对苹果的东西从来就没兴趣，贵就一个字。何况我喜欢自己拆装配件，苹果的东西好象都不愿意让人随便改动，有种很封闭的感觉。更不崇拜苹果教教主。虽然他不是一般人，但以我的标准，他离伟人差得还很远。
人就是这样，活着的时候，就知道有这么个人，可一旦这人一死，好象立刻他/她的人格都升华了。对崇拜他的人们我只想说：你们应该争取在他活着的时候找机会告诉他，没准因为有你们的崇拜，他会欣慰一点？或许他给你们一个鄙夷的眼神，轻蔑地问：你们是谁呀？总之，让他活着的时候知道，比在他死后说强多了。什么? 他活着的时候你也没机会告诉他？机会不都是人创造的吗？你肯定你努力了？还是内心里你也认为没必要花大力气去向那个方向努力？
这几天收音机里天天在播放关于苹果教教主的生平事迹，无意中听到一段他说过的话，不得不说，单对这一段讲，我非常同意这个观点。当然这观点不是他发明的，很早就有了。下边就是网上抄录来的英文。
先声明一下，我说的"苹果教教主"，就是指 Steve Jobs。否则，若干年后，万一我这篇文还在，某个后人看到了，会有疑问：Who the xxxx is he talking about...
This is quoted from him in 2005, not very long after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. There is no doubt that he made a massive impact in those “extra” years since the diagnosis to which in the end he would succumb:
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday youll 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 Ill be dead soon is the most important tool Ive 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 didnt 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. 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 to tell your kids everything you thought youd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.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 and 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 doctors 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 I’m fine now. This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its 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 dont 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 is Lifes 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 is quite true. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
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