比尔盖茨在哈佛大学演讲(中英对照版)
比尔盖茨哈佛演讲中英文稿
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:1 尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."2 有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:“老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next y ear…and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.3 我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class…I did the best of everyone who failed.4 我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿(英)2011-06-19 00:47:16标签:比尔盖茨休闲演讲比尔盖茨哈佛演讲生活From:/fllw/089262235563199.htmlPresident Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the HarvardCorporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, thegraduates:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get mydegree.I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice tofinally have a college degree on my resume.I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm justhappy that the Crimson has called me Harvard's most successful dropout. I guess that makes mevaledictorian of my own special class ... I did the best of everyone who failed.But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I'm abad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation,fewer of you might be here today.Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lotsof classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyoneknew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.Radcilffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys werescience-math types. That combination offered me the best odd s, if you know what I mean. This is whereI learned the sad lesson that i mproving your odds doesn't guarantee success.One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House toa company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computer. I offered to sellthem software.I worried that they would realize I was just a student ina dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said:We're not quite ready, come see us in a month, which was a good thing, because we hadn't written thesoftware yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit projectt that markedthe end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with microsoft.What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and Intelligence. Itcould be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was anamazing privilege - and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships Imade, and the ideas I worked on.But taking a serious look back ... I do have one big regret.I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world - the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to theadvances being made in the sciences.But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries - but in how those discoveries are applied toreduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broadeconomic opportunity - reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunitieshere in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty anddisease in developing countries.It took me decades to find out.You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the world's inequities than theclasses that came before. In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how - in thisage of accelerating technology - we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month todonate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatestimpact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it? For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatestnumber with the resources we have.During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children whowere dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in thiscountry. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of,rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year - none of them in the United States.We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved,the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But is did not. Forunder a dollar, there were intervention s that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be thepriority of our giving.So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: How could the worldlet these children die?The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, andgovernments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had nopower in the market and no voice in the system.But you and I have both.We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism - ifwe can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make aliving, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governmentsaround the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who paythe taxes.If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for businessand votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This taskis open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change theworld.I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say:Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end - because people just ...don't ... care. I completely disagree.I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with. All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts,and yet we did nothing - not because we didn't care, but because we didn't know what to do. If we hadknown how to help, we would have acted.The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. Butcomplexity block s all three steps.Even with the advent of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get peopleto truly see the problems. When an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference. Theypromise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future.But if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: Of all the people in the world who died todayfrom preventable causes, one half of the percent of them were on this plane. We're determined to doeverything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent.The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths.We don't read much about these deaths. The media covers what's new - and millions of people dyingis nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's easier to ignore. But even when we do see it orread about it, it's difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It's hard to look at suffering if the situation isso complex that we don't know how to help. And so we look away. If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting throughthe complexity to find a solution.Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we have clear and provenanswers anytime an organization or individual asks How can I help?, then we get action - and wecan make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark apath of action for everyone who cares - and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal,find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in themeantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it'ssomething sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.The AIDS epidemic offers an example. The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease. The highest-leverage approach is prevention. The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunitywith a single dose. So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research. But theirwork is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have inhand - and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. This is the pattern. The crucial thing is to neverstop thinking and working - and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century-which is to surrender to complexity and quit.The final step - after seeing the problem and finding an approach - is to measure the impact of yourwork and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts.You have to have the statistics, of course. You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinatingmillions more children. You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying from thesediseases. This is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment frombusiness and government.But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers; you have toconvey the human impact of the work - so people can feel what saving a life means to the familiesaffected.I remember going to Davos some years back and sitting ona global health panel that was disscussingways to save millions of lives. Millions! Think of the thrill of saving just one person's life - then multiplythat by millions. ... Yet this ways the most boring panel I've ever been on - ever. So boring even I couldn'tbear it.What made that experience especially striking was that I had just come from an event where wewere introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting withexcitement. I love getting people excited about software - but why can't we generate even moreexcitement for saving lives?You can't get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact. And how you do that- is a complex question.Still, I'm optimistic. Yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever. They are new - they can help us make the most of our caring- and that's why the future can be different from the past. The defining and ongoing innovation s of this age - biotechnology, the computer, the Internet - giveus a chance we've never had before to end extreme proverty and end death from preventable disease.Sixty years ago, George Marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan to assist thenations of post-war Europe. He said: I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormouscomplexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedinglydifficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.Thirty years after Marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me, technology wasemerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more visible, less distant.The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformedopportunities for learning and communicating.The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone yourneighbor. It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together onthe same problem - and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don't.That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion -- smart people with practial intelligenceand relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas tothe world.We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances aretriggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible notjust for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and evenindividuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address thehunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent inthe world.What for?There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactor s of Harvard haveused their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world. But can we do more? CanHarvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?Let me make a request of the deans and the professors - the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: Asyou hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please askyourselves.Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's inequities? Should Harvardstudents learn about the depth of global poverty ... the prevalence of world hunger ... the scarcity ofclean water ... the girls kept out of school ... the children who die from diseases we can cure?Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged?These are not rhetorical questions - you will answer with your policies.My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here - never stopped pressing me to domore for others. A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud aletter about marriage that she had written to Melinda. My mother was very ill with cancer at the time,but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: Fromthose to whom much is given, much is expected.When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given - in talent, privilege, andopportunity - there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.。
比尔盖茨在哈佛的演讲
Bill Gates在哈佛大学2007毕业典礼演讲2007年6月7日President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: 尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位毕业生:I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:“老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard’s most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位毕业生喝彩,你们拿到学位可比我直接了当多了。
比尔盖茨在哈佛毕业典礼上演讲
(这份是个很好的东西,看完后你会对比尔盖茨有全新的认识,也会对你的人生有新的反思···)比尔·盖茨在哈佛的演讲President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:―老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!‖I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
比尔盖茨的哈佛大学演讲
比尔盖茨的哈佛大学演讲比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英对照)President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:"老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!"I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)......我终于可以在上写我有一个大学学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ... I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学的演讲(双语版)
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学的演讲(双语版)(2)比尔盖茨在哈佛大学的演讲(双语版)We don’t read much about these deaths. The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on th e problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.我们并没有很多机会了解那些死亡事件。
媒体总是报告新闻,几百万人将要死去并非新闻。
如果没有人报道,那么这些事件就很容易被忽视。
另一方面,即使我们确实目睹了事件本身或者看到了相关报道,我们也很难持续关注这些事件。
看着他人受苦是令人痛苦的,何况问题又如此复杂,我们根本不知道如何去帮助他人。
所以我们会将脸转过去。
If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.就算我们真正发现了问题所在,也不过是迈出了第一步,接着还有第二步:那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。
Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks "How can I help?," then we can get action – and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares — and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.如果我们要让关心落到实处,我们就必须找到解决办法。
