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编者按：有人说，有三只苹果改变了世界，一只诱惑了夏娃，一只砸醒了牛顿，还有一只握在乔布斯手中。这个评价公允与否先放到一边，苹果是“智慧之果”，乔布斯对于世界的意义，也许不在于有众多果粉的“苹果”，而在于他对着“智慧之果”“咬”下去的那一口。
《史蒂夫•乔布斯传》由著名作家沃尔特•艾萨克森(Walter Isaacson)在过去两年与乔布斯面对面交流40多次、对乔布斯100多位家庭成员、朋友、竞争对手和同事的采访的基础上撰写而成，是一本人物传记，也是硅谷的历史传记。小编节选了书中乔帮主自己的一段独白，他曾经说愿意用自己的全部科技来换取与苏格拉底一个下午的相处，希望大家愿意花费半小时来换取与乔布斯的心灵交流。
Steve Jobs（Excerpt）
[1] My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It’s a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything: the people you hire, who gets promoted, what you discuss in meetings.
[2] Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’” People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
[3] Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main distinction of my career. The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side. In the seventies computers became a way for people to express their creativity. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were also great at science. Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor.
[4] People pay us to integrate things for them, because they don’t have the time to think about this stuff 24/7. If you have an extreme passion for producing great products, it pushes you to be integrated, to connect your hardware and your software and content management. You want to break new ground, so you have to do it yourself. If you want to allow your products to be open to other hardware or software, you have to give up some of your vision.
……
[5] I don’t think I run roughshod over people, but if something sucks, I tell people to their face. It’s my job to be honest. I know what I’m talking about, and I usually turn out to be right. That’s the culture I tried to create. We are brutally honest with each other, and anyone can tell me they think I am full of shit and I can tell them the same. And we’ve had some rip-roaring arguments, where we are yelling at each other, and it’s some of the best times I’ve ever had. I feel totally comfortable saying “Ron, that store looks like shit” in front of everyone else. Or I might say “God, we really fucked up the engineering on this” in front of the person that’s responsible. That’s the ante for being in the room: You’ve got to be able to be super honest. Maybe there’s a better way, a gentlemen’s club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and velvet code-words, but I don’t know that way, because I am middle class from California.
[6] I was hard on people sometimes, probably harder than I needed to be. I remember the time when Reed was six years old, coming home, and I had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family and his young son that he had lost his job. It was hard. But somebody’s got to do it. I figured that it was always my job to make sure that the team was excellent, and if I didn’t do it, nobody was going to do it.
[7] You always have to keep pushing to innovate. Dylan could have sung protest songs forever and probably made a lot of money, but he didn’t. He had to move on, and when he did, by going electric in 1965, he alienated a lot of people. His 1966 Europe tour was his greatest. He would come on and do a set of acoustic guitar, and the audiences loved him. Then he brought out what became The Band, and they would all do an electric set, and the audience sometimes booed. There was one point where he was about to sing “Like a Rolling Stone” and someone from the audience yells “Judas!” And Dylan then says, “Play it fucking loud!” And they did. The Beatles were the same way. They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
[8] What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how—because we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what has driven me.
