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From his father Jobs had learned that
喬布斯從父親身上學到，
a hallmark of passionate craftsmanship is making sure that
充滿激情的工藝就是要確保
even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully.
即使是隱藏的部分也被做得很漂亮。
One of the most extreme—and telling—implementations of that
這種理念最極端也是最有說服力的例子之一，
philosophy came when he scrutinized the printed circuit board
就是喬布斯會仔細檢查印刷電路板。
that would hold the chips and other components deep inside the Macintosh.
電路板上是芯片和其他部件，深藏于麥金塔的內(nèi)部，
No consumer would ever see it, but Jobs began critiquing it on aesthetic grounds.
沒有哪個用戶會看到它，但喬布斯還是會從美學角度對它進行評判。
"That part's really pretty," he said.
“那個部分做得很漂亮，”他說，
"But look at the memory chips. That's ugly. The lines are too close together."
“但是，看看這些存儲芯片。真難看。這些線靠得太近了。”
One of the new engineers interrupted and asked why it mattered.
一名新手工程師打斷他說這有什么關(guān)系，
"The only thing that's important is how well it works.
“只要機器能運行起來就行，
Nobody is going to see the PC board."
沒人會去看電路板的”。
Jobs reacted typically.
喬布斯的反應(yīng)和往常一樣：
"I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box.
“我想要它盡可能好看一點，就算它是在機箱里面的。
A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet,
優(yōu)秀的木匠不會用劣質(zhì)木板去做柜子的背板，
even though nobody's going to see it."
即使沒人會看到。”
In an interview a few years later, after the Macintosh came out,
幾年之后，在麥金塔電腦上市后的一次訪談中，
Jobs again reiterated that lesson from his father:
喬布斯再一次提到了當年父親對他的教導：
"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers,
“如果你是個木匠，你要做一個漂亮的衣柜，
you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back,
你不會用膠合板做背板，
even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it.
雖然這一塊是靠著墻的，沒人會看見。
You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
你自己知道它就在那兒，所以你會用一塊漂亮的木頭去做背板。
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
如果你想晚上睡得安穩(wěn)的話，就要保證外觀和質(zhì)量都足夠好。”
