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Cook, the son of a shipyard worker, was raised in Robertsdale, Alabama,
庫克是一個造船廠工人的兒子，在亞拉巴馬州的羅伯茨代爾長大，
a small town between Mobile and Pensacola a half hour from the Gulf Coast.
這是一個位于莫比爾市和彭薩科拉市之間的小鎮，距離墨西哥灣大約半小時的路程。
He majored in industrial engineering at Auburn, got a business degree at Duke,
庫克先是在奧本大學學習工業工程，隨后又在杜克大學取得了管理學學位，
and for the next twelve years worked for IBM in the Research Triangle of North Carolina.
在接下來的12年里，他在北卡羅來納州的三角研究園為IBM工作。
When Jobs interviewed him, he had recently taken a job at Compaq.
喬布斯面試他的時候，庫克剛剛得到康柏公司的工作。
He had always been a very logical engineer,
他一直是位邏輯嚴謹的工程師，
and Compaq then seemed a more sensible career option, but he was snared by Jobs's aura.
康柏公司的職位似乎是一個更加理性的選擇，但是他被喬布斯放出的光芒吸引了。
"Five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple," he later said.
“在我第一次面試中，5分鐘之內我就決定把謹慎和邏輯都拋在腦后，我要加入蘋果。”他后來說，
"My intuition told me that joining Apple would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for a creative genius."
“我的直覺告訴我，加入蘋果、為一個創意天才工作,這是我這一生唯一的機會。”
And so he did. "Engineers are taught to make a decision analytically,
于是他辭職加入了蘋果。“工程師應該是通過理性的分析去作出決定，
but there are times when relying on gut or intuition is most indispensable."
但是難免會出現依賴內心直覺的時刻。”