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿President Bok, former President Rudenstine, ining President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation andthe Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的 Bok 校长, Rudenstine 前校长,即将上任的 Faust 校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I"ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I"d e back and get my degree.有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:“ 老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的! ”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I"llbe changing my job next year - and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休) -- 我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I"m just happy that the Crimson has called me Harvard"s most successfuldropout. I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class - I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文对照)[精选5篇]
比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文对照)[精选5篇]第一篇:比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(中英文对照) 比尔·盖茨和夫人梅琳达·盖茨在斯坦福大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。
整个演讲以“乐观”为主线,强调了他们对科技的乐观态度,以及对世界美好未来的乐观态度。
盖茨夫妇轮流讲述了自己的亲身经历和故事,告诉学生应该站在他人的立场上,感同身受那些处境不及自己的人,尽自己所能去帮助那些需要帮助的人,让全世界所有人类同胞都有一样的美好未来。
Stanford University.(斯坦福大学)BILL GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014!比尔·盖茨:2014届毕业生,祝贺你们顺利毕业(Cheers).(欢呼)Melinda and I are excited to be here.It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement, but it's especially gratifying for us.Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family, and it's long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our foundation.我和梅琳达怀着激动的心情与你们欢聚在此共贺毕业。
能受邀到斯坦福大学学位授予典礼上做演讲是一件让人激动的事,对我们而言,这尤为荣幸。
斯坦福大学正日渐成为我们家庭成员最喜爱的大学。
而长久以来,斯坦福也是微软以及比尔与梅琳达基金会最喜爱的一所大学。
”Our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.It turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at Stanford.(Cheers).我们一直致力于让最聪颖有创造力的人攻克最为重要的问题。
比尔盖茨哈佛大学毕业典礼上演讲中英文本
比尔盖茨哈佛大学毕业典礼上演讲中英文本President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates 尊敬的Bok 校长,Rudenstine 前校长,即将上任的Faust 校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you Id come back and get my degree.有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. Ill be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, Im just happy that the Crimson has called me Harvards most successful dropout. I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
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比尔·盖茨哈佛毕业演讲稿President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊重的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的列位成员,监管理事会的列位理事,列位老师,列位家长,列位同窗:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,此刻终于可以说了:“老爸,我老是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be chan ging my job next year…and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感激哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class…I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的列位同窗感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
比尔盖茨哈佛演讲
Idioms
• There is no royal road to learning. 书山有路勤为径,学海无 涯苦作舟。 • Even Homer sometimes nods. 智者千虑,必有一失。 • Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 世上无难事,只怕 有心人。 • Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达。 • Constant dripping wears away the stone. 滴水穿石,铁杵磨 成针。
我离开哈佛的时候,根本没有 意识到这个世界是多么的不平 等。人类在健康、财富和机遇 上的不平等大得可怕,它们使 得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望 之中。不管通过何种手段—— 民主制度、健全的公共教育体 系、高质量的医疗保健、还是 广泛的经济机会——减少不平 等始终是人类最大的成就。
If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving in the same way anyone here would begin.
I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
比尔盖茨哈佛毕业演讲[修改版]
第一篇:比尔盖茨哈佛毕业演讲Bill Gates鈥� Commencement address at Harvard University,2007 (extract)Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the greatcollections of intellectual talent in the world.What for?There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and thebenefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world. But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?Let me make a request of the deans and the professors鈥攖heintellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please askyourselves:Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world鈥檚worstinequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty鈥he prevalence of world hunger鈥he scarcity of clean water鈥he girls kept out of school鈥he children who die from diseases we can cure?Should the world鈥檚most privileged people learn about the lives of the world鈥檚least privileged?These are not rhetorical questions鈥攜ou will answer with your policies. When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given鈥攊n talent, privilege, and opportunity鈥攖here is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue鈥攁complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it. If you make it the focus of your career, that would bephenomenal. But you don鈥檛have to do that to make an impact. For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to getinformed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.Don鈥檛let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leaveHarvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if youabandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.Knowing what you know, how could you not?And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world鈥檚deepest inequities鈥n how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.Good luck.(words: 497)第二篇:比尔盖茨哈佛演讲President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:“老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year …and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
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比尔盖茨在哈佛大学的演讲全文如下(双语版)P r e s i d e n t B o k,f o r m e r P r e s i d e n t R u d e n s t i n e,i n c o m i n g P r e s i d e n t F a u s t,m e m b e r s o f t h e H a r v a r d C o r p o r a t i o n a n d t h e B o a r d o f O v e r s e e r s, m e m b e r s o f t h e f a c u l t y,p a r e n t s,a n d e s p e c i a l l y,t h eg r a d u a t e s:尊敬的B o k校长,R u d e n s t i n e前校长,即将上任的F a u s t校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I v e b e e n w a i t i n g m o r e t h a n 30 y e a r s t o s a y t h i s: D a d,I a l w a y s t o l d y o u I d c o m e b a c k a n d g e t m yd e g r e e.有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!I w a n t t o t h a n k H a r v a r d f o r t h i s t i m e l y h o n o r.I l l b e c h a n g i n g m y j o b n e x t y e a r a n d i t w i l l b e n i c e t o f i n a l l y h a v e a c o l l e g e d e g r e e o n m y r e s u m e.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
