【正文】 And I hope you will e back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional acplishments 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 mon with you but their ，我希望看到你用自己的天賦和精力做了哪些事。t let plexity stop on the big will be one of the great experiences of your ，盡管放手去做。我結婚的前幾天的儀式上，她高聲朗讀自己寫給我妻子的信。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 ，根本沒有意識到這個世界是多么的不平等。t written the software 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 ，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在宿舍的學生，從而掛斷電話。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。s why I was invited to speak at your I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here ，我還要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer（注：微軟總經理）也從哈佛商學院退學了。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位，這真是不錯啊。I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and got great exposure to the advances being made in the humanity39?！边@是個好消息，因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a pany in Albuquerque that had begun making the world39。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。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。m just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard39。那么，我們又應當如何降低復雜度，找到解決方案呢？我認為可以分為四個階段：確定一個目標、發(fā)現最有效的方式、為這種方式找到理想的技術、以及開發(fā)最優(yōu)秀的應用，例如用于治病的藥品。因此，這樣的消息很難出現在媒體報道中，從而更容易被人們所忽略。但實際情況是，我們很難做到這三點。有時我們會感到不解：這個世界為什么會允許那么多的孩子死亡呢？答案很簡單，也很殘酷。這些疾病包括麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、B型肝炎和黃熱病，它們在美國已經受到嚴密的控制。可是，人類的最大進步并不體現在發(fā)現和發(fā)明上，而是如何利用它們來消除不平等。哈佛給我留下印象最深的是所有人都活力十足，而且非常聰明。不過，正是在這里，我明白了擁有機會并不一定能獲得成功的道理。如果你們都像我一樣輟學，那今天就沒有人會坐在這里。我要感謝哈佛及時地授予我學位。you have to convey the human impact of the work – so people can feel what saving a life means to the families remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of !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 – boring even I couldn’tbear made that experience especially striking was that I had just e from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with love getting people excited about software – but why can’t we generate even more excitement forsaving lives?You can’t get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the how you do that – is a plex , I’m , inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through plexity have not been with us are new – they can help us make the most of our caring –and that’s why thefuture can be different from the defining and ongoing innovations of this age – biotechnology, the puter, the Internet – give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable years ago, George Marshall came to this mencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of postwar said: ―I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous plexity 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 is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the realsignificance 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 emergence of lowcost personal puters gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your 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 the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don’ means many creative minds are left out of this discussionsmart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don’t have the technology to hone their talents or contributetheir ideas to the 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 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 Marshallspoke of 60 years of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the 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 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 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?Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of theworld’s least privileged? These are not rhetorical que