2005年06月22日

Steve Jobs の Speech

高校の友達が、今月行われたスタンフォード大学の卒業式でSteve Jobs (アップルコンピューターとピクサー・アニメーションの創業者)が話したスピーチの内容の原文を送ってくれた。

一通り読んだ。そして、

感動した!!

訳しても良いんだけど、あたしが訳しちゃうとオリジナル文の味がなくなってしまうので
原文をそのまま記載しとくね。

一応英語の苦手な人のために一言で説明すると
本当にやりたい事を見つけて、やりなさい、という内容。

一見将来には関係なさそうに見えるものでも、興味が湧くまま
(心が赴くまま)に行動すべき。これら行動の一つ一つは「点」であると。
しかし、これら「点」はやがて「線」として将来つながると。
(なんか東洋的な思想だね)

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.

そして人間、生きている時間が限られている。
時間が限られているからこそ、好きな事をしなさいと。
限られた時間なのに、回りの意見に翻弄され、
自分ではない人の人生を歩むのはもったいなすぎると。

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 other's 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.

Steve Jobsが言うからこそ、本当に説得力がある。

やっぱり自分のheart(心)とIntuition(直感)を信じる事が大事なのは
分かっているんだけど、なかなか実践するのは難しいよね。

いずれにせよ、原文を全部読んだ方が絶対にいいって!本当に感動した!

以下が原文なので、ご興味のある方は是非♪

This is a copy of a speech that Steve Jobs delivered to the graduates
of Stanford University this week. Drawing from some of the most pivotal
points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of
Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to
pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -
including death itself.

"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 retuned 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 other's 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." - Steve Jobs - June 2005



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1. Posted by Lady Luck   2005年06月24日 22:48
ねえさん!読んだわよ~。つきなみで申し訳ないのだけど…感動した!
運も実力って言うけど、運をも味方につけてしまうあたり、spiritualな世界をかいま見た感じです。
2. Posted by Kevin   2005年06月27日 10:35
お~、さすがLady Luckさん!
読破したのね♪
運を味方につけるのは大切な事よね。
「運も実力のうちよね?」
「うん、うん。。。」
3. Posted by shuhei   2005年07月02日 10:35
ハードラックに遭遇したとき、そこに何かしらの意味を見出してがんばれる人は強いなと思いました。自分が悩んでいたことなどをオープンに話せる人って魅力的ですよね。感動しました!!!
4. Posted by Kevin   2005年07月12日 09:32
Shuheiさん、
ほんと、Steve Jobsは魅力的ですよね。
成功しているからこそ、より説得力があるんだと思います。
って事でお互い成功しましょう♪
5. Posted by ささのは   2005年11月01日 17:39
ブログ、一番最初から現在ここまで読みました~。
すっごく驚いたことがあったのでひとこと。
私も「点と線」を実感してるうちのひとりよ。
昨年、ちょっとしたことでプチインタビューを
受けたんだけど、その時に「点と線」の話を
したの。
でも、「聞いてる人、何言ってるか分からない
だろうな~」って。だって、ちょっと抽象的じゃ
ありません?
でも、その聞き手の人、そのことをきっちり
記事にしてくれてたの。
ある意味、びっくりしたわ。
自分が、ちょっととっぴょうしもないこと言ってる
ような気がしたから。
でも、同じこと感じている人がいたなんて~。
とっても嬉しいわ。サイコー!!!
ありがと、Kevin!!!
6. Posted by Kevin   2005年11月01日 21:27
Steve Jobs、この人、かっこ良過ぎ!
ささのはさん、プチインタビュー受けたんですか!?すごいですね!そこで点と線の話をしちゃうなんて、さすが。。。
あと、一番最初から、ここまで読んで頂けるなんて。。。嬉しすぎ
この後とも、よろぴくです♪

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