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BILL GATES SPEECH IN HARVARD President Bok,former President Rudenstine,incoming President Faust,members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty,parents,and especially,the graduates:I’ve been waiting more than30years to say this:"Dad,I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor.I'll be changing my job next year?And it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For my part,I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me"Harvard's most successful dropout."I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class?I did the best of everyone who failed.But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.I'm a bad influence.That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.If I had spoken at your orientation,fewer of you might be here today.Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating.I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed upfor.And dorm life was terrific.I lived up at Radcliffe,in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things,because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.Radcliffe was a great place to live.There were more women up there, and most of the guys were Science-math types.That combination offered me the best odds,if you know what I mean.This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.I offered to sell them software.I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.Instead they said:"We're not quite ready,come see us in a month,"which was a good thing,because we hadn't written the software yet.From that moment,I worked day andnight on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.It could be exhilarating,intimidating, sometimes even discouraging,but always challenging.It was an amazing privilege—and though I left early,I was transformed by my years at Harvard,the friendships I made,and the ideas I worked on.But taking a serious look back?I do have one big regret.I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world—the appalling disparities of health,and wealth,and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy,strong public education,quality health care,or broad economic opportunity—reducing inequityis the highest human achievement.I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.It took me decades to find out.You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.In your years here,I hope you've had a chance to think about how—in this age of accelerating technology—we can finally take on these inequities,and we can solve them.Imagine,just for the sake of discussion,that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause—and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.Where would you spend it?For Melinda and for me,the challenge is the same:how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.During our discussions on this question,Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.Measles, malaria,pneumonia,hepatitis B,yellow fever.One disease I had nevereven heard of,rotavirus,was killing half a million kids each year—none of them in the United States.We were shocked.We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved,the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.But it did not.For under a dollar,there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.If you believe that every life has equal value,it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.We said to ourselves:"This can't be true.But if it is true,it deserves to be the priority of our giving."So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked:"How could the world let these children die?"The answer is simple,and harsh.The market did not reward saving the lives of these children,and governments did not subsidize it.So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.But you and I have both.We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism—if we can stretch the reach of marketforces so that more people can make a profit,or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities.We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians,we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.This task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.I am optimistic that we can do this,but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope.They say: "Inequity has been with us since the beginning,and will be with us till the end—because people just don’t care."I completely disagree.I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.All of us here in this Yard,at one time or another,have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts,and yet we did nothing—not because we didn't care,but because we didn't know what to do.If we had known how to help,we would have acted.The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.To turn caring into action,we need to see a problem,see a solution,and see the impact.But complexity blocks all three steps.Even with the advent of the Internet and24-hour news,it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems.When an airplane crashes,officials immediately call a press conference.They promise to investigate,determine the cause,and prevent similar crashes in the future.But if the officials were brutally honest,they would say:"Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes,one half of one percent of them were on this plane.We're determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent."The bigger problem is not the plane crash,but the millions of preventable deaths.We don't read much about these deaths.The media covers what's new—and millions of people dying is nothing new.So it stays in the background,where it's easier to ignore.But even when we do see it or read about it,it's difficult to keep our eyes on the problem.It's hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don't know how to help.And so we look away.If we can really see a problem,which is the first step,we come to the second step:cutting through the complexity to find a solution.Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of ourcaring.If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks"How can I help?,"then we can get action—and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted.But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares—and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages:determine a goal,find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach,and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have—whether it's something sophisticated,like a drug,or something simpler,like a bed net.The AIDS epidemic offers an example.The broad goal,of course,is to end the disease.The highest leverage approach is prevention.The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose.So governments,drug companies,and foundations fund vaccine research.But their work is likely to take more than a decade,so in the meantime,we have to work with what we have in hand—and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again.This is the pattern. The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working—and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the20th