【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。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(zhuǎn)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(diào)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?nèi)匀缓茈y真正地了解問題。要將同情心轉(zhuǎn)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。我用了數(shù)十年的時間才明白了這些。不管通過何種方式，民主、公共教育、醫(yī)療保健、或者是經(jīng)濟合作，消除不平等才是人類的最大成就。我在哈佛學到了很多東西，包括經(jīng)濟和政治方面的新思想，但體會最深的還是科學的不斷進步。當我離開哈佛時，我并沒有意識到這個世界存在著可怕的不平等現(xiàn)象。在這里，我結識了很多朋友，并想出了很多創(chuàng)意。在哈佛的日子有快樂，也有失落，但總是充滿挑戰(zhàn)。這一項目雖然價值不大，但它標志著我大學生活的結束，以及微軟的起步?！@對我來說是一個好消息，因為我們當時還沒有完成軟件開發(fā)。最開始我忐忑不安，因為擔心這家公司會因為我是學生而掛斷電話。(笑)微軟的起步在哈佛的日子里，最令我難忘的一天是在1975年1月。那時候這里有很多女孩子，而且大多數(shù)男生都屬于較為死板的類型，因此我的機會很多，你們都知道我的意思。正是在這樣的環(huán)境下，我成長為反社會集團的領導者。當然，宿舍的生活并不太美好。對我來說，在哈佛的經(jīng)歷是一段難忘的體驗。我并不是一個好榜樣，這也是我受邀在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上發(fā)表演講的原因。‖眾所周知，當初史蒂夫哈佛校報稱我為―哈佛歷史上最成功的輟學生‖，這讓我感到非常高興。我明年要換工作(注：指全力投入比爾及梅琳達基金會的慈善工作)，有了學位我的簡歷看起來會更好一些。‖。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 individual