姑且分五個層面來評論這部影片：
一、 劇情：
影片預告網站 http://youtu.be/LR6yMl2FZSQ
劇情是影片的心臟主體（科幻片除外)，沒有引人入勝和完整的劇情只會讓觀眾作為爆米花電影來看，很快就會忘記影片內容。這部影片雖然是真人真事，卻未打出「根據真實故事改編」（based on a true story)，似乎編劇有預設立場來撰寫劇本。早年在蘋果待過的Daniel Kottke和Bill Fernandez就批評電影太不真實。
Jobs的死黨也是蘋果創辦人之一的Steve Wozniak也指出電影中沒有敘述Jobs在推出産品時出錯之處。例如當年的Apple III、Mac電腦都不是成功的産品，觀眾無法從電影中獲知Jobs的錯誤作法對公司的損失。影片只敘述Jobs被踢出蘋果，不久又重返蘋果擔任CEO；至於Jobs出走後創立NeXT和皮克斯動畫公司、結婚生子的情節，都略而不提。其中還有幾個鏡頭帶到一位自稱是做音樂播放器的人想和Jobs一談，卻不了了之，不知有何意義。Jobs將大恩人Mike趕走，也交代不清。Jobs和妻子出現的畫面更讓人混淆，因為其妻顯得老態，Jobs還是那麼年輕，沒留鬍子，頭也沒禿，怎麼當初美麗清秀並為Jobs生下女兒的Chrisann老得這麼快？原來後面出現的女是才是Jobs真正的老婆Laurence，這些鏡頭畫面是這部影片的瑕疵敗筆。
Jobs的死黨也是蘋果創辦人之一的Steve Wozniak也指出電影中沒有敘述Jobs在推出産品時出錯之處。例如當年的Apple III、Mac電腦都不是成功的産品，觀眾無法從電影中獲知Jobs的錯誤作法對公司的損失。影片只敘述Jobs被踢出蘋果，不久又重返蘋果擔任CEO；至於Jobs出走後創立NeXT和皮克斯動畫公司、結婚生子的情節，都略而不提。其中還有幾個鏡頭帶到一位自稱是做音樂播放器的人想和Jobs一談，卻不了了之，不知有何意義。Jobs將大恩人Mike趕走，也交代不清。Jobs和妻子出現的畫面更讓人混淆，因為其妻顯得老態，Jobs還是那麼年輕，沒留鬍子，頭也沒禿，怎麼當初美麗清秀並為Jobs生下女兒的Chrisann老得這麼快？原來後面出現的女是才是Jobs真正的老婆Laurence，這些鏡頭畫面是這部影片的瑕疵敗筆。
全片劇情只讓觀眾感覺被視為工程藝術家的Jobs聰明絕頂，冷酷無情，除了在公司鬥爭 中被掃地出門，幾乎沒有瑕疵，這就是編劇的誤導 觀眾。中文版「賈伯斯傳」厚達798頁，能完整閱讀整本書的人大概不 多，但是傳記比較忠於事實；電影為了避免冷場會偏離軌道，只能透過演員精湛的演技，看到Jobs 的內心世界，真正要傳達Jobs其人其事就難了。
二、 導演和演員：
本片導演Joshua Michael Stern較知名的影片＜執法風暴Swing vote＞，台灣沒有上映，是名不見經傳的導演。但他在片頭的執導手法頗為吸引觀眾。一開始運鏡將Jobs的背影緩緩推進，走入新產品iPod發表會場；他的背影、走路姿態和動作，幾乎是原味原汁的Jobs復活（乍看之下還以為是調用紀錄片呢)，經過幾個場景的pan（橫搖)之後，鏡頭逐漸拉近（Zoom
in)才看到Jobs廬山真面目，原來是演員扮演的。因為是寫實片，全片Joshua沒有採用蒙太奇（Montage)手法（請參考Christopher Kenworth的＜解析100種電影拍攝技巧＞乙書)；但是有些鏡頭畫面切換太快，觀眾還在思索劇情之際，就跳到另一個場景，會產生視覺和思考趕不上影片進展的感覺。
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| Jobs影片開場 |
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男主角扮Jobs老相更傳神 |
男主角Ashton Kutche主演的電影我看過很多部，包括Killers、Valentine's Day、The Butterfly Effect等，他擅演喜劇，在本片中一本正經，無論長相（與Jobs神似)、演技，我都認為是他從影以來的最佳作品。Kutche扮演中年的Jobs最像，尤其穿上Jobs的代表衣著灰藍色的沒繫皮帶的牛仔褲更是傳神入味。Ashton Kutche和Jobs的名氣是撐起本片的最大功臣。
