我想要的未来，是看得到安全感
欢欢思来想去还是决定分手了，她说，跟一个看不到未来的人在一起，感觉每天的生活的都像在走钢丝，颤颤巍巍的掉不下来，但是也走不到对岸。为了以后的幸福，长痛不如短痛，还是分开算了。
当时对于欢欢的分手，朋友中分成了两个阵营，一边说欢欢太现实，毕竟从大学就建立了深厚的感情基础，如今却败给了子虚乌有的安全感，说起来确实没有信服度。
还有支持欢欢的朋友说，女生喜欢一个人，就是想要嫁给一种安全感，如果白白浪费了女人最好的那几年，最后回想起来真的想给自己一巴掌。
欢欢和男朋友是一只脚踏进了婚礼殿堂，一只脚在门外徘徊。男朋友也有一份比较稳定的工作，他们在一个城市工作了几年，在出租房内度过了热恋的那几年，体验到了蜗居、拮据、争吵和甜蜜。
你失眠，我恰好陪你一起醒着。
我们能遇见的，一定都有原因。所以每次遇到对的人，都像久别重逢。
所以兜兜转转，我们都在等能一起欣赏世界的那个人.
读书多了，内心才不会决堤
你有没有想过这样一件事，你想去的地方，你喜欢的人，你向往的事物，都和你有着很远的距离，原因是什么。
因为你和读书之间的距离，就是你和你喜欢的事物之间的距离。离读书越远，自己就越浅薄。
就算不是为了钱，那就是增长自己的见识，不一定能大富大贵，但会拥有更多的选择。
我们都应该为自己谋一条后退的路，多一个方便的选择，去挥霍自己的青春。可以让你拥有强大的气场，去面对各种流言蜚语，会给你一个虚拟的世界，保护你脆弱的翅膀，尽管是文字堆垒的城堡，但是会有安全感。
有过一段孤独的时间，每天早晨晚上，一个人在家面对四面白墙，捧着手机和电脑发呆，一度怀疑自己得了忧郁症。后来开始读书，一本书看了四五遍，再后来就养成了一种习惯，捧着书，就像捧着爱人的脸。
总之是为了更好的活着，活着赚钱，活着享受，我很俗，不为别的，只为自己。
俗人没什么不好，你的育儿指南不一定非要是高雅，不妨试试俗人回档，俗人不俗命，你可以拿给孩子看看，告诉他们，先懂俗，再懂雅。
读书多了，内心才不会决堤
你有没有想过这样一件事，你想去的地方，你喜欢的人，你向往的事物，都和你有着很远的距离，原因是什么。
因为你和读书之间的距离，就是你和你喜欢的事物之间的距离。离读书越远，自己就越浅薄。
就算不是为了钱，那就是增长自己的见识，不一定能大富大贵，但会拥有更多的选择。
我们都应该为自己谋一条后退的路，多一个方便的选择，去挥霍自己的青春。可以让你拥有强大的气场，去面对各种流言蜚语，会给你一个虚拟的世界，保护你脆弱的翅膀，尽管是文字堆垒的城堡，但是会有安全感。
有过一段孤独的时间，每天早晨晚上，一个人在家面对四面白墙，捧着手机和电脑发呆，一度怀疑自己得了忧郁症。后来开始读书，一本书看了四五遍，再后来就养成了一种习惯，捧着书，就像捧着爱人的脸。
总之是为了更好的活着，活着赚钱，活着享受，我很俗，不为别的，只为自己。
俗人没什么不好，你的育儿指南不一定非要是高雅，不妨试试俗人回档，俗人不俗命，你可以拿给孩子看看，告诉他们，先懂俗，再懂雅。
香港最近发生的事情令人心痛。自6月9日第一场大规模的示威游行以来，暴力屡屡见诸报端：围殴警察、围堵中联办、污损国徽、挖议员祖坟……
风波因反对派反对特区政府修例而起。但早在6月15日，特区政府已决定暂缓修订《逃犯条例》，从而纵容在台湾杀了人的香港逃犯呆在香港，免受重刑处罚。
反对派的修例目的似乎已经达到了。可事到如今，为何依旧暴力不断？
本刊记者梳理了香港近年来爆发的大规模游行示威、查阅了反对派的公开足迹、并对美国在港的所谓非政府组织（NGO）的公开信息进行调查，发现：美国民主基金会不啻为罪魁祸首！叫它“民主基金会”（National Endowment for Democracy）实在是名不副实，应该叫它资助动乱基金会（National Endowment for Destabilization）
命运要你成长的时候，总会安排一些让你不顺心的人或事刺激你。
13、与其等着别人来爱你，不如自己努力爱自己，对自己好点，因为一辈子不长，对身边的人好点，因为下辈子不一定能够遇见。
14、不要那么敏感，也不要那么心软，太敏感和太心软的人，肯定过得不快乐，别人随便的一句话，你都要胡思乱想一整天。
15、没什么好抱怨的，今天的每一步，都是在为之前的每一次选择买单。每做一件事，都要想一想，日后打脸的时候疼不疼。
16、时间不仅让你看透别人，也让你认清自己。很多时候，就是在跌跌拌拌中，我们学会了生活。
17、做不了决定的时候，让时间帮你决定。如果还是无法决定，做了再说。宁愿犯错，不留遗憾!
18、在不违背原则的情况下，对别人要宽容，能帮就帮，千万不要把人逼绝了，给人留条后路，懂得从内心欣赏别人，虽然这很多时候很难。
19、不要做刺猬，能不与人结仇就不与人结仇，谁也不跟谁一辈子，
我想要的未来，是看得到安全感
欢欢思来想去还是决定分手了，她说，跟一个看不到未来的人在一起，感觉每天的生活的都像在走钢丝，颤颤巍巍的掉不下来，但是也走不到对岸。为了以后的幸福，长痛不如短痛，还是分开算了。
当时对于欢欢的分手，朋友中分成了两个阵营，一边说欢欢太现实，毕竟从大学就建立了深厚的感情基础，如今却败给了子虚乌有的安全感，说起来确实没有信服度。
还有支持欢欢的朋友说，女生喜欢一个人，就是想要嫁给一种安全感，如果白白浪费了女人最好的那几年，最后回想起来真的想给自己一巴掌。
欢欢和男朋友是一只脚踏进了婚礼殿堂，一只脚在门外徘徊。男朋友也有一份比较稳定的工作，他们在一个城市工作了几年，在出租房内度过了热恋的那几年，体验到了蜗居、拮据、争吵和甜蜜。
你失眠，我恰好陪你一起醒着。
我们能遇见的，一定都有原因。所以每次遇到对的人，都像久别重逢。
所以兜兜转转，我们都在等能一起欣赏世界的那个人.
读书多了，内心才不会决堤
你有没有想过这样一件事，你想去的地方，你喜欢的人，你向往的事物，都和你有着很远的距离，原因是什么。
因为你和读书之间的距离，就是你和你喜欢的事物之间的距离。离读书越远，自己就越浅薄。
就算不是为了钱，那就是增长自己的见识，不一定能大富大贵，但会拥有更多的选择。
我们都应该为自己谋一条后退的路，多一个方便的选择，去挥霍自己的青春。可以让你拥有强大的气场，去面对各种流言蜚语，会给你一个虚拟的世界，保护你脆弱的翅膀，尽管是文字堆垒的城堡，但是会有安全感。
有过一段孤独的时间，每天早晨晚上，一个人在家面对四面白墙，捧着手机和电脑发呆，一度怀疑自己得了忧郁症。后来开始读书，一本书看了四五遍，再后来就养成了一种习惯，捧着书，就像捧着爱人的脸。
总之是为了更好的活着，活着赚钱，活着享受，我很俗，不为别的，只为自己。
俗人没什么不好，你的育儿指南不一定非要是高雅，不妨试试俗人回档，俗人不俗命，你可以拿给孩子看看，告诉他们，先懂俗，再懂雅。
读书多了，内心才不会决堤
你有没有想过这样一件事，你想去的地方，你喜欢的人，你向往的事物，都和你有着很远的距离，原因是什么。
因为你和读书之间的距离，就是你和你喜欢的事物之间的距离。离读书越远，自己就越浅薄。
就算不是为了钱，那就是增长自己的见识，不一定能大富大贵，但会拥有更多的选择。
我们都应该为自己谋一条后退的路，多一个方便的选择，去挥霍自己的青春。可以让你拥有强大的气场，去面对各种流言蜚语，会给你一个虚拟的世界，保护你脆弱的翅膀，尽管是文字堆垒的城堡，但是会有安全感。
有过一段孤独的时间，每天早晨晚上，一个人在家面对四面白墙，捧着手机和电脑发呆，一度怀疑自己得了忧郁症。后来开始读书，一本书看了四五遍，再后来就养成了一种习惯，捧着书，就像捧着爱人的脸。
总之是为了更好的活着，活着赚钱，活着享受，我很俗，不为别的，只为自己。
俗人没什么不好，你的育儿指南不一定非要是高雅，不妨试试俗人回档，俗人不俗命，你可以拿给孩子看看，告诉他们，先懂俗，再懂雅。
