痞子英雄2黎明在起 全新續集中，
雨夜搏鬥、飛車狂飆、窄巷械鬥等等精彩動作場面令人應接不暇；跨海大橋爆炸、電磁脈衝炸彈襲擊、城鐵墜落、全城電力中斷諸多「全城陷落」大場面更是氣勢恢宏。很多影迷對上一部系列電影印象深刻，片尾飛機墜落的橋段稱得上是華語動作電影少有的大手筆，不過，這一次續集歸來動作場景全面升級。片方力邀中、美、法、日、泰五國頂級製作團隊加盟，致力打造華語圈共同認可的商業娛樂電影
- Sep 06 Sat 2014 21:01
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痞子英雄2黎明在起 期待10.2. 3D 2D 上映
痞子英雄2黎明在起 全新續集中，
雨夜搏鬥、飛車狂飆、窄巷械鬥等等精彩動作場面令人應接不暇；跨海大橋爆炸、電磁脈衝炸彈襲擊、城鐵墜落、全城電力中斷諸多「全城陷落」大場面更是氣勢恢宏。很多影迷對上一部系列電影印象深刻，片尾飛機墜落的橋段稱得上是華語動作電影少有的大手筆，不過，這一次續集歸來動作場景全面升級。片方力邀中、美、法、日、泰五國頂級製作團隊加盟，致力打造華語圈共同認可的商業娛樂電影
- Dec 30 Mon 2013 15:55
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這次特效動作團隊好強大 痞子英雄二部曲：黎明再起 3D版明年暑假
http://youtu.be/rqnhf48RtGE繼「痞子英雄首部曲之全面開戰」在全亞洲引起熱烈迴響之後，蔡岳勳導演率領中港台美法日澳泰國際團隊，再度挑戰華語電影不可能的任務，這一次，動作場面更震撼、幕後團隊更強大，規格升級的「痞子英雄2」更製作了3D版，宣布定檔明年暑假，企圖帶給觀眾專屬於東方、更具娛樂感的視野震撼，趙又廷、林更新，張鈞甯、修杰楷、關穎、李銘順、古力娜扎，黃渤友情客串，「痞子英雄2」堅強班底回歸，加入新鮮組合，精彩可期。
「痞子英雄2」此次邀請前來合作的國際團隊陣容之堅強，仿佛「八國聯軍」。
以「玩命關頭5」拿到2012世界特技獎，來自好萊塢的動作指導JACK GILL，為「痞子英雄2」設計了公路飛車直升機追逐場面，將令人腎上腺素狂飆，Jack認為：「痞子英雄首部曲是一部非常成功的電影，在續集，我們將整個製作計劃拉到更高的層級，動作規模更大更廣，所有演員無不付出了最大努力，我覺得痞子英雄2一定能在全世界大放光彩」。
曾在「24小時」「玩命關頭」演出的美國華裔演員及武術專家Ron Yuan，精心打造真實感十足，節奏明快，獨樹一幟的武打動作場面，Ron表示：「我們為電影設計了一些非常棒的動作，導演和我都非常希望呈現出高難度、具衝擊性的動作場面，我希望觀眾會喜歡這部電影。」
甫以「一代宗師」獲得第50屆金馬獎視覺特效獎的法國視覺特效公司BUF，成名作品包括「雷神索爾」、「蝙蝠俠：黑暗騎士」、「少年Pi的奇幻漂流」，此次將為「痞子英雄2」製作多場城市毀滅震懾人心的壯觀特效場面，視效總監Fabrice Lagayette表示：「這在台灣是前所未有的創舉，我想強調的是，這真是一部既特別又宏偉非凡的電影」
