史蒂夫·乔布斯如何改变世界

And we are calling it, iPhone.

我们将其命名为 iPhone

He was about humanizing technology

他致力于将科技人性化

in a way that made it extraordinarily easy

让其变得无与伦比地便捷

and it was an absolutely joy and pleasure to use.

使操作变成一种享受和乐趣

His gut instinct was his genius.

他的天才之处在于精准的直觉

And it's absolutely unteachable.

而这些是学不来的

It's rare when someone can affect your life in such a personal way

很少有人能以这样个人的方式影响到你的生活

and you don't know them at all.

而你根本不认识这些人

Genius is not about making complicated things.

天才不在于把事物复杂化

It's about making complicated things very simple.

而在于把复杂事物变简单

Making things simple and beautiful,

让产品简洁而富有美感

that was the genius of Steve Jobs from the very start.

这便是史蒂夫·乔布斯的初衷

He was born in 1955 to a pair of unmarried graduate students,

1955年 乔布斯出生 父母是一对未婚研究生情侣

intellectuals who put him up for adoption.

他们把他送人抚养

He grew up with a loving,working-class couple in California's Silicon Valley.

他在加州硅谷一个和睦美满的工薪家庭中长大

Just like Harry Potter, Steve Jobs realized that he was a wizard,

和哈利·波特一样 史蒂夫·乔布斯意识到自己是个魔法师

even though he was being raised by Muggles.

尽管他是由麻瓜养大

He was a hybrid,

他是个混合体

one part geek and one part hippy.

一半技术宅 一半嬉皮士

It was the 60s.

时代使然

When he was a teenager

十几岁的时候

He met a fellow techy,

他遇到了同道中人

a hacker,named Steve Wozniak.

一名黑客 他便是史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克

They wild away the hours tinkering with electronics in the Jobs' house.

他们在乔布斯家里花费大量时间研究电子设备

I grew up in Palo Alto,

我在帕洛阿尔托长大

not too far from where Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs hung out.

离史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克和史蒂夫·乔布斯常出没的地方不远

It's legendary.

说来也神奇

There's so many inventers in the Bay Area who start off in their mom's garage.

海湾地区的很多发明家都是从自家车库里起家的

In 1972, Jobs headed to Oregon

1972年 乔布斯前往俄勒冈州

where he attended a small liberal arts college.

就读于一所小型文科学院

Turned on, tuned in and dropped out.

他踌躇满志地入学 但很快退学

He listened to the Beatles, and Bob Dylan,

他酷爱披头士和鲍勃·迪伦

took LSD and went to India.

吸食致幻剂 然后去了印度

When he returned to Silicon Valley in 1975

1975年他返回硅谷时

it was the dawn of the computer age

计算机时代正崭露出头角

and Steve Jobs had a vision.

而他萌生了一个想法

《乔布斯传》第一章:被遗弃和被选择 硅谷03

Silicon Valley

硅谷

The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs. The finance company where Paul worked as a repo man, CIT, had transferred him down to its Palo Alto office, but he could not afford to live there, so they landed in a subdivision in Mountain View, a less expensive town just to the south.

保罗和克拉拉夫妇为他们的儿子创造的童年，从很多方面来说，都是20世纪50年代后期的典型模式。乔布斯两岁那年，他们领养了一个女儿，取名为帕蒂，3年后他们搬到了郊区的一栋房子里。保罗担任“回收人”的CIT信贷公司将他调到了帕洛奥图的办事处，但他承受不起那里高昂的生活费用，所以他们选择了在南边的山景城落脚，那里的生活开销相对低廉。

There Paul tried to pass along his love of mechanics and cars. “Steve, this is your workbench now,” he said as he marked off a section of the table in their garage. Jobs remembered being impressed by his father’s focus on craftsmanship. “I thought my dad’s sense of design was pretty good,” he said, “because he knew how to build anything. If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. When he built our fence, he gave me a hammer so I could work with him.”

