【正文】 Good ，祝你們好運！第四篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛畢業(yè)演講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 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 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?Shou。不僅用專業(yè)成就來衡量成功，還要看你是如何解決人類根深蒂固的不平等問題。行動起來，時不我待。你們對不平等現(xiàn)象的認識遠遠超過我們這代人。you must start sooner, and carry on 。它將是你生命中最寶貴經(jīng)歷。Don39。既便不打算以此為業(yè)，你一樣可以有所作為?！琖hen 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 ——天賦，特權，機遇——世界寄予殷切的期望。當時我母親已經(jīng)是癌癥晚期，但她堅持要用這個機會表達自己的觀點。My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to 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.‖我的母親一直為我考上哈佛而自豪，也一直督促我回報社會。但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。人類在健康、財富和機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。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現(xiàn)在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時甚至會感到泄氣，但永遠充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。就是從那個時候起，我日以繼夜地在這個小小的課外項目上工作，這導致了我學生生活的結束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。我提出想向他們出售軟件。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。可惜的是，我正是在這里學到了人生中悲傷的一課：機會大，并不等于你就會成功。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。Radcliffe was a great place to were more women up there, and most of the guys were sciencemath bination offered me the best odds, if you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn39。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。s how I came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social ，哈佛的求學經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。t even signed up dorm life was lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn39。如果我在你們入學歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會少得多吧。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。m a bad 39。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who ，你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了。I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I39。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I39。但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。人類在健康、財富和機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。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現(xiàn)在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時甚至會感到泄氣，但永遠充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。就是從那個時候起，我日以繼夜地在這個小小的課外項目上工作，這導致了我學生生活的結束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。我提出想向他們出售軟件。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月?？上У氖牵艺窃谶@里學到了人生中悲傷的一課：機會大，并不等于你就會成功。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。Radcliffe was a great place to were more women up there, and most of the guys were sciencemath bination offered me the best odds, if you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn39。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。s how I came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social ，哈佛的求學經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。t even signed up dorm life was lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn39。如果我在你們入學歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會少得多吧。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。m a bad 39。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who ，你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了。I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I39。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I39。我們要做的最后一步就是衡量工作的成果，并與他人共享我們的成功與失敗。當然，由于大部分問題都很復雜，要找到解決方案并不容易。如果我們想讓自己的同情心發(fā)揮作用，找到解決方案非常必要。在這種情況下，我們大多數(shù)情況會將視線轉向其它方向。另一方面，即使我們看到這樣的報道，也不太情愿仔細閱讀。新聞媒體希望獲得新消息，而數(shù)以百萬計的人因貧窮和疾病死亡并不是新消息。更嚴重的問題并不是飛機失事，而是全球數(shù)以百萬計的可避免死亡。他們將會承諾展開調查，確定事故原因，并保證今后不會出現(xiàn)同樣的情況。即使有了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和24小時新聞播報，我們仍然很難真正地了解問題。要將同情心轉化為行動，我們需要看到問題，找到解決方案，并了解最終結果。這讓我們感到心碎，我們之所以沒有采取任何行動，并不是我們沒有同情心，而是因為我們不知道如何去做。但是我和你們都有。拯救這些孩子的生命并不會帶來市場回報，政府也沒有為此提供補貼?！虼耍覀冮_始了這樣的工作，我們相信別人也會這樣做。我們會對自己說：―這并不是真的。既然每年有如此多的兒童因為這些疾病而死，那么就應當將研發(fā)新藥、拯救生命放在首位，但事實并非如此。此外，一種我們從未聽說的疾病——輪狀病毒每年要殺死50萬兒童，但其中沒有一名美國兒童。那么，你會將時間和錢花在哪里呢？對于梅琳達(注：蓋茨之妻)和我來說，也存在著同樣的問題：應該怎樣做，才能讓我們擁有的資源給最多的人帶來好處呢？在討論這一問題的過程中，梅琳達和我看到一篇關于疾病每年在發(fā)展中國家殺死數(shù)百萬兒童的新聞。我希望你們過去幾年都曾經(jīng)認真想過，應當如何應對這樣的不平等，以及如何解決這些問題。