曾參與制作多部好萊塢及華語大型電影，全球前20大製景師的藝術指導赤塚佳仁Yoshi Akatsuka，作品包括「天台」、「賽德克巴萊」、「金陵十三釵」等，將挑戰現代時尚科技動作風格，展現亞洲電影新樣貌！赤塚先生說：「像痞子英雄2這種大規模的電影，在各種層面上一定會備受矚目的，當中的大場面、大場景，我想一定會為台灣電影帶來影響，我相信一定會是一部讓觀眾十分滿意的作品。」
「大盜五右衛門」服裝造型師，來自澳洲的Vaughan Alexander，也是宇多田光以及碧昂絲巡迴演唱會的御用造型師；港台兩地天王天后最愛的香港造型師Tomas Chan，曾負責過王菲、張惠妹、鄭秀文、蕭亞軒等大牌歌手的演唱會及專輯造型，兩大造型設計師東西風格融合獨特新美學。
「不能說的秘密」泰國電影配樂Terdsak Janpan 從痞子英雄電視劇及首部曲就與蔡岳勳導演合作，此次將嘗試壯闊格局與輕鬆動感的音樂調性。
3D製作為內地制作過「畫皮2」「惡靈古堡4（生化危機4）」的靈動力量，「痞子英雄2」將成為台灣首部大規模動作娛樂3D電影
「痞子英雄2」此次邀請前來合作的國際團隊陣容之堅強，仿佛「八國聯軍」。
以「玩命關頭5」拿到2012世界特技獎，來自好萊塢的動作指導JACK GILL，為「痞子英雄2」設計了公路飛車直升機追逐場面，將令人腎上腺素狂飆，Jack認為：「痞子英雄首部曲是一部非常成功的電影，在續集，我們將整個製作計劃拉到更高的層級，動作規模更大更廣，所有演員無不付出了最大努力，我覺得痞子英雄2一定能在全世界大放光彩」。
曾在「24小時」「玩命關頭」演出的美國華裔演員及武術專家Ron Yuan，精心打造真實感十足，節奏明快，獨樹一幟的武打動作場面，Ron表示：「我們為電影設計了一些非常棒的動作，導演和我都非常希望呈現出高難度、具衝擊性的動作場面，我希望觀眾會喜歡這部電影。」
甫以「一代宗師」獲得第50屆金馬獎視覺特效獎的法國視覺特效公司BUF，成名作品包括「雷神索爾」、「蝙蝠俠：黑暗騎士」、「少年Pi的奇幻漂流」，此次將為「痞子英雄2」製作多場城市毀滅震懾人心的壯觀特效場面，視效總監Fabrice Lagayette表示：「這在台灣是前所未有的創舉，我想強調的是，這真是一部既特別又宏偉非凡的電影」
曾參與制作多部好萊塢及華語大型電影，全球前20大製景師的藝術指導赤塚佳仁Yoshi Akatsuka，作品包括「天台」、「賽德克巴萊」、「金陵十三釵」等，將挑戰現代時尚科技動作風格，展現亞洲電影新樣貌！赤塚先生說：「像痞子英雄2這種大規模的電影，在各種層面上一定會備受矚目的，當中的大場面、大場景，我想一定會為台灣電影帶來影響，我相信一定會是一部讓觀眾十分滿意的作品。」
「大盜五右衛門」服裝造型師，來自澳洲的Vaughan Alexander，也是宇多田光以及碧昂絲巡迴演唱會的御用造型師；港台兩地天王天后最愛的香港造型師Tomas Chan，曾負責過王菲、張惠妹、鄭秀文、蕭亞軒等大牌歌手的演唱會及專輯造型，兩大造型設計師東西風格融合獨特新美學。
「不能說的秘密」泰國電影配樂Terdsak Janpan 從痞子英雄電視劇及首部曲就與蔡岳勳導演合作，此次將嘗試壯闊格局與輕鬆動感的音樂調性。
3D製作為內地制作過「畫皮2」「惡靈古堡4（生化危機4）」的靈動力量，「痞子英雄2」將成為台灣首部大規模動作娛樂3D電影
- Nov 16 Tue 2010 23:08
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國民英雄 12月5日發現真相!
