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To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know.
Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
给苹果董事会和苹果公司：
我一直都说，如果有一天当我已不能再作为苹果首席执行官履行职责和满足人们对我的期望，我将首先告诉你们。不幸的是，这一天真的来了。
在此，我宣布辞去苹果首席执行官职务。如果董事会认为合适的话，我想担任董事长，或者董事甚至普通职员都可以。
至于我的继任者，我强烈建议实施我们已定的继任计划，并提名蒂姆·库克担任苹果CEO。 我认为，苹果最光明和最具创新力的日子还在后头。我期待着在新的岗位上看护苹果的成功并为此做出贡献。
在苹果我交了一些生命中最好的朋友，我要感谢多年来与我共同努力的所有人。
苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯辞职信全文（Steve Jobs’s Resignation Letter to Apple）
北京时间8月25日早间消息，苹果董事会今天宣布，苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)辞职，董事会已任命前苹果COO蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)接任苹果CEO一职。乔布斯被选为董事会主席，库克将加入董事会，立即生效 。
乔布斯今天向苹果董事会递交了辞呈，并强烈推荐前苹果COO蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)接任苹果CEO一职。
以下是辞职信全文：
致苹果董事会及苹果社区：
我曾经说过，如果有一天我不再能履行作为苹果CEO的职责和期望，我会是第一个告诉你们知道的人。不幸的是，这一天到来了。
在此，我宣布从苹果CEO的职位上辞职，如果董事会同意，我将担任苹果董事会主席。 针对接任者，我强烈建议执行我们制定的接任计划，提名蒂姆·库克为苹果CEO。
我相信，苹果的未来将更加光明，更具创造力。我期待未来苹果的成功，也将为此尽自己的绵薄之力。
我在苹果结交了一些人生中最好的朋友，能和你们所有人一起共事这么多年，非常感谢你们。 The following is the resignation letter from Steve Jobs to the Apple board:
CUPERTINO, Calif.–August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple
Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know.
Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve Jobs Step Down with Apple on Top
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
The chief executive who presented the latest, and coolest, electronics to the world has stepped down. Steve Jobs announced his resignation as head of Apple in a letter last week.
He wrote: “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in nineteen seventy-six. The company sold a new kind of electronic device: the personal computer. Apple Computer grew more quickly than anyone could have imagined.
In nineteen eighty-five, however, Steve Jobs resigned after disputes with managers who had been brought in to direct business operations. He soon started his own software company, NeXT, and bought a computer animation studio. The Pixar movie studio would go on to create movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. They are two of the most successful animated films ever made.
Apple struggled during the nineteen nineties. Many products failed. The company began losing money and its stock price sank.
In nineteen ninety-seven, Apple bought NeXT and brought back Steve Jobs. Apple used software developed at NeXT to create the Mac OS computer operating system. The next year, Apple became profitable. And a series of highly successful products followed. In two thousand one, Apple released the iPod, a digital music player. The iPhone arrived in two thousand seven.
Apple has also been a leader in online marketing. The iTunes Music Store sells songs for download. The App Store sells applications for computers and mobile devices.
As Steve Jobs has noted, trial and error has always been part of the Apple model.
STEVE JOBS: "We just try to build products we think are really wonderful and that people might want. And, sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong."
Steve Jobs is closely linked with the success of Apple. Investors were scared when he announced he had an operation for pancreatic cancer in two thousand four.
His decision to leave comes as Apple continues to release winning products. Apple sold over four and a half million iPads in the first three months of this year. The company holds the largest share of the growing tablet computer market.
On August ninth, Apple first passed Exxon Mobil Corporation to become the most valuable
publicly traded company in the world. Since then the two companies have traded the lead.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report. I'm Mario Ritter.