保罗·乔布斯想把自己对机械和汽车的热爱传递给儿子。“史蒂夫，从现在开始这就是你的工作台了。”他边说边在车库里的桌子上划出一块。乔布斯还记得父亲对手工技艺的专注曾让自己印象深刻。“我觉得爸爸的设计感很好，”他说，“因为他什么都会做。要是家里缺个柜子，他就会做一个。给家里搭栅栏的时候，他给我一把锤子，这样我就能跟他一起干活儿了。”

Fifty years later the fence still surrounds the back and side yards of the house in Mountain View. As Jobs showed it off to me, he caressed the stockade panels and recalled a lesson that his father implanted deeply in him. It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. “He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see.”

50年后，当年的栅栏依然包围着山景城那处房子与院落。乔布斯向我展示的时候，轻抚着栅栏的木板，回想起了父亲深深植入他脑中的一课。老乔布斯说，把柜子和栅栏的背面制作好也十分重要，尽管这些地方人们是看不到的。“他喜欢追求完美，即使别人看不到的地方他也会很关心。”

His father continued to refurbish and resell used cars, and he festooned the garage with pictures of his favorites. He would point out the detailing of the design to his son: the lines, the vents, the chrome, the trim of the seats. After work each day, he would change into his dungarees and retreat to the garage, often with Steve tagging along. “I figured I could get him nailed down with a little mechanical ability, but he really wasn’t interested in getting his hands dirty,” Paul later recalled. “He never really cared too much about mechanical things.”

父亲继续着翻新、出售二手车的事业，并在车库里贴满了他喜爱的汽车的图片。他会向儿子介绍车辆设计的细节——线条、排气孔、铬合金以及座椅的装饰。每天下班后，他就换上工作服，窝在车库里，史蒂夫也常常跟着他。“我原本想让他掌握一点儿机械方面的技能，但他不愿意把手弄脏，”保罗后来回忆说，“他从没有真正喜欢过机械方面的东西。”

“I wasn’t that into fixing cars,” Jobs admitted. “But I was eager to hang out with my dad.” Even as he was growing more aware that he had been adopted, he was becoming more attached to his father. One day when he was about eight, he discovered a photograph of his father from his time in the Coast Guard. “He’s in the engine room, and he’s got his shirt off and looks like James Dean. It was one of those Oh wow moments for a kid. Wow, oooh, my parents were actually once very young and really good-looking.”

在引擎盖下修修补补根本吸引不了乔布斯。“我对修汽车没什么兴趣。但我特别喜欢跟爸爸待在一起。”即使随着年龄的增长，他越来越意识到自己是被领养的，他还是越来越喜欢跟爸爸黏在一起。乔布斯差不多8岁的时候，有一天他发现了一张父亲在海岸警卫队时的照片。“他在轮机舱里，上身赤裸，看上去很像詹姆斯·迪恩。对一个孩子来说，那一刻只能用‘哇，天哪’来形容了。哇，天哪！我的父母也曾经年轻过，而且长相也很不错。”

Through cars, his father gave Steve his first exposure to electronics. “My dad did not have a deep understanding of electronics, but he’d encountered it a lot in automobiles and other things he would fix. He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that.” Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts. “Every weekend, there’d be a junkyard trip. We’d be looking for a generator, a carburetor, all sorts of components.” He remembered watching his father negotiate at the counter. “He was a good bargainer, because he knew better than the guys at the counter what the parts should cost.” This helped fulfill the pledge his parents made when he was adopted. “My college fund came from my dad paying $50 for a Ford Falcon or some other beat-up car that didn’t run, working on it for a few weeks, and selling it for $250—and not telling the IRS.”

通过汽车，父亲让史蒂夫第一次接触到了电子设备。“他对电子设备并没有很深的了解，但他经常在汽车以及其他修理对象上跟电子设备打交道。他为我展示了电子设备的基本原理，我觉得很有趣。”更有趣的是去废品堆里寻找零部件的过程。“每个周末，我们都会进行一次废品站之旅。我们会寻找发电机，或者化油器，还有各种各样的元件。”他还记得看着父亲在柜台前谈价格。“他很揸长讨价还价，因为他比卖家更清楚零件的合理价格。”这一点对于实现他父母当初领养他时许下的承诺很有帮助。“我上大学的钱是这么来的：我父亲会花50美元买下一辆已经开不动的福特猎鹰（FordFalcon）或者其他什么破车，花几个星期修好它，然后以250美元的价格卖出去——而且他不会去报税。”

