a small town between Mobile and Pensacola a half hour from the Gulf Coast. 这是一个位于莫比尔市和彭萨科拉市之间的小镇，距离墨西哥湾大约半小时的路程。

　　He majored in industrial engineering at Auburn, got a business degree at Duke, 库克先是在奥本大学学习工业工程，随后又在杜克大学取得了管理学学位，

　　and for the next twelve years worked for IBM in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. 在接下来的12年里，他在北卡罗来纳州的三角研究园为IBM工作。

　　When Jobs interviewed him, he had recently taken a job at Compaq. 乔布斯面试他的时候，库克刚刚得到康柏公司的工作。

　　He had always been a very logical engineer, 他一直是位逻辑严谨的工程师，

　　and Compaq then seemed a more sensible career option, but he was snared by Jobs's aura. 康柏公司的职位似乎是一个更加理性的选择，但是他被乔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. “在我第一次面试中，5分钟之内我就决定把谨慎和逻辑都拋在脑后，我要加入苹果。”他后来说，

　　"My intuition told me that joining Apple would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for a creative genius." “我的直觉告诉我，加入苹果、为一个创意天才工作,这是我这一生唯一的机会。”

　　And so he did. "Engineers are taught to make a decision analytically, 于是他辞职加入了苹果。“工程师应该是通过理性的分析去作出决定，

　　but there are times when relying on gut or intuition is most indispensable." 但是难免会出现依赖内心直觉的时刻。”