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　　比爾蓋茨在哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講：我終于拿到本科學(xué)位啦 演講稿中英對照

　　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校長，Rudenstine前校長，即將上任的Faust校長，哈佛集團(tuán)的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，各位同學(xué)：

　　I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."

　　有一句話我等了三十年，現(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會回來拿到我的學(xué)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.

　　我要感謝哈佛大學(xué)在這個時(shí)候給我這個榮譽(yù)。明年，我就要換工作了(注：指從微軟公司退休)……我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個本科學(xué)位，這真是不錯啊。

　　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.

　　我為今天在座的各位同學(xué)感到高興，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡單多了。哈佛的校報(bào)稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言……在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。

　　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.

　　但是，我還要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer(注：微軟總經(jīng)理)也從哈佛商學(xué)院退學(xué)了。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會少得多吧。

　　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 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 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.

　　對我來說，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因?yàn)槊總€人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。

　　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.

　　Radcliffe是個過日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機(jī)會，如果你們明白我的意思?？上У氖?，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會大，并不等于你就會成功。

　　One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, 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.

　　我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時(shí)，我從宿舍樓里給位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。

　　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 marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.

　　我很擔(dān)心，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在宿舍的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。”這是個好消息，因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。

　　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.

　　不管怎樣，我對哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動有關(guān)。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時(shí)甚至?xí)械叫箽?，但永遠(yuǎn)充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。生活在哈佛是一種吸引人的特殊待遇……雖然我離開得比較早，但是我在這里的經(jīng)歷、在這里結(jié)識的朋友、在這里發(fā)展起來的一些想法，永遠(yuǎn)地改變了我。

　　But taking a serious look back…I do have one big regret.

　　但是，如果現(xiàn)在嚴(yán)肅地回憶起來，我確實(shí)有一個真正的遺憾。

　　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.

　　我離開哈佛的時(shí)候，根本沒有意識到這個世界是多么的不平等。人類在健康、財(cái)富和機(jī)遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。

　　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.

　　我離開校園的時(shí)候，根本不知道在這個國家里，有幾百萬的年輕人無法獲得接受教育的機(jī)會。我也不知道，發(fā)展中國家里有無數(shù)的人們生活在無法形容的貧窮和疾病之中。

　　It took me decades to find out.

　　我花了幾十年才明白了這些事情。

　　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.

　　在座的各位同學(xué)，你們是在與我不同的時(shí)代來到哈佛的。你們比以前的學(xué)生，更多地了解世界是怎樣的不平等。在你們的哈佛求學(xué)過程中，我希望你們已經(jīng)思考過一個問題，那就是在這個新技術(shù)加速發(fā)展的時(shí)代，我們怎樣最終應(yīng)對這種不平等，以及我們怎樣來解決這個問題。

　　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?

　　為了討論的方便，請想象一下，假如你每個星期可以捐獻(xiàn)一些時(shí)間、每個月可以捐獻(xiàn)一些錢——你希望這些時(shí)間和金錢，可以用到對拯救生命和改善人類生活有最大作用的地方。你會選擇什么地方?

　　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.

　　對Melinda(注：蓋茨的妻子)和我來說，這也是我們面臨的問題：我們?nèi)绾文軐⑽覀儞碛械馁Y源發(fā)揮出最大的作用。

　　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 never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year ? none of them in the United States.

　　在討論過程中，Melinda和我讀到了一篇文章，里面說在那些貧窮的國家，每年有數(shù)百萬的兒童死于那些在美國早已不成問題的疾病。麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黃熱病、還有一種以前我從未聽說過的輪狀病毒，這些疾病每年導(dǎo)致50萬兒童死亡，但是在美國一例死亡病例也沒有。

　　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.

　　我們被震驚了。我們想，如果幾百萬兒童正在死亡線上掙扎，而且他們是可以被挽救的，那么世界理應(yīng)將用藥物拯救他們作為頭等大事。但是事實(shí)并非如此。那些價(jià)格還不到一美元的救命的藥劑，并沒有送到他們的手中。

　　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."

　　如果你相信每個生命都是平等的，那么當(dāng)你發(fā)現(xiàn)某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放棄了，你會感到無法接受。我們對自己說：“事情不可能如此。如果這是真的，那么它理應(yīng)是我們努力的頭等大事。”

　　So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: "How could the world let these children die?"

　　所以，我們用任何人都會想到的方式開始工作。我們問：“這個世界怎么可以眼睜睜看著這些孩子死去?”

　　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.

　　答案很簡單，也很令人難堪。在市場經(jīng)濟(jì)中，拯救兒童是一項(xiàng)沒有利潤的工作，政府也不會提供補(bǔ)助。這些兒童之所以會死亡，是因?yàn)樗麄兊母改冈诮?jīng)濟(jì)上沒有實(shí)力，在政治上沒有能力發(fā)出聲音。

　　But you and I have both.

　　但是，你們和我在經(jīng)濟(jì)上有實(shí)力，在政治上能夠發(fā)出聲音。

　　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 market forces 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.

　　我們可以讓市場更好地為窮人服務(wù)，如果我們能夠設(shè)計(jì)出一種更有創(chuàng)新性的資本主義制度——如果我們可以改變市場，讓更多的人可以獲得利潤，或者至少可以維持生活——那么，這就可以幫到那些正在極端不平等的狀況中受苦的人們。我們還可以向全世界的政府施壓，要求他們將納稅人的錢，花到更符合納稅人價(jià)值觀的地方。

　　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.

　　如果我們能夠找到這樣一種方法，既可以幫到窮人，又可以為商人帶來利潤，為政治家?guī)磉x票，那么我們就找到了一種減少世界性不平等的可持續(xù)的發(fā)展道路。這個任務(wù)是無限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自覺地解決這個問題的嘗試，都將會改變這個世界。

　　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.