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这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
谢谢大家。很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前说起。我的生母是一个年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定让别人收养我。她有一个很强烈的信仰，认为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。于是，一对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。然后我排在收养人名单中的养父母在一个深夜接到电话，“很意外，我们多了一个男婴，你们要吗？”“当然要！”但是我的生母后来又发现我的养母没有大学毕业，养父连高中都没有毕业。她拒绝在领养书上签字。几个月后，我的养父母保证会让我上大学，她妥协了。
This was the start in my life. And 17 years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here
I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
这是我生命的开端。十七年后，我上大学了，但是我很无知地选了一所差不多和斯坦福一样贵的学校，几乎花掉我那蓝领阶层养父母一生的积蓄。六个月后，我觉得不值得。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不晓得大学会怎样帮我指点迷津，而我却在花销父母一生的积蓄。所以我决定退学，并且相信没有做错。一开始非常吓人，但回忆起来，这却是我一生中作的最好的决定之一。从我退学的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感兴趣的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
事情并不那么美好。我没有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房间的地上。为了吃饭，我收集五分一个的旧可乐瓶，每个星期天晚上步行七英里到哈尔-克里什纳庙里改善一下一周的伙食。我喜欢这种生活方式。能够遵循自己的好奇和直觉前行后来被证明是多么的珍贵。让我来给你们举个例子吧。
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped 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 sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
当时的里德大学提供可能是全国最好的书法指导。校园中每一张海报，抽屉上的每一张标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于我已退学，不用修那些必修课，我决定选一门书法课上上。在这门课上，我学会了“serif”和"sans-serif"两种字体、学会了怎样在不同的字母组合中改变字间距、学会了怎样写出好的字来。这是一种科学无法捕捉的微妙，楚楚动人、充满历史底蕴和艺术性，我觉得自己被完全吸引了。
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.【乔布斯的辞职信】
当时我并不指望书法在以后的生活中能有什么实用价值。但是，十年之后，我们在设计第一台 Macintosh计算机时，它一下子浮现在我眼前。于是，我们把这些东西全都设计进了计算机中。这是第一台有这么漂亮的文字版式的计算机。要不是我当初在大学里偶然选了这么一门课，Macintosh计算机绝不会有那么多种印刷字体或间距安排合理的字号。要不是Windows照搬了 Macintosh，个人电脑可能不会有这些字体和字号。
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
要不是退了学，我决不会碰巧选了这门书法课，个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
当然，我在大学里不可能从这一点上看到它与将来的关系。十年之后再回头看，两者之间关系就非常、非常清楚了。你们同样不可能从现在这个点上看到将来；只有回头看时，才会发现它们之间的关系。所以你必须相信，那些点点滴滴，会在你未来的生命里，以某种方式串联起来。你必须相信一些东西——你的勇气、宿命、生活、因缘，随便什么——因为相信这些点滴能够一路连接会给你带来循从本觉的自信，它使你远离平凡，变得与众不同。
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned 30, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at 30, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
第二个故事是关于爱与失的。我很幸运，很早就发现自己喜欢做的事情。我二十岁的时候就和沃茨在父母的车库里开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力，十年后，苹果公司成长为拥有
四千名员工，价值二十亿的大公司。我们刚刚推出了最好的创意，Macintosh操作系统，在这之前的一年，也就是我刚过三十岁，我被解雇了。你怎么可能被一个亲手创立的公司解雇？事情是这样的，在公司成长期间，我雇佣了一个我们认为非常聪明，可以和我一起经营公司的人。一年后，我们对公司未来的看法产生分歧，董事会站在了他的一边。于是，在我三十岁的时候，我出局了，很公开地出局了。我整个成年生活的焦点没了，这很要命。一开始的几个月我真的不知道该干什么。我觉得我让公司的前一代创建者们失望了，我把传给我的权杖给弄丢了。我与戴维德·帕珂德和鲍勃·诺埃斯见面，试图为这彻头彻尾的失败道歉。我败得如此之惨以至于我想要逃离硅谷。但有个东西在慢慢地叫醒我：我还爱着我从事的行业。这次失败一点儿都没有改变这一点。我被逐了，但我仍爱着我的事业。我决定重新开始。
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
当时我没有看出来，但事实证明“被苹果开除”是发生在我身上最好的事。成功的重担被重新起步的轻松替代，对任何事情都不再特别看重，这让我感觉如此自由，进入一生中最有创造力的阶段。接下来的五年，我创立了一个叫NeXT的公司，接着又建立了Pixar，然后与后来成为我妻子的女人相爱。Pixar出品了世界第一个电脑动画电影：“玩具总动员”，现在它已经是世界最成功的动画制作工作室了。
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
在一系列的成功运转后，苹果收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果。我们在NeXT开发的技术在苹果的复兴中起了核心作用，另外劳琳和我组建了一个幸福的家庭。
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
我非常确信，如果我没有被苹果炒掉，这些就都不会发生。这个药的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。有些时候，生活会给你迎头一棒。不要丧失信心。我确信唯一让我一路走下来的是我对自己所做事情的热爱。你必须去找你热爱的东西，对工作如此，对你的爱人也是这
样的。工作会占据你生命中很大的一部分，你只有相信自己做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你还没有找到，那么就继续找，不要停。全心全意地找，当你找到时，你会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系，随着时间的流逝，只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，不要停。
My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll 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 I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've 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.
