斯坦福大学的故事

第一篇：斯坦福大学的故事

一对衣着简陋的夫妇坐火车去了波士顿，到了目的地，他们就直接找到哈佛大学。这会儿，他们已经走进了校长接待室。

“对不起，我们没有预约。但是，我们想见校长。“那穿着破旧的套装的丈夫轻声地对秘书说。

秘书眉头微皱，说：”噢，校长，他很忙。“

”没关系，我们可以等他。“穿着褪色方格棉布衣的妻子微笑着说。

几个小时过去了，秘书没有再搭理他们。秘书不明白这对乡下夫妇和哈佛大学会有什么关系，她希望他们会气馁，然后自己离开，可看来他们丝毫没有想走的意思，尽管不太情愿，秘书决定还是去打扰一下校长。

”可能，他们只需要耽误您几分钟。“秘书对校长说。

校长的确很忙，他可能不会将太多的时间花费在那些他看来无关紧要的人身上。尽管如此，校长还是点头同意会见客人。

女士告诉校长说：”我们的儿子进入哈佛大学一年了，他爱哈佛大学。他在这里很快乐。“

”夫人，谢谢你的儿子爱哈佛大学，你知道，哈佛大学的学生都爱哈佛大学。“校长说。

”可是在一年前，他意外地死了。“

”噢，真不幸，夫人。“

”我丈夫和我想在学校的某个地方为他竖立一个纪念物。“

”非常遗憾，夫人！“校长说，”你知道，我们不可能为每一个进入哈佛大学后死去的人竖立纪念物。如果这样做，这哈佛大学不就成公墓了吗？“

”噢，对不起，先生！“女士赶紧解释，”我们并不想要竖立一尊雕像。我们只是想说我们愿给哈佛大学建座楼。“

校长的目光落在这对夫妇粗糙简陋的着装上，惊叫道：”一栋楼！你们知道建一栋楼要花多少钱？仅在哈佛大学的自然植物，价值就超过750万美元！"

第二篇：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲稿乔布斯的三个故事

Thank you.I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement(开始开端，毕业典礼)from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and 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 six 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later 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 go to college.This was the start in my life.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 okay.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 far more 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 five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that 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 10 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--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky--I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz1 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 two billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.We'd 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.And 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（接力棒）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 world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation（动画）studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and 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.Sometime life--Sometimes life going to hit 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--and 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--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've 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 and 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（切片检查）, where they stuck an endoscope（内视镜）down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines（肠）, put a needle into my pancreas（胰腺）and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated（安静的）, 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, thankfully, I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's 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's 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's 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 60s, 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, 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've 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.

第三篇：斯坦福大学演讲稿

So, Dr.King said, “Not everybody can be famous.But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage.He said, “You don't have to have a college degree to serve.You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve.You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” 所以，正如马丁路德金所说，“不是所有人都会成名。但每个人都可以变的伟大，因为伟大是通过为他人服务而界定的。” 你们当中学历史的人可能会知道他接下来的话，“为别人提供服务，并不一定要有大学学历，并不一定要主谓一致，并不一定要认识柏拉图和亚里士多德，并不一定要会爱因斯坦的相对论，并不一定要

In a few moments, you'll all be officially Stanford's '08.不久你们就会正式成为斯坦福大学2008年的毕业生了解热力学第二定律。你所需要的是一颗优雅的心灵和充满爱的灵魂。” 了。You have the heart and the smarts to go with it.And it's up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You've got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 'cause I know great things are sure to come.你们有聪明才智。你们将会决定如何利用它。说真的，你们将会如何利用它呢？你们拿到了学

You know, I've always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with you.Underneath your seats you'll find two of my favorite books.Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is my current book club selection.Our New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that book.And Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future has 位。走向社会吧，我坚信伟大的事将会发生的。reassured me I'm in the right direction.你们知道，我一直坚信，如果你和他人分享，那么事情就会变得更好。所以在我离开之前，我想和大家分享一下毕业礼物。在你们的座位底下，你们会发现两本我最喜欢的书。Eckhart Tolle的A New Earth流行书俱乐部的精选品。我们的New Earth广播已经被下载3亿次。Daniel Pink的A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 使我确定我在人生的正轨上。I really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn't pull that off!Congratulations，'08!我真的想送大家轿车，只是开不过来！祝贺大家！08年的毕业生们！