　　在這個問題上，我是樂觀的。但是，我也遇到過那些感到絕望的懷疑主義者。他們說：“不平等從人類誕生的第一天就存在，到人類滅亡的最后一天也將存在。——因?yàn)槿祟悓@個問題根本不在乎?！蔽彝耆荒芡膺@種觀點(diǎn)。

　　I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.

　　我相信，問題不是我們不在乎，而是我們不知道怎么做。

　　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.

　　此刻在這個院子里的所有人，生命中總有這樣或那樣的時(shí)刻，目睹人類的悲劇，感到萬分傷心。但是我們什么也沒做，并非我們無動于衷，而是因?yàn)槲覀儾恢雷鍪裁春驮趺醋?。如果我們知道如何做是有效的，那么我們就會采取行動?/p>

　　The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

　　改變世界的阻礙，并非人類的冷漠，而是世界實(shí)在太復(fù)雜。

　　To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

　　為了將關(guān)心轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樾袆?，我們需要找到問題，發(fā)現(xiàn)解決辦法的方法以及評估后果。但是世界的復(fù)雜性使得這三步都難于做到。

　　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.

　　就算我們真正發(fā)現(xiàn)了問題所在，也不過是邁出了第一步，接著還有第二步：那就是從復(fù)雜的事件中找到解決辦法。

　　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.

　　如果我們要讓關(guān)心落到實(shí)處，我們就必須找到解決辦法。如果我們有一個清晰的和可靠的答案，那么當(dāng)任何組織和個人發(fā)出疑問“如何我能提供幫助”的時(shí)候，我們就能采取行動。我們就能夠保證不浪費(fèi)一丁點(diǎn)全世界人類對他人的關(guān)心。但是，世界的復(fù)雜性使得很難找到對全世界每一個有愛心的人都有效的行動方法，因此人類對他人的關(guān)心往往很難產(chǎn)生實(shí)際效果。

　　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 bednet.

　　從這個復(fù)雜的世界中找到解決辦法，可以分為四個步驟：確定目標(biāo)，找到最高效的方法，發(fā)現(xiàn)適用于這個方法的新技術(shù)，同時(shí)最聰明地利用現(xiàn)有的技術(shù)，不管它是復(fù)雜的藥物，還是最簡單的蚊帳。

　　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.

　　艾滋病就是一個例子?？偟哪繕?biāo)，毫無疑問是消滅這種疾病。最高效的方法是預(yù)防。最理想的技術(shù)是發(fā)明一種疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以終生免疫。所以，政府、制藥公司、基金會應(yīng)該資助疫苗研究。但是，這樣研究工作很可能十年之內(nèi)都無法完成。因此，與此同時(shí)，我們必須使用現(xiàn)有的技術(shù)，目前最有效的預(yù)防方法就是設(shè)法讓人們避免那些危險(xiǎn)的行為。

　　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 the 20th century--which is to surrender to complexity and quit.

　　要實(shí)現(xiàn)這個新的目標(biāo)，又可以采用新的四步循環(huán)。這是一種模式。關(guān)鍵的東西是永遠(yuǎn)不要停止思考和行動。我們千萬不能再犯上個世紀(jì)在瘧疾和肺結(jié)核上犯過的錯誤，那時(shí)我們因?yàn)樗鼈兲珡?fù)雜，而放棄了采取行動。

　　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.

　　在發(fā)現(xiàn)問題和找到解決方法之后，就是最后一步——評估工作結(jié)果，將你的成功經(jīng)驗(yàn)或者失敗經(jīng)驗(yàn)傳播出去，這樣其他人就可以從你的努力中有所收獲。

　　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.

　　當(dāng)然，你必須有一些統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字。你必須讓他人知道，你的項(xiàng)目為幾百萬兒童新接種了疫苗。你也必須讓他人知道，兒童死亡人數(shù)下降了多少。這些都是很關(guān)鍵的，不僅有利于改善項(xiàng)目效果，也有利于從商界和政府得到更多的幫助。

　　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.

　　但是，這些還不夠，如果你想激勵其他人參加你的項(xiàng)目，你就必須拿出更多的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字;你必須展示你的項(xiàng)目的人性因素，這樣其他人就會感到拯救一個生命，對那些處在困境中的家庭到底意味著什么。

　　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.

　　這個時(shí)代無時(shí)無刻不在涌現(xiàn)出新的革新——生物技術(shù)，計(jì)算機(jī)，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)——它們給了我們一個從未有過的機(jī)會，去終結(jié)那些極端的貧窮和非惡性疾病的死亡。

　　The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.

　　低成本的個人電腦的出現(xiàn)，使得一個強(qiáng)大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)有機(jī)會誕生，它為學(xué)習(xí)和交流提供了巨大的機(jī)會。

　　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.

　　網(wǎng)絡(luò)的神奇之處，不僅僅是它縮短了物理距離，使得天涯若比鄰。它還極大地增加了懷有共同想法的人們聚集在一起的機(jī)會，我們可以為了解決同一個問題，一起共同工作。這就大大加快了革新的進(jìn)程，發(fā)展速度簡直快得讓人震驚。

　　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.

　　與此同時(shí)，世界上有條件上網(wǎng)的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。這意味著，還有許多具有創(chuàng)造性的人們，沒有加入到我們的討論中來。那些有著實(shí)際的操作經(jīng)驗(yàn)和相關(guān)經(jīng)歷的聰明人，卻沒有技術(shù)來幫助他們，將他們的天賦或者想法與全世界分享。

　　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, smaller organizations, 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 of 60 years ago.

　　我們需要盡可能地讓更多的人有機(jī)會使用新技術(shù)，因?yàn)檫@些新技術(shù)正在引發(fā)一場革命，人類將因此可以互相幫助。新技術(shù)正在創(chuàng)造一種可能，不僅是政府，還包括大學(xué)、公司、小機(jī)構(gòu)、甚至個人，能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)問題所在、能夠找到解決辦法、能夠評估他們努力的效果，去改變那些馬歇爾六十年前就說到過的問題——饑餓、貧窮和絕望。

　　Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.

