【正文】 rating, 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 I made, and the ideas I worked ，我對哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動有關?！边@是個好消息，因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。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 journey with ，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在宿舍的學生，從而掛斷電話。I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on they said: “We39。那時，我從宿舍樓里給位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。One 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 world39。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思。t guarantee 。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態(tài)。每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。t worry about getting up in the 39。Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for life was used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn39。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。s why I was invited to speak at your I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here ，我還要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer（注：微軟總經理）也從哈佛商學院退學了。But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business 39。哈佛的校報稱我是“哈佛大學歷史上最成功的輟學生”。m just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard39。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）??我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個本科學位，這真是不錯啊。d e back and get my degree.”有一句話我等了三十年，現在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會回來拿到我的學位的！”I want to thank Harvard for this timely 39。第一篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛演講President 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:尊敬的Bok校長，Rudenstine前校長，即將上任的Faust校長，哈佛集團的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，各位同學：I39。ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I39。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I39。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。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。m a bad 39。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。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。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。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 ，哈佛的求學經歷是一段非凡的經歷。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。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。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數男生都是理工科的?？上У氖?，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。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。我提出想向他們出售軟件。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。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。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。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。人類在健康、財富和機遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現。ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I39。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I39。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。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。m a bad 39。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。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。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。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 ，哈佛的求學經歷是一段非凡的經歷。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。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。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數男生都是理工科的。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。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。我提出想向他們出售軟件。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。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。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。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。人類在健康、財富和機遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現。it is too much turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the plexity blocks all three with the advent of the Internet and 24hour news, it is still a plex enterprise to get people to truly see the an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: ―Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them were on this ’re determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent.‖The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable don’t read much about these media covers what’s