苹果电脑乔布斯经典语录：关于设计

设计这个词很有意思。有些人认为设计指的是外观。当然没错，但如果你深挖这个概念，会发现它指的其实是如何运作。Mac的设计工作并不是专门针对它的外观，虽然外观是设计的一部分。Mac的设计主要是关于电脑如何工作。为了设计出真正杰出的作品，你必须懂它，必须真正深入地体验它的全部。为了真正透彻地了解一个东西，为了充分消化体会它而不是囫囵吞枣，你需要一种激情投入。大多数人不会为此花这个时间。

创造力只是把东西联系起来。如果你问有创造力的人他们是如何做到的，他们会觉得有点羞愧，因为他们并没有真的去创造，他们只是看见了某种联系，经过一段时间后，这对他们来说是显而易见的。因为他们能把以前的经历联系起来，以合成新的事物。之所以能这么做，是因为他们有过更多的经历，或者说他们对自己的经历思考的比别人多。

遗憾的是，这种过程很少能够成就一件商品。干我们这行的很多人都缺乏多种多样的经历，所以他们没有足够多的点来进行连接，最后拿出的只是非常线性的解决方案，对问题没有宽广的视角。一个人对人生经历的理解越广阔，最后的设计就越出色。(《连线》杂志(Wired)，19xx年2月)

我们认为Mac电脑的销售量将是个天文数字，不过我们研发Mac不是为别人，而是为了我们自己。我们这群人会来评判Mac好还是不好，我们不会到外面去做市场调研，我们只是想尽全力开发出最好的电脑。

如果你是个木匠，正在打造一个漂亮的五斗柜，你是不会在柜子后面用三合板的，哪怕那一面对着墙，永远没人看到它。你知道它在那里，所以即使是柜子后面，你也会用上好的木材。为了能在晚上睡个好觉，你会在审美和质量上自始至终争取做到最好。(《花花公子》杂志(Playboy)，19xx年2月1日)

On Design

'Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.

'Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did

something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw

something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

'Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. [Wired, February 1996]

'We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece 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 piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.' [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

 

第二篇：乔布斯名言

乔布斯发人深省的经典名言

有关死亡

"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."

“记住，每个人终将会死去，我认为这是一个人能够避免患得患失的最好方式。你已经赤裸裸地面对死亡了，那就没有什么理由不去追随自己的心。”

有关未来

"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."

“你无法在展望未来时串联点滴，你只能在回顾过去时将其串联。所以你要相信，这些点滴片段会在未来以某种方式串联起来。你要相信某种东西——直觉也好，命运也好，生命也好，或者因缘甚至是其他一切。这种方法从来没有让我失望，这也造就了我的与众不同。”

有关坚持

"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."

“你的工作将占据你生活中的很大一部分，能够让你真正满意的唯一方法就是做你相信是伟大的工作，而唯一伟大的工作就是爱你所做的事。如果你还没有找到它，那么继续找，不要停。用心去找，你会知道何时能够找到它。如同任何伟大的关系一样，随时间流逝它只会越来越好。所以继续找，不要停，直到你找到它。”

有关追求

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful … that's what matters to me."

“成为墓地里最有钱的人，这事我并不关心…真正对我有意义的事，就是在晚上睡觉前说上一句‘我已经做了一些非常棒的事’….这才是我最在乎的。”

有关创造力

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did

something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

“创造力就是找到事物之间的联系。当你询问有创意的人他们是如何做事时，他们觉得有点内疚，因为他们并没有真的这么做，他们只是看到了其中一些关系。这种感觉在他们过后看来会很明显。” 有关创新

"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

“我引以为豪是，许多我们所做的事情变成我们还没有完成的事，创新就是对一千件事情说‘不’。” 有关目标

“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.”

“我想如果你做了某些事，结果顺利圆满，那么你应该选择转去做别的事情，别专注在美好的事情上太久，要保持寻找下一个目标。”

有关失意

"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. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

“从苹果公司离职曾是我人生中最好的一件事，追求成功的沉重被创业者的轻松感觉所取代，这让我感觉如此自由，我重新进入一个人生中最有创造力的阶段。”

有关改变

"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."

“我曾在 17 岁时读过这么一句名言：‘如果你把每一天当成自己人生的最后一天来过，那么将来某一天你会明白其中的真意’，这句话令我印象深刻，此后的 33 年来，我每天早上都会对着镜子自问：‘如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我还会想去做我今天要去做的事吗？’，每当我心里的答案是‘不’时，我知道自己需要做出改变了。”

有关毅力

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

“我相信一半成功的企业家和另一半不成功的企业家的区别在于纯粹的毅力。”