　　哈佛是一個大家庭。這個院子里在場的人們，是全世界最有智力的人類群體之一。

　　What for?

　　我們可以做些什么?

　　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?

　　毫無疑問，哈佛的老師、校友、學(xué)生和資助者，已經(jīng)用他們的能力改善了全世界各地人們的生活。但是，我們還能夠再做什么呢?有沒有可能，哈佛的人們可以將他們的智慧，用來幫助那些甚至從來沒有聽到過“哈佛”這個名字的人?

　　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:

　　請?jiān)试S我向各位院長和教授，提出一個請求——你們是哈佛的智力領(lǐng)袖，當(dāng)你們雇用新的老師、授予終身教職、評估課程、決定學(xué)位頒發(fā)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的時(shí)候，請問你們自己如下的問題：

　　Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?

　　我們最優(yōu)秀的人才是否在致力于解決我們最大的問題?

　　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?

　　哈佛是否鼓勵她的老師去研究解決世界上最嚴(yán)重的不平等?哈佛的學(xué)生是否從全球那些極端的貧窮中學(xué)到了什么……世界性的饑荒……清潔的水資源的缺乏……無法上學(xué)的女童……死于非惡性疾病的兒童……哈佛的學(xué)生有沒有從中學(xué)到東西?

　　Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged?

　　那些世界上過著最優(yōu)越生活的人們，有沒有從那些最困難的人們身上學(xué)到東西?

　　These are not rhetorical questions--you will answer with your policies.

　　這些問題并非語言上的修辭。你必須用自己的行動來回答它們。

　　When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given--in talent, privilege, and opportunity--there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect From us.

　　想一想吧，我們在這個院子里的這些人，被給予過什么——天賦、特權(quán)、機(jī)遇——那么可以這樣說，全世界的人們幾乎有無限的權(quán)力，期待我們做出貢獻(xiàn)。

　　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, a deep 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.

　　同這個時(shí)代的期望一樣，我也要向今天各位畢業(yè)的同學(xué)提出一個忠告：你們要選擇一個問題，一個復(fù)雜的問題，一個有關(guān)于人類深刻的不平等的問題，然后你們要變成這個問題的專家。如果你們能夠使得這個問題成為你們職業(yè)的核心，那么你們就會非常杰出。但是，你們不必一定要去做那些大事。每個星期只用幾個小時(shí)，你就可以通過互聯(lián)網(wǎng)得到信息，找到志同道合的朋友，發(fā)現(xiàn)困難所在，找到解決它們的途徑。

　　Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

　　不要讓這個世界的復(fù)雜性阻礙你前進(jìn)。要成為一個行動主義者。將解決人類的不平等視為己任。它將成為你生命中最重要的經(jīng)歷之一。

　　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.

　　在座的各位畢業(yè)的同學(xué)，你們所處的時(shí)代是一個神奇的時(shí)代。當(dāng)你們離開哈佛的時(shí)候，你們擁有的技術(shù)，是我們那一屆學(xué)生所沒有的。你們已經(jīng)了解到了世界上的不平等，我們那時(shí)還不知道這些。有了這樣的了解之后，要是你再棄那些你可以幫助的人們于不顧，就將受到良心的譴責(zé)，只需一點(diǎn)小小的努力，你就可以改變那些人們的生活。你們比我們擁有更大的能力;你們必須盡早開始，盡可能長時(shí)期堅(jiān)持下去。

　　Knowing what you know, how could you not?

　　知道了你們所知道的一切，你們怎么可能不采取行動呢?

　　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's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

　　我希望，30年后你們還會再回到哈佛，想起你們用自己的天賦和能力所做出的一切。我希望，在那個時(shí)候，你們用來評價(jià)自己的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，不僅僅是你們的專業(yè)成就，而包括你們?yōu)楦淖冞@個世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力，以及你們?nèi)绾紊拼切┻h(yuǎn)隔千山萬水、與你們毫不涉及的人們，你們與他們唯一的共同點(diǎn)就是同為人類。

　　Good luck.

　　祝各位好運(yùn)。

　　外國成功人士的演講稿2：

　　前美國總統(tǒng)：比爾.克林頓

　　薩曼莎，斯蒂法妮，克里斯，所有的高級軍官以及所有的學(xué)生發(fā)言者，非常感謝你們!謝謝你們演講中帶來的揶揄和笑話!你們可知道，當(dāng)我受邀到這里來演講的時(shí)候，我有些受寵若驚!他們邀請比爾.蓋茨在畢業(yè)典禮上做主題演講。他的錢比我多[笑聲]而且他上過哈佛。我在這帶來了我的朋友格倫·哈欽斯，這是他第30回重聚此地，他負(fù)責(zé)捐贈的相關(guān)事情而且他跟我解釋說，比爾.蓋茨真的真的很富有，我僅僅是算得上富有而已[笑聲]。之后我想，這樣也好，學(xué)生們之前也問過我，此外，我不必穿禮服。

　　但是我不明白為什么這樣一個喜慶非正式的日子會邀請我來，你們應(yīng)該邀請一個60歲白發(fā)蒼蒼的老人來演講。

　　沿襲艾爾'弗蘭肯、威爾'法瑞爾 [笑聲]、勃瑞特、阿里.G或者任何和電視劇搞怪一家人中科南·奧布賴恩同時(shí)代人的優(yōu)良傳統(tǒng)，多么好的一個傳統(tǒng)!所以我確實(shí)喜歡《塔拉迪加之夜》。然而,當(dāng)我閱讀著所有我能找出的關(guān)于畢業(yè)班的東西,我認(rèn)為我想得好，但他們今天確實(shí)沒有什么樂趣。他們已經(jīng)享受了這樣的樂趣。他們在考試臨近時(shí)參加這場班級范圍的冒險(xiǎn)比賽[笑聲]. 而且當(dāng)我聽到各位的講話，我能理解,我能理解你們?yōu)槭裁聪硎苓^這種樂趣?，F(xiàn)在你們?nèi)慷寄芨傔x總統(tǒng)。你們經(jīng)歷過冒險(xiǎn).這是一場長達(dá)8年的冒險(xiǎn)比賽。我原以為是好的.或許是因?yàn)槟銈儗⒁蚊麯rew Faust為你們的下一屆總統(tǒng)，我認(rèn)為婦女現(xiàn)在應(yīng)該競選所有東西[笑聲]. 然后我估計(jì)可能是僅僅因?yàn)榱_賓·威廉斯和比利.克里斯拒絕了你們 [笑聲]. 但是無論出于什么原因，我們來到了這里，我確實(shí)很開心。[笑聲].

