【正文】 t will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little have more than we had。第一篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛演講 全文比爾蓋茨哈佛演講 全文Remarks of Bill Gates Harvard Commencement June 7, 2007President Bok, former President Rudenstine, ining President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: ―Dad, I always told youI’d e back and get my degree.‖ I want to thank Harvard for this timely ’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me ―Harvard’s most successful dropout.‖ I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business ’m a bad ’s why I was invited to speak at your I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might behere was just a phenomenal experience for life was used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn’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 didn’t worry about getting up in the ’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 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 doesn’t guarantee of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a pany in Albuquerque that had begun making the world’s first personal offered to sell them worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on they said: ―We’re not quite ready, e see usin a month,‖ which was a good thing, because we hadn’t written the software that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journeywith I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always was an amazing privilege – and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships Imade, and the ideas I worked taking a serious look back … I do have one big left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemnmillions of people to lives of learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and got great exposure to the advances being made in the humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity –reducing inequity is the highest human left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing took me decades to find graduates came to Harvard at a different know more about the world’s inequities than the classes that came your years here, I hope you’ve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve , just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving would you spend it?For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this , malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them inthe United were had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save it did under adollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren’t being you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are said to ourselves: ―This can’t be if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.‖So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin asked: ―How could the world let these children die?‖The answer is simple, and market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market andno voice in the you and I have can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop amore creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of thepeople who pay the we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the task is can never be a conscious effort to answer this challenge will changethe am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skepti