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| Jobs在西岸電腦展一戰成名 |
主演金主兼貴人的Mike Markkula（由Dermot Mulroney飾演)也是演技生動，從他初次露面開著金黃色雪佛蘭跑車、身穿淺綠色西裝到Jobs父親家的車庫與Jobs的對話，就留給觀眾深刻的印象；最後一幕，他說「我在蘋果已經服務30年，現在你要我離開…」的無奈與悲情的肢體語言更是感人至深，也展現現實社會的無情無義，作為本片最佳男配角當之無愧。他演出的電影有＜即刻獵殺The Grey 2012＞、＜新娘不是我My Best Friend's
Wedding 1997＞，都頗獲好評。
主動提供資金協助，Jobs卻獅子大開口。
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| 影片裡的Jobs恩人Mike和本尊的對照 |
飾演前百事可樂總裁的John Sculley，由Matthew Modine扮演。Jobs在1983年引狼入室，請他擔任蘋果的CEO，1985年他卻藉著Jobs得罪工會，將他趕出蘋果。此人在＜黑暗騎士：黎明昇起 The Dark Knight Rises＞飾演反派，在本片裡雖然鏡頭不多，舉手投足都有大將之風。
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| Apple的CEO召開董事會決定是否讓Jobs離開，Jobs就坐在窗台旁，毫無顧忌。 |
還有一位飾演教授只在片頭露臉一會兒就消失的James Woods可是 一名長青樹的二線明星，他吃了40年電影飯卻只獲得短短兩分鐘的鏡頭，實在糟蹋這位老演員，看來第八藝術這行飯的確不好吃，過氣明星能爭取幾個鏡頭，掙得一些演出費未嘗不可。這位老兄最近在＜白宮末日 White House Down＞演叛國的國防部長，讓人恨得牙癢癢的，演技入木三分。其餘角色因為是刻意挑選和本尊相似的人演出，沒看過他們 演出的影片，還有跑龍套的演員就不予置評了。
三、結局:
開始我就提到結局草率，也太突然，我還想看Jobs推出iPhone的盛況呢，結果沒了。很多電影90%令人激賞，可是虎頭蛇尾，距離完美就差那最後一步，令人扼腕。本片如果再延長五分鐘，片尾在Jobs推出iPhone的高潮時結束，將會讓觀眾開心、留下深刻的印象離開電影院。
影片結尾畫面
影片結尾畫面
四、 氣氛：
全片的節奏算是不錯，充滿商場唯利是圖、強將之下無弱兵的蕭煞氣氛。
Jobs活了56歲，除非拍成電視影集，否則無法完整展現事實真貌，有前例可印證。1980年台灣只准許進口四部日片，其中＜砂の器＞(http://youtu.be/nqAFQ_5h1Zk)是很賣座的經典大片，後來兩次拍成10集忠於原著的電視連續劇 (http://www.tudou.com/listplay/jZlGFBfpeCE.html)。另一部同時引進的＜203高地＞(http://youtu.be/7cCuVXsZvBA)也翻拍成十幾集的連續劇，台灣都有DVD可看或在YouTube觀賞。Jobs這部影片只敘述1971到1991年，Jobs擔任蘋果聯合創辦人，展開數位革命改寫電腦世界的過程；也點出了蘋果擴張成全球企業時，Jobs的完美主義與挑釁風格害了他自己。他有追求完美的A型性格，卻同時存在黑暗的心理層面，即使Jobs不是凡人，終究英年早逝。
我們常說紅顏薄命，譬如瑪麗蓮夢露Marilyn Monroe，1926年6月－1962年8月，獲美國電影學會評選為百年來最偉大女演員第六名；娜妲麗華Natalie Wood，1938年7月－1981年11月，主演的＜西城故事Maria＞膾炙人口，更以＜天涯何處無芳草Splendor in the Grass＞、＜烈火乾柴Love with the Proper Stranger＞兩度獲得奧斯卡獎最佳女主角；英國王妃Diana，1961年7月－1997年8月，36歲就香消玉損；台灣著名女歌手鄧麗君42歲往生。但是英才過人如Jobs、歌星張雨生、李小龍者也會遭老天爺忌妒。