　　我認(rèn)為今天你們已經(jīng)聽到大多數(shù)你們需要聽到的東西。但是此刻我仍想要你們聚精會神的關(guān)注這樣一個事實(shí)，這些畢業(yè)班自1968已經(jīng)邀請了一些非喜劇演員來參加典禮。首先是很久前在4月被殺殺的馬丁路德·金 [掌聲]。那年我在喬治城上大四，所以記憶猶新。在他能受邀來這演講之前，他已經(jīng)在四月遇害了?？评姿淼竭@代替他做了演講。你們信奉特蕾薩(修女)，你們也崇拜波諾(搖滾歌手)。他們有什么共性?他們是我們普通人性的象征，他們是甚至對幽默大師犬儒主義都給以譴責(zé)的代表?；緛碚f，馬丁路德·金按他選擇的方式來做，因?yàn)槲覀兌枷菰谝粋€我們稱之為不可逃脫的相互關(guān)系網(wǎng)中。納爾遜·曼德拉，世界上最好的活生生的例子，我確信他來自南非的一個科薩人稱之為特南斯凱部落。使用英語,你們用，我們也用。所以來自阿爾巴尼亞的特蕾薩修女和地球上來自加爾各答市最貧窮的人生活一起。所以波諾離開了他的搖滾樂舞臺開始擔(dān)心那些死于愛滋病的無辜的嬰兒和那些思想明智但從未得到機(jī)會去追尋他們的夢想的不幸的人。因此，作為一個大四畢業(yè)生，你們的時(shí)光是多么的美好!我看著你們所有人，多么期盼我能重新開始。我想如果你們能讓我重回21歲，我愿意讓你們來當(dāng)總統(tǒng)[笑聲].

　　如果我能重新開始做每一件事，我愿意冒險(xiǎn)將它們都做成功。但是我在想，僅僅想一下這個振奮人心的年代!這個知識爆炸的年代!就在我來這里之前幾周，我了解到多虧人類有了基因組排序，正在進(jìn)行的研究才已經(jīng)鑒定出了預(yù)示糖尿病發(fā)病的兩個高發(fā)信號，正如你們所知的一樣，這對我來說很重要，因?yàn)槲覀儸F(xiàn)在預(yù)知，在未來十年里，每3個美國出生的孩子中會有1個將患上糖尿病。我們竟冒這樣的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)撫育一代比自身父母命短的孩子們。這不是因?yàn)槲覀兪莛I，而是因?yàn)槲覀兂藻e了東西，我們不鍛煉。但是這是一件大事。在這之后，我還了解到，透過強(qiáng)大的望遠(yuǎn)鏡，我們已經(jīng)觀測到有顆行星繞最接近于太陽系的100顆星其中的一顆星的軌道運(yùn)行，看起來那里的大氣狀況如此的類似于我們地球的大氣狀況以致于那里出現(xiàn)了實(shí)實(shí)在在的生命。哎，單就這個大宇宙而言，它是接近我們的，但是它仍然離我們有2000萬光年的距離。任何年輕人用一生的時(shí)間都無法到達(dá)。因此,除非這班上有一名嶄露頭角的天文物理學(xué)家想要匆忙結(jié)婚，并且將事情接著交付于下3 代人，然后和另一對夫婦一起去那里，否則我們將必須等他們來到我們的地球。多么激動人心的時(shí)刻!

　　同樣令我們振奮的是我們民族的多樣性。如果你看看周圍的觀眾，我正在想，如果30年前有一個象我一樣的人在這做演講，這群人會有多么的不同!如果針對我們所有的人，這種翻天覆地的變化就更加有趣了!

　　那是個另人泄氣的年代, 所有的機(jī)會都存在著不公平性。那里充滿了不安全性, 不穩(wěn)定性。世界一半的人仍然過著每天不到兩美金的生活。十億人每天收入還不到一美金。十億人每晚餓著肚子睡覺.還有十億人在現(xiàn)在或他有生之年都喝不到一瓶干凈的水。而今年死亡人數(shù)中將有四分之一的人是死于肺結(jié)核、瘧疾及由飲用臟水引起的傳染病。

　　在美國是沒有人死于這些疾病的, 除非是有些人的愛滋病藥品不再有效或他們拒絕遵守政權(quán)規(guī)定.在美國過去的十年里, 我們經(jīng)歷了六年的經(jīng)濟(jì)高速增長期, 尤其是股票交易市場達(dá)到40年來創(chuàng)公司利潤的頂盛時(shí)期。工人每年都提升了生產(chǎn)力, 但中等階層的工資卻不見漲。實(shí)際上所有的這些就是所謂的恢復(fù)四個百分點(diǎn)來補(bǔ)助在貧困線以下的全職業(yè)工人,四個百分點(diǎn)保障沒有醫(yī)療保險(xiǎn)的工人家庭。那是個不平等, 動蕩, 危險(xiǎn)時(shí)期,因?yàn)槲覀円资芸植朗录?要面對大規(guī)模毀滅性武器和類似禽流感一樣的全球流行病。

　而不得不經(jīng)常乘飛機(jī)旅行。這就是在這我想告訴你們的.不公平是存在的,不安全性是可以掌控的. 我們必須要在21世紀(jì)好好努力解決像20世紀(jì)一樣發(fā)生的帶走許多無辜生命的政治暴力事件。

