【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 uture going to be better than the past, most say kids will be worse off than I think innovation won39。t make the world better for them or their who is right? The people who say innovation will create new possibilities and make the world better? Or the people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity and don39。t think innovation will change that? The pessimists are wrong, in my they are not innovation is purely market driven, and we don39。t focus on the big inequities, then we could have amazing advances and in inventions that leave the world even more won39。t improve cure public schools, we won39。t cure malaria, we won39。t end won39。t develop the innovations poor farmers need to grow food in a changing our optimism doesn39。t address the problems that affect so many of our fellow human beings, then our optimism needs more empathy channels our optimism, we will see the poverty and the disease and the poor will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the the next generation, you, Stanford graduates, will lead a new wave of problems will you decide to solve? If your world is wide, you can create the future we all your world is narrow, you may create the future the pessimists started learning in Soweto, that if we are going to make our optimism matter to everyone, and empower people everyone, we have to see the lives of those most in If we have optimism, without empathy, then it doesn39。t matter how much we master the secrets of are not really solving are just working on think most of you have a broader world view than I had at your can do better at this than I you put your hearts and minds to it, you can surprise the are eager to see it.(Applause).MELINDA GATES: So let your heart will change what you do with your a trip to south Asia, I met a desperately poor Indian had two children and she begged me to take them home with when I begged her for her forgiveness she said, well then, please, just take one of another trip to south Los Angeles, I met with a group of the students from a tough young girl said to me, do you ever feel like we are the kids39。 whose parents shirked their responsibilities and we are just the leftovers? These women broke my they still the empathy intensifies if I admit to myself, that could be I talk with the mothers I meet during my travels, there39。s no difference between what we want for our only difference is our ability to provide it to our what accounts for that difference? Bill and I talk about this with our own kids around the dinner worked incredibly hard and he took risks and he made sacrifices for there39。s another essential ingredient of success, and that is and total were you born? Who are your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earn these things were given to when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege and we consider where we would be without them, it bees someone much easier to see someone who is poor and say, that could be that39。s tears down barriers and it opens up whole new frontiers for here is our appeal to you you leave Stanford, take all your genius and your optimism and your empathy, and go change the world in ways that will make millions of people don39。t have to have careers to launch and debts to pay and spouses to meet and 39。s plenty enough for right in the course of your lives, perhaps without any plan on your part, you will see suffering that39。s going to break your when it happens, don39。t turn away from 39。s the moment that change is and good luck to the class of 2014!7第二篇：：我們需要樂觀主義Stanford GATES: Congratulations, class of 2014!(Cheers).Melinda and I are excited to be would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford mencement, but it39。s especially gratifying for is rapidly being the favorite university for members of our family, and it39。s long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at Stanford.(Cheers).Right now, we have more than 30 foundation research projects underway we want to learn more about the immune system to help cure the worst diseases, we work with we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States, so that more lowine students get college degrees, we work with is where genius 39。s a flexibility of mind here, an openness to change, an eagerness for what39。s is where people e to discover the future, and have fun doing GATES: Now, some people call you all nerds and we hear that you claim that label with pride.(Cheers and Applause).BILL GATES: Well, so do we.(Cheers and Applause).BILL GATES: My normal glasses really aren39。t all that different.(Laughter).There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus, but if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford, it39。s the 39。s an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every 39。s the belief that drove me in 1975 to leave a college in the suburbs of Boston and go on an endless leave of absence.(Laughter).I believed that the magic of puters and software would empower people everywhere and make the world much, much 39。s been 40 years since then, and 20 years since Melinda and I were are both more optimistic now than on our journey, our optimism would like to tell you what we learned and talk to you today about how your optimism and ours can do more for more Paul Allen and I started Microsoft, we wanted to bring the power of puters and software to the people, and that was the kind of rhetoric we of the pioneering books in the field had a raised fist on the cover, and it was called “Computer Lib.” At that time, only big businesses could buy wanted to offer the same power to regular people and democratize the 1990s, we saw how profoundly personal puters could empower people, but that success created a new rich kids got puters and poor kids didn39。t, th