The Jobses’ house and the others in their neighborhood were built by the real estate developer Joseph Eichler, whose company spawned more than eleven thousand homes in various California subdivisions between 1950 and 1974. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of simple modern homes for the American “everyman,” Eichler built inexpensive houses that featured floor-to-ceiling glass walls, open floor plans, exposed post-and-beam construction, concrete slab floors, and lots of sliding glass doors. “Eichler did a great thing,” Jobs said on one of our walks around the neighborhood. “His houses were smart and cheap and good. They brought clean design and simple taste to lower-income people. They had awesome little features, like radiant heating in the floors. You put carpet on them, and we had nice toasty floors when we were kids.”

乔布斯家的房子位于迪亚布洛大道286号，和他们周围的房子一样，都是由房地产开发商约瑟夫·埃奇勒（JosephEichler）建造的，他的公司于19501974年间，在加州的各个地区兴建了超过11000座房屋。受到弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特（FrankLloydWright）“适合美国普通百姓的简单现代之家”这一设想的启发，埃奇勒建造了廉价房屋，这些房屋的特点是：落地的玻璃墙、开放式的平面设计、无遮蔽的梁柱构造、混凝土地面以及大量的滑动玻璃门。“埃奇勒做得很好，”乔布斯有一次和我在附近散步时说，“他造的房子整洁漂亮，价格低廉，质量优秀。他们把干净的设计和简洁的品位帯给了低收入人群。房子本身有很棒的小特色，比如地板下安装了热辐射供暧设施。我们小的时候，铺上地毯，躺在上面，温暧舒适。”

Jobs said that his appreciation for Eichler homes instilled in him a passion for making nicely designed products for the mass market. “I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much,” he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac. That’s what we did with the iPod.”

乔布斯说，他对埃奇勒建造的房屋的欣赏，激发了他为大众制造设计精良的产品的热情。“我喜欢把很棒的设计和简便的功能融入产品中，而且不会太贵，”他一边向我指出这些房屋的干净典雅之处，一边说道，“这是苹果公司最初的设想，我们在制造第一台Mac电脑时就尝试这么做，并在iPod上实现了这个设想。”

Across the street from the Jobs family lived a man who had become successful as a real estate agent. “He wasn’t that bright,” Jobs recalled, “but he seemed to be making a fortune. So my dad thought, ‘I can do that.’ He worked so hard, I remember. He took these night classes, passed the license test, and got into real estate. Then the bottom fell out of the market.” As a result, the family found itself financially strapped for a year or so while Steve was in elementary school. His mother took a job as a bookkeeper for Varian Associates, a company that made scientific instruments, and they took out a second mortgage. One day his fourth-grade teacher asked him, “What is it you don’t understand about the universe?” Jobs replied, “I don’t understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.” He was proud that his father never adopted a servile attitude or slick style that may have made him a better salesman. “You had to suck up to people to sell real estate, and he wasn’t good at that and it wasn’t in his nature. I admired him for that.” Paul Jobs went back to being a mechanic.

乔布斯家的对面曾经住着一个成功的房地产经纪人。“他也不是很聪明，”乔布斯回忆说，“但看起来他好像赚了不少钱。于是我爸爸就想：‘我也能干这一行啊。’我记得他拼命努力，去上夜校，通过了执照考试，进入了房地产业。紧接着，房地产市场崩溃了。”结果，乔布斯一家经济拮据了差不多一年时间，当时史蒂夫还在上小学。他妈妈在生产科学仪器的瓦里安联合公司（VarianAssociates）找到了一份记账员的工作，他们家也给房子办理了第二份抵押贷款。有一天，他的四年级老师问他：“关于这个世界，你有什么不明白的？”乔布斯回答说：“我不明白为什么我爸爸一夜之间就破产了。”虽然如此，乔布斯还是很为父亲感到骄傲，因为他从来没有学会那种卑躬屈膝的态度和圆滑诡诈的作风，尽管这些特质能让他成为一个业绩更好的经纪人。“想卖出房子，你就必须巴结别人，爸爸不擅长这个，他本性也不是这样的人。这一点我很钦佩他。”保罗·乔布斯做回了老本行——机械师。