- Sep 07 Tue 2010 03:16
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街角的小王子
【街角的小王子】！角色真摯的情感，讓這部美麗、可愛、舒服又真誠的電影，請大家一定要進戲院看大銀幕，才能完整感受那種非常貼近的情感喔！透過【街角的小王子】，相信大家都會找到自己的幸福感覺～～～～～
- Jun 22 Tue 2010 23:55
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近在咫尺即將出擊！！
- May 11 Tue 2010 21:36
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郭采潔第三張全新專輯《煙火》
三張全新專輯《煙火》，以歌手身分跟大家見面了，在電影和偶像劇都已經闖出一番好成績，她也希望能在歌壇交出代表作，她自己都笑說：“這回進錄音室幾乎是笑著進去哭著出來！”
首波主打歌《煙火》在錄音室尤其錄的久，她解釋說：“因為自己唱歌有一個娃娃音的腔調，錄音時為了避掉娃娃音，我一直把聲音壓的很低在唱，可是怎么唱就是唱不好，心情很沮喪低落！那時候身體也不太好，有點虛弱，不吃肉加上忙著電影《一頁臺北》的宣傳，去看中醫，醫生說我有內傷，特別是肺的下方-橫膈膜受到壓迫，跟唱歌發聲方式錯誤也有關！”《煙火》這首歌相當有挑戰性，唱的讓人聽起來很輕柔但是又要有力量，郭采潔都忍不住自問說：“輕柔和力量不是兩件事嗎？”這首歌的音域也很寬，低的地方很低(副歌”啦啦啦…” )，高的地方又很高(當煙火往下墜…)， 對她唱功是一大考驗，在錄音室光是這一句就唱到要崩潰，因為重復了快600次！最後在知名制作人偉菘老師的幫助下，找到了最對的唱歌位置，讓郭采潔相當開心，直言這是這次錄音的最大收獲，所以當一切錄音結束，聽到《煙火》完整版，郭采潔又忍不住哭了！
這次對於“水女孩”郭采潔的新專輯“煙火”，華納音樂相當重視，集合了所有文藝氣質的創作人，包括偲菘、偉菘、姚若龍、盧廣仲和采潔最欣賞的方大同，都為了郭采潔的專輯增添炫麗的火花！特別是光看到另位兩首催淚歌曲《不過問》和《原諒》，她就淚灑錄音室，大讚歌詞寫的太動人，很容易就讓人融入！郭采潔自己也非常認真，近三個月來不斷的去拜訪老師上發聲課程，她說：“就算要進入宣傳期，我還是希望不要中斷這課程，可以繼續上課！”
正因為郭采潔人氣扶搖直上，廣告一支接一支，再度奠定“廣告小天後”的地位！華納音樂也將傾全力砸重金栽培郭采潔，希望她一步步邁向歌壇小天後的位置！於是這次新專輯特別安排了一個重要任務給她-“天後養成之路”！也就是要郭采潔學習天後們的精髓，讓自己更有實力！
第一，郭采潔將效法天後級的“同門師妹”蔡依林，不斷學習新事物，於是采潔要挑戰她不熟悉的鋼琴，演奏《天空》。第二，向才女也是“金曲歌後”的蔡健雅致敬，以吉他方式演唱《陌生人》，雖然對吉他小有研究，但還是讓采潔緊張萬分。第三，向實力派、唱腔超級有power、渲染力又十足的阿妹看齊，將首度以臺語演唱詮釋Mei姐的《好膽你就來》，采潔聽到這一項任務更是害怕的說：“我怕我唱不出那種味道！壓力好大！”第四，則是向孫燕姿看齊，學習踢 舞，以《綠光》這首歌驗收，讓肢體不協調的郭采潔展現舞藝！在最短的一個月之內挑戰完這四項超級任務，所以盡管結束通告已經晚上10點，采潔還是要到舞蹈教室、音樂教室甚至到錄音室練習，就希望可以一步步完成“天後養成之路”！
- Mar 08 Mon 2010 01:12
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殺手歐陽盆栽
殺手歐陽盆栽 (The Killer Never Kill)
製作 / 影市堂股份有限公司
導演 / 鄭有傑
演員 / 吳建豪、張榕容、豬哥亮、曾志偉
出品 / 影市堂股份有限公司
九把刀小說改編，預計 2010/03 底開拍
製作 / 影市堂股份有限公司
導演 / 鄭有傑
演員 / 吳建豪、張榕容、豬哥亮、曾志偉
出品 / 影市堂股份有限公司
九把刀小說改編，預計 2010/03 底開拍
歐陽盆栽是騙神唯一認證的嫡傳弟子，他博學多聞、通曉人性，種植各類植物是他最大的愛好，且他相信每種植物都有其自我善良的靈魂，他對待植物有如對待朋友一般的照護。如此心地善良的他，卻從事著與自己個性極為違背的工作－殺手。從接下第一筆殺人兇單起，他就下定決心，堅守以極究的騙術，做為他行殺生涯的風格，因為他深信每個人都該有第二次機會。
他認為「誠懇」才是騙術的最高境界，所以，他每次「行殺」都抱持無比誠懇的態度行事，如幫目標假造屍體、製造不存在的意外、讓目標人間蒸發、以另一個身分活下去等，事情都進行的相當順利，直到歐陽盆栽在一次「行殺」時， 他不小心誠懇的放下了真感情，他觸犯了殺手法則的第一條重罪，他愛上了目標小莉。
小莉是個倒楣的酒店小姐，竟被殘暴的黑社會老大冷面佛下了兩次格殺令。儘管危機四伏，歐陽盆栽還是「重生」了小莉兩次，兩人在激烈的肉體交歡中愛上彼此。甜美的愛情使歐陽萌生 退出江湖之意，但就在此時最忌諱被人欺騙的冷面佛發現歐陽讓小莉重生的詭計，勃然大怒的冷面佛對歐陽及小莉發出了格殺令。
操控人性、玩弄騙術、不殺人的「殺手」歐陽盆栽，這麼簡單就死在冷面佛的手裡嗎？行騙天下的歐陽該如何「重生」小莉和自己呢？危機四伏、四面楚歌的他，想起了他心中篤信的宗旨「每件事都有它的代價」…這次他要付出的什麼代價呢？
他認為「誠懇」才是騙術的最高境界，所以，他每次「行殺」都抱持無比誠懇的態度行事，如幫目標假造屍體、製造不存在的意外、讓目標人間蒸發、以另一個身分活下去等，事情都進行的相當順利，直到歐陽盆栽在一次「行殺」時， 他不小心誠懇的放下了真感情，他觸犯了殺手法則的第一條重罪，他愛上了目標小莉。
小莉是個倒楣的酒店小姐，竟被殘暴的黑社會老大冷面佛下了兩次格殺令。儘管危機四伏，歐陽盆栽還是「重生」了小莉兩次，兩人在激烈的肉體交歡中愛上彼此。甜美的愛情使歐陽萌生 退出江湖之意，但就在此時最忌諱被人欺騙的冷面佛發現歐陽讓小莉重生的詭計，勃然大怒的冷面佛對歐陽及小莉發出了格殺令。
操控人性、玩弄騙術、不殺人的「殺手」歐陽盆栽，這麼簡單就死在冷面佛的手裡嗎？行騙天下的歐陽該如何「重生」小莉和自己呢？危機四伏、四面楚歌的他，想起了他心中篤信的宗旨「每件事都有它的代價」…這次他要付出的什麼代價呢？
- Mar 02 Tue 2010 16:11
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一頁台北/2010/04/02
- Feb 19 Fri 2010 01:27
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish（求知若飢，虛心若愚）
轉自:http://blog.sina.com.tw/teashop/article.php?pbgid=22494&entryid=579192
（Apple CEO Steve Jobs對史丹佛畢業生演講全文）
今天，很榮幸來到各位，從世界上最好的學校之一的畢業典禮上。我從來沒從大學畢業過，說實話，這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故事就好。
第一個故事，是關於人生中的點點滴滴如何串連在一起。我在里德學院（ Reed College）待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前，一共休學了十八個月。那麼，我為什麼休學？這得從我出生前講起。
