口語夏令營——生活口語學習
On computers
“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985?
有關計算機：
“我們需要這些非常簡單的指令，如：去取數字，??去把它添加到這個數字上，把結果放在那兒，讓它比較是否比另一個數字更大。但這系列操作必須以一定的速度來執(zhí)行，比如，將它設定為1,000,000每秒。接著，當實現了每秒百萬的速度，呈現出來的結果就非常神奇。”——《花花公子》，1985年2月1日
On design

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

?有關設計：
“根據受眾需要去設計產品其實是非常難的。因為很多情況下，人們并不知道自己想要的是什么，而是需要你去展示給他們看。”——《商業(yè)周刊》，1998年5月25日
The best sales line ever

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"[The line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple's CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple]
有史以來最棒的銷售線？
“你想要用你余下的生命去賣糖水，還是你想有一個機會去改變世界？”——喬布斯用來說服John Sculley擔任蘋果CEO時所說的話。----摘自《奧德賽：從百事到蘋果》
On character

"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."[Apple Confidential 2.0]
有關品格：
“我是唯一一個我所知道一年損失了2億5千萬的人。但這對塑造品格很有幫助。”——《蘋果的秘密2.0》
On good design

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]
有關好的設計：
這一直是我的一個座右銘——集中和簡單。簡單，可以比實現復雜的東西更難。你必須花很多力氣去讓你的思維變得簡單、有條理。但最終它的價值非常大，因為一旦你到達了那一步，你就可以撼動山脈了。——《商業(yè)周刊》，1998年5月25日
On his outlook

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”[The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]

?有關他的愿景：
做墓地里最富有的那個人對我來說毫無意義。對我真正有意義的是，晚上去睡覺前可以說自己做了一些精彩的事。——《華爾街日報》，1993年5月25日
On his role at Apple

"This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they’re not losers. What they didn’t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.”[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

有關他在蘋果所扮演的角色：
這不是一個人的演出，真正使這家公司重新活起來的是兩件事：一，這里有很多非常有才華的人。這些人聽著外界貶低了他們很多年，他們中的一些人差點就要相信自己是失敗者，但他們并不是。他們所缺乏的是好的指導，好的規(guī)劃。他們缺乏好的高層管理團隊。但他們現在有了。——《商業(yè)周刊》，1998年5月25日??
Having pride in your product

Playboy: "Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don’t have that kind of pride in the product?"
Jobs: “If they did, they wouldn’t have made the PCjr.”[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]
? 為你的產品而自豪：
花花公子：你是說，發(fā)明PCjr的人對他們的產品不感到自豪嗎？
喬布斯：如果他們感到自豪，他們就不會造出PCjr這樣的產品。——《花花公子》，1985年2月1日
He'll always come back

“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back."[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

?他總是會回來的：

“我會永遠和蘋果聯系在一起。我希望，在我的整個生命中，將我生活的那條線和蘋果的那條線編織在一起，互相交互纏繞，就像一條織錦一樣。也許我將有些年不在這里，但我總是會回來的。——《花花公子》，1985年2月1日
Have faith in the future

“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.”[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?對未來充滿信心：

你在向前展望的時候不可能將這些片斷串連起來；你只能在回顧的時候將點點滴滴串連起來。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天會串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣。這個過程從來沒有令我失望，只是讓我的生命更加與眾不同而已。——斯坦福畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，2005年6月
On your working life

“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.”[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?有關你的職業(yè)生活：

你的工作將會占據生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你現在還沒有找到，那么繼續(xù)找、不要停下來、全心全意的去找，當你找到的時候你就會知道的。就像任何真誠的關系，隨著歲月的流逝只會越來越緊密。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來！——斯坦福畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，2005年6月
On the importance of death

“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."[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?有關死亡的重要性：

沒有人愿意死， 即使人們想上天堂，人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應該如此。因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現在是新的, 但是從現在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性， 但是這十分的真實。——斯坦福畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，2005年6月
Don't sit still
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”[NBC Nightly News, May 2006]
有關死亡的重要性：
沒有人愿意死， 即使人們想上天堂，人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應該如此。因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現在是新的, 但是從現在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性， 但是這十分的真實。——斯坦福畢業(yè)典禮上的演講，2005年6月