史蒂夫• 乔布斯传（节选）
[1] 我的激情所在是打造一家可以传世的公司，这家公司里的人动力十足地创造伟大的产品。其他一切都是第二位的。当然，能赚钱很棒，因为那样你才能够制造伟大的产品。但是动力来自产品，而不是利润。斯卡利本末倒置，把赚钱当成了目标。这种差别很微妙，但它却会影响每一件事：你聘用谁，提拔谁，会议上讨论什么事情。
[2] 有些人说：“消费者想要什么就给他们什么。”但那不是我的方式。我们的责任是提前一步搞清楚他们将来想要什么。我记得亨利• 福特曾说过，“如果我最初是问消费者他们想要什么，他们应该是会告诉我，‘要一匹更快的马！’”人们不知道想要什么，直到你把它摆在他们面前。正因如此，我从不依靠市场研究。我们的任务是读懂还没落到纸面上的东西。
[3] 宝丽来的埃德温•兰德曾谈到人文与科学的交集。我喜欢那个交集。那里有种魔力。有很多人在创新， 但那并不是我事业最主要的与众不同之处。苹果之所以能与人们产生共鸣，是因为在我们的创新中深藏着一种人文精神。我认为伟大的艺术家和伟大的工程师是相似的，他们都有自我表达的欲望。事实上最早做Mac的最优秀的人里，有些人同时也是诗人和音乐家。在2 0世纪7 0年代，计算机成为人们表现创造力的一种方式。一些伟大的艺术家， 像列奥纳多• 达• 芬奇和米开朗基罗， 同时也是伟大的科学家。米开朗基罗懂很多关于采石的知识，他不是只知道如何雕塑。
[4] 人们付钱让我们为他们整合东西，因为他们不能7天24小时地去想这些。如果你对生产伟大的产品有极大的激情，它会推着你去追求一体化，去把你的硬件、软件以及内容管理都整合在一起。你想开辟新的领域，就必须自己来做。如果你想让产品对其他硬件或软件开放，你就只能放弃一些愿景。
……
[5] 我不认为我对别人很苛刻，但如果谁把什么事搞砸了，我会当面跟他说。诚实是我的责任。我知道我在说什么，而且事实证明通常我是对的。那是我试图创建的文化。我们相互间诚实到残酷的地步，任何人都可以跟我说，他们认为我就是一堆狗屎，我也可以这样说他们。我们有过一些激烈的争吵，互相吼叫，那可以说是我最美好的一段时光。我在别人面前说“罗恩，那个商店看起来像坨屎”的时候没什么不良感觉。或者我会说“天啊，我们真他妈把这个工艺搞砸了”，就当着负责人的面。这就是我们的规矩：你就得超级诚实。也许有更好的方式，像个绅士俱乐部一样，大家都戴着领带，说着上等人的敬语，满嘴华丽委婉的词汇，但是我对此不太在行，因为我是来自加利福尼亚的中产阶级。
[6] 我有时候对别人很严厉，可能没有必要那么严厉。我还记得里德6岁时，他回到家，而我那天刚解雇了一个人，我当时就在想，一个人要怎样告诉他的家人和幼子他失业了。很不好受。但是必须有人去做这样的事。我认为确保团队的优秀始终是我的责任，如果我不去做这件事，没有人会去做。
[7] 你必须不断地去推动创新。迪伦本来可以一直唱抗议歌曲，可能会赚很多钱，但是他没有那么做。他必须向前走，1965年在民谣中融入电子音乐元素时，他疏远了很多人。1966 年的欧洲巡演是他的巅峰。他会先上台演奏原声吉他，观众非常喜欢。然后他会带出The Band 乐队，他们都演奏电子乐器，观众有时候就会喝倒彩。有一次他正要唱《像一块滚石》，观众中有人高喊“叛徒！”迪伦说：“搞他妈个震耳欲聋！”他们真那样做了。披头士乐队也一样。他们一直演变、前行、改进他们的艺术。那就是我一直试图做的事情——不断前进。否则，就如迪伦所说，如果你不忙着求生，你就在忙着求死。
[8] 我的动力是什么？我觉得，大多数创造者都想为我们能够得益于前人取得的成就而表达感激。我并没有发明我用的语言或数学。我的食物基本都不是我自己做的，衣服更是一件都没做过。我所做的每一件事都有赖于我们人类的其他成员，以及他们的贡献和成就。我们很多人都想回馈社会，在历史的长河中再添上一笔。我们只能用这种大多数人都掌握的方式去表达——因为我们不会写鲍勃• 迪伦 (Bob Dylan) 的歌或汤姆• 斯托帕德 (Tom Stoppard) 的戏剧。我们试图用我们仅有的天分去表达我们深层的感受，去表达我们对前人所有贡献的感激，去为历史长河加上一点儿什么。那就是推动我的力量。
《史蒂夫•乔布斯传》由著名作家沃尔特•艾萨克森(Walter Isaacson)在过去两年与乔布斯面对面交流40多次、对乔布斯100多位家庭成员、朋友、竞争对手和同事的采访的基础上撰写而成，是一本人物传记，也是硅谷的历史传记。小编节选了书中乔帮主自己的一段独白，他曾经说愿意用自己的全部科技来换取与苏格拉底一个下午的相处，希望大家愿意花费半小时来换取与乔布斯的心灵交流。
Steve Jobs（Excerpt）
[1] My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It’s a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything: the people you hire, who gets promoted, what you discuss in meetings.
