三人行必有我师 孔子曰“三人行，则必有我师。” 是故弟子不必不如师，师不必贤于弟子。 闻道有先后，术业有专攻，如是而已。 Confucius said "If three men are walking together, one of them is bound to be good enough to be my teacher." A student is not necessarily i
Mr.Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with hi
Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, "This is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it." 许多人认为人应该认命接受生活跑给自己的一切。他们会说：“这就是我的命运，是命中注定的。要改变它我无
An old farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his holy book. One day the grandson asked, "grandpa!
Like my friend Warren Buffet, 就像我的朋友沃伦·布非一样， I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. 我为每天都能做自己热爱的事情而感到无比幸运。 He calls it "tap-dancing to work." 他称之为“踢踏舞工作”。 My
So here’s my final story: 以下是我要说的最后一个故事： On a day like today, 就像今天的某一日， you might feel exhilarated—like you’ve just been shot out of a cannon at the circus—and even invincible. 你们可能感到欣喜若狂,就像你刚从马戏团的大炮口
My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡 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."
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 co
I've always been an optimist 我天生乐观， and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. 坚信人类凭创造力和聪明才智可以让世界日益美妙，这一设想一直根植于我的内心深
My Dad became a professor at uh... Michigan State, 我的父亲后来成了···密歇根州立大学的教授， and I was an incredibly lucky boy. 我是一个非常幸运的孩子。 A professor’s life is pretty flexible, 教授的生活安排是非常有弹性的， and he was able to spen
In fact, there was a fellow. 实际上，有一个同僚。 He was in Omaha, who used to say, he looked with three things in hiring people: integrity, intelligence and energy. 奥哈马市有一位先生说，当他雇人时，他会看三个方面：诚信，智能，和精力。 And he s
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. 我认为,通常追寻雄心万丈的梦想更容易些。 I know that sounds completely nuts. 我知道这听起来完全是一派胡言。 But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have
I had one of those dreams when I was 23. 我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。 When I suddenly woke up, 我猛然惊醒, I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links? 想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎
And then I would throw in a hooker. 然后，我这里再给你们下个跘儿。 I would say that be part of owning 10% of this person, 在你买进10％你的同学的余生时， you have to get rid of, to short 10% of somebody else in the class. 你还要卖出10％
My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二个故事是关于热爱和得失 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 yea
Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dad—all of them. 我们家的所有成员都毕业于密歇根大学:我哥哥、我妈妈和爸爸——我们全家。 My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a half of his d
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, 当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志， which was one of the bibles of my generation. 它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。 It was created by a fell
Well, that’s a short little sermon. 上面我简单地我说了一下我的看法。 So Let's get on with what you’re interested in. 下面就让我们开始谈谈你们所感兴趣的。 And like I say, in go all over. 就像我之前说的那样。 So, I don’t know exactly how we g
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.
My Dad was valedictorian of Flint Mandeville High School class of 1956 for about 90 kids. 我的父亲1956年从弗林特曼德维尔高中毕业，这届大约有90 个学生，他发表了毕业演讲。 I happened across his graduating speech recently, and it blew me a
