1. 开场白
"Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation."
2. 故事一:连接点(Connecting the Dots)
"I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?"
3. 故事二:无大不了(No Big Deal)
"There's no big deal. Just three stories. The first is about connecting the dots. The second is about being crazy enough to think I could change the world. The third is about staying hungry, staying foolish."
4. 故事三:重新起步(Being Crazy to Change the World)
"In my second year at Reed, I met Steve Wozniak, who introduced me to the idea of personal computing. I realized that the whole point of my education was to learn how to ask the right questions. So I dropped out, but I never stopped learning."
5. 故事四:坚持与挫折(The Reality of Success)
"There's a story about being fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the face and knocks you down, and the only way to get up is to get back up stronger."
6. 结尾
"Stay hungry, stay foolish.
补充说明
乔布斯在演讲中反复强调“提问的艺术”和“保持饥饿与愚蠢”的生活态度,这些观点至今仍被广泛引用。- 他通过个人经历鼓励毕业生追求激情,而非仅依赖学历背景。