Jobs: 'Find What You Love'

Steve Jobs

• He was an American informatio
n technology (IT) entrepreneur
and inventor.
• He was the co-founder, chairma
n, and chief executive officer (C
EO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and large
st shareholder of Pixar Animatio
n Studios;
 Family background
--STEVE JOBS--

1.He was adopted.

2.The influence from his

dad.
 Educational background
--STEVE JOBS--

1.He dropped out of Reed College,

which is very expensive.

2.Then, he started finding a job.

THE COMPANY THEY ESTABLISHED

--Apple--
1. He and his friend established
Apple in their garage.
2. He was discharged from his post
and then originated Next &Pixar.
3. Steve went back to Apple for
solving sales crisis.
 Product influence
--Apple--

1. The Macintosh
2. iPod, iPhone and, iPad.
3. They are smaller, lighter, faster, and
have more humanity.
 Pixar
• He not only influenced computer and music in
dustries, but also changed the traditional way
of making film, Toy Story, the first computer a
nimated film.
 The key to their success
--STEVE JOBS--

1.He gave his costumers not only

what they desired, but what they
didn’t yet think they desired.

2. He was always in pursuit of

perfection.
 Charity
--STEVE JOBS--

1. He donated his money secretly.

2. He had donated lots of money for AIDS
researches.
3. He thought that doing charities wasn’t for
showing off, but for the good of the world.
 P1
• reflect on
• 深思 ; 考慮 ; 反省
• commencement
• 畢業典禮
• graduate school
• 研究所
• drop out /drop-in /drop in
• 輟學 / 偶訪 , 突然來訪 ; 在此指旁聽 =audit
• biological
• 生物的；生物學的
• relent
• 讓步；變寬容 ;change one's mind
• naively
• 天真爛漫地，無邪地
• tuition
• 學費
•
 P.2
• required classes 必修課
• deposits
• 押金；定金
• stumble
• 誤打誤撞；步入歧途
• intuition
• 直覺
• calligraphy
• 書法；筆跡
• Serif 字體的一種
• Sans-serif( 無襯線 ) Serif( 襯線體 )
• typeface 字體
• typography 印刷格式
• vary
• 使不同；變更；修改
• subtle
• 微妙的，難捉摸的
• If I had never dropped in on that single cours
e in college, the Mac would have never had
multiple typefaces or proportionally( 成比例
地，相稱地 )spaced fonts.( 字型，字體 )
• 與過去事實相反的假設
• If+ 過去完成式 , S +would /could/should/mig
ht + have +p.p.
 Practice
• Ex:It rained yesterday. I didn’t play basketball.
• If it hadn’t rained yesterday, I would have play
ed basketball.
• If I had never dropped out, I would have never
dropped in on this calligraphy class, and perso
nal computers might not have the wonderful t
ypography that they do.
• destiny
• 命運
• karma
• 因果報應
 P.3
• diverge
• 分歧，相異
• fall out
• 吵架 ; 失和
• devastating
• 破壞性極大的，毀滅性的
• baton
• 接力棒
• Entrepreneur 企業家
• dawn on 開始明白 ; 漸漸現出
• The truth at last dawned on him .  
• 最後他了解了真相
• reject accept
• renaissance
• 新生；復活
 p.4
• roll on 時間不斷流逝 ;
• in a row 一個接一個地 ; 連續不斷地
• external expectations
internal/eternal
• pancreas
• 胰腺
• button up
•   扣上扣子  ; 在此指順利完成某事物
• biopsy
• 切片檢查法
• endoscope
• 內診鏡
• sedate
• 给…服镇静药… ; 安靜的；平靜的
 P.5
• intellectual
• 智力的；理智的
• (7)dogma
• 教條 ; 教義
• drown out
• （噪音）蓋過，淹沒
• Polaroid
• （商標名）拍立得一次成像照相機
• paperback
• 平裝（本）的 /hardback
• overflow
• 泛濫；滿（或多）得溢出 ; 充滿；洋溢
• hitchhike
• 搭便車（旅行）