Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry-苹果总裁乔布斯（二）

王清

     My second story is about love and loss.我的第二个故事，有关爱与失落。
   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.
     Wozniak在我爸妈的车库里开始了苹果计算机的事业。我们拼命工作，苹果计算机在十年间从一间车库里的两个小伙子扩展成了一家员工超过四千人、市价二十亿美-金的公司，在那之前一年推出了我们最棒的作品－麦金塔，而我才刚迈入人生的第三十个年头，然后被炒鱿鱼。怎么会让自己创办的公司炒自己鱿鱼？好吧，当苹果计算机-成长后，我请了一个我以为他在经营公司上很有才干的家伙来，他在头一年也确实干得不错。可是后来我们对未来的看法开始有分歧，最后只好分道扬镳。当这发生时，董-事会站在他那边，炒了我鱿鱼，公开把我请了出去。曾经是我整个成年生活重心的东西不见了，令我不知所措。
   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.
   有几个月，我实在不知道要干什么好。我觉得我令企业界的-前辈们失望—-我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我见了创办惠普（HP)的David Packard跟创英特尔(Intel)的Bob Noyce，跟他们说我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厉害了。我成了公众非常的负面示范，我甚至想要离开硅谷。但是渐渐的，我发现，我还是喜爱着我做过的事情，在苹果的-日子经历的事件没有丝毫改变我爱做的事。我被否定了，可是我还是爱做那些事情，所以我决定从头来过。
   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.
    当时我没发现，但是现在看来，被苹果计算机开除，是我所经历过最好的事情。成功的沉重包袱被从头再来的轻装上阵所取代，每件事情都不那么确定，让我自由进入这辈-子最有创意的时期。
   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.
     接下来五年，我开了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又开一家叫Pixar的公司，并和一位令人神魂颠倒的女士坠入爱河，她后来成了我的妻子。Pixar接着制作了世界-上第一部全计算机动画电影，玩具总动员，现在是世界上最成功的动画制作公司。然后，苹果计算机买下了NeXT，我回到了苹果，我们在NeXT发展的技术成了苹果-计算机后来复兴的核心。劳伦和我也有了个美妙的家庭。
   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.
     我很确定，如果当年苹果计算机没开除我，所有这些事就不会发生。这帖药很苦口，但我想病人需要它。有时候，人生中会遇到当头一棒，不要丧失信心。我确信，我爱我-所做的事情，这就是这些年来让我继续走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你爱的，工作上是如此，对情人也是如此。你的工作将填满你的一大块人生，唯一获得真正满足的方法-就是做你相信是伟大的工作，而唯一做伟大工作的方法是爱你所做的事。如果你还没找到这些事，继续找，别停顿。尽你全心全力，你知道你一定会找到。而且，如同任何-伟大的关系，事情只会随着时间愈来愈好。所以，在你找到之前，继续找，别停顿。