iPhone 4S電池最短命
iPhone4S刷新蘋果產品熱賣紀錄，但同時也創下 iPhone電池消耗最快的紀錄，用家在網上議論紛紛，研究電池「短命」的元凶，一般認為跟 Siri語音助理無關。蘋果則聯絡了部份機主，要求在手機安裝監測程式，收集數據以研究解決方法。 據官方規格資料， iPhone4S號稱所用 A5處理器有更佳能源效益，但備用時間僅得200小時，遠少於 iPhone4的300小時，甚至較四年前首代 iPhone少50小時，儘管3G通話時間比上代多一句鐘有8小時。蘋果沒有說明備用時間少的因由。 未來 iPad 隔空揮手操作 有用戶指，在網上論壇討論過 iPhone4S電力問題後，有蘋果工程師接觸他。「我發現手機備用時間每小時跌10%，很嚴重，試過關掉 Siri和定位服務，也試過刪除所有 apps程式，但都沒用。」該用戶說：「有蘋果工程師看到我的貼文後聯絡我，他坦認電池有問題，但未想到辦法。」工程師請他幫忙安裝監測程式，他答應了。 有記者做測試，認為 iPhone4S電力消耗快慢，似乎不受使用 Siri、 Wi-Fi和定位服務的影響，但使用 Google Contacts和 MobileMe並開啟流動數據時，電力消耗最快。 蘋果在加把勁解決 iPhone4S電池問題之餘，也在努力開發新技術，據文件顯示，蘋果已申請用3D手勢控制 iPad的專利，意味未來 iPad可讓用戶隔空揮手操作。
火包武將詳解之龐統篇
【連環】——出牌階段，你可以將你任意一張梅花手牌當【鐵索連環】使用或重鑄。
【涅槃】——限定技，當你處於瀕死狀態時，你可以丟棄你所有的牌和你判定區裡的牌，並重置你的武將牌，然後摸三張牌且體力回復至3點。
【涅槃】——限定技，當你處於瀕死狀態時，你可以丟棄你所有的牌和你判定區裡的牌，並重置你的武將牌，然後摸三張牌且體力回復至3點。
★龐統做主公時，發動涅槃後也只將體力回復至3點。
技能
【連環】是龐統的核心技能，技能描述是龐統可以將梅花手牌當【鐵索連環】使用或重鑄。而【鐵索連環】這張錦囊可以說是兼具輸出威懾和控制，配合屬性傷害可以實現高精度的破防打擊和大範圍打擊。
【連環】是龐統的核心技能，技能描述是龐統可以將梅花手牌當【鐵索連環】使用或重鑄。而【鐵索連環】這張錦囊可以說是兼具輸出威懾和控制，配合屬性傷害可以實現高精度的破防打擊和大範圍打擊。
可以連接多個敵人，以便達到“傷一敵可連其百”的效果；也可以連接我方皮糙肉厚不怕掉血的烈士與敵法防禦極高很難破防的刺猬，如連接我方郭嘉與敵方甄姬、連接我方劉備與敵方張角等，此類連接只需記住一個核心——利大於弊；若身為反賊，還可連接我方即將死亡的同伴與主公，然後什麼裸衣酒火殺之類毫不客氣的招呼上去，即可完美補刀，又能對主公造成大量傷害，何樂而不為？
同樣，既然是可將梅花手牌當作鐵索連環使用，那當然也可進行重鑄，而用不掉的梅花牌，除了殺剩下的就是裝備牌，沒有太大的保留價值，所以說如果說場上暫時不需要使用到連鎖功能，而手牌又還有剩餘的話，那大可將使用不掉的梅花牌進行重鑄，換取新的手牌，說不定爆發的契機就在於下一張牌。
【連環】雖然強大，但無可避免的則是龐統的防禦力大幅度下降，在加上脆弱的3血，很可能被暴力裸衣男一刀致命。這時候【涅槃】則起到了防禦補充的作用。
每位脆弱的三血武將都會有一個核心技能與一個保命技能，如老諸葛的【空城】、臥龍諸葛的【八陣】、也如同鳳雛的【涅槃】。【涅槃】的存在不僅讓龐統多了一條命，同時配合【連環】技能、藤甲、火攻這些因素後，一種自殺式的襲擊誕生了。
將敵方武將與自己全部連起來，再裝備上神器藤甲，一張明亮的火攻對著自己燒去，自己光榮犧牲後原地複活，但其他武將可沒這麼神奇的技能，不夠兩血卻又沒桃的話只能乖乖領盒飯了。
身份
主公：龐統作為主公也是個不錯的非主流選擇。【連環】技能可配合忠臣加大對反賊的輸出，也可解鎖自己以求自保，【涅槃】的存在也能確保龐統具備一定的存活能力，不至於很快的醬油掉。但須注意的是身為主公保命才是第一要素，所以請隨時保留一定的手牌數量，不要太過隨意的發動【連環】。