　　記住發(fā)生了些什么, 在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中有1200萬人喪身，第二次世界大戰(zhàn)光某一處就有1500-2000萬人喪身, 600萬人死于大屠殺，600萬個猶太人被殺,其與國籍喪身300萬人。在與前蘇聯(lián)的兩次世界大戰(zhàn)間和之后的政治大清洗中有2000萬人喪身。200萬死于與柬埔寨獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭中,上百萬士兵死于非洲部落戰(zhàn)爭中,還有中國“”時(shí)的大批未知死亡人數(shù)。我的意思是，我們真的要好好想想這個問題，除非你期望你們這一代人像20世紀(jì)帶走許多無辜生命一樣的政治暴力事件再次發(fā)生。差別是這次你認(rèn)為無辜受傷的人可能是你。因?yàn)槭澜缡窍嗷ヒ来娴?所以要真是這樣的化，那么, 盡管世界存在著不安全性但還是可以掌控的。

　　由于氣候變化,資源耗盡使得世界也無法支撐下去,事實(shí)上2007年和2050間,世界人口將會從65億增長到90億，國家的大多數(shù)成長幾乎不能解決這一問題, 以現(xiàn)在的情況來看，我們從未注意這些。但這都是客觀存在的問題。因此氣候變化是一個問題嗎?資源耗盡是一個問題嗎?我著手解決的貧困及1.3億兒童無法上學(xué)和疾病問題是問題嗎?你敢說它不是嗎。但我認(rèn)為最重要的問題是人們?nèi)绾慰创@些問題及其相互關(guān)系。當(dāng)今世界正遭受著政治，宗教,這些幾乎都是心理沖突的問題沖刷,這就要求我們要區(qū)分和同化與我們不同的人。他們中的每一個人預(yù)先達(dá)成了一個非常簡單的共識。那就是我們的差異比我們的共性要重要得多.我要強(qiáng)調(diào)的是特蕾薩修女受邀來過這兒, 波諾受邀來過這兒, 馬丁路德'金受邀來過這兒。因?yàn)楫厴I(yè)班都相信這些人認(rèn)為我們的共性比我們的差異要重要得多。[掌聲]

　　你們的精神也感染了我今天的情緒,在坐的各位擁有著哈佛學(xué)位,聰明的才智,這些實(shí)際上都給了你們無限的潛能。你們必須好好考慮所有的這些事情并就你這一生中該做什么做切實(shí)的深思。我希望你們能分享馬丁路德'金的夢想，擁互曼德拉和解精神，支持波諾關(guān)心窮人問題, 并且跟隨特蕾薩修女的一生做一些積極的公益事業(yè)。與以往任何時(shí)候相比,現(xiàn)在的普通群眾在做公益事情上享有了更多的權(quán)力, 這都是因?yàn)榉钦M織能力的提升,全球媒體文化的宣傳，計(jì)算器網(wǎng)絡(luò)通路的傳播，所有的這些都給了大家適當(dāng)?shù)陌l(fā)揮權(quán)利的方式, 如果全民齊心，那就可以改變世界了。當(dāng)前總統(tǒng)布什和我被邀請?zhí)幚砗[事務(wù)時(shí)，在我們處理卡特里娜海嘯工作之前, 許多美國人在地圖上都不能找到馬爾地夫群島或斯里蘭卡半島，最后我們把12億美元捐助到海嘯救援工作上去了。30%的美國家庭參與了捐助活動。他們當(dāng)中的一半是通過網(wǎng)上捐助的,這就是說如果有足夠多的人都來支持你, 那你甚至不需要太富有就可以改變這個世界了。我們必須要這樣做,為公民服務(wù)在我們國家是一種傳統(tǒng),這種傳統(tǒng)和哈佛大學(xué)一樣古老,當(dāng)然也要比我們的政府古老得多。

　　早在憲法生效前40年，本杰明·富蘭克林就在費(fèi)城組織了第一個志愿消防隊(duì)。當(dāng)托克維爾(法國人)1835年來這里時(shí)，他在討論其它事情過程中流露讓他感到驚奇的是，美國人總是愿意自己加快步伐去做事，而不是等其它人去做它?，F(xiàn)在在美國我們有1，010，000個非政府組織。不計(jì)那355，000個宗教團(tuán)體，這些組織中的大部分人都從事某種程度上幫助他人的工作。印度有注冊了100萬個這種組織，其中有50萬個正在積極地投入工作。中國注冊了280，000個這種組織，數(shù)目是其兩倍的組織沒有注冊是應(yīng)為他們工作不想受限制。俄羅斯有400，000這種組織，數(shù)目是如此之多以致于普京總統(tǒng)試圖要限制它們的數(shù)量。我希望他不會那樣，但這確實(shí)是一個高級難題。在我1993年當(dāng)選為總統(tǒng)時(shí)，俄羅斯或者是中國都沒有非政府組織。全世界人們都知道他們能做一些事情去改變世界。但是再次，我想對你們所有人重申，如果我們沒有挑戰(zhàn)去面臨，在未來的50年也沒有什么東西去妨礙你們的子孫來到這個美麗的地球，這種情況比持續(xù)貶低我們共有生活的意義并且削弱我們解決我們共有問題能力的意識和情感上的分歧造成的影響要嚴(yán)重得多。因?yàn)樵谶@兒達(dá)成的簡單的共識是,我們的差異比我們的共性重要。

　　當(dāng)我們那時(shí)進(jìn)行人類基因組排序時(shí)，作為一個非科學(xué)家,我覺得最有意思的事情是-在我黨總統(tǒng)的最后一年我們完成了它. 我真的密切關(guān)注這件事并且一直給它投資 - 我覺得最有意義的事情是發(fā)現(xiàn)了有著30億個基因的人類的基因是百分之99.9的相似。因此如果你現(xiàn)在看看這洶涌的人海，戴著軍帽的,戴著棒球帽的,戴著牛仔帽的和戴著頭巾的，如果你再看看他們的膚色,他們的身高,他們的胖瘦等等的一切，這所有的不同僅僅源于這百分之零點(diǎn)一的基因組成.你會發(fā)現(xiàn)不僅人可怕,而且我們之中剩余的其它人花費(fèi)我們生命百分之九十的時(shí)間去思考那百分之零點(diǎn)一的差異,這難道不好笑嗎? 我的意思是，難道我們都是這樣的嗎?在演講中有多少逗笑的話是關(guān)于這些的?至少我沒去耶魯，不是嗎? [笑聲]布朗袋總是逗樂的。 [笑聲]

