[스크랩] Steve Jobs` 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford
given by Steve Jobs
스티브 잡스의 스탠포드 대학교 졸업식 연설 전문
Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
감사합니다. 저는 세계에서 가장 훌륭한 대학교중 하나인 여러분의 졸업식에 오늘 함께하게 되어 영광입니다. 솔직히 말하자면 저는 대학교를 졸업한 적이 없었고 이번이 대학의 졸업과 가장 가까이 하게된 경우입니다.
commencement [kəménsmənt] n.
U,C ① 시작, 개시; 착수.
② (the ∼) (대학 따위의) 졸업식 (행사 기간); (Cambridge, Dublin 및 미국 여러 대학의) 학위 수여식[일].
┈┈•hold the ∼ 졸업식을 거행하다. ②
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
오늘 저는 제 인생의 세가지 이야기를 하고자 합니다. 그뿐입니다. 별거 아니죠. 그냥 세가지의 이야기입니다.
bíg déal
① (미국속어) 「반어적」 대단한 것[인물], 중대 사건.
② (속어) 「비꼼·조소를 나타내어, 감탄사적으로」 참 대단하군, 그뿐인가, 별거 아니군.
┈┈•What's the ∼? 뭣 때문에 이 소동이야. ①
┈┈•“I make 500 dollars a week”. - “Big deal! I make twice that much.” ‘나는 한 주에 500달러 번다네.’ ―‘별거 아니군. 나는 그 갑절은 번다네.’②
♣make a ∼ out of ┅을 과장하여 생각하다[떠들어대다].
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit.
첫 번째 이야기는 점을 연결하는 것에 관한 것입니다.
저는 리드 대학을 6개월만에 중퇴하였으나 18개월 정도 뒤에 제가 정말로 학교를 그만두기까지는 학교에서 수업을 들었습니다.
drop out
⑴ 탈락하다, 생략되다, 없어지다.
⑵ (선수가) 결장하다; (단체에) 참가하지 않다, 빠지다.
⑶ 낙오하다, 중퇴하다: ∼ out in one's junior year 대학 3학년에서 중퇴하다.
drop-in [-́ìn] n.
① 불쑥 들른 사람[장소]; (속어) 집합소; 예고 없이 손님이 찾아오는 딱딱하지 않은 파티.
② 체제에서 이탈한 사고방식·생활을 지닌 채 체제에 되돌아온 사람.
So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.
그러면 왜 제가 중퇴했을까요? 그 이유는 제가 태어나기도 전에 시작됩니다. 저의 생모는 젊고 미혼인 대학원 학생이었으
며 저를 입양으로 내놓기로 결정하였습니다.
graduate [grǽʤuit, -ʤuèit] n.
① (대학) 졸업자; 【미국】 대학원 학생(∼ student). ★ 미국에서는 대학 이외의 졸업생에게도 씀.
② 〖화학〗 눈금매긴 용기.
┈┈•high school ∼s 고등학교 졸업생. ①
┈┈•a ∼ in economics 경제학부의 졸업생.
put up
⑴ 올리다, (미사일 따위를) 쏴 올리다; (기·돛 따위를) 올리다, 내걸다; (광고 따위를) 내붙이다; (천막 따위를) 설치하다; (우산을) 받다; (견장 따위를) 붙이다; (집 따위를) 짓다: We ∼ up a tent in the glade. 우리는 숲 속에 천막을 쳤다/ She ∼ up her parasol to prevent sunburn. 그녀는 햇볕에 타는 것을 막으려고 양산을 폈다/ They ∼ up barracks at the dam site. 그들은 댐 건설 부지에 가건물을 세웠다.
⑵ 치우다, 넣어두다, 거두다: Put up your sword. 칼을 칼집에 넣어 두시오/ ∼ up a car in the garage 차고에 차를 넣어두다.