第四篇：斯坦福大学的由来

好些年前，哈佛的校长为一次错误判断，付出了很大的代价。

一对老夫妇，女的穿着一套褪色的条纹棉布衣服，而她的丈夫则穿着布制的便宜西装，也没有事先约好，就直接拜访哈佛的校长。

校长的秘书在片刻间就断定这两个乡下人根本不可能与哈佛有业务来往。

先生轻声地说：“我们要见校长。”

秘书很有礼貌地回答：“他整天都很忙！”

女士回答说：“没关系，我们可以等。”

过了几个钟头，秘书一直不答理他们，希望他们知难而退，自己走开。他们却一直等在那里。

秘书终于决定通知校长：“也许他们跟您讲几句话就会走开。”

校长不耐烦地同意了。

校长很有尊严而且心不甘情不愿地面对这对夫妇。女士告诉他：“我们有一个儿子曾经在哈佛读过一年，他很喜欢哈佛，他在哈佛的生活很快乐。但是去年，他出了意外而身亡。我们想在校园里为他留一纪念物。”

校长并没有感动，反而觉得很可笑，粗声地说：“夫人，我们不能为每一位曾在哈佛就读而后死亡的人建立雕像的。如果我们这样做，我们的校园看起来会像墓园一样。”

女士说：“不是，我们不是要竖立一座雕像，我们想要捐一栋大楼给哈佛。”

校长仔细地看了一下他们身上的条纹棉布衣服及粗布便宜西装，然后吐一口气说：“你们知不知道建一栋大楼要花多少钱？我们学校的建筑物超过750万美元。”

这时，这位女士沉默不讲话了。校长很高兴，总算可以把他们打发走了。

这位女士转向她丈夫：“只要750万就可以建一座大楼，那我们为什么不建一座大学来纪念我们的儿子？”

就这样，斯坦福夫妇离开了哈佛，到了加州，成立了斯坦福大学来纪念她们的儿子

第五篇：斯坦福大学开学演讲

The following remarks were delivered by the President of Stanford University at the Opening Convocation on September 21, 2001.典礼上的致辞。

以下是斯坦福大学校长在2001年9月21日开学 Parents and students of the Class of 2005: 各位家长，2005届的同学们：

Good afternoon and welcome to Stanford University.Today, we celebrate the arrival of 1,717 new freshmen and transfer students.下午好！欢迎各位来到斯坦福大学。今天，我们在此欢迎1717名新生和转学生的到来。

I have struggled with the format of this Convocation and the content of this speech for the past 10 days.过去的10天，我一直颇费心思，不知这个开学典礼该用什么形式，我的发言要讲什么内容。

Since the morning of Sept.11, the campus has been uncommonly quiet.Except for two memorial services, all major events were cancelled.午以来，校园里异乎寻常的安静。除了两个纪念性的活动以外，所有的大型活动都取消了。

9月11日上

As we considered how to start a new academic year, we decided that a Convocation was, in fact, the most fitting way to resume our normal activities.后来发现开学典礼实际上是恢复正常秩序的最佳方式。

我们在考虑怎样开始新学年，Students, you represent our best hope for the future and for peace in our world.你们代表了我们世界的未来与和平的最美的希望

同学们，Americans and good-hearted people of all ages throughout the world will mourn this tragedy and carry the memory of that terrible day in their hearts.在记忆中

美国人民和全世界所有善良的人们，不论长幼，都会为这场悲剧哀悼，会将这可怕的一天永远留存

But it is your generation--more so than mine or your parents'--that will face the challenge of building a world in which such inhuman acts can never again occur.但面

临挑战的更是你们这一代，而不是我们或是你们父母这一代，你们要建设一个世界，决不容许类似惨无人道的事件再次发生。

In your time here, you will get to know people whose background, culture or beliefs are different from yours.You may find that your values--and your prejudices--are challenged.你们在这里求学的时光里，将会认识很多人，他们的背景、文化或者信仰可能与你们迥然不同，你们会发现自己的价值观以及偏见将会受到挑战。