　　那是完全一樣的道理，不是嗎?我是說，擁有智慧的前提是能區(qū)別對待生活中的人和事。的確，那是現(xiàn)代文化最原始要素之一。所有那些談話節(jié)目﹐甚至許多政治新聞里膚淺的評價(jià)﹐都試圖在人們生活中最壞的時(shí)刻去評判他們，但談到我時(shí)﹐就全都是好的，不管我做錯了什么，都不是我的錯。邀請馬丁路德'金，特蕾莎修女和波諾來這里也是如此。尼爾森'曼德拉是世界上最受人欽佩的人。不久前的一天晚上我被逗樂了﹐我與一群朋友正準(zhǔn)備離開紐約的一家餐廳，這時(shí)看到距離兩張桌子處坐著林博[笑聲], 他說過些讓我惱火的事。因此我走過去和他握手﹐跟他和他的客人問好﹐其實(shí)我過去只想告訴他我們99.9%都是相同的。 [笑聲]但是我不想毀了他的甜點(diǎn)，所以最后沒說。 [笑聲]

　　現(xiàn)下我們覺得這很好笑吧﹗下個月我就要進(jìn)行每年艱辛的長途旅行了﹐去非洲看看艾滋病項(xiàng)目進(jìn)行得如何，并且與尼爾森'曼德拉慶祝他89歲生日﹐不知道他還有多少日子。想到我可能99.9%與他相同時(shí)，我甚至無法想象。因此我問你們，我們有諸如此類的其它問題嗎? Darfur地區(qū)發(fā)生的是一場悲劇嗎?我希望美國采用明智的氣候變化制度嗎?我憎惡政府的理論家修改科學(xué)報(bào)告嗎?我不贊成正在進(jìn)行的上千件事情嗎?絕對是的。所有這些都源于我們能違反獲悉的知識﹑理智﹑甚至人性基本素養(yǎng)﹐因?yàn)槿伺c人之間的差異更關(guān)鍵﹐這也決定了大家崇拜權(quán)力高于理想。人與人之間的差異更關(guān)鍵。近幾年最重要的事就是與前布什總統(tǒng)一起做這項(xiàng)工作。大家知道，我應(yīng)該做這事。我身體健康﹐思想還跟得上時(shí)代。老布什都82歲了，仍然坐飛機(jī)飛來飛去做著同樣的事情﹐我喜歡這小伙。抱歉觀眾里有頑固的民主黨人﹐真的抱歉。[笑聲]生命就是每天遇見新鮮的事。接下來，具體講兩個故事結(jié)束這次演講，故事一個發(fā)生在亞洲﹐一個發(fā)生在非洲。

　　喬治'布什和我經(jīng)歷海嘯之后，我們進(jìn)行了救災(zāi)工作。地震過后﹐科菲'安南邀請布什督導(dǎo)聯(lián)合國在巴基斯坦的救援活動，這項(xiàng)工作現(xiàn)在得到了大家的認(rèn)同，并邀請我擔(dān)任海嘯救援活動的協(xié)調(diào)者﹐繼續(xù)待兩年。因此我的倒數(shù)第二次旅行去了印度尼西亞亞齊﹐亞齊是目前為止受災(zāi)最嚴(yán)重的地區(qū)，25萬人遇難。我去了一所難民營﹐那兒非?？釤幔珟浊巳陨钤趲づ窭铹o非常的不舒服。而我的工作就是去那兒﹐聽他們抱怨﹐然后想出解決辦法，怎樣更迅速地使他們離開那。因此這些救災(zāi)營每個都選舉了一位首領(lǐng)。到達(dá)時(shí)，我?guī)淼哪贻p的翻譯，一名年輕的印度尼西亞婦女把我介紹給首領(lǐng)﹑他的妻子和兒子。他們笑著向我問好，我低頭看著這個小男孩，非常驚訝﹐幾乎無法呼吸﹐我認(rèn)為他是我所見過的最漂亮的小孩﹐我告訴了翻譯，翻譯說是的﹐但在海嘯前他有9 個漂亮的兄弟姐妹﹐ 現(xiàn)在全部沒了。

　　因此首領(lǐng)的妻子和兒子借口離開了﹐由這位已經(jīng)失去了9 個孩子的父親兼首領(lǐng)繼續(xù)帶著我參觀了兩個小時(shí)。他臉上帶著微笑﹐談的都是災(zāi)民們的需求﹐至始至終沒有提及發(fā)生在他身上的事﹐他所承受的悲痛。最后我們到了門診部。我抬頭看到他的妻子在那﹐這位已經(jīng)失去10個孩子中的9 個的母親抱著一個小嬰兒﹐大概出生不到一周，是救災(zāi)營里的新生兒。她說告訴你這些我會有麻煩的﹐因?yàn)樵谟《饶嵛鱽單幕些o婦女生了小孩，得在床上躺上40天，家人在床邊待候。 [笑聲]躺著，也不用做事。到第40天時(shí)，孩子的母親起床，回去工作，家人給嬰兒取名。這個孩子出生還不到一周﹐現(xiàn)在由她照顧﹐他是我們這的新生兒﹐我們想讓你給他取名﹐是個小男孩。我看著她，對翻譯說﹐你們有標(biāo)志著新的開始的名字嗎?翻譯解釋給婦女聽，婦女說有緬懷過去的名字，翻譯告訴我有，很幸運(yùn)，在印度尼西亞語中﹐黎明是男孩的名字﹐而且孩子的母親同意給他取名黎明﹐標(biāo)志他們新的開始。我們不應(yīng)該非得接觸那些失去了10個孩子中的9 個的人，珍愛剩下的那一個，和經(jīng)歷給新生兒取名黎明后才意識到我們共同擁有的東西比把我們分離的東西更重要。[掌聲]

