当海盗比加入海军更有意思。[1987年《Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple》（冒险历程：从百事到苹果）一书引用的他于1982年说的话]
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年轻的时候你看着电视，以为背后有一个阴谋，电视台要合谋把我们的头脑变得更简单。但年纪大一些过后你就意识到不是这样的。人们要什么，电视台随时就给什么。这样的想法更让人沮丧。阴谋论是乐观的！你可以朝那些混蛋开火！我们可以来一场革命！但电视台实际上是随时准备满足人们的需要。这就是真相。[《连线》杂志，1996年2月]
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我相信人类是高贵的，是光荣的，其中一部分非常聪明，从这方面来讲我是一名乐观主义者。我对个体的看法非常乐观。人作为个体在本质是上好的。对于作为群体的人，我的看法就悲观一些。看到我们国家发生的事情，我仍然是极度担心。从很多方面讲，我们的国家都是世界上最幸运的地方，然而我们似乎不是很想为了自己的孩子把我们国家建设得更好。[《连线》杂志，1996年2月]
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关于……
没有谁想死。甚至想去天堂的人也不想为了去天堂而死。但死亡是我们所有人的目的地，没有谁跑掉过。本来也应该是这样，因为“死”很有可能就是“生”的最佳发明。它是“生”的变革促进者。它把旧的清理掉，为新的让路。眼下你是新的，但不久过后的某一天，你慢慢地就成了旧的，被清理掉了。很遗憾变化是如此剧烈，但这相当真实。
你的时间是有限的，所以不要把它浪费在走别人的人生道路上面。不要受教条羁绊，那是在用别人的思考成果活着。不要让他人意见的噪音淹没你内心深处的声音。最重要的是，要有勇气听从内心和直觉的召唤。它们或多或少已经知道你真正想成为一个什么样的人。其他一切都是次要的。[2005年6月在斯坦福大学(Stanford)毕业典礼上的演讲]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
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On Life And One More Thing
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” [1982, quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987]
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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.” [Wired, February 1996]
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“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” [Wired, February 1996]
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And One More Thing
“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.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
本文涉及股票或公司
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” [1982, quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987]
***
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.” [Wired, February 1996]
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“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” [Wired, February 1996]
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And One More Thing
“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.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
本文涉及股票或公司
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