I hope that you will discover a new understanding and appreciation for the pluralistic society in which we live and find constructive ways to contribute to the world.我们生活在一个多元的社会中，我希望你们能够从新的角度来理解和欣赏它，为世界做出建设性的贡献。

For each of you, this moment is the beginning of a new chapter in your life.对你们每个人而言，这一时刻意味着人生翻开了新的篇章。Let it also be a moment you remember as the initiation of your journey into the larger world, a time when you consider your role as a citizen and what your future contribution might be.从这一刻开始，你们将踏上一个更广阔世界的旅程，这一刻你们也将开始考虑作为一个公民你们未来应作的贡献。

You will not be expected to undertake this intellectual journey on your own.We have an exceptional faculty and staff, dedicated to the search for knowledge and understanding, who will support and encourage you in your journey.? 当然，在这样的智慧之旅上，你们不是独行者。我们有出色的师资和员工，他们致力于求知与理解，将会在旅途中支持和鼓励你们。

I hope you are proud of the accomplishments that have brought you to this important transition inyour lives.你们能取得成就，达到人生中这个重要的转折点，我希望你们能引以为豪。

I know that all of you have worked hard to get here, but let me also acknowledge the contributions of your parents, family members, teachers, mentors and friends who have supported you on your road to Stanford.Without them, the journey here would have been more difficult and less rewarding.艰辛，也不会如此卓有成效。

我知道，你们中的每个人都曾经奋发努力才能来到这里，但我也感谢父母、家人、师长和朋友的贡献，他们曾为你踏上斯坦福之路给予支持。如果没有他们，这条路将会更加

In recognition of the tremendous support and encouragement you have received from these important people in your lives, let me invite our new students to show their appreciation with a round of applause.这些人在你们的生活中举足轻重，为你们提供了巨大的支持和鼓励，我谨邀请我们的新生以热烈的掌声对他们表示感谢。

?Students, I urge you to pursue your journey at Stanford with vigor.同学们，我强烈希望你们能以无比的热情投入到斯坦福的旅程中来。I hope that this beautiful campus will provide an ideal space for contemplation and inspiration to aid you in that journey.And I hope that you will find an intellectual pursuit that excites you and engages you so much that it will keep you up at night and get you out of bed early, even on the weekend!醉其中，能在深夜苦读，能够黎明即起，甚至连周末都不例外！

我希望，这个美丽的校园会为你们提供一个理想空间，让你们沉思，找到灵感，以助你们更好的旅行。我也希望，你们能够找到一种智慧的追求，能够激励你们，让你们沉

I hope that you find a passion that matches your own talents, so that you may discover, as I did, something that you can pursue for the rest of your life with enthusiasm and joy.我希望你们能找到一种激情，无愧于自己的天分，如此你们就能像我一样，找到足以令你穷尽一生追求的目标，而且充满热情，乐此不疲。

?Students, while I cannot make any predictions about what paths each of you will take in your journey at Stanford, I urge you to begin this process of intellectual discovery, just as Sen.Leland Stanford urged at the opening day ceremonies for the first freshman class in 1891: 同学们，你们在斯坦福的旅程中将踏上什么 样的道路，我无从预言，但我强烈希望你们能够遵循李兰德坦福参议员在1891年的开学典礼上对第一届新生提出的要求来开始你们探索智慧的旅程：

?A university may be founded for you;in it, you may study for many years with all the advantages of learning.All that we can do for you is to place the opportunities within your reach;it rests with you to grasp and improve them.大学可以为你们而建立；在此，你们可以利用各种优越的学习条件进行多年的学习。我们所能做的，只是把机会放在你们伸手可及的范围内；抓住机会，利用机会，得靠你们自己。

I welcome all our new students and their parents, not just to the campus but to the Stanford family.Students, I hope your time here transforms your lives, just as it has transformed the lives of so many alumni.And, finally, I hope your time here will help to provide a foundation on which you will make your contributions to humanity and to a better future for yourselves and the generations that will follow.我欢迎所有的新生和家长来到我们的校园，并融入斯坦福家族。同学们，我希望你们在此渡过的时光能改变你们的生活，正如它改变了很多以前的校友的生活那样。最后，我希望你们在此度过的时光能够有助于你们打下良好的基础，以便你们能为人类做出贡献，为自己和后代创造更美好的未来。