[2] Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’” People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
[3] Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main distinction of my career. The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side. In the seventies computers became a way for people to express their creativity. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were also great at science. Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor.
[4] People pay us to integrate things for them, because they don’t have the time to think about this stuff 24/7. If you have an extreme passion for producing great products, it pushes you to be integrated, to connect your hardware and your software and content management. You want to break new ground, so you have to do it yourself. If you want to allow your products to be open to other hardware or software, you have to give up some of your vision.
……
[5] I don’t think I run roughshod over people, but if something sucks, I tell people to their face. It’s my job to be honest. I know what I’m talking about, and I usually turn out to be right. That’s the culture I tried to create. We are brutally honest with each other, and anyone can tell me they think I am full of shit and I can tell them the same. And we’ve had some rip-roaring arguments, where we are yelling at each other, and it’s some of the best times I’ve ever had. I feel totally comfortable saying “Ron, that store looks like shit” in front of everyone else. Or I might say “God, we really fucked up the engineering on this” in front of the person that’s responsible. That’s the ante for being in the room: You’ve got to be able to be super honest. Maybe there’s a better way, a gentlemen’s club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and velvet code-words, but I don’t know that way, because I am middle class from California.
[6] I was hard on people sometimes, probably harder than I needed to be. I remember the time when Reed was six years old, coming home, and I had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family and his young son that he had lost his job. It was hard. But somebody’s got to do it. I figured that it was always my job to make sure that the team was excellent, and if I didn’t do it, nobody was going to do it.
[7] You always have to keep pushing to innovate. Dylan could have sung protest songs forever and probably made a lot of money, but he didn’t. He had to move on, and when he did, by going electric in 1965, he alienated a lot of people. His 1966 Europe tour was his greatest. He would come on and do a set of acoustic guitar, and the audiences loved him. Then he brought out what became The Band, and they would all do an electric set, and the audience sometimes booed. There was one point where he was about to sing “Like a Rolling Stone” and someone from the audience yells “Judas!” And Dylan then says, “Play it fucking loud!” And they did. The Beatles were the same way. They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
[8] What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how—because we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what has driven me.
