2005年，美国苹果公司联合创办人及前行政总裁Steve Jobs 在斯坦福大学（ Stanford University）毕业典礼上演讲，讲了他人生中的三个故事，最后送给在场的年轻人一句“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”。这个演讲后来被广为流传，各种中译版也纷纷出现。 被引用最多的翻译版本是“求知若饥，虚心若愚”，或“求知若渴，大智若愚”， 《Cheers》 杂志则把这句话翻译为“饥渴求知，虚怀若愚”。
以下是Steve Jobs演讲的最后一段：
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I