《名人傳記》之喬布斯億萬富豪嬉皮士82:喬布斯并沒有失去斗志

11 years later, Jobs was still bitter.

11年以后 這件事依然讓史蒂夫非常怨憤

What can I say? I hired the wrong guy.

我還能說什么呢?我看走了眼

-That was Sculley? -Yeah,

-你是指Sculley? -是的

and, er, he destroyed everything I'd spent ten years working for.

他毀了我十年來所有的心血

Erm, starting with me, but that wasn't the saddest part.

辭退我也就算了 這還不是最主要的問題

I'd have gladly left Apple if Apple had turned out like I wanted it to.

如果蘋果最終能變成我期望的那樣 那我是愿意離開公司的

Sacking Jobs seemed natural to the man schooled in selling sugar water.

對于賣慣了糖水的人來說 解雇喬布斯是件無可厚非的事

In hindsight, that was a terrible decision. I was part of it.

事后看來 那是個糟糕的決定 而我也促成了這個決定

Coming from my vantage point, out of corporate America,

我來自一個典型的大企業(yè) 在我看來

people were asked to step down all the time when there were disagreements

當(dāng)公司里出現(xiàn)分歧時 有人被要求離職是再正常不過的事情了

so I didn't appreciate what it meant to be a founder of a business,

所以 我沒能去理解 他作為公司的創(chuàng)始人和規(guī)劃者

the visionary of the business.

會有什么樣的感受

I was focused on how do we sell Apple computers,

我關(guān)注的重點 是我們該怎么去銷售蘋果的電腦

he was focused on how do we change the world?

而他在乎的 是怎么去改變世界

Jobs severed all ties with Apple, except one.

喬布斯斷絕了與蘋果的所有聯(lián)系

He kept a single share in the company he had founded,

但他還是保留了一份股權(quán)

selling off the rest for more than $100 million.

并以超過一億美元的價格 賣掉了其余所有的股權(quán)

He hated the company. He couldn't see that it would succeed without him.

他對蘋果恨之入骨 他不覺得這個公司沒了他還能取得成功

He didn't want it to succeed without him.

他也不想讓公司在沒有他的情況下成功

Over the next 11 years, Jobs didn't relent.

在以后的11年中 喬布斯并沒有失去斗志

Once again centre stage, he set up a new company called Next, building high spec computers.

他成立了一家名叫Next的公司 生產(chǎn)高規(guī)格計算機

With cases made of magnesium and a price to match, they didn't sell well.

Next計算機制作精良 有鎂制外殼 因而也價格不菲 未能打入市場

Though one important computer scientist was impressed.

盡管如此 還是有一位重要的計算機科學(xué)家對它表示了欣賞

Steve Jobs had arranged that,

史蒂夫·喬布斯設(shè)計了一個小功能

whenever you get a Next machine,

你買了一臺Next電腦后

there would be a message from him.

就會收到來自他的一條信息

One of the things I remember he said was that it's not just about personal computing, which was the rage,

令我記憶猶新是 他說 當(dāng)時風(fēng)行一時的個人電腦并不是科技的走向

he said this should be about interpersonal computing.

電腦應(yīng)該成為人與人之間交流的工具

And I thought, yeah, that's... Yeah, he's got it.

我想 是啊 的確是這樣 他真是一語中的