century—which is to surrender to complexity and quit.The final step—after seeing the problem and finding an approach—is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts.You have to have the statistics,of course.You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children.You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying from these diseases.This is essential not just to improve the program,but also to help draw more investment from business and government.But if you want to inspire people to participate,you have to show more than numbers;you have to convey the human impact of the work—so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.I remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of lions! Think of the thrill of saving just one person's life—then multiply that by millions.Yet this was the most boring panel I've ever been on—ever.So boring even I couldn't bear it.What made that experience especiallystriking was that I had just come from an event where we were introducing version13of some piece of software,and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement.I love getting people excited about software—but why can't we generate even more excitement for saving lives?You can't get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact.And how you do that—is a complex question.Still,I'm optimistic.Yes,inequity has been with us forever,but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever.They are new—they can help us make the most of our caring—and that's why the future can be different from the past.The defining and ongoing innovations of this age—biotechnology,the computer,the Internet—give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.Sixty years ago,George Marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of post-war Europe.He said:"I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation.It is virtually impossible at thisdistance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation."Thirty years after Marshall made his address,as my class graduated without me,technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open,more visible,less distant.The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem—and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.At the same time,for every person in the world who has access to this technology,five people don't.That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion—smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology,because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another.They are making it possible not just for national governments,but for universities,corporations,smallerorganizations,and even individuals to see problems,see approaches,and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger,poverty,and desperation George Marshall spoke of60years ago.Members of the Harvard Family:Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.What for?There is no question that the faculty,the alumni,the students,and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world.But can we do more?Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?Let me make a request of the deans and the professors—the intellectual leaders here at Harvard:As you hire new faculty,award tenure,review curriculum,and determine degree requirements,please ask yourselves:Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's worst inequities?Should Harvard students learn about the depth of globalpoverty?The prevalence of world hunger?The scarcity of clean water…the girls kept out of school?The children who die from diseases we can cure?Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged?These are not rhetorical questions—you will answer with your policies.My mother,who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here—never,stopped pressing me to do more for others.A few days before my wedding,she hosted a bridal event,at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to Melinda.My mother was very ill with cancer at the time,but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message,and at the close of the letter she said:"From those to whom much is given,much is expected."When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given—in talent,privilege,andOpportunity—there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.In line with the promise of this age,I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue—a complex problem,adeep inequity,and become a specialist on it.If you make it the focus of your career,that would be phenomenal.But you don't have to do that to make an impact.For a few hours every week,you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed,find others with the same interests, see the barriers,and find ways to cut through them.Don't let complexity stop you.Be activists.Take on the big inequities.It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time.As you leave Harvard,you have technology that members of my class never had.You have awareness of global inequity,which we did not have.And with that awareness,you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.You have more than we had;you must start sooner,and carry on longer.Knowing what you know,how could you not?And I hope you will come back here to Harvard30years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy.I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone,but also on how well you have addressed theworld's deepest inequities?On how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.Good luck.。
比尔盖茨哈佛演讲中英
比尔盖茨哈佛演讲中英第一篇:比尔盖茨哈佛演讲中英Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school the children who die from diseases we can cure?哈佛是否应该鼓励教授解决世界上存在的严重不平等?哈佛的学生是不是应该多关注一些全球贫富不均、粮食短缺、水资源稀缺、女童辍学的问题?以及那些因无法接受有效治疗而死亡的孩子?Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?世界上最衣食无忧的人是否应该了解那些挣扎在死亡边缘的人们的生活?These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your policies.这并非言语修辞,这些问题只能用行动回答。
My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for others.A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to Melinda.My mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: ―From those to whom much is given, much is expected.‖我的母亲一直为我考上哈佛而自豪,也一直督促我回报社会。
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比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼的演讲稿[高级口译·译文]President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:尊敬的Bok校长,Rudenstine前校长,即将上任的Faust校长,哈佛集团的各位成员,监管理事会的各位理事,各位老师,各位家长,各位同学:I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."有一句话我等了三十年,现在终于可以说了:“老爸,我总是跟你说,我会回来拿到我的学位的!”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year…and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。
明年,我就要换工作了(注:指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位,这真是不错啊。
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class…I did the best of everyone who failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴,你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。