⑶ (설탕·소금절임으로 하여) 저장하다, 통조림으로 하다; 포장하다: ∼ up fruit 과일을 (설탕절임으로) 저장하다/ ∼ up pork 돼지 고기를 소금에 절여놓다.
⑷ (값을) 올리다.
⑸ (기도 따위를) 올리다; (청원서를) 제출하다.
⑹ 추천하다, 후보자로 지명하다; 입후보하다: I will ∼ you up for the club, if you like. 원하신다면 클럽에 추천해 드리겠소.
⑺ ┅에게 (┅을) 슬쩍 알려주다(to); 자극하다, 추기다(to): He ∼ me up to the latest tips. 그는 최근의 (경마) 정보를 알려 주었다.
⑻ 투숙하다; 숙박시키다: ∼ up at an inn 여관에 묵다.
⑼ (각본을) 상연하다.
⑽ 경매에 붙이다, 팔려고 내놓다(for); 공개하다, 전시시키다, 일반에게 보이다; (새 아이디어 따위를) 세상 사람에게 묻다: ∼ up a game 시합을 공개하다/ ∼ up his personal effects to auction 그의 가재 도구를 경매에 붙이다/ ∼ a house up for sale 집을 팔려고 내놓다.
⑾ 꾀하다, 날조하다, 꾸미다: ∼ up a job 일[나쁜 짓]을 꾸미다.
⑿ 【미국】 (돈을) 지급하다, 갚다; 걸다.
⒀ (머리를) 세트하다.
⒁ (짐승을) 내몰다(사냥에서).
⒂ (약 등을) 조제하다.
⒃ 〖경마〗 기수로 세우다.
put up with ┅을 (지그시) 참다
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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course."
저의 생모는 제가 대학을 졸업한 사람들에게 입양되기를 강력히 원했고 그래서 제가 태어나면 변호사 부부가 저를 입양하도록 모든 것이 마련되었습니다. 하지만 제가 태어났을 때 그 부부는 마지막 순간에 자신들이 정말로 원하는 것은 딸이라고 결정하였습니다. 그래서 대기자 명단에 있던 현재 나의 부모님들은 한밤중에 "예기치 못했던 남자아이가 태어났는데 받아들이시겠습니까?"라는 전화를 받게 되었습니다. 그들은 "물론입니다"라고 대답했습니다.
My biological mother found out later 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 go to college.
나의 생모는 나의 어머니가 대학을 졸업한 적이 없고 나의 아버지는 고등학교도 졸업하지 못했다는 사실을 나중에 알게 되었습니다. 나의 생모는 마지막 입양서류에 서명하기를 거절하였습니다. 하지만 나의 부모님들이 나를 대학에 보낼것이라는 약속을 듣고나서야 누그러졌습니다.
relent [rilént] vi.
① 상냥스러워지다, 누그러지다.
② 측은하게 생각하다, 가엾게 여기다(toward; at).
③ (바람 등이) 약해지다.
㉺∼ingly ―ad.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen 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.
이것이 저의 인생의 시작이었습니다. 17년 후에, 저는 정말 대학교를 진학하였으나 순진하게도 스탠포드 대학교 만큼 등록금이 비싼 대학을 선택하였으며 육체노동자인 나의 부모님의 저축을 몽땅 저의 대학교 등록금으로 쓰고 말았습니다.
naive, naïve [nɑːíːv] a.
【F.】 천진난만한, 순진한, 때묻지 않은, 소박한, 고지식한; 우직한, 잘속는; 미경험의; 특정 실험[투약]을 받은 적이 없는.
㉺∼ly ―ad.
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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.
육개월 후에, 저는 그럴만한 가치를 느끼지 못하였습니다. 저는 저의 인생에서 무엇을 하고 싶어하는지도 몰랐고, 대학교가 나에게 그것을 알아낼 수 있도록 도와주리라고도 생각하지 않았으면서 나의 부모가 일생동안 모아온 돈을 모두 써버리고 말았습니다. 그래서 저는 중퇴하기로 결정하였고 모든게 괜찮아질거라고 믿었습니다.
figure out
(비용 등을) 계산하다, 견적하다, 산정하다; 계산하여 (┅이) 되다(at; to); (상황 따위를) 어림하다, (문제 따위를)를 풀다, 해석하다; 이해하다, (해답 따위를) 생각해 내다.