　　故事就說到這﹐大家好好想想。1968年馬丁路德'金被邀請到這里時(shí)，整個國家仍籠罩著種族歧視。十年后又籠罩著性別歧視，之后又是恐同性戀癥。偶爾這些丑陋的東西又會重新流行起來，但總的說來，在場的沒人準(zhǔn)備一生被這些東西束縛著﹐但也沒人能幸免，我們都面臨著誘惑。你們面臨的最大誘惑是相信自己是與眾不同的﹐相信與眾不同使自己來到這兒﹐能給自己帶來巨大的財(cái)富或滿足任何需求﹐而且認(rèn)為這百分之一中的十分之一的差別是你們的全部﹐自己應(yīng)該有好的機(jī)遇，別人應(yīng)該有差的遭遇。你們一定不要落入這個陷阱。沃倫'巴菲特計(jì)劃捐出99%的財(cái)富，因?yàn)樗f他賺的錢大多數(shù)是因?yàn)樗某錾睾统錾鷷r(shí)間﹐是一場幸運(yùn)的意外。而且在這個時(shí)代這個地方﹐他的工作甚至比教師﹑警察﹑護(hù)士﹑醫(yī)生和關(guān)心了應(yīng)該受到人們關(guān)心的人的人們的工作更加受到我們的贊賞。巴菲特計(jì)劃捐出99%的財(cái)富﹐而剩下不到1%的財(cái)富他這輩子都花不完﹐因?yàn)樗庾R到他的財(cái)富不全源自于這百分之一中的十分之一的差別﹐是人性讓他捐出99%的財(cái)富給那些更需要錢的人。

　　我曾在非洲中部的高地工作過，那兒幾乎沒有交通工具﹐人們走路碰到時(shí)﹐會說你好﹗你好嗎?早上好﹗對方的回答并不是我很好﹐你呢? 回答譯成英語是﹕我看見你了。想想這句話﹐我們中有多少人每天碰見彼此但從未留意過對方?待會我們?nèi)慷纪藞隽拴o有人進(jìn)來折迭大約2萬把的椅子﹐然后清理垃圾﹐為明天或后天做準(zhǔn)備﹐我們不用考慮這些﹐有人會處理的。沒留意別人的人大多數(shù)都認(rèn)為沒人留意他們自己。要不是發(fā)生了可怕的災(zāi)難，我也絕不可能關(guān)注印度尼西亞亞齊的人們。故事就講到這。請了解來這的偉人們的演講真諦﹐請花盡可能多的時(shí)間﹑感情和精力考慮那99.9%的相同之處。關(guān)注每個人﹐了解每個人都需要新的開始。享受好的機(jī)遇﹐喜愛你的與眾不同，但是要認(rèn)識到我們的共性更加重要。上帝保佑你們﹗好運(yùn)﹗

　　外國成功人士的演講稿3：

　　喬布斯

　　You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

　　Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。

　　This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

　　這是蘋果公司和Pixar動畫工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12號在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮上面的演講稿。

　　I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

　　我今天很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。說實(shí)話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個故事而已。

　　The first story is about connecting the dots.

　　第一個故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。

　　I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

　　我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我為什么要退學(xué)呢?

　　It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

　　故事從我出生的時(shí)候講起。我的親生母親是一個年輕的,沒有結(jié)婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我, 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)。所以在我出生的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準(zhǔn)備工作，能使得我被一個律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)。但是她沒有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后, 律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個女孩。所以我的生養(yǎng)父母(他們還在我親生父母的觀察名單上)突然在半夜接到了一個電話:“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個不小心生出來的男嬰,你們想要他嗎?”他們回答道:“當(dāng)然!”但是我親生母親隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué),我的父親甚至從沒有讀過高中。她拒絕簽這個收養(yǎng)合同。只是在幾個月以后,我的父母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué),那個時(shí)候她才同意。

　　And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

　　在十七歲那年,我真的上了大學(xué)。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上面。在六個月后, 我已經(jīng)看不到其中的價(jià)值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能幫助我找到怎樣的答案。但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的所有積蓄。所以我決定要退學(xué),我覺得這是個正確的決定。不能否認(rèn),我當(dāng)時(shí)確實(shí)非常的害怕, 但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看,那的確是我這一生中最棒的一個決定。在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻, 我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點(diǎn)意思的課程。

　　It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

　　但是這并不是那么羅曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房間的地板上面睡覺,我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子，僅僅為了填飽肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，?┕?飧齔鞘械紿are Krishna寺廟(注：位于紐約Brooklyn下城),只是為了能吃上飯——這個星期唯一一頓好一點(diǎn)的飯。但是我喜歡這樣。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價(jià)之寶。讓我給你們舉一個例子吧：

　　Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

　　Reed大學(xué)在那時(shí)提供也許是全美最好的美術(shù)字課程。在這個大學(xué)里面的每個海報(bào), 每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。因?yàn)槲彝藢W(xué)了, 沒有受到正規(guī)的訓(xùn)練, 所以我決定去參加這個課程，去學(xué)學(xué)怎樣寫出漂亮的美術(shù)字。我學(xué)到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學(xué)會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)不能捕捉到的、美麗的、真實(shí)的藝術(shù)精妙, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)那實(shí)在是太美妙了。

　　None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

　　當(dāng)時(shí)看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實(shí)際應(yīng)用的可能。但是十年之后,當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計(jì)第一臺Macintosh電腦的時(shí)候,就不是那樣了。我把當(dāng)時(shí)我學(xué)的那些家伙全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了Mac。那是第一臺使用了漂亮的印刷字體的電腦。如果我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機(jī)會去參加這個我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程, Mac就不會有這么多豐富的字體，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。那么現(xiàn)在個人電腦就不會有現(xiàn)在這么美妙的字型了。當(dāng)然我在大學(xué)的時(shí)候，還不可能把從前的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來,但是當(dāng)我十年后回顧這一切的時(shí)候,真的豁然開朗了。

　　Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

　　再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時(shí)候不可能將這些片斷串連起來;你只能在回顧的時(shí)候?qū)Ⅻc(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣。這個過程從來沒有令我失望(let me down),只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同而已。

　　My second story is about love and loss.