我的親生母親當時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我，所以我出生時，她就準備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養。但是這對夫妻到了最後一刻反悔了，他們想收養女孩。所以在等待收養名單上的一對夫妻，我的養父母，在一天半夜裡接到一通電話，問他們「有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認養他嗎？」而他們的回答是「當然要」。後來，我的生母發現，我現在的媽媽從來沒有大學畢業，我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文件上做最後簽字。直到幾個月後，我的養父母保證將來一定會讓我上大學，她的態度才軟化。
十七年後，我上大學了。但是當時我無知地選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學，我那工人階級的父母將所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月後，我看不出唸這個書的價值何在。那時候，我不知道這輩子要幹什麼，也不知道唸大學能對我有什麼幫助，只知道我為了唸這個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直。
當時這個決定看來相當可怕，可是現在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當我休學之後，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課。這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的退費五分錢買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮去印度教的 Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料，我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。
就這樣追隨我的好奇與直覺，大部分我所投入過的事務，後來看來都成了無比珍貴的經歷（ And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on ）。舉個例來說。當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好的書寫教育。校園內的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標籤上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去上書寫課。我學了 serif 與sanserif字體，學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學到活字印刷偉大的地方。書寫的美好、歷史感與藝術感是科學所無法掌握的，我覺得這很迷人。
我沒預期過學這些東西能在我生活中起些什麼實際作用，不過十年後，當我在設計第一台麥金塔時，我想起了當時所學的東西，所以把這些東西都設計進了麥金塔裡，這是第一台能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。如果我沒沉溺於那樣一門課裡，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體了。又因為 Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，因此，如果當年我沒有休學，沒有去上那門書寫課，大概所有的個人電腦都不會有這些東西，印不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。當然，當我還在大學裡時，不可能把這些點點滴滴預先串連在一起，但在十年後的今天回顧，一切就顯得非常清楚。
我再說一次，你無法預先把點點滴滴串連起來；只有在未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起的（ you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards ）。所以你得相信，眼前你經歷的種種，將來多少會連結在一起。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者業力。這種作法從來沒讓我失望，我的人生因此變得完全不同。
我的第二個故事，是有關愛與失去。
我很幸運－年輕時就發現自己愛做什麼事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak 在我爸媽的車庫裡開始了蘋果電腦的事業。我們拼命工作，蘋果電腦在十年間從一間車庫裡的兩個小夥子擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美金的公司，在那事件之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔電腦（ Macintosh），那時我才剛邁入三十歲，然後我被解僱了。
我怎麼會被自己創辦的公司給解僱了？
嗯，當蘋果電腦成長後，我請了一個我以為在經營公司上很有才幹的傢伙來，他在頭幾年也確實幹得不錯。可是我們對未來的願景不同，最後只好分道揚鑣，董事會站在他那邊，就這樣在我 30歲的時候，公開把我給解僱了。我失去了整個生活的重心，我的人生就這樣被摧毀。
有幾個月，我不知道要做些什麼。我覺得我令企業界的前輩們失望－我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦 HP的 David Packard跟創辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說很抱歉我把事情給搞砸了。我成了公眾眼中失敗的示範，我甚至想要離開矽谷。
但是漸漸的，我發現，我還是喜愛那些我做過的事情，在蘋果電腦中經歷的那些事絲毫沒有改變我愛做的事。雖然我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。
當時我沒發現，但現在看來，被蘋果電腦開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來過的輕鬆所取代，每件事情都不那麼確定，讓我自由進入這輩子最有創意的年代。
接下來五年，我開了一家叫做 NeXT 的公司，又開一家叫做 Pixar的公司，也跟後來的老婆（Laurene）談起了戀愛。Pixar接著製作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影，玩具總動員（ Toy Story），現在是世界上最成功的動畫製作公司。然後，蘋果電腦買下了 NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發展的技術成了蘋果電腦後來復興的核心部份。
