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11 mars Apple创始人Steve Jobs于2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲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. 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. This was the start in my life.
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 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 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, it’s 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. Because believing in the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when they leave you off the well-worn path. 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 world’s 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. 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 thankfully I'm 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 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.
30 novembre 哈佛大学图书馆凌晨4点1.现在睡觉的话会做梦 而现在学习的话会让梦实现
2.我无所事事地度过的今天是昨天死去的人们所奢望的明天 3.感到晚了的时候其实是最快的时候 4.不要把今天的事拖到明天 5.学习的痛苦是一时的 而没有学习的痛苦是一辈子的 6.学习不是人生的全部 但连学习都征服不了 你还能做什么? 7.学习不是因为缺少时间而是缺少努力 8.所有人的成功都不是偶然的 9.无法避免的痛苦就去享受吧! 10.早起的鸟儿有虫吃 11.成功并不属于每个人 12.时间在流逝 13.今天流下的口水将变成明天流下的泪水 14.像狗一样学习 15.如果今天不走的话 明天就要跑 16.为未来投资的人是对现实忠实的人 17.学历就是金钱 18.今天度过的一天明天就找不回来了 19.即使现在这一瞬间对手的书桌还堆满了书 20.No pains no gains世上没有后悔药 坦白承认,即使是当了老师以后,时不时教导学生应该怎样怎样的时候,这些道理我也没有真正理解,顶多是在受了些许刺激后努力很短的一段时间罢了......生活是我们自己选择的衣裳,也许我从来不清楚什么才是我想要的幸福,只是把“现在、当下”当成幸福,是安贫乐道还是不思进取呢? 7 novembre 十一山西照片整理完毕从山西回来也有一个月了,今天终于完成了这项伟大的事业。去的地方比较多,照片也多,再加上我们四个人带了三个相机,我们三个带相机的又都喜欢照啊照的,造成我的工作量较大,呼呼~~~
山西景点太分散,那几天感觉光坐车了。累,游记流水帐 :
10月2号:大同,云岗石窟——上下华严寺(其中上华严寺,严重强烈不推荐,什么都没有简直是骗钱,still气愤中)——善化寺 10月3号:恒山——悬空寺(可惜队伍排的太长,没进去,遗憾),晚上到太原。
10月4号:平遥古城——乔家大院(People Mountain,People Sea)
10月5号:晋祠(正赶上前面的晋祠公园搞菊花展,照了很多pp。晋祠强烈推荐,门票不贵,地方不大,不过很有内容),买不到票晚上返回大同,9点火车回津。
10月6号,早上到津,回家过中秋。
理论上山西应该算是我的老家,虽说我没有在那里生活过,但是那毕竟是我祖辈耕耘过的地方。以前去过五台,一只想再去——这个可以被称之为故乡的地方,拥有中国最多地上文物和丰富煤炭资源的地方。
在晋祠参观董寿平纪念馆,看到老先生写的李白的一句诗,“不知何处是他乡”,突然觉得很悲伤,不知何处是他乡,不知他乡的人多半是回不了故乡的人吧......故乡是和肤色血型一样,一个人不可改变的印记。我们离开然后再回来的地方、回不去的地方叫做故乡。如果有机会,山西,我还会再去的。
P.S.:感谢地主和小溪的帮助,因为有你们,我好安心的,山西真的像家一样了