　　我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和損失的。

　　I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

　　我非常幸運(yùn), 因?yàn)槲以诤茉绲臅r(shí)候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。Woz和我在二十歲的時(shí)候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮光蛋發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價(jià)值超過二十億的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是 Macintosh。我也快要到三十歲了。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時(shí)候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的很好。但是后來我們對未來的看法發(fā)生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。當(dāng)爭吵不可開交的時(shí)候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊。所以在三十歲的時(shí)候, 我被炒了。在這么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱離自己遠(yuǎn)去, 這真是毀滅性的打擊。

　　I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

　　在最初的幾個月里，我真是不知道該做些什么。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。但是我漸漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了曙光, 我仍然喜愛我從事的這些東西。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點(diǎn)也沒有。我被驅(qū)逐了,但是我仍然鐘愛它。所以我決定從頭再來。

　　I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

　　我當(dāng)時(shí)沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。因?yàn)?，作為一個成功者的極樂感覺被作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺所重新代替: 對任何事情都不那么特別看重。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個階段。

　　During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

　　在接下來的五年里, 我創(chuàng)立了一個名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個后來成為我妻子的優(yōu)雅女人相識。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個用電腦制作的動畫電影——“”玩具總動員”,Pixar現(xiàn)在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。在后來的一系列運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)在Apple的復(fù)興之中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵的作用。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個幸福的家庭。

　　I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

　　我可以非?？隙?如果我不被Apple開除的話, 這其中一件事情也不會發(fā)生的。這個良藥的味道實(shí)在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要這個藥。有些時(shí)候, 生活會拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我無比鐘愛。你需要去找到你所愛的東西。對于工作是如此, 對于你的愛人也是如此。你的工作將會占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到, 那么繼續(xù)找、不要停下來、全心全意的去找, 當(dāng)你找到的時(shí)候你就會知道的。就像任何真誠的關(guān)系, 隨著歲月的流逝只會越來越緊密。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來!

　　My third story is about death.

　　我的第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡的。

　　When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

　　當(dāng)我十七歲的時(shí)候, 我讀到了一句話:“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命中最后一天去生活的話,那么有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的?！边@句話給我留下了深刻的印象。從那時(shí)開始,過了33 年,我在每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你會不會完成你今天想做的事情呢?”當(dāng)答案連續(xù)很多次被給予“不是”的時(shí)候, 我知道自己需要改變某些事情了。

　　Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

　　“記住你即將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。因?yàn)閹缀跛械氖虑? 包括所有的榮譽(yù)、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都會消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的東西。你有時(shí)候會思考你將會失去某些東西,“ 記住你即將死去”是我知道的避免這些想法的最好辦法。你已經(jīng)赤身裸體了, 你沒有理由不去跟隨自己的心一起跳動。

　　About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

　　大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥。我在早晨七點(diǎn)半做了一個檢查, 檢查清楚的顯示在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時(shí)都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥, 我還有三到六個月的時(shí)間活在這個世界上。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫(yī)生準(zhǔn)備死亡的程序。那意味著你將要把未來十年對你小孩說的話在幾個月里面說完.;那意味著把每件事情都搞定, 讓你的家人會盡可能輕松的生活;那意味著你要說“再見了”。

　　I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

　　我整天和那個診斷書一起生活。后來有一天早上我作了一個活切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。我當(dāng)時(shí)很鎮(zhèn)靜,因?yàn)槲冶蛔⑸淞随?zhèn)定劑。但是我的妻子在那里, 后來告訴我，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡地下觀察這些細(xì)胞的時(shí)候他們開始尖叫, 因?yàn)檫@些細(xì)胞最后竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥。我做了這個手術(shù), 現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。

　　This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

　　那是我最接近死亡的時(shí)候, 我還希望這也是以后的幾十年最接近的一次。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時(shí)候，我可以更肯定一點(diǎn)地對你們說：

　　No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

　　沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點(diǎn)。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應(yīng)該如此。因?yàn)樗劳鼍褪巧凶詈玫囊粋€發(fā)明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現(xiàn)在是新的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性, 但是這十分的真實(shí)。

　　Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

　　你們的時(shí)間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)其他人的生活上。不要被教條束縛,那意味著你和其他人思考的結(jié)果一起生活。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。還有最重要的是, 你要有勇氣去聽從你直覺和心靈的指示——它們在某種程度上知道你想要成為什么樣子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

　　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 [gm88nd] in paperback form, 35 years before [gm88nd] came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

　　當(dāng)我年輕的時(shí)候, 有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發(fā)聵的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。它是一個叫Stewart Brand的家伙在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park書寫的, 他象詩一般神奇地將這本書帶到了這個世界。那是六十年代后期, 在個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機(jī),、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。有點(diǎn)像用軟皮包裝的[gm88nd], 在[gm88nd]出現(xiàn)三十五年之前：這是理想主義的，其中有許多靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。

　　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 was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

　　Stewart和他的伙伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”,當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時(shí)候, 他們做出了最后一期的目錄。那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時(shí)代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片(如果你有冒險(xiǎn)精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的)，在照片之下有這樣一段話：“保持饑餓,保持愚蠢?！边@是他們停止了發(fā)刊的告別語?！氨３逐囸I,保持愚蠢?！蔽铱偸窍Ｍ约耗軌蚰??,現(xiàn)在, 在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的旅程的時(shí)候, 我也希望你們能這樣：

　　Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

　　保持饑餓，保持愚蠢。

　　Thank you all very much.

　　非常感謝你們。