戳视频看美国如何向港独分子提供资助
李柱铭(左二)、罗冠聪（右一）所率领的代表团2019年5月14日在美国国家民主基金会作专题演讲 （视频截图）
此次香港事态升级之前，以李柱铭为首的反对派5月出访美国，乞求“美国干爹”干预香港修例。他们于5月14日在民主基金会发表了极具煽动性的演讲，参加了该基金会组织的论坛研讨。此前3月，以陈方安生为首的三名反对派也跑去“干爹”那诉苦，和美国副总统彭斯和众议院议长佩洛西眉来眼去，成功地引来了“干爹”无私资助。
李柱铭等回港后不足一月，随即爆发以反修例为名、实则搞乱香港、牵制中国的暴力活动。
2019年7月14日，香港反对派人士在商场内殴打香港警察（文汇报）
若仔细观察，便会发现这仅是历史的重演。2014年9月，香港爆发长达79天的所谓“占中”暴力游行示威。而就在5个月前，也就是是2014年4月，以李柱铭、陈方安生为首的反对派也是先去美国国家民主基金会“摇尾乞怜”， 同时也跑去向时任副总统拜登、以及众议院议长佩洛西“寻求帮助”。
2014年4月2日，李柱铭（左一）、陈方安生（中）在美国民主基金会做演说（视频截图）
当年，当国内外媒体强烈谴责民主基金会干预香港事务、资助“占中”活动时，该基金会还信誓旦旦出了一份公告，坚称自己“从未”有过此类行为。
可惜不久即被“维基解密”打脸：
维基解密：美国务院、民主基金会资助了香港“占中”游行
按照美国的意思搞乱了香港，“带头大哥们”自然不能没有好处。作为回报，民主基金会早就给激进分子铺好后路。在2014年“占中”中宣扬所谓“本土自决”的“祸港四青”纷纷以各种方式远赴英美留学。
今年5月，民主基金会亚洲项目副理事Lynn Lee，在论坛中毫不遮掩的说：冠聪，自从【2014年】游行之后，2015年、2016年、2017年，我每年都会问题你同样一个问题：我们能为你做什么？我们该怎样帮助你们？ （At that time [in 2014], and in 2015, and 16 and 17, I think every year I ask you: what can we do for you? What can we do for you?）
此次远赴美国参加民主基金会论坛的罗冠聪，本科就读于香港的岭南大学，在带头闹过事之后，居然获得了世界名校耶鲁大学的录取！民主基金会功不可没！
先祸港，再弃港，真是始乱终弃啊！
那么，美国国家民主基金会究竟是何方神圣？为何如此神通广大？
美国国家民主基金会表面上是美国两百万个非政府组织之一，但实则是美国中央情报局的延展，其创始人之一的艾伦•温斯顿曾在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时直言不讳地说“我们今天做的许多事情，就是25年前中情局偷偷摸摸做过的。”
该基金会运营的资金主要来自政府拨款，表面宗旨是支持海外“民主”运动，实则助力“颜色革命，”曾无数次企图颠覆别国政权，利比亚、伊拉克、乌克兰、阿富汗等，到处都有民主基金会的身影。
民主基金会最大的目标是谁？美国的宿敌俄罗斯？错！你还是高估了战斗民族在美帝心中的地位。其实是中国！2018年，民主基金会对外公开的数据显示，对所有国家的“资助”中，中国居首位，高达650万美元！（见上图）
该基金会的公开信息显示，过去的三年中，共有2900万美元用于资助中国的异见分子、 分裂主义和极端主义分子。但是这些数字可能仅仅是冰山一角，因为该基金会的大多数支出“过于敏感”不适于公开。
该基金会宣称它的首要目标是帮助他国实现所谓“人权”、“法治”。但是，司马昭之心，路人皆知。分裂中国才是它在中国境内活动的首要目标。在基金会的官网上，中国被赫然分为四个地区：香港、西藏、新疆以及中国大陆。在该基金会历史上，还没有哪个国家“享受”过这样的待遇！明眼人一看就知道，为何有些地方“闹事”情绪高涨。
民主基金会网站截图
美国之音2014年报道：民主基金会在过去20年中，花费了“几百万”美元资助香港反对派、港独分子。更令人气愤的是，1997年，也就是香港回归祖国的那一年，该基金会下属组织“国家民主研究所”（National Democratic Institute）便正式扎根香港！
这种行为不仅是对中国内政的赤裸裸的干涉，更是对美国纳税人税金的大肆浪费。
近期美国有些官员仍以“世界警察”自居，对香港问题指手画脚。众议院议长佩洛西7月2日发推特教唆香港人民“站起来抗议，” 却被众多美国网友狂怼，“干好你自己的事儿不行吗？”“说好的要弹劾总统呢？我们忍你很久了！”“你就是个骗子！”
正如外交部发言人华春莹所说，“美方再没有自知之明，至少也应该清楚一点，那就是：香港是中国的香港，中国政府绝不容许任何外部势力插手香港事务，更不容许任何外国势力搞乱香港。我们奉劝美方趁早收回他们在香港伸出的黑手！”
169. Don\\\\\\\\’t let yesterday use up too much of today. 别留念昨天了，把握好今天吧。(Will Rogers) 170. If you are not brave enough, no one will back you up. 你不勇敢，没人替你坚强。171. If you don\\\\\\\\’t build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs. 如果你没有梦想，那么你只能为别人的梦想打工。172. Beauty is all around, if you just open your heart to see. 只要你给自己机会，你会发现你的世界可以很美丽。173. The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting. 赢与输的差别通常是–不放弃。(华特·迪士尼) 174. I am ordinary yet unique. 我很平凡，但我独一无二。175. I like people who make me laugh in spite of myself. 我喜欢那些让我笑起来的人，就算是我不想笑的时候。176. Image a new story for your life and start living it. 为你的生命想一个全新剧本，并去倾情出演吧！177. I\\\\\\\\’d rather be a happy fool than a sad sage. 做个悲伤的智者，不如做个开心的傻子。178. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 未来属于那些相信梦想之美的人。(埃莉诺·罗斯福) 179. Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts. 即使没有人为你鼓掌，也要优雅的谢幕，感谢自己的认真付出。180. Don\\\\\\\\’t let dream just be your dream. 别让梦想只停留在梦里。181. A day without laughter is a day wasted. 没有笑声的一天是浪费了的一天。(卓别林) 182. Travel and see the world; afterwards, you will be able to put your concerns in perspective. 去旅行吧，见的世面多了，你会发现原来在意的那些结根本算不了什么。183. The key to acquiring proficiency in any task is repetition. 