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.

你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、命运、生命、因缘……这种信念从来都没有令我失望 过，而且让我的生命更加与众不同。

And much of what l stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

追随我的好奇心和直觉，我所投入过的大部分事情，后来看都是无比珍贵的。

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

求知若饥，虚心若愚。

——Commencement Address at Stanford University, June 12,2005

——2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a picec of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful picec of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

如果你是个木匠，正在做漂亮的衣柜，你是不会用胶合板来做衣柜的背板，哪怕背板对着墙没有人会看到，但是你知道，所以你依然会使用好木材来制作柜子的背板。为了能睡得安心，产品的艺术感和质量都要一直保持下去。

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

我们只是对我们所做的事情充满热情。

If you want to live your life In a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

如果你想活得有创造性，像一个艺术家一样，就不要深陷于过去。你必须乐于接受自己的过去，然后将它们丢弃。

We attract a different type of person-a person who doesn't want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get In a little over his head and make a little dent In the universe.

我们吸引了一种不同的人——这种人不会等上5年或10年后，让人们在他或她身上冒巨大的风险，他们会真的去挑战一些看似不可能的事情，最终引起全世界的关注。

——Playboy, February1, 1985

——1985年2月1日《花花公子》

I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested In people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

人们重视经验，不重视智慧。我看过很多人都在沉思冥想，但似乎没什么功效。所以，我对那些能超越有形物质的人物或者是形而上的学说很感兴趣，也开始注意到比知觉及意识更高的层次——直觉与顿悟。

——Return to the Little Kingdom, 2009

——2009年《重返小王国》

We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?

活着就是为了改变世界，难道还有其他原因吗？

——Job's blog

——乔布斯的博客

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance...

Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right,that you're passionate about; otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

我坚信，在一定程度上说，划分企业家成功和不成功的标准很简单，就是看他是否执著。除非你拥有足够的热情，否则你很难坚持下来，中途就会放弃。所以你需要拥有一个好的主意，或者要遇到一个问题，或者犯了一个错，总之你要有热情释放的需求;不然的话，你很难持之以恒。

—Smithsonian lnstitution Oral and Video Histories, April 20,1995

——1995年4月20日史密松视听历史学会

Once you get into the problem...you see that it's complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going, find the underlying problem,and come up with an elegant solution that works on every level.

每次着手解决一个问题的时候……你觉得它太复杂了，也用了各种复杂的方案来处理它。这时大多数人都会停下来，你的解决方案似乎也能奏效一段时间。而真正优秀的人，将一直坚持，找到问题的症结，给出一个能一劳永逸的漂亮方案。

——Apple Design,1997

——1997年苹果开发者大会

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.

其实简单比复杂更难，因为你必须尽力理清思路才能做到简单。但最终这样做是值得的，因为一旦你做到了简单，你就能移山填海。

——Business Week, May 25,1998

——1998年5月25日《商业周刊》

My job is not to be easy on people.My job is to make them better.

我的工作不是让员工轻松，我的工作是让他们变得更优秀。

——Fortune,February,2008

——2008年2月《财富》杂志

My job is to create a space for them,to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay...This is the neatest group of people l've ever worked with.

我的工作就是为他们清除团队中的害群之马，扫清障碍，为他们提供创造的空间……这是我合作过的最棒的团队了。

——Macworld,no.1February,1984

——1984年2月第一期《Macworld》杂志

By expecting them to do great things,you can get them to do great things.

你期待他们做出好成绩，你就能让他们做出好成绩。

——Steve Jobs,October24,2011

——2011年10月24日《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》