I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it's a story about finding a path to make those dreams real. 我给大家讲个追梦的故事，确切地说是一个将梦想变为现实的故事。 You know what it's like,to wake up...
My father's father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan. He was an assemblyline worker.He drove his two children here to Anna Arbor,and told them: That is where you're going to go to college.I know it sounds funny now.Both of his kids actuall...
Class of 2009!I don't think I heard you.Class of 2009!First I want you to stand up and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends!I am sure you can find them out there.Show your love!It is a great honor for me to be here today。 09届的同学们...
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...
I lived with that diagnosis all day. 我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。 Later that evening I had a biopsy, 后来有一天晚上我作了一个活切片检查， where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my int...
My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 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. 当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了...
I didn't see it then, 我当时没有觉察, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. 但是事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。 The heaviness of...
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; 再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来； you can only connect them looking backwards. 你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。 So you hav...
And 17 years later I did go to college. 在十七岁那年 ，我真的上了大学。 But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, 但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, and a...
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: 这是我...
