【正文】 , am college dropout, and you are not. Because Bill Gates, richest man on the planetfor now anywayis a college dropout, and you are not. Because Paul Allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not. And for good measure另外, because Michael Dell, on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.Hmm ... you\39。re very upset. That\39。s understandable. So let me stroke your Egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain徒然. Most of you, I imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you\39。ve learned and endured will serve服務(wù)、發(fā)球 you well in the years ahead. You\39。ve established good work habits. You\39。ve established a network of people that will help you down the road. And you\39。ve established what will be lifelong終身的 relationships with the word therapy療法. All that of is good.For in truth, you will need that network. You will need those strong work habits. You will need that therapy. You will need them because you didn\39。t drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to №10 or №11, like Steve Ballmer. But then, I don\39。t have to tell you who he really works for, do I? And for the record, he dropped out of grad school. Bit of a late bloomer開花植物.Finally, I realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, Are wondering, Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope for me at all? Actually, no. It\39。s too late. You\39。ve absorbed too much, think you know too much. You\39。re not 9 anymore. You have a builtin cap,and I\39。m not referring to the mortarboards on your heads頭上的學(xué)士帽.Hmm ... you\39。re really very upset. That\39。s understandable. So perhaps this Could be a good time to bring up the silver lining. Not for you, Class of \39。00. You are a writeoff, so I\39。ll let you slink溜走 off to your pathetic $200,000ayear jobs, where your cheques will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago. Instead, I want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. I say to you, and I can\39。t stress this enough: leave. Pack your things and your ideas and don\39。t e back. Drop out. Start up. For I can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me down...(At this point The Oracle CEO was ushered off stage.)耶魯?shù)漠厴I(yè)生們，我很抱歉如果你們不喜歡這樣的開場白。我想請你們?yōu)槲易鲆患?。請你好好看一看周圍，看一看站在你左邊的同學(xué)，看一看站在你右邊的同學(xué)?！　≌埬阍O(shè)想這樣的情況：從現(xiàn)在起5年之后，10年之后，或30年之后，今天站在你左邊的這個(gè)人會(huì)是一個(gè)失敗者；右邊的這個(gè)人，同樣，也是個(gè)失敗者。而你，站在中間的家伙，你以為會(huì)怎樣？一樣是失敗者。失敗的經(jīng)歷。失敗的優(yōu)等生。　　說實(shí)話，今天我站在這里，并沒有看到一千個(gè)畢業(yè)生的燦爛未來。我沒有看到一千個(gè)行業(yè)的一千名卓越領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，我只看到了一千個(gè)失敗者。你們感到沮喪，這是可以理解的。為什么，我，埃里森，一個(gè)退學(xué)生，竟然在美國最具聲望的學(xué)府里這樣厚顏地散布異端？　　 我來告訴你原因。因?yàn)?，我，埃里森，這個(gè)行星上第二富有的人，是個(gè)退學(xué)生，而你不是。因?yàn)楸葼柹w茨，這個(gè)行星上最富有的人就目前而言是個(gè)退學(xué) 生，而你不是。因?yàn)榘瑐?，這個(gè)行星上第三富有的人，也退了學(xué)，而你沒有。再來一點(diǎn)證據(jù)吧，因?yàn)榇鳡?，這個(gè)行星上第九富有的人他的排位還在不斷上升， 也是個(gè)退學(xué)生。而你，不是?！　∧銈兎浅＞趩?，這是可以理解的?！　∧銈儗硇枰@些有用的工作習(xí)慣。你將來需要這種“治療”`。你需要它們，因?yàn)槟銢]輟學(xué)，所以你永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)成為世界上最富有的人。哦，當(dāng)然，你可以，也許， 以你的方式進(jìn)步到第10位，第11位，就像Steve。不過，我沒有告訴你他在為誰工作，是吧？根據(jù)記載，他是研究生時(shí)輟的學(xué)，開化得稍晚了些?！　‖F(xiàn)在，我猜想你們中間很多人，也許是絕大多數(shù)人，正在琢磨，能做什么？我究竟有沒有前途？當(dāng)然沒有。太晚了，你們已經(jīng)吸收了太多東西，以為自己懂得太多。你們再也不是19歲了。你們有了``內(nèi)置``的帽子，哦，我指的可不是你們腦袋上的學(xué)位帽?！　?嗯......你們已經(jīng)非常沮喪啦。這是可以理解的。所以，現(xiàn)在可能是討論實(shí)質(zhì)的時(shí)候啦絕不是為了你們，2000年畢業(yè)生。你們已經(jīng)被報(bào)銷，不予考慮了。我想，你們就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20萬的可憐工作吧，在那里，工資單是由你兩年前輟學(xué)的同班同學(xué)簽字開出來的。事實(shí)上，我是寄希望于眼下還沒有畢業(yè) 的同學(xué)。我要對(duì)他們說，離開這里。收拾好你的東西，帶著你的點(diǎn)子，別再回來。退學(xué)吧，開始行動(dòng)?！　∥乙嬖V你，一頂帽子一套學(xué)位服必然要讓你淪落......就像這些保安馬上要把我從這個(gè)講臺(tái)上攆走一樣必然......（此時(shí)，拉里埃里森被帶離了講臺(tái)）I have been to the mountaintop馬丁路德金：Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent雄辯 and generous慷慨的 introduction and then thought about myself想到我自己, I wondered who he was talking about談?wù)? It39。s always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I39。m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of 盡管a storm warning. You reveal揭露 that you are determined to go on anyhow.　　Something is happening in Memphis。 something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of 一種general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in? I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God39。s children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather 更精確地說across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land希望之鄉(xiāng). And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would even e up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named 和我相同名字的那個(gè)人had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninetyfive theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would e on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally e to the conclusion得出結(jié)論 that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　I would even e up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with努力克服 the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And e with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. But I wouldn39。t stop there.　　Strangely enough說來也奇怪, I w