我的第三个故事关于死亡。我17岁的时候读到过一句话“如果你把每一天都当作最后一天过，有一天你会发现你是正确的”。这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那以后，过去的33年，每天早上我都会对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我会不会做我想做的事情呢？”如果连着一段时间，答案都是否定的的话，我就知道我需要改变一些东西了。提醒自己就要死了是我遇见的最大的帮助，帮我作了生命中的大决定。因为几乎任何事——所有的荣耀、骄傲、对难堪和失败的恐惧——在死亡面前都会消隐，留下真正重要的东西。提醒自己就要死亡是我知道的最好的方法，用来避开担心失去某些东西的陷阱。你已经赤裸裸了，没有理由不听从于自己的心愿。
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 didn't 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 and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大约一年前，我被诊断出患了癌症。我早上七点半作了扫描，清楚地显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生们告诉我这几乎是无法治愈的，我还有三到六个月的时间。我的医生建议我回家，整理一切。在医生的辞典中，这就是“准备死亡”的意思。就是意味着把要对你小孩说十年的话在几个月内说完；意味着把所有东西搞定，尽量让你的家庭活得轻松一点；意味着你要说“永别”了。
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 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 doctor 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, thankfully, I
英文辞职信
Separation Agreement &
General Release
CONFIDENTIAL
[date]
[Name and Address]
Re: Separation Agreement and General Release
Dear ______________________:
This letter proposes the following Separation Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") between you and ________________ ("Company") regarding the terms of your separation from ________________ .
I. Background
A. You were employed by the Company as ____________. You and the Company have agreed to terminate your employment relationship on an amicable basis.
B. On ________, your employment with the Company terminated.
II. Terms of Agreement
In order to effect the termination of your employment and to provide you with certain benefits that you would not otherwise be entitled to, you and the Company agree as follows:
1. This Agreement shall not be in any way construed as an admission by the Company that it has acted wrongfully with respect to you or any other person, or that you have any rights whatsoever against the Company.【乔布斯的辞职信】
2. Even if you do not sign this Agreement, the Company will pay you the compensation that you have earned through the date of your termination, any accrued vacation benefits, and [insert any appropriate profit sharing, etc. plan name here] in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plan. Similarly, even if you do not sign this Agreement, you will be offered benefits to which you are entitled under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget
3. In exchange for the promises contained in this Agreement and release of claims as set forth below, and provided that you sign this agreement and return it to me by ________ [21 days from date of letter], 1999 and do not revoke this Agreement as set forth in Paragraph 15(d):
a. The Company will pay you a severance allowance in the amount of your current base monthly salary of $____________ beginning ________, and ending ________ to be paid on a monthly basis and in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll process.
b. The Company will pay for your medical coverage (i.e., COBRA benefits) under the ________________ [Group Health Insurance Plan, correct name].【乔布斯的辞职信】
c. If you wish, the Company will pay for an outplacement service (to be selected by the Company) for services rendered in assisting you in locating another job, for a period of ____ months following the date of your termination or until you begin working for another employer, whichever occurs first. These payments are contingent upon your cooperation with the outplacement service and upon active efforts by you to locate another position.
