对皮克斯员工的演讲

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Steve smiling, wearing his signature black turtleneck and round glasses. 史蒂夫面带微笑，穿着标志性的黑色高领毛衣，戴着圆框眼镜。

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Steve takes a break during stage rehearsals for MacWorld. Sitting on a stool, he leans forward with his hand on his chin. 史蒂夫在 MacWorld 舞台彩排间隙休息。他坐在凳子上，手托着下巴，身体前倾。

原文标题: Speech to Pixar Employees

背景: 2000年11月，史蒂夫正式开放了皮克斯在加利福尼亚州埃默里维尔的总部大楼。

主题: "希望我们在这栋建筑中捕捉到了一点皮克斯的灵魂"

核心概念

  1. 埃默里维尔总部 (Emeryville headquarters) - 新总部大楼启用
  2. 皮克斯 (Pixar) - 皮克斯动画工作室
  3. 约翰·拉塞特 (John Lasseter) - 约翰·拉塞特参与砌砖
  4. 虫虫危机 (A Bug's Life) - 用《虫虫危机》利润支付新大楼

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中文翻译

我只是想说几句话，当我们聚在一起住在这里时。你知道，我见过这栋建筑，这栋建筑的每一平方毫米，在它规划、开发和建造的几乎每个阶段——除了一件事，那就是我从没见过里面有人。这完全不同。这个大空间没有人的时候看起来很大，有我们所有人在里面，它看起来正好。

我们从里士满角搬家，我们在那里住了十一年，搬到我们的新家，我想我们会永远住在这里。我们有土地可以扩展，我想我们很多人会在这里度过我们的企业余生。

我们从四栋建筑搬到一栋。人们今天早上说的一件事是，他们第一次看到在我们公司工作的人。这既令人惊讶又有点令人兴奋。我们把这栋建筑设计成一个更加城市化的环境——这就是这里，这就是广场——它是你遇见从未见过的人的地方，是我们互动和协作的地方，这确实是我们成功的基础。所以把我们所有人搬进一栋建筑是一种非常不同的感觉，然而提供一个漂亮的公园，这样我们可以在需要时远离其他人。

我们四年前买了这块地。它是一个巨大的德尔蒙特水果鸡尾酒工厂。它被遗弃了，破败不堪。它在倒塌，出于某种原因，我们看到了下面没人看到的土地。我们买了它。我们买了16英亩 gorgeous 土地，这是湾区剩余的大片稀有土地之一。

决定建什么建筑真的很难。当你在租用建筑时，这很容易，因为它们不定义你是谁——它们定义房东是谁！但当你决定设计自己的建筑时，你必须问问题，"我们是谁？"因为你想要在建筑中捕捉一些公司的灵魂并反映我们是谁。

设计过程很像我们的一部电影。首先，一个处理；扔掉。然后另一个；扔掉。最后，一个值得开发的——然后无数无数无数的迭代，模型接着模型接着模型，细节接着细节。我们把我们的建筑师逼疯了。三年的开发——再次，很像我们的一部电影。

希望我们在这栋建筑中捕捉到了一点皮克斯的灵魂。我们的建筑师做得惊人。这也是一座手工建筑。这栋建筑上的所有钢都是在现场手工连接并用螺栓固定在一起，不是焊接的。仅定义每个钢与钢螺栓连接的每个地方的图纸就有2500页。每块砖都是定制手工制作的，用一种今天看不到的古老工艺，然后在现场手工铺设。约翰[拉塞特]甚至砌了一块砖——就在那边。每块地板都是在现场手工铺设和打磨的。这是一座手工建筑，就像我们的一部电影。

工人们发现这个疯狂的主人让他们建造一栋像他们一直梦想的建筑，像今天没有其他建筑。他们周末带家人来建筑工地看他们的工艺，像今天没有其他人在做——就像我们所有人对我们的电影的感觉。虽然流了一点血，但建造这栋建筑时没有人受重伤，就像我们的一部电影。

这块土地、建筑和场地花了近1亿美元，大约相当于我们制作一部电影的成本。这大约相当于我们工作室每个人一年的工资和福利：建造整个地方，买土地，建造场地。我们正在对我们的未来做这项投资，因为我们想要世界上最好的地方来支持世界上最好的人才制作世界上最好的动画故事片。

而且我们用现金支付了。这栋建筑没有债务。我们拥有它。基本上，这栋建筑是用我们从《虫虫危机》中获得的利润支付的。我们银行里仍有超过2亿现金。这栋建筑将是一项坚实的投资，就像我们的一部电影。