31 mai 搓麻将的女人(暗喻当今中美俄日关系的油画!)注解一: 画的左上角,是一幅标准像,乍看上去,熟悉又不熟悉,那是孙中山的胡子,蒋介石的光头,毛泽东的五官新组合的标准像。它象征着中国上一百年的历史.中间女子是美国,背后纹着凤凰的女子是中国,侧面正在认真考虑出什么牌的亚洲女为日本,另一个躺着的是俄国.中国女子碰了东风并不意味崛起,只是表达"做东"的意思.而俄国女郎也并不是信心全无的"相公".仔细观察一下她的姿态就会发现,很显然,她是在趁日美不注意,和中国女郎偷换牌.这正是换牌的瞬间,所以她桌上的牌少了一张.而旁边那个拿刀的小女孩,明显发现了这一切.她的视线停留在正准备把牌偷偷塞给俄国女的中国女脸上.美国女人,似乎已从小女孩的表情中发现了什么,小女孩穿件中国传统的肚兜,典型中国文化的影子,却不是中国。 注解二: 日本全裸,无宝可压,急于摊派。 中俄输了胸罩,只剩遮羞布。说明中俄之前的牌对大局无关紧要,根本利益未遭损害。 窜布兜的女孩应是朝鲜半岛,上是朝鲜,下是韩国。朝鲜的刀是核问题,苹果意指核,似有非有,有层果皮包着,谁也看不到。拿到一切,即见分晓!!下身裸露,说明韩国 早已经没有可输的了,完全被美国控制利用。因为朝核问题本来就是美国加强控制韩国的一招!! 俄国跟美国人有一腿,还和中国暗暗换牌,不可信!! 窗外阴云密布,令人窒息!! 美国面上没输光,但是一开始就把自己的根本利益压上了,因为朝核问题就是他的根本利益!! 注解三: 是幅好画,意境较深,穿肚兜拿刀的女孩也可想象为台湾。四国在台湾问题上都有牵扯,美国高高在上、稳抄胜券的样子;日本低头看牌,实则想坐收渔翁之利;俄国看起来和中国是一边的(在车臣等问题上和中国利益交换),但又和美国有一腿(西方的价值观和防范中国强大的共同利益);中国其实比较被动,台湾的眼睛死盯着中国,稍不留神就可能拔刀相象。 15 mai 曲阜三孔这篇游记拖了太久了。在别的地方发过,这里稍有改动,看过的同志们,抱歉了^_^
曲阜是我们齐鲁之行的第一站。所谓三孔是指孔庙、孔府、孔林,5月3号下午半天搞定。
孔庙外面凉亭
随处可见大家题字
注意“玉”字,“点”被树叶挡住了。
点点在上面,是因为过去有 金玉之声的说法,钟磬的声音敲在上部比较好听
(其实就是错字嘛,不过书法大家就无所谓对错了) 注意最左边的字
下面本来应该有个“鬼”字,但是因为是圣人庙,所有妖魔鬼怪这里都无处遁形,所以故
意去掉了。 还是最左边的字
“圣”字上面横,代表天,不过圣人顶天立地,比天还要高,所以这个圣字是倒着写的。
(真想的出来啊!佩服!) 这几个字终于写对了 修复后的石碑,文革期间被毁坏了。
不太清楚,大家注意看
这块石碑本来也是要被毁掉的,但是因为是朱元璋立的,他是无产阶级出身,是造反起家,所以得以保全,红卫兵用红笔在碑上写了一个“留”字。
还有一块石碑,因为题写的人姓党,得以保存。我们这个年纪的人很难想象的10年啊!
杏坛 大成殿的孔子像
传说孔子奇丑无比,眼露白、鼻露孔、唇露齿、耳露廓,大家觉得呢?
走的太快,后面没怎么照照片,可恶的可爱小导游! 孔府
千年何首乌 著名的金光大道,180度内不管从哪个角度看,路都正好从脚下延伸出去,真的,我们都试过了。
锵锵三人行^_^在此感谢zhengzheng和朱哥哥,他们是我们的“团长”和“副团长”(yujinxiang是小队长,我是副队长^_^),朱哥哥还身兼摄影师的重要工作,没有他们就没有这次快乐的旅行。
孔林(注:君主圣贤的墓地才能称之为林)
传说孔子去世时,爱徒子贡正在外地打工,听说恩师病重,日夜赶回,但是还是没有见到最后一面。悲痛之余亲手种下一棵树,后被雷毁,后人立碑纪念之。 孔子墓碑,旁边是儿子的墓,前面是孙子的,所谓“携子抱孙”。
之后我们又逛了逛孔林卖纪念品的小店,什么都没买,纪念品全国各地都差不多的说。
晚上赶到泰安住下,准备4号早上登泰山。
到旅店后,我们又外出寻找传说中著名的山东煎饼卷大葱,大葱没寻着,买了些煎饼。还买了熏鸭,在路边小摊上吃了凉皮、喝了羊汤当作晚饭。回旅馆后,洗漱,之后打了一会双升,zhengzheng师姐竟然从没玩过升级,好在她聪明绝顶马上学会,没有让我们三缺一,并且牌技以惊人的速度长进,让我这个对家受益匪浅,最后我们拨遥遥领先。12点左右睡下,转天要5:30出发,一夜无梦。
6 mai 齐鲁之行5月3日早上5:30,zhengzheng、朱哥哥、yujinxiang、小叮当师徒四人,sorry,更正:一行四人乘大亚旅行社的大巴出发前往山东。6点左右elvaforever等人也乘火车向山东出发了。 zhengzheng、yujingxiang上车后误食小叮当医生的蒙汗药,sorry,再次更正:晕车药,之后她们睡的昏天黑地,没有精神看沿途风景、没有精神说话聊天、没有精神吃零食、当然也没有精神晕车了,呵呵。小叮当精神处于比较兴奋的状态,京沪高速两边草木田地几乎不变的风景也没有使本人有丝毫倦意,再说这里的绿色是永远不会使人觉得单调的。相比之下,天津市里树木的颜色往往暗淡、没有生气,大港宝贵的稀薄的绿色更是一副病态无助的样子,也只有长在旷野中的植物才能有这种自由的光彩吧。 大家普遍睡醒之后,车上开始放电影,是一部叫开心鬼的香港老电影,主演是黄杏秀。以前只在网上见过她当选港姐时的照片,荧幕上的她淡淡的美丽着,曾经的顷城,不知现在在哪里? 9:20,路过黄河大桥,作为一个“北方人”,见过长江,但是我们的母亲河——黄河,这还是第一次见到。河水的浑黄在意料之中,水量之小,却让人大吃一惊。“母亲”老了,还在用她干涸的乳汁哺育子女,如果我们再不注意保护她,那就真是上愧对祖先,下遗祸后代了。再次感受到环境人身上的担子是多么重。给elva发了短信,他们还没到德州呢。^_^ 不到12点,到达曲阜,三孔在等待我们。
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