4. In consideration of the promises contained in this Agreement, you agree:
a. On behalf of yourself and anyone claiming through you, irrevocably and unconditionally to release, acquit and forever discharge the Company and/or its parent corporation, subsidiaries, divisions, predecessors, successors and assigns, as well as each past and present officers, directors, employees, shareholders, trustees, joint ventures, partners, and anyone claiming through them (hereinafter "Releases" collectively), in each individual and/or corporate capacities, from any and all claims, liabilities, promises, actions, damages and the like, known or unknown, which you ever had against any of the Releases arising out of or relating to your employment with the Company and/or the termination of your employment with the Company. Said claims include, but are not limited to: (1) employment discrimination (including claims of sex discrimination and/or sexual harassment) and retaliation under Title VII (42 U.S.C.A. 2000e etc.) and under 42 U.S.C.A. section 1981 and section 1983, age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C.A. sections 621-634) as amended, under the California Constitution, under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA"), under the California Labor Code and/or any other relevant state statutes or municipal ordinances; (2) disputed wages; (3) wrongful discharge and/or breach of any alleged employment contract; and (4) claims based on any tort, such as invasion of privacy, defamation, fraud and infliction of emotional distress.
b. That you shall not bring any legal action against any of the Releases for any claim waived and released under this Agreement and that you represent and warrant that no such claim has been filed to date. You further agree that should you bring any type of administrative or legal action arising out of claims waived under this Agreement, you will bear all legal fees and costs, including those of the Releases.
5. You agree to refer any and all reference checks to the ________ [insert name] and you know that any such references will be limited to confirmation of your dates of employment and last position
held. The obligation under this Paragraph is separable and any failure by the Company to perform the obligation in this Paragraph will only give rise to an action to enforce this Paragraph.
6. You agree that you will not, directly or indirectly, disclose the fact of and terms of this Agreement, including the severance benefits, to anyone other than your attorney, except to the extent such disclosure may be required for accounting or tax reporting purposes or as otherwise required by law.
7. You acknowledge that you have been informed of Section 1542 of the California Civil Code which reads as follows: A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.
In signing this Agreement, you waive any right or benefit which you have or may have under this Section 1542 to the fullest extent that you may lawfully waive such claims and benefits pertaining to the subject matter of this general release, with the exception of claims excluded in Paragraph 15(b) below.
8. This agreement shall be binding on the parties and upon their heirs, administrators, representatives, executors, successors and assigns and shall inure to their benefit and to that of their heirs, administrators, representatives, executors, successors and assigns.
9. On or before ________ [date], you will return to me all of the Company’s property in your possession including, but not limited to, [insert appropriate materials, such as customer lists, mailing lists, account information, samples, prototypes, price lists and pricing information] any phone cards, cellular phone, automobile and all of the tangible and intangible property belonging to the Company and relating to your employment with the Company. You further represent and warrant that you have not retained any copies, electronic or otherwise, of such property.
10. You will cooperate fully with the Company in its defense of or other participation in any administrative, judicial or other proceeding arising from any charge, complaint or other action which has been or may be filed.
11. You will continue to comply with the terms of the Proprietary and Confidentiality Agreement between you and the Company, executed on _______________, and know and understand that the obligations contained in that agreement survive execution of this Agreement and your termination of employment. In particular, you shall not disclose any confidential or proprietary information (specifically including pricing, margins, key customer contacts and their profiles not generally known to the public) which you acquired as an employee of the Company to any other person or entity, or use such information in any manner that is detrimental to the interest of the Company. A copy of your Confidentiality Agreement is attached as Exhibit 1.