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 far more interesting.
그 당시에는 겁이 꽤 났었습니다만 돌이켜보면 그것이 제가 내린 결정중에서 가장 잘한 결정중 하나였습니다. 저는 중퇴하자마자 흥미도 없었던 필수과목을 안들어도 되었고 대신 훨씬 더 재미있어 보이는 과목들을 들었습니다.
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 five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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.
하지만 그것은 그다지 낭만적이지는 않았습니다. 저는 기숙사방이 없었으므로 친구의 방바닥에서 잠을 잤습니다. 그리고 음식을 살 돈을 마련하기 위해 재활용기금이 적립되는 콜라병을 모아 돈을 벌었으며, 매주 일요일 밤에는 7마일(11.2킬로미터=30리)을 걸어서 하레 크리쉬나 사원에 가서 일주일에 한번 제대로 된 식사 한끼를 얻어먹곤 하였습니다.
deposit [dipɑ́zit / -pɔ́z-] n.
① 부착물; 퇴적물, 침전물; (광석·석유·천연 가스 등의) 매장물, 광상(鑛床).
② 맡기기; (은행) 예금; 공탁금, 적립금, 보증금, 계약금, 착수금; 증거금(∼ money); 기탁물.
③ (주로 미국) 저장소; 보관소, 창고.
④ (탁란(托卵)한) 알.
⑤ (금속 따위의) 피복물(被覆物).
mile [mail] n.
① (법정) 마일(statute ∼) (약 1.609 km)
1.6 km X 7 miles = 11.2 km = 30리
go the extra mile
(미국속어) ⑴ 한층 노력하다, 한층 더 힘내다. ⑵ 전력을 다하다.
intuition [ìntjuíʃən] n.
U 직각(直覺), 직관(력); 직관적 통찰; 직관적 지식[사실].
┈┈•by ∼ 직감적으로, 직관력으로.
priceless [práislis] a.
① 대단히 귀중한, 돈으로 살 수 없는. [SYN.] ⇨ VALUABLE.
② (구어) 아주 걸작인 [재미있는, 어이 없는], 아주 별난.
㉺∼ness ―n.
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 sans-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.
리드 대학은 아마도 당시에는 미국에서 가장 훌륭한 서체 교습을 제공하였습니다. 학교 주변에는 모든 포스터, 서랍의 라벨 등도 모두 아름답게 손으로 쓴 서체로 장식되어 있었습니다. 저는 중퇴를 하였고 정규 과목을 들을 필요가 없었으므로 서체를 어떻게 하는지 그 강의를 듣기로 결정하였습니ㅏㄷ. 저는 세리프, 산스-세리프 등의 서체들, 글자의 조합에서 적당한 간격을 띄우는 방법, 그리고 서체를 멋있게 만드는 요소들이 무엇인지에 관해 배웠습니다. 그것은 과학으로 잡아낼 수 없는 아름답고, 역사적이며 예술적인 미묘함이었으며 저는 그것에 매료되었습니다.
calligraphy [kəlígrəfi] n.
U ① 달필. [opp.] cacography.
② 서도, 서예.
③ 필적.
typography [taipɑ́grəfi / -pɔ́g-] n.
U 활판 인쇄, 활판술; 조판; 인쇄의 체재, 타이포그래피.
typo [táipou] n. (pl. ∼s)
(구어) 인쇄[식자]공; 오식(誤植).
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.
