bit more than teachers with the technology, so, sorry, this is the resource of the teachers and educators should recognize these resources and made good use of it.
i’d like to finish up by saying what i like to do in the future. first of all i’d like to create more apps , more games. i’m working with the third party company to make an app. i’d like to get into android programming and development, and i’d like to continue my app club and find other ways for students to share knowledge with others.
thank you
第四篇：喬布斯演講稿
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.沒有人願意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那裏而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點。從來沒有人能夠逃脱它。也應該如此。 因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現在是新的, 但是從現在開始不久以後, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然後被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性, 但是這十分的真實。
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 other's 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.
你們的時間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費在重複其他人的生活上。不要被教條束縛,那意味着你和其他人思考的結果一起生活。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點掩蓋你真正的內心的聲音。還有最重要的是, 你要有勇氣去聽從你直覺和心靈的指示——它們在某種程度上知道你想要成為什麼樣子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。
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.
當我年輕的時候, 有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發聵的雜誌，它是我們那一代人的聖經之一。它是一個叫stewart brand的傢伙在離這裏不遠的menlo park書寫的, 他象詩一般神奇地將這本書帶到了這個世界。那是六十年代後期, 在個人電腦出現之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機,、剪刀還有偏光鏡製造的。有點像用軟皮包裝的google, 在google出現三十五年之前：這是理想主義的， 其中有許多靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。
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.
stewart和他的夥伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”,當它完成了自己使命的時候, 他們做出了最後一期的目錄。那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時代。在最後一期的封底上是清晨鄉村公路的照片（如果你有冒險精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的），在照片之下有這樣一段話：“保持飢餓,保持愚蠢。”這是他們停止了發刊的告別語。“保持飢餓,保持愚蠢。”我總是希望自己能夠那樣,現在, 在你們即將畢業，開始新的旅程的時候, 我也希望你們能這樣： stay hungry. stay foolish.
保持飢餓，保持愚蠢。
thank you all very much.
非常感謝你們。
第五篇：喬布斯演講稿
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steve jobs
ceo, apple and pixar animation
thank you.
i’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest university in the world.
truth to 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 stay around as a drop-in for another eighteen months also 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 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’ve got an unexpected baby boy. do you want him?” they said, “of course.” my biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and 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 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 parent’s savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months i couldn’t see the value in it. i have no idea what i want 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 far more 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 five-cent deposits to buy food with and i would work the seven miles across the 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 beautiful hand use i have 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 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 space fonts, and since windows copied the mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have i had never dropped out, i would never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computer 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 10 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, you 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 would make all the difference.
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 worked hard and in ten years, apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage in to a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we just released our finest creation, he macintosh, a year earlier, and i’d just turned thirty, 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 when 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, and so at thirty, i was out, and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life 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 he 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 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’d been rejected but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over. i didn’t see that then , but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the happiness 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 in 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 became my wife. pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-aninated feature film “ toy story”, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, and i returned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple’s current renaissance, and lorene and i have a wonderful family together. i am pretty sure none of this world have happened if i hadn’t been fired from apple. it was awful-tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it. sometime life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith. i’ 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 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 and 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, don’t settle.
my third story is about death. when i was seventeen, 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 thing i’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. because almost everything, all external expectation, all pride, all fear of embarrassment of failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. remembering what 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 e 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 shower a tumor 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 doctors’ code for “prepare to die”. it means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next ten years to tell them in just a few months. it means to make sure that 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 on endoscope down my throat, through my stomach 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 they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor 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 , thankfully , i am fine now. this was the closest i’ve been to facing death, and i hope it’s the closest i get for a few more decades. having lived through it, i can now say this to you with a bit more certainly 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’s life’s change agent, it clear out the old and 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’s 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 drawn out your owner inner voice. and most important is 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 amazing publication called the whole earth catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. it was created by a fellow named stuart brand not far from here in menlo park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch, this was in the late sixties, 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, thirty-five years before google came along, it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great motions, stuart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue, it was the mid-seventies, 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 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 a new, i wish that for you, “stay hungry, stay foolish”.
thank you all, very much.
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