任何事情成功关键都是熟能生巧。《生活大爆炸》 184. You can be happy no matter what. 开心一点吧，管它会怎样。185. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. 今天的好计划胜过明天的完美计划。186. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says \\\\\\\\’I\\\\\\\\’m possible\\\\\\\\’! 一切皆有可能！“不可能”的意思是：“不，可能。”(奥黛丽·赫本) 187. Life isn\\\\\\\\’t fair, but no matter your circumstances, you have to give it your all. 生活是不公平的，不管你的境遇如何，你只能全力以赴。188. No matter how hard it is, just keep going because you only fail when you give up. 无论多么艰难，都要继续前进，因为只有你放弃的那一刻，你才输了。When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening. Ten days later, in March 1946, Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them more than forty years later. Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior. After dropping out of high school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until, at age nineteen, he joined the Coast Guard, even though he didn’t know how to swim. He was deployed on the USS General M. C. Meigs and spent much of the war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor trouble and never rose above the rank of seaman. Clara was born in New Jersey, where her parents had landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia, and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child. She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. So when she met Paul Jobs on that first date, she was primed to start a new life. Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there. They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a “repo man,” picking the locks of cars whose owners hadn’t paid their loans and repossessing them. He also bought, repaired, and sold some of the cars, making a decent enough living in the process. There was, however, something missing in their lives. They wanted children, but Clara had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized egg was implanted in a fallopian tube rather than the uterus, and she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child. Like Paul Jobs, Joanne Schieble was from a rural Wisconsin family of German heritage. Her father, Arthur Schieble, had immigrated to the outskirts of Green Bay, where he and his wife owned a mink farm and dabbled successfully in various other businesses, including real estate and photoengraving. He was very strict, especially regarding his daughter’s relationships, and he had strongly disapproved of her first love, an artist who was not a Catholic. Thus it was no surprise that he threatened to cut Joanne off completely when, as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, she fell in love with Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, a Muslim teaching assistant from Syria. Jandali was the youngest of nine children in a prominent Syrian family. His father owned oil refineries and multiple other businesses, with large holdings in Damascus and Homs, and at one point pretty much controlled the price of wheat in the region. His mother, he later said, was a “traditional Muslim woman” who was a “conservative, obedient housewife.” Like the Schieble family, the Jandalis put a premium on education. Abdulfattah was sent to a Jesuit boarding school, even though he