이런 것들이 저의 인생에서 어떠한 실용적인 적용이 될거라는 희망은 아무데도 없었습니다. 그러나 십년 후에 제가 매킨토시 컴퓨터를 처음 디자인할 때, 그것이 떠올랐고 우리는 그것을 매킨토시에 적용하였습니다. 만일 제가 대학교에서 그 한 과목을 듣지 않았다면 매킨토시는 다양한 서체나 적절히 간격이 띄어진 폰트를 가질 수 없었을 것이며, 윈도우는 단순히 매킨토시를 흉내낸 것이므로 세상의 어떤 퍼스널 컴퓨터도 그러한 것을 갖게 되지 않았을 것입니다.
proportional [prəpɔ́ːrʃənəl] a.
〖수학〗 비례의; 균형이 잡힌, 조화된, 비례하는(to).
┈┈•be directly [inversely] ∼ to ┅에 정[반]비례하다.
┈┈•a ∼ quantity 비례량.
㉺∼ly ―ad. 비례하여.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
만일 제가 중퇴하지 않았더라면 저는 그 서체과목을 듣지 않았을 것이고 그렇다면 퍼스널 컴퓨터는 지금처럼 훌륭한 서체를 가지게 되지 않았을 것입니다.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 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--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
물론 내가 대학에 있을 때 앞을 보면서 점을 연결하는 것은 불가능하였습니다. 하지만 십년후에 뒤돌아보면 그것이 매우 매우 명백하게 보였습니다. 다시 말해서 우리는 앞을 내다보면서 점을 연결할 수 없습니다. 우리는 오로지 뒤돌아 보았을 때 점들을 연결해서 볼 수 있으며 그러므로 우리는 우리의 미래에 어떻게든 점들이 연결될 것이라는 사실을 믿어야만 합니다. 우리는 무언가 --- 당신의 육감, 운명, 인생, 카르마 등 ---를 믿어야만 합니다. 왜냐하면 앞으로 점들이 결국은 연결될 것이라는 사실을 믿는다는 것이 우리에게 우리의 생각을 따라갈 수 있는 확신을 주기 때문이며 심지어 그것이 보장된 미래와 멀어지는 길이라 할지라도 그러하며 바로 그러한 점이 우리를 타인과 다르게 만들어 줄 것이기 때문입니다.
gut [gʌt] a.
(구어) ① 마음속으로 느끼는, 감정적인; 본능적인.
② 근본적인, 중대한(문제 따위).
┈┈•∼ feeling 직감, 본능적인 느낌. ①
karma [kɑ́ːrmə] n.
① 〖힌두교〗 갈마(羯磨), 업(業), 카머; 〖불교〗 인과응보, 업보(業報), 숙명(론); 인연.
② (미국구어) (사람·물건·장소에서 나오는, 직감적으로 느껴지는) 특징적인 분위기.
well-worn [wélwɔ́ːrn] a.
써서 낡은; 낡아빠진, 진부한; (훈장 등이) 바르게 착용된.
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 twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
Woz = Steve Wozniak 애플 창시 동업자
We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, 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, and so at thirty, 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.
diverge [divə́ːrdʒ, dai-] v.
―vi. ① 갈리다, 분기하다.
② 빗나가다, (진로 등을) 벗어나다(from).
③ (의견 따위가) 갈라지다, 다르다(from).
④ 〖수학〗 (급수 따위가) 발산하다. [opp] converge.
―vt. 빗나가게 하다.
fall out
(1) (모발 따위가) 빠지다. (2) (사이가) 틀어지다, 불화하다, 다투다(with). (3) 일어나다, 생기다; ┅으로 판명되다, ┅의 결과가 되다(that┅; to be┅): Things fell out well. 결과는 아주 좋았다 / It fell out that we met by chance weeks later. 몇 주일 후 우리는 우연히 얼굴을 대하게 되었다. (4) 〖군사〗 대열에서 이탈하다, 낙오하다, (부대를) 해산하다; 옥외에 나와서 정렬하다. (5) (미국속어) 감정을 자극시키다, 놀라다. (6) (미국속어)죽다, 잠들다. (7) (미국속어) 방문하다, 찾아오다(∼ down).