12. You agree that you will not make any comments relating to the Company or its employees which are critical, derogatory or which may tend to injure the business of the Company.
13. In the event that you breach any of your obligations under Paragraphs 9 through 13, any outstanding obligations of the Company hereunder shall immediately terminate, and any payments previously made to you pursuant to Paragraph 3 shall be returned to the Company.
14. You also acknowledge that you have been informed pursuant to the federal Older Workers Benefit Protection Act of 1990 that:
a. You have the right to consult with an attorney before signing this Agreement;
b. You do not waive rights or claims under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act that may arise after the date this waiver is executed.
c. You have twenty-one (21) days from the date of this letter to consider this Agreement;
d. You have seven (7) days after signing this Agreement to revoke the Agreement, and the Agreement will not be effective until that revocation period has expired.
15. The provisions of this Agreement are serviceable. If any provision is held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
16. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement between you and the Company and supersedes any and all prior oral or written agreements or understandings between you and the Company concerning the subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement may not be altered, amended or modified, except by a further written document signed by you and the Company.
17. [If appropriate, include arbitration clause.]
18. You represent that you fully understand your right to review all aspects of this Agreement with an attorney of your choice, that you have had the opportunity to consult with an attorney of your choice, that you have carefully read and fully understand all the provisions of this Agreement and that you are freely, knowingly and voluntarily entering into this Separation Agreement and General Release.
If you are willing to enter into this Agreement, please signify your acceptance in the space indicated below, and return to me by ________ [21 days], 2003. As I noted earlier, this Agreement will not become effective, and none of the severance benefits in Paragraph 3 will be paid, until seven (7) days after the date you sign this Agreement.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. YOU ARE GIVING UP ANY LEGAL CLAIMS THAT YOU HAVE AGAINST THE COMPANY BY SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT.