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| 對Jobs極端不利的董事會議 |
我們常說紅顏薄命，譬如瑪麗蓮夢露Marilyn Monroe，1926年6月－1962年8月，獲美國電影學會評選為百年來最偉大女演員第六名；娜妲麗華Natalie Wood，1938年7月－1981年11月，主演的＜西城故事Maria＞膾炙人口，更以＜天涯何處無芳草Splendor in the Grass＞、＜烈火乾柴Love with the Proper Stranger＞兩度獲得奧斯卡獎最佳女主角；英國王妃Diana，1961年7月－1997年8月，36歲就香消玉損；台灣著名女歌手鄧麗君42歲往生。但是英才過人如Jobs、歌星張雨生、李小龍者也會遭老天爺忌妒。
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| Marilyn Monroe n' Natalie Wood紅顏薄命 |
五、 推薦：
依上述觀點，在滿分5分情況下給予3.5分，尊崇Jobs大師或欣賞男主角Ashton
Kutche的影迷不妨一看。RottenTomatoes影評網站對該片的表現是新鮮番茄得30分，爛番茄得了85分。
奧斯卡金像獎歷史中，幾乎¼的最佳影片頒給以真人真事為題材的作品，其中獲獎項目最多而且賣座的包括＜賓漢＞（11項）、＜末代皇帝＞（9項）、＜甘地傳＞（8項）、＜巴頓將軍＞（7項）、＜阿拉伯的勞倫斯＞（7項）、＜埃及豔后＞（3項）。好萊塢至今大約拍了300部真人真事電影，但是不被看好的居多數；因為電影是藝術與科技的合體，能刺激觀眾的感官；而歷史和傳記則是有據可查的真實往事，不能隨便灑狗血。上述得獎的電影幾乎都和戰爭、動作有關，較具有感官刺激和趣味性；其他的傳記電影多顯得沉悶冗長，難獲青睞。最近將在台上映的真人真事影片有＜Diana黛安娜＞、＜The Butler白宮第一管家。歐巴馬看了都落淚＞、＜Emperor日落真相，敘述麥克阿瑟接受日本投降事蹟＞，有興趣的朋友可以前往觀賞。
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即將上映的真人真事電影 |
Jobs在Standford University 演講網站http://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA
＜演講原文＞ Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
This is the text of the Commencement
address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios,
delivered on June 12, 2005.
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 from college. 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 returned 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 others' 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 a new, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay
Foolish.
Thank you all very
much.
＜譯文＞求知若飢，虛心若愚
謝謝。 我很榮幸今天能在全世界頂尖學府之一的畢業典禮見到各位。
（歡呼聲和掌聲）
我大學沒畢業，事實上，此時是我最接近大學畢業的一刻。今天我要分享三個親身經歷的故事，不講什麼大道理，只是三個故事而已。
一、