忠臣：作為忠臣的龐統具有很好的適應性，除了長相外嘲諷值極低，很易存活。而【連鎖】也能很好的配合主忠輸出，關鍵時刻也可化身恐怖份子，犧牲小我拯救世界。但須注意的是，龐統雖然具備片傷能力，但他本身並不是一個強力輸出，所以當主公是劉備時，需慎重考慮是否選擇龐統作為忠臣，若另一個忠臣也是如呂蒙、周泰等醬油黨，那就會相當悲劇；而龐統與袁紹之間也缺乏一定配合，如果真要說配合的話，那我只能說，主公，盡情的萬箭吧，我能複活！
反賊：身為反賊，不怕死是最基本的品質，只要利益足夠，只要死得其所，那就毫不猶豫的去吧，更何況還能滿血滿BUFF原地複活！隨時讓主忠保持在連鎖狀態，只要機會得當果斷連鎖上自己，然後裝上藤甲等待隊友們的鞭撻吧！當然，若隊友中存在張角，那就別沒事找死連自己了，能連幾個忠是幾個忠，最重要的當然還是殺主公。
內奸：神級內奸的第一素質是什麼？不嘲諷！作為一個除了長相外完全不嘲諷的角色，龐統無疑能勝任這份角色，唯一需要注意的就是，毫無輸出的你，寧願面對主內反，也千萬不能打成主忠內！
《讓子彈飛》的政治隱喻
「馬列」翻車
電影一開始，馬匹拉著列車，帶著買官的縣長家眷走馬上任鵝城，被山頭麻匪劫車，車毀人亡。故事開始已明顯表態，腐敗的官僚以「馬列」為乘載工具，不但不受到老百姓的歡迎，一開始已告失敗。
官婦如妓女
劉嘉玲飾演的縣長夫人，她的丈夫因為保命而謊稱不是縣長，而她對張麻子搶奪了丈夫的位置不但不反感，更不反抗。電影內張麻子一本正經地說：「夫人，兄弟我此番只為劫財，不為劫色。有槍在此，若是兄弟我有冒犯夫人的舉動，你可以隨時幹掉我。」但劉嘉玲卻千嬌百媚地說：「一夜夫妻百夜恩吶。反正呢，我就是想當縣長夫人。誰是縣長，我無所謂！」幾句對白，已將現今內地社會不知廉恥只顧權貴的醜態表現得淋漓盡致。
「六四」事件
張麻子的第六義子，雖是麻匪卻有志向留學遠洋，簡單描述已表明了他的身份暗喻，但是因他的簡單直率，被奸詐的黃四郎所害死，而他餘下的六位兄弟，在他以六字形態的墳頭前，發誓要為他報仇。
筒子面具
麻匪帶著筒子面具作案，黃四郎的部下也載著筒子面具假扮麻匪。而筒子諧音「同志」，文革期間人與人之間的稱呼，戴著同志的面具，沒有了人面，沒了人的良心，電影內一幕民女被帶「同志面具」的人污辱，暗示當人失去了自己時，就沒了人性。不論文革、六四還是近年的法輪功打壓，中共就是讓那些參與暴力的人（紅衛兵、軍隊或公安）變成帶上面具的木偶，喪失人性，濫殺無辜。
人民起義
當然全片的高潮出現在張麻子鼓動老百姓對付黃四郎的場景。百姓們已經習慣了黃四郎（中共官員）的橫徵暴斂，他們雖然恨他，卻不敢去反抗，最後還是只有張麻子一夥人衝鋒陷陣，不過以小數對大數，不足以立勝，當張麻子處死了黃四郎的替身，百姓誤以為黃四朗已死，不再害怕，於是衝進黃四郎的家裏，當著黃四郎的面將他家洗劫一空。這亦很明顯表示人們害怕的只是黃四郎這個形象、這個名字，一但當人們的心理障礙衝破，邪惡的人便無能為力了。
沒有「你」對「我」最重要
《讓子彈飛》最重要的一段對話發生在影片的結尾部份，可能就是被中共視為最大的「敏感內容」。張麻子在問黃四郎「你說是錢對我重要，還是你對我重要？」之後接著說：「你和錢，對於我來說都不重要，沒有你，對我很重要。」
馬拉火車在片頭、片尾強化出現，「讓子彈飛一會兒」在片名、片頭、片中一再出現，蒙面的麻將面具「筒子」反覆出現，屁股的意象在武舉人被打、師爺屁股被炸出現，花姐舉槍的姿勢與張麻子學她的姿勢，尤其是關於鵝的意象，除了鵝城之名、廣場上的鵝、衝擊碉樓路上跟隨張麻子等人的鵝之外，影片甚至讓跟隨武舉人的混混每人抱著一隻鵝……導演似乎怕觀眾忽略或不理解這些他特別設計的意象和符號， 不斷加、對比強化，乃至於讓人有用力過頭的感覺，以電影中台詞來說就是「不是他媽的不用力，是他媽的太他媽的用力了」，而觀眾不認真解讀這些意向，還怕真對不起姜文的用心和演員們的「用力」。
