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Let's Be Pirates!
我們當(dāng)海盜吧！
As the Macintosh team grew, it moved from Texaco Towers to the main Apple buildings on Bandley Drive,
隨著麥金塔團(tuán)隊的不斷擴(kuò)大，它從德士古塔搬到了位于班德利大道的蘋果公司主辦公區(qū)，
finally settling in mid-1983 into Bandley 3.
并于1983年年中在班德利3號樓安頓下來。
It had a modern atrium lobby with video games, which Burrell Smith and Andy Hertzfeld chose,
那里有一個可以玩電子游戲的現(xiàn)代化中庭大廳，游戲都是由伯勒爾·史密斯和安迪·赫茨菲爾德挑選出來的，
and a Toshiba compact disc stereo system with MartinLogan speakers and a hundred CDs.
還有一套東芝的CD音響系統(tǒng)，配上了馬丁·洛根揚(yáng)聲器和100張CD光盤。
The software team was visible from the lobby in a fishbowl-like glass enclosure,
從大廳就能看到軟件小組的員工，他們的辦公區(qū)域被玻璃圍住，看上去就像待在魚缸里一樣，
and the kitchen was stocked daily with Odwalla juices.
廚房里每天都備有Odwalla果汁。
Over time the atrium attracted even more toys,
逐漸地，中庭里的玩物越來越多，
most notably a Bosendorfer piano and a BMW motorcycle that Jobs felt would inspire an obsession with lapidary craftsmanship.
最醒目的就是一架貝森朵夫鋼琴和一輛寶馬摩托車，喬布斯覺得這些東西可以讓員工迷上簡潔高雅的工藝風(fēng)格。
Jobs kept a tight rein on the hiring process.
喬布斯對招聘流程有著嚴(yán)格的控制，
The goal was to get people who were creative, wickedly smart, and slightly rebellious.
目的是招到具有創(chuàng)造力、絕頂聰明又略帶叛逆的人才。
The software team would make applicants play Defender, Smith's favorite video game.
軟件小組會讓應(yīng)聘者玩史密斯最愛的電子游戲守護(hù)者
Jobs would ask his usual offbeat questions to see how well the applicant could think in unexpected situations.
喬布斯會問一些他常問的古怪問題，以考驗(yàn)求職者在突發(fā)狀況下的思維能力，以及他們的幽默感和反抗精神。
One day he, Hertzfeld, and Smith interviewed a candidate for software manager who,
有一天，他和赫茨菲爾德、史密斯一起，面試一個應(yīng)聘軟件經(jīng)理的人，
it became clear as soon as he walked in the room,
這個人一走進(jìn)來，
was too uptight and conventional to manage the wizards in the fishbowl.
身上的保守和刻板氣質(zhì)就顯露無遺，很明顯無法管理魚缸里的那群天才。
Jobs began to toy with him mercilessly. "How old were you when you lost your virginity?" he asked.
喬布斯開始無情地捉弄他。“你是幾歲失去童貞的？”喬布斯問。
The candidate looked baffled. "What did you say?"
應(yīng)聘者聽得一頭霧水?！澳阏f什么？”
"Are you a virgin?" Jobs asked.
“你是處男嗎？”喬布斯問道。
The candidate sat there flustered, so Jobs changed the subject.
應(yīng)聘者坐著，顯得非常緊張不安，于是喬布斯換了個問題：
"How many times have you taken LSD?"
“你服用過多少次迷幻藥？”
Hertzfeld recalled, "The poor guy was turning varying shades of red,
赫茨菲爾德回憶說：“那個可憐的家伙滿臉通紅，
so I tried to change the subject and asked a straightforward technical question."
于是我試圖轉(zhuǎn)移話題，問了他一個很直白的技術(shù)問題?！?/div>
But when the candidate droned on in his response, Jobs broke in.
但是，當(dāng)應(yīng)聘者開始嘮嘮叨叨地回答問題時，喬布斯打斷了他。
"Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble," he said, cracking up Smith and Hertzfeld.
“咯咯，咯咯，咯咯，咯咯?！彼l(fā)出這樣的聲音，讓一旁的史密斯和赫茨菲爾德也都笑了起來。
"I guess I'm not the right guy," the poor man said as he got up to leave.
“我想我不適合這份工作。”那個可憐的人說著就起身離開了。