was Muslim, and he got an undergraduate degree at the American University in Beirut before entering the University of Wisconsin to pursue a doctoral degree in political science. In the summer of 1954, Joanne went with Abdulfattah to Syria. They spent two months in Homs, where she learned from his family to cook Syrian dishes. When they returned to Wisconsin she discovered that she was pregnant. They were both twenty-three, but they decided not to get married. Her father was dying at the time, and he had threatened to disown her if she wed Abdulfattah. Nor was abortion an easy option in a small Catholic community. So in early 1955, Joanne traveled to San Francisco, where she was taken into the care of a kindly doctor who sheltered unwed mothers, delivered their babies, and quietly arranged closed adoptions. Joanne had one requirement: Her child must be adopted by college graduates. So the doctor arranged for the baby to be placed with a lawyer and his wife. But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out. Thus it was that the boy became the son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper. Paul and Clara named their new baby Steven Paul Jobs. When Joanne found out that her baby had been placed with a couple who had not even graduated from high school, she refused to sign the adoption papers. The standoff lasted weeks, even after the baby had settled into the Jobs household. Eventually Joanne relented, with the stipulation that the couple promise—indeed sign a pledge—to fund a savings account to pay for the boy’s college education. There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after. She held out hope, she would later tell family members, sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married, she could get their 别让梦想只停留在梦里。181. A day without laughter is a day wasted. 没有笑声的一天是浪费了的一天。(卓别林) 182. Travel and see the world; afterwards, you will be able to put your concerns in perspective. 去旅行吧，见的世面多了，你会发现原来在意的那些结根本算不了什么。183. The key to acquiring proficiency in any task is repetition. 任何事情成功关键都是熟能生巧。《生活大爆炸》 184. You can be happy no matter what. 开心一点吧，管它会怎样。baby boy back. Arthur Schieble died in August 1955, after the adoption was finalized. Just after Christmas that year, Joanne and Abdulfattah were married in St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Green Bay. He got his PhD in international politics the next year, and then they had another child, a girl named Mona. After she and Jandali divorced in 1962, Joanne embarked on a dreamy and peripatetic life that her daughter, who grew up to become the acclaimed novelist Mona Simpson, would capture in her book Anywhere but Here. Because Steve’s adoption had been closed, it would be twenty years before they would all find each other. Steve Jobs knew from an early age that he was adopted. “My parents were very open with me about that,” he recalled. He had a vivid memory of sitting on the lawn of his house, when he was six or seven years old, telling the girl who lived across the street. “So does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?” the girl asked. “Lightning bolts went off in my head,” according to Jobs. “I remember running into the house, crying. And my parents said, ‘No, you have to understand.’ They were very serious and looked me straight in the eye. They said, ‘We specifically picked you out.’ Both of my parents said that and repeated it slowly for me. And they put an emphasis on every word in that sentence.” Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself. His closest friends think that the knowledge that he was given up at birth left some scars. “I think his desire for complete control of whatever he makes derives directly from his personality and the fact that he was abandoned at birth,” said one longtime colleague, Del Yocam. “He wants to control his environment, and he sees the product as an extension of himself.” Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect. “Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused,” he said. “It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.” Later in life, when he was the same age his biological father had been when he abandoned him, Jobs would father and abandon a child of his own. (He eventually took responsibility for her.) Chrisann Brennan, the mother of that child, said that being put up for adoption left Jobs “full of broken glass,” and it helps to explain some of his behavior. “He who is abandoned is an abandoner,” she said. Andy Hertzfeld, who worked with Jobs at Apple in the early 1980s, is among the few who remained close to both Brennan and Jobs. “The key question about Steve is why he can’t control himself at times from being so reflexively cruel and harmful to some people,” he said. “That goes back to being abandoned at birth. The real underlying problem was the theme of abandonment in Steve’s life.” Jobs dismissed this. “There’s some notion that because I was abandoned, I worked very hard so I could do well and make my parents wish they had me back, or some such nonsense, but that’s ridiculous,” he insisted. “Knowing I was adopted may have made me feel more independent, but I have never felt abandoned. I’ve always felt special. My parents made me feel special.” He would later bristle whenever anyone referred to Paul and Clara Jobs as his “adoptive” parents or implied that they were not his “real” parents. “They were my parents 1,000%,” he said. When speaking about his biological parents, on the other hand, he was curt: “They were my sperm and egg bank. That’s not harsh, it’s just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more.” Silicon Valley 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. 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.” 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.” 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 m189. It requires hard work to give off an appearance of effortlessness. 你必须十分努力，才能看起来毫不费力。190. Life is like riding a bicycle.To keep your balance,you must keep moving. 人生就像骑单车，只有不断前进，才能保持平衡。(爱因斯坦) 191. Be thankful for what you have.You\\\\\\\\’ll end up having more. 拥有一颗感恩的心，最终你会得到更多。192. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. 美是一种内心的感觉，并反映在你的眼睛里。(索菲亚·罗兰) 193. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. 朋友的作用，就是让你快乐加倍，痛苦减半。194. When you long for something sincerely, the whole world will help you. 当你真心渴望某样东西时，整个宇宙都会来帮忙。echanical things.” “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.” 