對於這些具體的象徵符號，觀眾還能有比較一致的解讀，比如馬拉火車隱喻革命後的中國和現實中國是表裏不一致；屁股，就是隱喻武舉人、師爺這些投機分子、勢利者的「屁股決定腦袋」；「筒子」諧音「同志」，也帶出國粹麻將所隱藏的國民性；鵝象徵麻木自私、膽小怯懦、隨波逐流的芸芸眾生；光著膀子的群眾代表「衣」無所有的無產者；張麻子代表革命理想主義者，黃四郎象徵革命後的既得利益者……
然而，這些象徵符號的加及隱喻的模糊多義，以及歷史與現實之間的魔幻轉換，讓觀眾對這些意象的進一步解讀千變萬化，不一而足。康城與鵝城，是代表「誑」城與「訛」城，還是代表理想中的小康之城與現實的飢餓之地；上海與浦東，到底是不是一體？張麻子的革命英雄主義是失敗還是成功？黃四郎的潰敗毀滅，是集權專制的潰敗，還是權貴資本主義的終結？
重口味的觀眾發現中國出現了真正的美國式西部大片，大呼過癮，熱血沸騰。影評人「夢見烏鴉」說：「這部電影給人的感覺就是狂野灑脫，機智幽默，還有那抹不去的雄性氣息……片中美得令人心碎的川西風景和久石讓優美流暢又始終騷動不安的音樂，在環境的烘托下，大量的鬥智鬥勇搭配稀奇古怪的大計小策，箭在弦上的緊張氣息中又貫穿著令人噴飯的對白與情節，還有馬戰、槍戰、巷戰等諸多大場面鏡頭，同時點綴了蕩氣迴腸的兄弟情誼和一抹亂世愛情，將本片打造為一部融合了江湖熱血和黑色幽默，突破中國傳統大片風格的姜文式大片。」
重慶人看到諷刺唱紅打黑，上海人看到浦東開發的狂熱。有人說，鵝城的城門口還有一灘水，那就是朝天門；張麻子打擊黃四郎，「是電影版的打黑反腐」。有人說，片尾的火車奔向浦東，就是奔向改革開放，是中國人在追求富裕的生活……
最強大的「索隱帝」是一片名為「《讓子彈飛》的一些暗線，隱喻，野心和吹捧」的帖子，從辛亥革命的線索考證了張麻子跟隨蔡鍔、黃四郎曾參與辛亥革命的「歷史」，不過作者認為姜文的「站著也能把錢賺了」是針對中國電影界的潛規則「跪著才能賺錢」而言。其他如「讓子彈飛中的隱喻大解密」、「《讓子彈飛》中的政治隱喻小解析」、「《讓子彈飛》的官場隱喻」這類文章更是不勝枚舉。
當然，也有一些對電影隱喻的考證、解讀讓人感覺「扯」得太遠，甚至匪夷所思。例如，把馬拉火車解讀為「馬列主義」，還可以是一種笑談，而從張麻子在民國八年做縣長解讀出「零八憲章」和劉曉波來，就讓人大跌眼鏡；還有人說，電影還有「八九六四」的隱喻，那就是民國八年「九筒」（指張麻子作為大哥戴「九筒」的面具）帶領六個弟兄幹掉了黃四郎……這些也許是過度解讀、隨意發揮，雖然在一定程度上歪曲了電影，弱化了對電影價值的探求，但客觀上卻是一種社會情緒的反映，是湧動的人心時刻在「借題發揮」。
電影一開始，馬匹拉著列車，帶著買官的縣長家眷走馬上任鵝城，被山頭麻匪劫車，車毀人亡。故事開始已明顯表態，腐敗的官僚以「馬列」為乘載工具，不但不受到老百姓的歡迎，一開始已告失敗。
官婦如妓女
劉嘉玲飾演的縣長夫人，她的丈夫因為保命而謊稱不是縣長，而她對張麻子搶奪了丈夫的位置不但不反感，更不反抗。電影內張麻子一本正經地說：「夫人，兄弟我此番只為劫財，不為劫色。有槍在此，若是兄弟我有冒犯夫人的舉動，你可以隨時幹掉我。」但劉嘉玲卻千嬌百媚地說：「一夜夫妻百夜恩吶。反正呢，我就是想當縣長夫人。誰是縣長，我無所謂！」幾句對白，已將現今內地社會不知廉恥只顧權貴的醜態表現得淋漓盡致。
「六四」事件
張麻子的第六義子，雖是麻匪卻有志向留學遠洋，簡單描述已表明了他的身份暗喻，但是因他的簡單直率，被奸詐的黃四郎所害死，而他餘下的六位兄弟，在他以六字形態的墳頭前，發誓要為他報仇。
筒子面具
麻匪帶著筒子面具作案，黃四郎的部下也載著筒子面具假扮麻匪。而筒子諧音「同志」，文革期間人與人之間的稱呼，戴著同志的面具，沒有了人面，沒了人的良心，電影內一幕民女被帶「同志面具」的人污辱，暗示當人失去了自己時，就沒了人性。不論文革、六四還是近年的法輪功打壓，中共就是讓那些參與暴力的人（紅衛兵、軍隊或公安）變成帶上面具的木偶，喪失人性，濫殺無辜。
人民起義