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'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
screw up
⑴ 바싹 죄다; (악기의 줄 따위를) 죄다; (눈을) 찌그리다, 가늘게 뜨다; (집세를) 부쩍 올리다; 능률이 오르게 하다; (용기를) 불러일으키다; (머리를) 혼란시키다; 「종종 수동태」 (구어) (아무를) 긴장시키다, 애타게 하다(about; at): He wants ∼ing up. 그에게 기합을 좀 넣어야겠다.
⑵ (속어) 큰 실수를 하다, 큰 실수로 엉망이 되게 하다.
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 in 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 world's 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 and 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.
Renaissance [rènəsɑ́ːns, -zɑ́ːns, -́--̀ / rinéis-əns]n.
① a) 문예 부흥, 르네상스(14-16세기 유럽의). b) 르네상스의 미술[문예, 건축]양식.
② (r-) (문예·종교 등의) 부흥, 부활; 신생, 재생.
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's going to hit 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 work as it is for your lovers.
awful [ɔ́ːfəl] a.
① 두려운, 무시무시한; (문어) 공포를 느끼게 하는, 경외심을 일으키게 하는.
② 경외를 느끼게 하는, 장엄한.
③ 두려워 굽실거리는.
④ [ɔ́ːfl] (구어) 대단한, 불유쾌한, 보기 흉한, 굉장한, 터무니 없는.
⑤ (구어) 큰.
┈┈•an ∼ fool 지독한 바보. ④
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, and 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. 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 thing 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.
pancreas [pǽŋkriəs, pǽn-] n.
〖해부학〗 췌장(膵臟). ㉺pancreatic [-ǽtik] ―a.
My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
button up
단추로 꼭 채우다, 단추를 채우다; (속어) (입을) 꼭 다물다, (비밀을) 지키다; (지갑을) 꼭 잠그다; (구어) (일 따위를) 마무리하다; (구어) (협정·거래 등을) 정하다; (도시 등을) 경계하여 굳게 지키다; (명령·임무 등을) 잘 수행하다; (미국속어) (건물 따위) 자물쇠를 꼭 잠그다, (물건을) 안전하게 치우다: Button it up. 입 닥쳐.
㉺∼ed [-d] ―a. 단추를 채운; 잠자코 있는.
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 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 doctor 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, thankfully, I am fine now.
biopsy [báiɑpsi / -ɔp-] n.
〖의학〗 생검(生檢)(법)(생체 조직의 현미경 검사).
endoscope [éndəskòup] n.
〖의학〗 (직장·요도(尿道) 등의) 내시경(內視鏡).
ex. telescope, microscope, periscope, helioscope 등
sedate2 [sidéit] vt.
┅에 진정제를 마시게 하다.
마취(痲醉)
anesthesia; narcotism.
∼하다 put 「a person」 under anesthesia; anesthetize 「a person」; give (an) anesthetic 「to」; put 「a person」 to sleep (with an anesthetic).
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's 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's 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, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
dogma [dɔ́(ː)gmə, dɑ́g-] n. (pl. ∼s, ∼ta [-mətə])
교의, 교리(doctrine); 교조, 신조; 독단적 주장[견해]; 정설(定說), 정리.
┈┈•substructure of ∼ 교의의 기초.
secondary [sék-əndèri / -d-əri] n.
① 제2위(位)적인 것, 제이의적인 것.
② 대리자; 보좌, 보조자; 종속물.
③ 〖천문학〗 (행성의) 위성; (쌍성(雙星)의) 반성(伴星).
④ 〖동물〗 (새의) 버금 칼깃(∼ feather); (나비 따위의) 뒷날갯죽지.
⑤ 〖문법〗 2차어(二次語), 형용사에 상당하는 말[구(句)
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.
This was in the late Sixties, 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 thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies 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 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.