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.” 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.” 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.” 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. His father was calm and gentle, traits that his son later praised more than emulated. He was also resolute. Jobs described one exampl What made the neighborhood different from the thousands of other spindly-tree subdivisions across America was that even the ne’er-do-wells tended to be engineers. “When we moved here, there were apricot and plum orchards on all of these corners,” Jobs recalled. “But it was beginning to boom because of military investment.” He soaked up the history of the valley and developed a yearning to play his own role. Edwin Land of Polaroid later told him about being asked by Eisenhower to help build the U-2 spy plane cameras to see how real the Soviet threat was. The film was dropped in canisters and returned to the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, not far from where Jobs lived. “The first computer terminal I ever saw was when my dad brought me to the Ames Center,” he said. “I fell totally in love with it.” Other defense contractors sprouted nearby during the 1950s. The Lockheed Missiles and Space Division, which built submarine-launched ballistic missiles, was founded in 1956 next to the NASA Center; by the time Jobs moved to the area four years later, it employed twenty thousand people. A few hundred yards away, Westinghouse built facilities that produced tubes and electrical transformers for the missile systems. “You had all these military companies on the cutting edge,” he recalled. “It was mysterious and high-tech and made living here very exciting.” In the wake of the defense industries there arose a booming economy based on technology. Its roots stretched back to 1938, when David Packard and his new wife moved into a house in Palo Alto that had a shed where his friend Bill Hewlett was soon ensconced. The house had a garage—an appendage that would prove both useful and iconic in the valley—in which they tinkered around until they had their first product, an audio oscillator. By the 1950s, Hewlett-Packard was a fast-growing company making technical instruments. Fortunately there was a place nearby for entrepreneurs who had outgrown their garages. In a move that would help transform the area into the cradle of the tech revolution, Stanford University’s dean of engineering, Frederick Terman, created a seven-hundred-acre industrial park on university land for private companies that could commercialize the ideas of his students. Its first tenant was Varian Associates, where Clara Jobs worked. “Terman came up with this great idea that did more than anything to cause the tech industry to grow up here,” Jobs said. By the time Jobs was ten, HP had nine thousand employees and was the blue-chip company where every engineer seeking financial stability wanted to work. The most important technology for the region’s growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one of the inventors of the transistor at Bell Labs in New Jersey, moved out to Mountain View and, in 1956, started a company to build