【正文】 een before” and then he choked up and couldn39。s who I met.” But this call was said: “Melinda, I39。s where I went。s what I did。t defeat poverty and absolutely : Bill called me after he visited the TB , if we39。s better by a factor of a is often dismissed as false there is also false 39。it channelled got in the car and told the doctor who was working with us: “Yeah, I is hard to we should be able to do something for these people.” This year, we39。t going to live much longer, but there were plenty of MDR patients waiting to take her bed when she vacated was hell with a waiting seeing hell didn39。t make it, and the hospital didn39。s problems, but I was blind to the most important was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself, “Do I still believe that innovation can solve the world39。re not focused on the fact that half a million people on this continent are dying every year from we39。t be solved by a I gave my prepared remarks to the press, I said: “Soweto is a are major decisions ahead about whether technology will leave the developing world is to close the gap.” As I was reading those words, I knew they were I didn39。t wear shoes。t have known what was going on.” The next day I went to Soweto – the poor township southwest of Johannesburg that had been a center of the antiapartheid was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, jarring, and passed into a world pletely unlike the one I came visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how na239。d 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 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 that success created a new dilemma: If rich kids got puters and poor kids didn39。s the belief that drove me, in 1975, to leave a college in the suburbs of Boston and go on an endless leave of believed that the magic of puters and software would empower people everywhere and make the world much, much 39。s the 39。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 now, we have more than 30 foundation research projects underway with 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 is a flexibility of mind here – an openness to change, an eagerness for what39。s 123rd Commencement on June 15, Gates: Congratulations, Class of 2014!Melinda and I are excited to be would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford Commencement – but it39。第一篇：比爾蓋茨夫婦在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講2014Text of the 2014 Commencement Address by Bill and Melinda GatesFollowing is the text of the address by Bill and Melinda Gates, philanthropists and cochairs of the Bill amp。 Melinda Gates Foundation, as prepared for delivery at Stanford University39。s especially gratifying for is rapidly being the favorite university for members of our it39。s is where people e to discover the future and have fun doing Gates: Some people call you nerds – and you claim the label with : Well, so do are so many remarkable things going on here at this if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford, it39。s an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every 39。s been almost 40 years since then, and 20 years since Melinda and I were are both more optimistic now than on our journey together, our optimism 39。t, then technology would make inequality ran counter to our core belief: Technology should benefit we worked to close the digital made it a priority at Microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our foundation – donating personal puters to public libraries to make sure everyone had digital divide was a focus of mine in 1997 when I took my first trip to South went there on business, so I spent most of my time in meetings in downtown stayed in the home of one of the richest families in South had only been three years since the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of I sat down for dinner with my hosts, they used a bell to call the dinner, the men and women separated, and the men smoked thought, “Good thing I read Jane Austen, or I wouldn39。ve I was donating puters and software to a munity center there – the kind of thing we did in the United it became clear to me very quickly that this was not the United had seen statistics on poverty, but I had never really seen people there lived in corrugated tin shacks with no electricity, no water, no people didn39。they walked barefoot along the there were no streets – just ruts in the munity center had no consistent source of power, so they had rigged up an extension cord that ran about 200 feet from the center to a diesel generator at the setup, I knew the minute the reporters and I left, the generator would get moved to a more urgent task, and the people who used the munity center would go back to worrying about challenges that couldn39。t say was: “By the way, we39。re sure as hell going to bring you puters.” Before I went to Soweto, I thought I understood the world39。s toughest problems?” I promised myself that before I came back to Africa, I would find out more about what keeps people the years, Melinda and I did learn more about the most pressing needs of the a later trip to South Africa, I paid a visit to a hospital for patients with MDRTB, or multidrugresist