生命是短暫的，別浪費時間活在他人的陰影裡……別讓他人的嘈雜聲響壓過你內在的聲音。最重要的是，要有勇氣跟隨自己的內心與直覺。
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.－2005年於史丹佛大學畢業典禮發表演說
2011年10月5日，賈伯斯驟逝撼動全世界。
回顧賈伯斯一生，開創的不只是諸多改變生活模式、堪稱藝術的數位精品，他大起大落的人生閱歷、革命性的新視野，與頗受爭議卻從不掩飾的真性情，亦將永遠存乎世人心中。
本書完整收錄賈伯斯散落於公開演講與訪談，涵蓋科技創新、商業領導、生命與愛等面向的250則經典名句，可謂賈伯斯一生智慧之結晶。
或許以賈伯斯之倨傲不凡，他的一生似是太過短暫。但其不循常理、自由奔放的思想行止，勢必恆久影響數個世代的人們。
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., was truly one of this generation’s most innovative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Apple, under his vision and direction, changed the way people interact with each other and think about technology. Known as much for his genius as his privacy, the advice and knowledge he did share with the world gives exclusive insight into the most important man of the past century.
“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.”
“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
“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.”
★本書中譯版《賈伯斯的人生語錄：關於科技創新．經營領導．生命與愛的250則智慧結晶》由財信出版發行。
作者簡介
亞倫．肯恩．湯瑪斯 Alan Ken Thomas
新聞工作者。
Alan Ken Thomas is a graduate of Union College and has worked in both newspaper and book publishing. He lives and writes in Schenectady, New York.