transistors using silicon rather than the more expensive germanium that was then commonly used. But Shockley became increasingly erratic and abandoned his silicon transistor project, which led eight of his engineers—most notably Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore—to break away to form Fairchild Semiconductor. That company grew to twelve thousand employees, but it fragmented in 1968, when Noyce lost a power struggle to become CEO. He took Gordon Moore and founded a company that they called Integrated Electronics Corporation, which they soon smartly abbreviated to Intel. Their third employee was Andrew Grove, who later would grow the company by shifting its focus from memory chips to microprocessors. Within a few years there would be more than fifty companies in the area making semiconductors. The exponential growth of this industry was correlated with the phenomenon famously discovered by Moore, who in 1965 drew a graph of the speed of integrated circuits, based on the number of transistors that could be placed on a chip, and showed that it doubled about every two years, a trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the Intel 4004, tronic amplifier. “So I raced home, and I told my dad that he was wrong.” “No, it needs an amplifier,” his father assured him. When Steve protested otherwise, his father said he was crazy. “It can’t work without an amplifier. There’s some trick.” “I kept saying no to my dad, telling him he had to see it, and finally he actually walked down with me and saw it. And he said, ‘Well I’ll be a bat out of hell.’” Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything. Then a more disconcerting discovery began to dawn on him: He was smarter than his parents. He had always admired his father’s competence and savvy. “He was not an educated man, but I had always thought he was pretty damn smart. He didn’t read much, but he could do a lot. Almost everything mechanical, he could figure it out.” Yet the carbon microphone incident, Jobs said, began a jarring process of realizing that he was in fact more clever and quick than his parents. “It was a very big moment that’s burned into my mind. When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. I will never forget that moment.” This discovery, he later told friends, along with the fact that he was adopted, made him feel apart—detached and separate—from both his family and the world. Another layer of awareness occurred soon after. Not only did he discover that he was brighter than his parents, but he discovered that they knew this. Paul and Clara Jobs were loving parents, and they were willing to adapt their lives to suit a son who was very smart—and also willful. They would go to great lengths to accommodate him. And soon Steve discovered this fact as well. “Both my parents got me. They felt a lot of responsibility once they sensed that I was special. They found ways to keep feeding me stuff and putting me in better schools. They were willing to defer to my needs.” So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality. School Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. “I was kind of bored for the first few year
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