【正文】 d thought, good thing I read Jane Austen, or I wouldn39。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 the 39。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。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 the moment that change is and good luck to the class of 2014!7第二篇：：我們需要樂(lè)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 going to break your when it happens, don39。t have to have careers to launch and debts to pay and spouses to meet and 39。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。 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。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 end won39。t improve cure public schools, we won39。t think innovation will change that? The pessimists are wrong, in my they are not innovation is purely market driven, and we don39。t help will never change their that brings me to what I see is a modern world is an incredible source of innovation and Stanford stands at the center of that, creating new panies, new schools of thought, prizewinning professors, inspired art and literature, miracle drugs, and amazing you are a scientist with a new discovery, or working in the trenches to understand the needs of the most marginalized, you are advancing amazing breakthroughs in what human beings can do for each the same time, if you ask people across the United States is the future going to be better than the past, most say kids will be worse off than I think innovation won39。t lose hope help and if we don39。t get away with it women set up systems to encourage savings for one another and with those savings, they were able to leave sex was all done by people that society considered the lowest of the , for me, is not a passive expectation that things are going to get me, it39。t help that inspire you the knew that those sex workers I had met in the morning could be the woman that I carried upstairs later that Also we found a way to defy the stigma that hung over their the past ten years, our Foundation has helped sex workers build support groups so they could empower one another to speak up and demand safe sex and that their clients use brave efforts have helped to keep HIV prevalence low among sex workers and a lot of studies show that39。s sometimes, it39。s not your after I had been with her for sometime, she started pointing to the roof clearly wanted to go up and I realized the sun was going down and what she wanted to do was go up on the roof top and see the the workers in this home for the dying were very busy and I said to them, you know, can we take her up on the roof top? have to pass out I waited that for that to happen and I asked another worker and they said, No no no, we are too can39。s going to be 39。t speak her language and I couldn39。t want her to be So I knelt down with her and I put my hand out and she reached for my hand and grabbed it and she wouldn39。s why they even went into wanted to be able to feed their were so low in the eyes of society that they could be raped and robbed and beaten by anyone, even the police, and nobody to them about their lives was so moving to me, but what I remember most was how much they wanted to be wanted to touch me and to be touched by was if physical contact somehow proved their so before I left, we linked arms hand in hand and did a photo that same day, I spent some time in India in a home for the walked into a large hall and I saw rows and rows of cot and every cot was attended to except for one, that was far off in the so I decided to go over patient who was in this room was a woman in her I remember her had these huge, brown, sorrowful was emaciated and on the verge of intestines were not holding anything and so the workers had they put a pan under her bed, and cut a hole in the bottom of the bed and everything in her was just pouring out into that