我也有了個美妙的家庭。我很確定，如果當年蘋果電腦沒開除我，就不會發生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口，可是我想蘋果電腦這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信我愛我所做的事情，這就是這些年來支持我繼續走下去的唯一理由（ I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did）。
你得找出你的最愛，工作上是如此，人生伴侶也是如此。
你的工作將佔掉你人生的一大部分，唯一真正獲得滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事（ And the only way to do great work is to love what you do ）。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何偉大的事業，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續找，別停頓。
我的第三個故事，是關於死亡。
當我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是「把每一天都當成生命中的最後一天，你就會輕鬆自在 [文字直譯應該是: 未來某一天你肯定會是對的]。（ If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right ）」這對我影響深遠，在過去33年裡，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自問：「如果今天是此生最後一日，我今天要做些什麼？」每當我連續太多天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案時，我就知道我必須有所改變了。
提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中面臨重大決定時，所用過最重要的方法。因為幾乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最真實重要的東西才會留下（ 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 ）。
提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入畏懼失去的陷阱裡最好的方法。人生不帶來、死不帶去，沒理由不能順心而為。
一年前，我被診斷出癌症。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什麼都不知道。醫生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之症，預計我大概活不到三到六個月了。醫生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕鬆。那代表你得跟人說再見了。
我整天想著那個診斷結果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡，穿過胃進到腸子，將探針伸進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。她後來跟我說，當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞後，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術，康復了。
這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事後，我可以比先前死亡只是純粹想像時，要能更肯定地告訴你們下面這些：沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。
但是死亡是我們共同的終點，沒有人逃得過。這是註定的，因為死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的發明，是生命交替的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代開出道路。現在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉講得這麼戲劇化，但是這是真的。
你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被教條所侷限 --盲從教條就是活在別人思考結果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要的，擁有追隨自己內心與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人（ have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become ），任何其他事物都是次要的。
在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做《Whole Earth Catalog 》，當年這可是我們的經典讀物。那是一位住在離這不遠的 Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發行的，他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。那是 1960年代末期，個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒出現，所有內容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機做出來的。雜誌內容有點像印在紙上的平面 Google，在Google 出現之前35年就有了：這本雜誌很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。
Stewart跟他的團隊出版了好幾期的《Whole Earth Catalog》，然後很自然的，最後出了停刊號。當時是 1970年代中期，我正是你們現在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底，有張清晨鄉間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經過的鄉間小路。在照片下印了行小字：求知若飢，虛心若愚（ Stay Hungry , Stay Foolish）。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當你們畢業，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們。
求知若飢，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish ）。非常謝謝大家。（聽眾起立鼓掌二分鐘）
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
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 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.