Bill Gates' speech(中英对照+听写训练)
Bill Gates Graduation Speech at HarvardWatch, listen and fill in the blanks:President Bok, _______________ President Rudenstine, incoming (即将上任的) President Faust, _____________ of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty (大学、学院或院系的全体教员), ____________, and especially, the _____________:I've been ______________ more than __________________ to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd ________________________ and get my ________________."I want to __________ Harvard for this timely ___________. I'll be ___________________ ______________(指从微软公司退休)… and it will be nice to finally have a_____________________ on my resume.I ______________ the graduates today for taking a much more direct___________ to your degrees. For my part, I'm just _______________ that the Crimson (哈佛的校报) has called me "Harvard's most successful _______________." I guess that makes me valedictorian(毕业典礼上致告别辞的最优生) of my own special class…I did the best of everyone__________________.But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer (微软公司前首席执行官兼总裁)to drop out of _______________________. I'm a _________________________. That's why I was invited to speak __________________________________. If I had spoken at your orientation(迎新会), _____________________ of you might be ____________________ today.Harvard was just a phenomenal (非凡的) ________________ for me. ______________ life was fascinating. I used to ______________on lots of classes I hadn't even __________________. And __________________ was ______________. I ______________ up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always ________________________ in my ____________ room late at night _____________________, because everyone knew I didn't ______________________________ in the morning. That's how I came to be the _______________ of the anti-social group(不安分团体). We clung to each other(互相粘在一起) as a way of validating(证实) our________________ of all those social people.Radcliffe was a great _______________________. There were __________________ up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That _________________ offered me the best odds(怪异), if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the _____________________ that _______________________ your odds doesn't ___________________________________.One of my biggest ___________________ of Harvard came ________________________, when I _______________________ from Currier House (哈佛大学学生公寓) to_____________ in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's__________________________________. I offered to sell them ____________________.I worried that they would ______________ I was just ______________ in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: "We're not quite ready, come and see us ____________________," which was a ___________ thing, because we __________________ the software yet. From thatmoment, I __________ day and night on this little extra credit project that _________________ of my college education and the _______________ of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.What I remember ________________________ about Harvard was being in the midst of so much ______________________________ . It could be exhilarating(令人愉快),intimidating(令人感到有压力), sometimes even __________________, but always __________. It was an amazing ___________________ – and though I left early, I was _______________ by my ____________ at Harvard, the ________________ I made, and the _________ I worked on.But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ______________ I left Harvard with no real _______________ of the awful inequities(不平等) in the world – the appallingdisparities(大得可怕的不平等) of ___________, and _____________, and _____________ that condemn(迫使…接受困境) millions of people to lives of _______________.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in _______________ and _______________. I got great exposure to the ______________ being made in the ______________.But humanity's greatest advances are not in its ________________ –but in how those discoveries are __________________________ inequity.Whether through democracy, strong ______________________, quality _______________, or broad economic opportunity – ____________ inequity is the highest human _____________.I left __________ knowing ___________ about the millions of young people __________ out of educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew _____________ about the millions of people living in unspeakable ______________ and ____________ in ____________________.You graduates came to Harvard _______________________________. You know more about the world's inequities than the ___________ that came before. In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating(加速发展的) _____________ – we can finally take on( 应对) these inequities, and we can _____________________.For Melinda(盖茨的妻) and for me, the ________________ is the same: how can we do the most ____________ for the _______________ number with the ________________ we have.During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read ___________________ about the millions of children who __________________ every year in poor countries from _____________ that we had long ago made _________________ in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever(麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病). One disease I had never even heard of, rota virus(轮状病毒), was killing _____________________________ each year – ________________ in the United States.If you believe that every life has ___________value, it's revolting(无法接受) to learn that some lives are seen as _______________________ and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."I am ___________________ that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics (怀疑主义者) who claim there is no ___________. They say: "Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end – because people just … don't … care." I completely _________________.I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信,问题不是我们不在乎,而是我们不知道怎么做。
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call from Currier House to a company in Albuquer que that had begun making the world's first personal computer s. I offered to sell them software .
我在哈佛 最难忘的 回忆之 一,发生 在1975年 1月。那 时,我从 宿舍楼里 给位于 Albuquer que的一 家公司打 了一个电 话,那家 公司已经 在着手制 造世界上 第一台个 人电脑。 我提出想 向他们出 售软件。
friendsh ips I made, and the ideas I worked on.
不管怎 样,我对 哈佛的回 忆主要都 与充沛的 精力和智 力活动有 关。哈佛 的生活令 人愉快, 也令人感 到有压 力,有时 甚至会感 到泄气, 但永远充 满了挑战 性。生活 在哈佛是 一种吸引 人的特殊 待遇…… 虽然我离 开得比较 早,但是 我在这里 的经历、 在这里结 识的朋友
我为今天 在座的各 位同学感 到高兴, 你们拿到 学位可比 我简单多 了。哈佛 的校报称 我是“哈 佛大学历 史上最成 功的辍学 生”。我 想这大概 使我有资 格代表我 这一类学 生发言… …在所有 的失败者 里,我做 得最好。
But I also want to be recogniz ed as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I'm a bad influenc e. That's why I was invited to
But taking a serious look back … I do have one big regret.