第一個故事是關於串連生命中的點滴，我在奧勒崗州Reed College只待6個月就休學了，後來又復學待了18個月，最後還是休學，為何我要休學？故事始自我出生前，我的生母是一位年輕、未婚的研究生，她決定讓我被領養，而且必需讓有大學畢業的父母領養，所以，一切按照計畫就是，我一出生就給一對律師夫妻領養，只是當我出了娘胎，他們才臨時決定要的是一名女嬰，所以，那正在等候領養的父母當晚深夜接到一通電話，問說：「我們有一名意外誕生的新生男嬰，你們想領養嗎」？他們回答：「當然」。
我的生母稍後發現我的養母從未從大學畢業，養父連高中都沒畢業，於是她拒絕簽署最終的領養文件，但態度幾個月後就軟化了，因為我養父母承諾有天會讓我去讀大學，這就是我生命的起始。17年後，我果真上了大學，而且還天真地選了一間幾乎和史丹佛一樣昂貴的大學，屬於勞動階級養父母的畢生積蓄都要用來支付我的學費，六個月之後，我卻看不到其中的價值，我不曉得人生要幹嘛，也不清楚大學能如何幫我理出個頭緒，可是我卻正在耗盡父母一輩子存下的血汗錢。
所以我當下決定休學，而且相信一切都會有圓滿的結果，這個決定在當時看起來很可怕，但現在回頭發現那是我做過最好的決定之一，我一休學就可以不用去上我沒興趣的必修課，並開始重尋看起來有趣的事物，不是一切都那麼羅曼蒂克，我沒有宿舍可住，所以睡在朋友家裡的地板上，我會撿每個 5￠的回收可樂罐來換取食物，每個星期天晚上我還會走7 哩的路，穿過小鎮到 Hare Krishna 印度教寺廟領取我一週的恩典美餐，我愛死聖餐了。大部份因為我的好奇心與直覺，而讓我人生失足的地方，稍後都成為無價的資產。
我舉個例子，Reed College 在當時也許是全美提供字型學教育最好的大學，整個校園裡每一幅海報、抽屜上的標籤都是精心手謄的文字，因為我已休學，所以不需要去上正規的課程，於是我決定選修字型學這門課，我學到了襯線和無襯線字體，分辨不同字母組合間所需的空間，還有活版印刷術的偉大之處，它在美學、歷史與藝術上的精湛之處是科學所無法精確捕捉的。我當時為之著迷，但之前我從未冀望這會對我的生命有任何幫助；但十年後，當我們正在設計第一台麥金塔電腦時，全派上用場了，我們將字型學整個運用到 Mac電腦上，讓它成為第一台具有漂亮活版印刷術字體的電腦。
如果我在大學時沒有選選這門課，Mac電腦就永遠不會有多種字體或組合勻稱的字體可用，而Windows只會抄襲Mac電腦，結果將可能是個人電腦根本就不會有不同的字體（笑聲和掌聲）。如果我當初沒有休學，也不會去選修那堂字型課，個人電腦可能就不會有我們現在所熟悉的完美字體，當然，我不可能在求學時就看出這些未來的點滴，但十年後回頭一看，就點滴在心頭了。重申一次，你無法預知未來，僅能回顧，所以你必需相信眼前所經歷的種種有天都將連結一起，你必需要有信心，無論是你的直覺、命運、生命、業力等，因為相信這些點滴終究會連結在一起，這種作法從未讓我失望，我的人生因此變得完全不同。
二、
我的第二個故事是有關愛與失落，我很幸運很早就發現我的摯愛，Woz和我20歲時，在養父母家的車庫內創立了蘋果，我們很努力，僅僅10年的時間，蘋果電腦從只有兩名員工的小企業，變身成為價值20億，員工超過4000人的大公司，而那前一年，我們才剛發表我們最優的創新產品「麥金塔電腦」，我才剛邁入三十大關，緊接著我遭到解雇，你怎麼會被自己創立的公司解雇？
（笑聲）
因為當蘋果成長之後，我們雇用了一位我認為能和我一起經營的有才之士，第一年，萬事順暢，但後來我們對未來的願景開始分歧，最後吵翻了，而董事會站在他那一邊，所以我的三十歲大禮是失業，而且是眾人皆知，曾是我整個人生重心的一切都沒了，而且結局淒慘，之後幾個月我真的不知道要做什麼！我覺得讓前代的創業家們失望，因為我把交到自己手上的棒子接丟了，我和 David Packard 及 Bob Noyce見面，試著為自己搞砸的事件道歉，我是個公認的失敗者，甚至想要逃離矽谷，但有件事情慢慢地開始讓我頓悟，那就是我仍愛著做過的事，發生在蘋果的事件並沒有改變這個初衷，我被拒絕過，但我仍懷著愛，所以我決定重新來過。
當時我看不清，但後來我才明瞭遭到蘋果解雇是我人生中最棒的事，成功者的沉重負擔，由菜鳥的無憂無慮所取代，不再絕對肯定所有的事。解雇也是解放，我進入了人生另一個創造黃金期。接下來五年，我創立了NeXT軟體公司、另一家是皮克斯公司，並和我未來的妻子墜入情網，皮克斯後來創造出全世界第一部電腦動畫電影＜玩具總動員＞，現在它是全世界最成功的動畫製片廠（歡呼聲和掌聲）。在一個特別的機緣下，蘋果買下NeXT，於是我重返蘋果，我們在NeXT 發展出的科技，就是現在蘋果重生的核心。