史蒂夫• 乔布斯传（节选）
[1] 我的激情所在是打造一家可以传世的公司，这家公司里的人动力十足地创造伟大的产品。其他一切都是第二位的。当然，能赚钱很棒，因为那样你才能够制造伟大的产品。但是动力来自产品，而不是利润。斯卡利本末倒置，把赚钱当成了目标。这种差别很微妙，但它却会影响每一件事：你聘用谁，提拔谁，会议上讨论什么事情。
[2] 有些人说：“消费者想要什么就给他们什么。”但那不是我的方式。我们的责任是提前一步搞清楚他们将来想要什么。我记得亨利• 福特曾说过，“如果我最初是问消费者他们想要什么，他们应该是会告诉我，‘要一匹更快的马！’”人们不知道想要什么，直到你把它摆在他们面前。正因如此，我从不依靠市场研究。我们的任务是读懂还没落到纸面上的东西。
[3] 宝丽来的埃德温•兰德曾谈到人文与科学的交集。我喜欢那个交集。那里有种魔力。有很多人在创新， 但那并不是我事业最主要的与众不同之处。苹果之所以能与人们产生共鸣，是因为在我们的创新中深藏着一种人文精神。我认为伟大的艺术家和伟大的工程师是相似的，他们都有自我表达的欲望。事实上最早做Mac的最优秀的人里，有些人同时也是诗人和音乐家。在2 0世纪7 0年代，计算机成为人们表现创造力的一种方式。一些伟大的艺术家， 像列奥纳多• 达• 芬奇和米开朗基罗， 同时也是伟大的科学家。米开朗基罗懂很多关于采石的知识，他不是只知道如何雕塑。
[4] 人们付钱让我们为他们整合东西，因为他们不能7天24小时地去想这些。如果你对生产伟大的产品有极大的激情，它会推着你去追求一体化，去把你的硬件、软件以及内容管理都整合在一起。你想开辟新的领域，就必须自己来做。如果你想让产品对其他硬件或软件开放，你就只能放弃一些愿景。
……
[5] 我不认为我对别人很苛刻，但如果谁把什么事搞砸了，我会当面跟他说。诚实是我的责任。我知道我在说什么，而且事实证明通常我是对的。那是我试图创建的文化。我们相互间诚实到残酷的地步，任何人都可以跟我说，他们认为我就是一堆狗屎，我也可以这样说他们。我们有过一些激烈的争吵，互相吼叫，那可以说是我最美好的一段时光。我在别人面前说“罗恩，那个商店看起来像坨屎”的时候没什么不良感觉。或者我会说“天啊，我们真他妈把这个工艺搞砸了”，就当着负责人的面。这就是我们的规矩：你就得超级诚实。也许有更好的方式，像个绅士俱乐部一样，大家都戴着领带，说着上等人的敬语，满嘴华丽委婉的词汇，但是我对此不太在行，因为我是来自加利福尼亚的中产阶级。
[6] 我有时候对别人很严厉，可能没有必要那么严厉。我还记得里德6岁时，他回到家，而我那天刚解雇了一个人，我当时就在想，一个人要怎样告诉他的家人和幼子他失业了。很不好受。但是必须有人去做这样的事。我认为确保团队的优秀始终是我的责任，如果我不去做这件事，没有人会去做。
[7] 你必须不断地去推动创新。迪伦本来可以一直唱抗议歌曲，可能会赚很多钱，但是他没有那么做。他必须向前走，1965年在民谣中融入电子音乐元素时，他疏远了很多人。1966 年的欧洲巡演是他的巅峰。他会先上台演奏原声吉他，观众非常喜欢。然后他会带出The Band 乐队，他们都演奏电子乐器，观众有时候就会喝倒彩。有一次他正要唱《像一块滚石》，观众中有人高喊“叛徒！”迪伦说：“搞他妈个震耳欲聋！”他们真那样做了。披头士乐队也一样。他们一直演变、前行、改进他们的艺术。那就是我一直试图做的事情——不断前进。否则，就如迪伦所说，如果你不忙着求生，你就在忙着求死。
[8] 我的动力是什么？我觉得，大多数创造者都想为我们能够得益于前人取得的成就而表达感激。我并没有发明我用的语言或数学。我的食物基本都不是我自己做的，衣服更是一件都没做过。我所做的每一件事都有赖于我们人类的其他成员，以及他们的贡献和成就。我们很多人都想回馈社会，在历史的长河中再添上一笔。我们只能用这种大多数人都掌握的方式去表达——因为我们不会写鲍勃• 迪伦 (Bob Dylan) 的歌或汤姆• 斯托帕德 (Tom Stoppard) 的戏剧。我们试图用我们仅有的天分去表达我们深层的感受，去表达我们对前人所有贡献的感激，去为历史长河加上一点儿什么。那就是推动我的力量。