Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

求知若饑，虛心若愚

—— 喬布斯 2005 年在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

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.

因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)退學(xué)了，不用正常上課，所以我決定去上書(shū)法課，學(xué)習(xí)怎么寫(xiě)出一手好字。

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

這門(mén)學(xué)問(wèn)在我的實(shí)際生活中毫無(wú)施展的余地。

But ten years later, when we were designing the f?irst Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

但 10 年后，在設(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái)麥金塔電腦時(shí)，這些知識(shí)又回到了我的腦海中。

And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the f?irst 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 fonts4 .

我們把它融入了 Mac 電腦的設(shè)計(jì)中，打造出了第一臺(tái)擁有漂亮字體版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。如果我沒(méi)在大學(xué)里隨興旁聽(tīng)這一門(mén)課程，那么 Mac 電腦就不會(huì)有那么多種字體版式，也不會(huì)有合理安排的字距。

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.

當(dāng)然，大學(xué)時(shí)的我不可能看到這些點(diǎn)和點(diǎn)之間的串聯(lián)，但 10 年后回頭看，這種串聯(lián)一目了然。

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

求知若饑，虛心若愚。

Be Honest with Yourself and the World

對(duì)自己和世界誠(chéng)實(shí)

—— 雪莉?桑德伯格 2014 年在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don’t try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong. You will miss big opportunities and I mean big, like the Internet.

從你們今天的位置到未來(lái)的目標(biāo)之間，并沒(méi)有一條筆直的路。不要試圖把那條線(xiàn)畫(huà)出來(lái)，你不僅會(huì)畫(huà)錯(cuò)，還會(huì)錯(cuò)過(guò)很多重大機(jī)遇，比如互聯(lián)網(wǎng)。

Careers are not ladders—those days are long gone—but jungle gyms. Don’t just move up and down. Don’t just look up. Look backwards, sideways,around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don’t stress out about the white space, the path you can’t draw, because therein lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

職業(yè)發(fā)展不再是階梯式上升，那樣的時(shí)代早已過(guò)去，如今更像是攀爬架。不要只是上下移動(dòng)，也不要只是抬頭向前。要回頭看，觀(guān)察四周，探索角落。事業(yè)和生活會(huì)有潮起潮落，也會(huì)有曲折迂回。不要為留白和繪不出的路徑而焦慮，因?yàn)槟抢锾N(yùn)藏著意外之喜和無(wú)限可能。

We need to see the truth and speak the truth.

我們應(yīng)當(dāng)看到真相，說(shuō)出真相。

Never Surrender to Complexity

永遠(yuǎn)不要向復(fù)雜低頭

—— 比爾?蓋茨 2007 年在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with. All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our heart, and yet we did nothing—not because we didn’t care, but because we didn’t know what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have acted.

我相信，我們?cè)诤醯氖虑樘嗔耍皇遣恢廊绾螌?ài)心轉(zhuǎn)化為行動(dòng)。在座的各位或多或少都目睹過(guò)令人痛心的人類(lèi)悲劇，但什么也沒(méi)做——不是因?yàn)椴辉诤酰且驗(yàn)椴恢涝撟鍪裁?。如果知道如何提供幫助，我們都?huì)行動(dòng)起來(lái)。

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

阻礙改變的，不是關(guān)心不夠，而是復(fù)雜過(guò)頭。

It’s Time to Take an Adventure

是時(shí)候去冒險(xiǎn)了

—— 埃隆?馬斯克 2014 年在南加州大學(xué)馬歇爾商學(xué)院畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

I think the first is, you need to work. If you, depending on how well you want to do, particularly if you want to start a company, you need to work super hard.

第一點(diǎn)，你們需要工作。如果想做出點(diǎn)成績(jī)，特別是想要?jiǎng)?chuàng)業(yè)，就需要拼命工作。

The other thing I’d say is that if you’re creating a company, or if you’re joining a company, the most important thing is to attract great people.

第二點(diǎn)，不管是創(chuàng)辦一家公司，還是加入一家公司，吸納優(yōu)秀人才都是最重要的。

Then, I’d say focus on signal over noise.

第三點(diǎn)，要關(guān)注本質(zhì)的信號(hào)，屏蔽表面的喧囂。

And then the final thing is, don’t just follow the trend.

最后一點(diǎn)，不要盲目跟風(fēng)。

Always Have a Dream

永不放棄夢(mèng)想

—— 貝拉克?奧巴馬 2009 年在亞利桑那州立大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

I come to aff?irm that one’s title, even a title like President of the United States, says very little about how well one’s life has been led—that no matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

我來(lái)到這里，就是想告訴大家，一個(gè)人的頭銜，即使這個(gè)頭銜是美國(guó)總統(tǒng)，并不能說(shuō)明一個(gè)人的一生如何了不起。不管你取得了多少成績(jī)，不管你多么成功，總會(huì)有更多的事情等待你去做，有更多的東西等待你去學(xué)，有更多的成就等待你去取得。

That’s what building a body of work is all about—it’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy.

這才是打造生命之作的真實(shí)含義——它就是我們?nèi)粘５墓ぷ?，是眾多個(gè)人的行為，是我們長(zhǎng)期積累下來(lái)的大大小小的選擇，是我們一生的積累，是我們留下的永久的遺產(chǎn)。

That’s what you want on your tombstone. It’s about not being satisf?ied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star—because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished.

那是你想要銘刻在你墓碑上的東西。它不是滿(mǎn)足于目前的成就，哪怕是最新、最炫目的成就——因?yàn)?，?jù)我所知，生命之作是永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)結(jié)束的。

It’s cumulative; it deepens and expands with each day that you give your best, each day that you give back and contribute to the life of your community and your nation.

它是日積月累的。每天，當(dāng)你竭盡全力，當(dāng)你回報(bào)社會(huì)和國(guó)家，為社會(huì)和國(guó)家做貢獻(xiàn)，你的生命之作就會(huì)變得更加深厚、更加豐富。

You may have setbacks, and you may have failures, but you’re not done—you’re not even getting started, not by a long shot.

你也許會(huì)遇到挫折，你也許會(huì)遇到失敗，但你不會(huì)倒下——因?yàn)槟闵踔吝€沒(méi)有開(kāi)始，你離成功還很遠(yuǎn)。