1. 童年 Childhood(6)
在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
但是这并不是那么浪漫。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子,仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程,穿过这个城市到hare krishna寺庙,只是为了能吃上饭―这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。
斯坦福毕业典礼演讲,2005年6月斯坦福毕业典礼演讲,2005年6月reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instru in the try. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dro#小说 pped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of spabsp;between different letter binations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that sbsp;'t capture, and i found it fasating.
none of this had even a hope of any practibsp;application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first matosh puter, it all came babsp;to me. and we designed it all into the mabsp;it was the first puter with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mabsp;would have never had multiple typefabsp;or proportionally spabsp;fonts. and sinbsp;windows just copied the mabsp;its likely that no personal puter would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal puters might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to ebsp;the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
stanford e speebsp;june 2005stanford e speebsp;june 2005里德学院在那时提供也许是整个美国最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 所以我决定去参加这个课程,去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙, 我发现那实在是太美妙 了。
当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中,好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台matosh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了mac。</p>