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 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, its 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. This approach has never let me down, 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 worlds 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 until you find it. 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 I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its 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.
Thank you all very much.
轉自:http://blog.sina.com.tw/teashop/article.php?pbgid=22494&entryid=579192
（Apple CEO Steve Jobs對史丹佛畢業生演講全文）
今天，很榮幸來到各位，從世界上最好的學校之一的畢業典禮上。我從來沒從大學畢業過，說實話，這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故事就好。
第一個故事，是關於人生中的點點滴滴如何串連在一起。我在里德學院（ Reed College）待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前，一共休學了十八個月。那麼，我為什麼休學？這得從我出生前講起。
我的親生母親當時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我，所以我出生時，她就準備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養。但是這對夫妻到了最後一刻反悔了，他們想收養女孩。所以在等待收養名單上的一對夫妻，我的養父母，在一天半夜裡接到一通電話，問他們「有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認養他嗎？」而他們的回答是「當然要」。後來，我的生母發現，我現在的媽媽從來沒有大學畢業，我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文件上做最後簽字。直到幾個月後，我的養父母保證將來一定會讓我上大學，她的態度才軟化。
十七年後，我上大學了。但是當時我無知地選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學，我那工人階級的父母將所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月後，我看不出唸這個書的價值何在。那時候，我不知道這輩子要幹什麼，也不知道唸大學能對我有什麼幫助，只知道我為了唸這個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直。
當時這個決定看來相當可怕，可是現在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當我休學之後，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課。這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的退費五分錢買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮去印度教的 Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料，我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。
就這樣追隨我的好奇與直覺，大部分我所投入過的事務，後來看來都成了無比珍貴的經歷（ And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on ）。舉個例來說。當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好的書寫教育。校園內的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標籤上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去上書寫課。我學了 serif 與sanserif字體，學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學到活字印刷偉大的地方。書寫的美好、歷史感與藝術感是科學所無法掌握的，我覺得這很迷人。
我沒預期過學這些東西能在我生活中起些什麼實際作用，不過十年後，當我在設計第一台麥金塔時，我想起了當時所學的東西，所以把這些東西都設計進了麥金塔裡，這是第一台能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。如果我沒沉溺於那樣一門課裡，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體了。又因為 Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，因此，如果當年我沒有休學，沒有去上那門書寫課，大概所有的個人電腦都不會有這些東西，印不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。當然，當我還在大學裡時，不可能把這些點點滴滴預先串連在一起，但在十年後的今天回顧，一切就顯得非常清楚。
我再說一次，你無法預先把點點滴滴串連起來；只有在未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起的（ you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards ）。所以你得相信，眼前你經歷的種種，將來多少會連結在一起。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者業力。這種作法從來沒讓我失望，我的人生因此變得完全不同。
我的第二個故事，是有關愛與失去。
我很幸運－年輕時就發現自己愛做什麼事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak 在我爸媽的車庫裡開始了蘋果電腦的事業。我們拼命工作，蘋果電腦在十年間從一間車庫裡的兩個小夥子擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美金的公司，在那事件之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔電腦（ Macintosh），那時我才剛邁入三十歲，然後我被解僱了。
我怎麼會被自己創辦的公司給解僱了？
嗯，當蘋果電腦成長後，我請了一個我以為在經營公司上很有才幹的傢伙來，他在頭幾年也確實幹得不錯。可是我們對未來的願景不同，最後只好分道揚鑣，董事會站在他那邊，就這樣在我 30歲的時候，公開把我給解僱了。我失去了整個生活的重心，我的人生就這樣被摧毀。
有幾個月，我不知道要做些什麼。我覺得我令企業界的前輩們失望－我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦 HP的 David Packard跟創辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說很抱歉我把事情給搞砸了。我成了公眾眼中失敗的示範，我甚至想要離開矽谷。
但是漸漸的，我發現，我還是喜愛那些我做過的事情，在蘋果電腦中經歷的那些事絲毫沒有改變我愛做的事。雖然我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。
當時我沒發現，但現在看來，被蘋果電腦開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來過的輕鬆所取代，每件事情都不那麼確定，讓我自由進入這輩子最有創意的年代。
接下來五年，我開了一家叫做 NeXT 的公司，又開一家叫做 Pixar的公司，也跟後來的老婆（Laurene）談起了戀愛。Pixar接著製作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影，玩具總動員（ Toy Story），現在是世界上最成功的動畫製作公司。然後，蘋果電腦買下了 NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發展的技術成了蘋果電腦後來復興的核心部份。