皮克斯的家在里士满角住了十一年。现在我们的家在这里，我们中的许多人将在这里度过我们的职业生涯。

我们将于12月9日周六下午和傍晚在这里举办开放日和节日派对，你可以带家人来看我们的新家。这个家有才华横溢的工人 lovingly 建造；这栋建筑已经有好的 karma。但它的目的不仅仅是成为一个 cool 建筑或给外面任何人留下深刻印象。它是容纳和激励世界上最有才华的电影制作人群体——那就是你们。所以今天，建筑师们，汤姆、克雷格和公司里我们拥有的惊人团队，所有设施团队和信息系统团队，以及上周无缝移动我们的每个人，我们正式把这栋建筑移交给你们：创意所有者。

所以去这里创造一些历史吧！

英文原文

Speech to Pixar Employees, Make Something Wonderful

Speech to Pixar Employees

"Hopefully we captured a bit of Pixar's soul in this building."

In November 2000, Steve officially opened Pixar's headquarters building in Emeryville, California.

I just wanted to say a few words as we sort of come together to live here. You know, I have seen this building, every square millimeter of this building, in almost every stage of its planning and development and construction—except for one thing, which is I have never seen people in it. It makes all the difference. This big space here looks pretty big without people in it, and with all of us in it, it looks just right.

We are moving from Point Richmond, where we have lived for eleven years, to our new home here, where I think we are going to live forever. We have land to expand here, and I think a lot of us will spend the rest of our corporate lives here.

We are moving from four buildings to one. One of the things people have said this morning is they are seeing people for the first time that work at our company. That's both startling and kind of exciting. We have designed this building to be a more urban environment—that's what this is, this is Town Square right here—and it's a place for you to meet people you have never met before, a place for us to interact and collaborate, which is really the basis of our success. So it's a very different feeling to get us all into one building, and yet provide us a nice park so we can get away from everybody else when we need to.

We bought this land four years ago. It was a giant Del Monte Fruit Cocktail factory. It had been abandoned and was decrepit. It was falling apart, and for some reason, we saw the land underneath it that no one else saw. We bought it. We bought sixteen gorgeous acres of land, which is one of the rare large parcels of land left in the Bay Area.

Deciding what building to build was really hard. When you are in rented buildings, it is easy because they don't define who you are—they define who the landlord is! But when you decide to design your own building, you have to ask the question, "Who are we?" Because you want to capture some of the soul of the company in the building and reflect who we are.

The design proceeded much like one of our films. First, a treatment; throw it away. Then another; throw it away. And finally, one that is worth developing—and then zillions and zillions of iterations, model after model after model, detail after detail. We drove our architects crazy. And three years of development—again, much like one of our films.

And hopefully we captured a bit of Pixar's soul in this building. Our architects did an amazing job. This is also a hand‑made building. All the steel is hand-joined on this site and bolted together, not welded. Just the drawings to define every connection for every place where steel is bolted to steel were twenty-five hundred pages. Every brick was custom hand‑made, with an old, not-seen-today process, and then hand-laid on the site. John [Lasseter] even laid a brick—right over there. And every floorboard was hand-laid and sanded on the site. This is a handmade building, just like one of our films.

And the workers discovered that this crazy owner was letting them build a building like they always had dreamed of, like none other built these days. And they brought their families to the construction site on weekends to see their craftwork like no one else is doing today—just like all of us feel about our films. And though a little blood was spilled, no one was seriously hurt building this building, just like one of our films.

This land and building and grounds cost just shy of $100 million, about the same as it costs to make one of our films. This equals around one year's salary and benefits for everybody in our studio: to build这整个地方，买土地，建造场地。我们正在对我们的未来做这项投资，因为我们想要世界上最好的地方来支持世界上最好的人才制作世界上最好的动画故事片。

而且我们用现金支付了。这栋建筑没有债务。我们拥有它。基本上，这栋建筑是用我们从《虫虫危机》中获得的利润支付的。我们银行里仍有超过2亿现金。这栋建筑将是一项坚实的投资，就像我们的一部电影。

皮克斯的家在里士满角住了十一年。现在我们的家在这里，我们中的许多人将在这里度过我们的职业生涯。

我们将于12月9日周六下午和傍晚在这里举办开放日和节日派对，你可以带家人来看我们的新家。这个家有才华横溢的工人 lovingly 建造；这栋建筑已经有好的 karma。但它的目的不仅仅是成为一个 cool 建筑或给外面任何人留下深刻印象。它是容纳和激励世界上最有才华的电影制作人群体——那就是你们。所以今天，建筑师们，汤姆、克雷格和公司里我们拥有的惊人团队，所有设施团队和信息系统团队，以及上周无缝移动我们的每个人，我们正式把这栋建筑移交给你们：创意所有者。

所以去这里创造一些历史吧！

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