Very truly yours,
________________
Accepted and agreed to on this ____ day of ____________, 2003
I do or do not (circle one) elect outplacement services pursuant to Paragraph 3(c).
________________
Employee signature
Witness:________________
Date:________
人物传记：史蒂夫〃乔布斯
史蒂夫〃乔布斯（1955-2011），发明家、企业家、美国苹果公司联合创办人、前行政总裁。1976年乔布斯和朋友斯蒂夫〃沃兹尼亚克成立苹果电脑公司，被认为是计算机业界与娱乐界的标志性人物。同时也把他视作麦金塔计算机、iPod、iTune、ipad、iphone等风靡全球亿万人的电子产品的缔造者。毋庸臵疑的，经过了苹果公司数十年的起落与复兴，他深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐乃至生活的方式，甚至改变了世界。 1955年2月24日，在美国旧金山，一个私生婴儿出生了，他随即被送给保罗〃乔布斯和克拉拉〃乔布斯收养。孩子的亲生母亲，一位研究生，在要求乔布斯夫妇保证将这个孩子送入大学后，离开了这家人的视野。后来，这个孩子被取名为史蒂夫，史蒂夫〃乔布斯。
乔布斯5个月大时，全家搬到了南旧金山；10岁前，乔布斯一家搬到了山景城，随后进入了山景城的蒙塔洛马小学就读。1967年，全家人又搬到了洛斯阿尔托斯的克里斯特路11161号，这所房子也是后来苹果电脑的诞生地。在此期间，他先后就读于库比蒂诺中学和霍姆斯泰德高中。
1972年，乔布斯毕业于加利福尼亚州洛斯阿图斯的Homestead高中。此前，他曾去过里德大学探望过一个朋友，这次的大学之旅之后，坚持己见的乔布斯就下定决心已定要上里德大学。事实上，乔布斯只在学校里听了一学期的课，就干脆利落
的办了退学手续，并过着嬉皮士般的生活，深受当时那个年代的文化影响。可是却很少有人注意到，乔布斯和那些只知道无原则叛逆和追求另类生活的嬉皮士相比不同，他是个有追求的嬉皮士。乔布斯在里德大学一边学禅一边游荡，蹭吃蹭宿舍，总是根据自己的兴趣到教室旁听对自己有用的课，例如英文书法课。正如后来他在斯坦福大学演讲时所说：“如果我在大学里没有旁听过英文书法课，Macintosh就不会有那么多漂亮、比例匀称的字体。”
生长在一个工人阶级家庭的乔布斯从小就表现出对计算机技术的极大兴趣，中学时就就经常在课后到惠普公司听讲座，甚而在1968年成为惠普公司的夏季实习生，儿而当时他只有13岁，也是在这个售后他遇到了后来“苹果双雄”中的另一位重量级人物——史蒂夫〃沃兹。
1975年，乔布斯在阿尔托斯的禅宗中心学禅，深受禅师乙川弘文的影响，“一切唯心，万法唯识。”将就发自内心的顿悟，这种思想整合乔布斯的心性。不得不说，乔布斯后来在苹果体现出来的各种天才，独具慧眼的战略思考，艺术唯美的产品设计，多少都有一些他此前参禅悟道的影子。
在此期间，沃兹城工地组装好了Apple I，这是人类历史上第一台可以将键盘输入实时显示到屏幕上的电脑。在1975年11月，感恩节前后，乔布斯在向惠普和雅达利推销新设计的电脑失败后，决定自己开公司，生产和销售Apple I的印刷电路板。
1976年4月1日，乔布斯与史蒂夫〃沃兹、罗纳德〃韦恩一
起签署了长达10页的合约，创立苹果公司。1977年1月3日，苹果公司正式注册，此时由迈克〃斯科特出任苹果公司的CEO.
1980年11月，苹果股票上升至每股22美金，乔布斯和沃兹尼艾克一夜之间变为百万富翁。到 1985 年为止，苹果发展顺利，拥有四千员工，股票市值高达 20 亿美元。乔布斯个人也很顺利，名利双收。但接下来，乔布斯遇到了别人一辈子可能都不会遇到的两件事―被别人赶出了自己创办的公司，然后又去鬼门关走了一遭。而苹果公司，也开始进入了长达十五年的低谷。
1985年9月13日，乔布斯正式从苹果离职，而后创立了新公司NeXT。1986年乔布斯收购了卢卡斯影业的图形工作组，新公司被命名为Pixar，皮克斯。如今，这间公司已成为畅销动画电影《玩具总动员》和《虫虫危机》的制作厂商，它是现年44岁的 乔布斯事业生涯中的第二个高峰。
1996年，苹果公司重新雇佣乔布斯作为其兼职顾问,也即iCEO。此时苹果经历了高层领导的不断更迭和经营不善之后，其营运情况每况愈下，财务收入开始萎缩。 1997年9月，乔布斯重返该公司任首席执行官，他对奄奄一息的苹果公司进行大刀阔斧的公司改组和一连串新产品降价促销的措施。终于在1998年第四个财政季度创造了一亿零九百万美元的利润，让“苹果”重新“红”了起来。目前苹果最热门的产品是最近上市的iMac。这个 All-In-One多媒体电脑机身湛蓝透明，据苹果公司统计，iMac订单已高达15万份。
2000年1月15日，乔布斯对外宣布去掉自己头衔中的“临时”字样，成为苹果公司正式CEO，也于当年被授予1000万股苹果股票。
而在此后的十年中，他又连续发布了苹果ipod、ipodmini、ipodshuffle、itouch、ipad等系列电子产品，力求在每一次的新产品中展现不同的苹果特色与理念，使苹果的用户群体呈几何数地增长，同时也增强了苹果产品的亲民性与多样性。而在同一时期，日后风靡全球，成为全世界果粉争相以求的iphone系列也接连出炉，从此苹果进入全盛的黄金时期。
然而由于日复一日的过度劳累，最终导致了乔布斯身体状况的恶化，在此十数年间，关于乔布斯病危甚至身亡的传闻甚嚣尘上，对尽管人们似乎确实在他日渐清癯的形貌中看到了他不良的身体状况。
最终，在2011
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