我也有了個美妙的家庭。我很確定，如果當年蘋果電腦沒開除我，就不會發生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口，可是我想蘋果電腦這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信我愛我所做的事情，這就是這些年來支持我繼續走下去的唯一理由（ I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did）。
你得找出你的最愛，工作上是如此，人生伴侶也是如此。
你的工作將佔掉你人生的一大部分，唯一真正獲得滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事（ And the only way to do great work is to love what you do ）。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何偉大的事業，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續找，別停頓。
我的第三個故事，是關於死亡。
當我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是「把每一天都當成生命中的最後一天，你就會輕鬆自在 [文字直譯應該是: 未來某一天你肯定會是對的]。（ If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right ）」這對我影響深遠，在過去33年裡，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自問：「如果今天是此生最後一日，我今天要做些什麼？」每當我連續太多天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案時，我就知道我必須有所改變了。
提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中面臨重大決定時，所用過最重要的方法。因為幾乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最真實重要的東西才會留下（ 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 ）。
提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入畏懼失去的陷阱裡最好的方法。人生不帶來、死不帶去，沒理由不能順心而為。
一年前，我被診斷出癌症。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什麼都不知道。醫生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之症，預計我大概活不到三到六個月了。醫生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕鬆。那代表你得跟人說再見了。
我整天想著那個診斷結果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡，穿過胃進到腸子，將探針伸進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。她後來跟我說，當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞後，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術，康復了。
這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事後，我可以比先前死亡只是純粹想像時，要能更肯定地告訴你們下面這些：沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。
但是死亡是我們共同的終點，沒有人逃得過。這是註定的，因為死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的發明，是生命交替的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代開出道路。現在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉講得這麼戲劇化，但是這是真的。
你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被教條所侷限 --盲從教條就是活在別人思考結果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要的，擁有追隨自己內心與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人（ have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become ），任何其他事物都是次要的。
在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做《Whole Earth Catalog 》，當年這可是我們的經典讀物。那是一位住在離這不遠的 Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發行的，他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。那是 1960年代末期，個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒出現，所有內容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機做出來的。雜誌內容有點像印在紙上的平面 Google，在Google 出現之前35年就有了：這本雜誌很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。
Stewart跟他的團隊出版了好幾期的《Whole Earth Catalog》，然後很自然的，最後出了停刊號。當時是 1970年代中期，我正是你們現在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底，有張清晨鄉間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經過的鄉間小路。在照片下印了行小字：求知若飢，虛心若愚（ Stay Hungry , Stay Foolish）。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當你們畢業，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們。
求知若飢，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish ）。非常謝謝大家。（聽眾起立鼓掌二分鐘）
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
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 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.
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 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, its 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. This approach has never let me down, 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 worlds 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 until you find it. 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 I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its 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.
Thank you all very much.