但是,如 果现在严 肃地回忆 起来,我 确实有一 个真正的 遗憾。
I left Harvard with no real awarenes s of the awful inequiti es in the world – the appallin g disparit ies of health, and wealth, and opportun ity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.
What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intellig ence. It could be exhilara ting, intimida ting, sometime s even discoura ging, but always challeng ing. It was an amazing privileg e– and though I left early, I was transfor med by my years at Harvard, the
I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: "We're not quite ready, come see us in a month," which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that
things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the antisocial group. We clung to each other as a way of validati ng our rejectio n of all those social people.
opportun ity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievem ent.
但是,人 类最大的 进步并不 来自于这 些发现, 而是来自 于那些有 助于减少 人类不平 等的发现 。不管通 过何种手 段——民 主制度、 健全的公 共教育体 系、高质 量的医疗 保健、还 是广泛的 经济机会 ——减少 不平等始 终是人类 最大的成 就。
对我来 说,哈佛 的求学经 历是一段 非凡的经 历。校园 生活很有 趣,我常 去旁听我 没选修的 课。哈佛 的课外生 活也很 棒,我在 Radcliff e过着逍 遥自在的 日子。每 天我的寝 室里总有 很多人一 直待到半 夜,讨论 着各种事 情。因为 每个人都 知道我从 不考虑第 二天早起
Radcliff e was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and
Radcliff e是个过 日子的好 地方。那 里的女生 比男生 多,而且 大多数男 生都是理 工科的。 这种状况 为我创造 了最好的 机会,如 果你们明 白我的意 思。可惜 的是,我 正是在这 里学到了 人生中悲 伤的一 课:机会 大,并不 等于你就 会成功。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a
speak at your graduati on. If I had spoken at your orientat ion, fewer of you might be here today.
但是,我 还要提醒 大家,我 使得 Steve Ballmer (注:微 软总经 理)也从 哈佛商学 院退学了 。因此, 我是个有 着恶劣影 响力的人 。这就是 为什么我 被邀请来 在你们的 毕业典礼 上演讲。 如果我在 你们入学 欢迎仪式 上演讲, 那么能够 坚持到今 天在这里 毕业的人
Harvard was just a phenomen al experien ce for me. Academic life was fascinat ing. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific .I lived up at Radcliff e, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussi ng
我要感谢 哈佛大学 在这个时 候给我这 个荣誉。 明年,我 就要换工 作了 (注:指 从微软公 司退休) ……我终 于可以在 简历上写 我有一个 本科学 位,这真 是不错啊 。
I applaud the graduate s today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me Harvard' s most successf ul dropout. I guess that makes me valedict orian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.
比尔盖茨 在哈佛大 学演讲
Presiden t Bok, former Presiden t Rudensti ne, incoming Presiden t Faust, members of the Harvard Corporat ion and the Board of Overseer s, members of the faculty, parents, and especial ly, the graduate s:
marked the end of my college educatio n and the beginnin g of a remarkab le journey with Microsof t.
我很担 心,他们 会发觉我 是一个住 在宿舍的 学生,从 而挂断电 话。但是 他们却 说:“我 们还没准 备好,一 个月后你 再来找我 们吧。” 这是个好 消息,因 为那时软 件还根本 没有写出 来呢。就 是从那个 时候起, 我日以继 夜地在这 个小小的 课外项目 上工作, 这导致了
我在哈佛 学到了很 多经济学 和政治学 的新思想 。我也了 解了很多 科学上的 新进展。
But humanity 's greatest advances are not in its discover ies – but in how those discover ies are applied to reduce inequity . Whether through democrac y, strong public educatio n, quality health care, or broad economic
尊敬的 Bok校 长, Rudensti ne前校 长,即将 上任的 Faust校 长,哈佛 集团的各 位成员, 监管理事 会的各位 理事,各 位老师, 各位家 长,各位 同学:
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."