Laurene 和我也共組了一個美滿的家庭，如果當初我沒有被蘋果解雇的話，我敢肯定以上沒有一件事會成真。良藥苦口，但正是病人所需，有時生命像是拿磚塊砸你的頭，但你不能失去信心，我深信當初能讓自己繼續下去的原因，就是因為我愛自己做的事，你一定要找出自己所愛為何，無論是工作還是你的愛人，你的工作將會佔去你生命的一大部份，而唯一能真正獲得滿足的方法是，做你相信那是了不起的工作，而唯一能做了不起工作的方法，就是你必需深愛自己所做的事；如果你還未找到，不要放棄、不要停，盡全力去做，當找到時，你會知道的，就像所有了不起的關係，情況只會隨著年歲漸入佳境，所以持續尋找，不要停！
（掌聲）
三、
我的第三個故事是關於死亡，17 歲時我讀過一段話，內容大致是「如果你能將每天都當作是生命的最後一天來活，有天你一定能做出對的決定」。
（掌聲）
我緊緊地記住這句話，從那之後的33年間，我每天早晨照鏡子時便自問：「如果今天是生命終結前的最後一天，我還會想做原本即將要做的事嗎」？如果答案接連幾天都是「不」，我便自知必需做些改變，記得我將死這件事，是我所用過，幫我做人生重大決定最重要的工具，因為幾乎所有的事，所有外界的期望、所有的自尊、所有對難堪或失敗的恐懼，都將在面對死亡時煙消雲散，僅有最重要的會留下來，記得自己將死是對抗自暴自棄和失落感最有效的方法，因為你已經赤裸裸地面對著生命，所以沒有理由不順應內心的聲音。
約莫一年前，我被診斷出罹患癌症，我在早上7:30接受掃描，結果清楚顯示胰臟有顆腫瘤，當時我連胰臟是啥都還不曉得，但醫師告訴我，這幾乎可以確定是無法根治的癌症，活不過三到六個月，醫師建議我回家準備後事，這就是醫生宣佈等死的術語，也就是說，你要試著將往後10年想對孩子講的話都在這幾個月內說完，也意謂著一切都要確定交待完畢，這樣對你家人的衝擊可能會減輕些，更意謂著永別。
當天，我一直掛念著診斷結果，那天晚上，我再做組織切片檢查，他們將內視鏡塞進我的喉嚨，穿過我的胃，進入我的腸子，再將針插入我的胰臟，打了鎮靜劑，然後從腫瘤上取走一些細胞。但陪在身旁的太太告訴我說，醫師在看過顯微鏡下的細胞後哭了，因為我的胰臟癌是很少見的可開刀療癒的類型，於是我動了手術，謝天謝地，現在已經痊癒了。
（掌聲）
這是我和死亡最近距離的接觸，而我希望這也是往後幾十年最近的距離，死裡逃生之後，我在之前將死亡激勵做為只是好用的單純學術概念，更確定的告訴各位沒有人想死，就算是想上天堂的人也不希望透過死亡達陣，但死亡卻是大家共享的目的地，沒有人躲得過，這是注定的。因為死亡極可能是生命單一最優的創造，是生命的轉化媒介，清掉老舊、讓道新進，現在的新進是你們，但不久後的某天，你們將逐漸老舊，並遭清除。抱歉，這聽起來很戲劇化，但卻是千真萬確，光陰有限，所以不應浪費在過別人的生活，不要陷於教條之中，即使跟著別人的思想過活，莫讓別人的意見雜音淹沒了你的內在聲音，最重要的是要提起勇氣、傾聽內心、跟著感覺走，因為這些本質多少早就清楚你想要達到的成就，其他都是次要的。
（掌聲）
我年輕時，市面上有本神奇的讀物叫作「全球目錄」，當時被視為一代寶典，由Stewart Brand創立，公司位於離這兒不遠的 Menlo Park，他將其詩覺感觸為這本雜誌注入生命，在1960年代後期，個人電腦與桌面排版都還沒誕生，所以一切都靠打字機、剪刀和立可拍照相機，就像是紙本Google，在Google出現前35年，這本雜誌滿懷理想，內容刊載精巧工具與最新資訊，Stewart 與其團隊出版了幾期「全球目錄」之後後結束。那是1970 年代中期，我正是你們這個歲數，在停刊號的封底，有一幅清晨鄉間小路的相片，就是那種你去冒險搭便車時會看到的景象，圖下方有行字：「保持好奇，虛心接納」，那是他們的謝幕詞。保持好奇，虛心接納，我一直如此自我期許，現在，你們畢業即將開展新的人生，我也要如此祝福你們，求知若飢，虛心若愚，謝謝大家。
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