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1、Please read the speech entitled“Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish”and evaluate it in terms of its main idea,structure and language use.Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish Thank you.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told,I never graduated fro
2、m college.This is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.Thats 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 fo
3、r 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 f
4、or 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.
5、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 lat
6、er 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 couldnt see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was g
7、oing 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 coul
8、d stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me,and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting。It wasnt all romantic.I didnt have a dorm room,so I slept on the floor in friends rooms,I returned coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with,and I would walk the 7 miles ac
9、ross 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 instr
10、uction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster,every label on every drawer,was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didnt 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
11、 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 cant capture,and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years
12、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
13、 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
14、dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very,very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again,you cant 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 yo
15、ur 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 A
16、pple 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 someon
17、e 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
18、the focus of my entire adult life was gone,and it was devastating.I really didnt 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 apologiz
19、e 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 star
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