當然全片的高潮出現在張麻子鼓動老百姓對付黃四郎的場景。百姓們已經習慣了黃四郎（中共官員）的橫徵暴斂，他們雖然恨他，卻不敢去反抗，最後還是只有張麻子一夥人衝鋒陷陣，不過以小數對大數，不足以立勝，當張麻子處死了黃四郎的替身，百姓誤以為黃四朗已死，不再害怕，於是衝進黃四郎的家裏，當著黃四郎的面將他家洗劫一空。這亦很明顯表示人們害怕的只是黃四郎這個形象、這個名字，一但當人們的心理障礙衝破，邪惡的人便無能為力了。
沒有「你」對「我」最重要
《讓子彈飛》最重要的一段對話發生在影片的結尾部份，可能就是被中共視為最大的「敏感內容」。張麻子在問黃四郎「你說是錢對我重要，還是你對我重要？」之後接著說：「你和錢，對於我來說都不重要，沒有你，對我很重要。」
馬拉火車在片頭、片尾強化出現，「讓子彈飛一會兒」在片名、片頭、片中一再出現，蒙面的麻將面具「筒子」反覆出現，屁股的意象在武舉人被打、師爺屁股被炸出現，花姐舉槍的姿勢與張麻子學她的姿勢，尤其是關於鵝的意象，除了鵝城之名、廣場上的鵝、衝擊碉樓路上跟隨張麻子等人的鵝之外，影片甚至讓跟隨武舉人的混混每人抱著一隻鵝……導演似乎怕觀眾忽略或不理解這些他特別設計的意象和符號， 不斷加、對比強化，乃至於讓人有用力過頭的感覺，以電影中台詞來說就是「不是他媽的不用力，是他媽的太他媽的用力了」，而觀眾不認真解讀這些意向，還怕真對不起姜文的用心和演員們的「用力」。
對於這些具體的象徵符號，觀眾還能有比較一致的解讀，比如馬拉火車隱喻革命後的中國和現實中國是表裏不一致；屁股，就是隱喻武舉人、師爺這些投機分子、勢利者的「屁股決定腦袋」；「筒子」諧音「同志」，也帶出國粹麻將所隱藏的國民性；鵝象徵麻木自私、膽小怯懦、隨波逐流的芸芸眾生；光著膀子的群眾代表「衣」無所有的無產者；張麻子代表革命理想主義者，黃四郎象徵革命後的既得利益者……
然而，這些象徵符號的加及隱喻的模糊多義，以及歷史與現實之間的魔幻轉換，讓觀眾對這些意象的進一步解讀千變萬化，不一而足。康城與鵝城，是代表「誑」城與「訛」城，還是代表理想中的小康之城與現實的飢餓之地；上海與浦東，到底是不是一體？張麻子的革命英雄主義是失敗還是成功？黃四郎的潰敗毀滅，是集權專制的潰敗，還是權貴資本主義的終結？
重口味的觀眾發現中國出現了真正的美國式西部大片，大呼過癮，熱血沸騰。影評人「夢見烏鴉」說：「這部電影給人的感覺就是狂野灑脫，機智幽默，還有那抹不去的雄性氣息……片中美得令人心碎的川西風景和久石讓優美流暢又始終騷動不安的音樂，在環境的烘托下，大量的鬥智鬥勇搭配稀奇古怪的大計小策，箭在弦上的緊張氣息中又貫穿著令人噴飯的對白與情節，還有馬戰、槍戰、巷戰等諸多大場面鏡頭，同時點綴了蕩氣迴腸的兄弟情誼和一抹亂世愛情，將本片打造為一部融合了江湖熱血和黑色幽默，突破中國傳統大片風格的姜文式大片。」
重慶人看到諷刺唱紅打黑，上海人看到浦東開發的狂熱。有人說，鵝城的城門口還有一灘水，那就是朝天門；張麻子打擊黃四郎，「是電影版的打黑反腐」。有人說，片尾的火車奔向浦東，就是奔向改革開放，是中國人在追求富裕的生活……
最強大的「索隱帝」是一片名為「《讓子彈飛》的一些暗線，隱喻，野心和吹捧」的帖子，從辛亥革命的線索考證了張麻子跟隨蔡鍔、黃四郎曾參與辛亥革命的「歷史」，不過作者認為姜文的「站著也能把錢賺了」是針對中國電影界的潛規則「跪著才能賺錢」而言。其他如「讓子彈飛中的隱喻大解密」、「《讓子彈飛》中的政治隱喻小解析」、「《讓子彈飛》的官場隱喻」這類文章更是不勝枚舉。
當然，也有一些對電影隱喻的考證、解讀讓人感覺「扯」得太遠，甚至匪夷所思。例如，把馬拉火車解讀為「馬列主義」，還可以是一種笑談，而從張麻子在民國八年做縣長解讀出「零八憲章」和劉曉波來，就讓人大跌眼鏡；還有人說，電影還有「八九六四」的隱喻，那就是民國八年「九筒」（指張麻子作為大哥戴「九筒」的面具）帶領六個弟兄幹掉了黃四郎……這些也許是過度解讀、隨意發揮，雖然在一定程度上歪曲了電影，弱化了對電影價值的探求，但客觀上卻是一種社會情緒的反映，是湧動的人心時刻在「借題發揮」。
收 500萬 娜姐胸圍再現
擁D cup上圍嘅暴乳女神周秀娜（ Chrissie ）初出道憑噴血寫真加人形攬枕，成 功上位，坐穩模女神地位，之後仲做埋吸金女王。人紅自然錫身，轉投影壇嘅娜姐，近年唔行性感，每次出嚟都著到鬼咁密實。 最近娜姐同內衣品牌La Miu （蘭繆）合作，代言唔夠三個月就獲加碼500萬加簽長約，估唔到仲有機會睇到佢嘅魔鬼身材，喺咁勁嘅銀彈攻擊下，娜姐破天荒再以暴乳身材拍攝內衣照，其中一套紅黑內衣，娜姐谷爆咪咪，瞓低玩啤牌又朱唇半合，真係殺死唔少宅男。娜姐之前幫呢個品牌宣傳時，仲著住條極少布嘅內褲，認真大膽。
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
R.I.P. Steve Jobs.
Transcript is as follows,
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, 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 6 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 college 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 have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out 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 someday go to college.
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 OK. 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 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 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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 this 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 ten 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 have 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 to 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, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, 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 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 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.
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 1960's, 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, and 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 have 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.
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