比尔盖茨在哈佛大学演讲

第一篇：比尔盖茨在哈佛大学演讲

I'm Harvard's Most Successful Dropout

我是哈佛最成功的辍学生--比尔.盖茨在哈佛大学接受荣誉学位时的演讲

Thank you.President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust,谢谢.博克校长、鲁登斯坦前校长、即将就任的福斯特校长、members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates.哈佛理事会和督学委员会各位成员、各位教职员工、各位父母,特别是各位毕业生:

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.”

“父亲,我一直对您说我会回到哈佛拿到我自己的学位.”为了说这句话,我等了三十多年.I want to thank Harvard for this honor.我要感谢哈佛给了我这个荣誉.I'll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我明年要换工作了,最终能在简历写上一个大学学位是一件不错的事.I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.我为通过更直接的途径获得学位的毕业生喝彩.For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson called me “Harvard's most successful dropout.”

而对我来说,哈佛校报称我为“哈佛历史上最成功的辍学生”,这也让我同样感到高兴.I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class.I did the best of everyone who failed.我想这样我就成了我这个特别届别的毕业生中作告别演讲的不二人选.我是失败者中最为成功的.But taking a serious look back, I do have one big regret.但认真回顾过去,我确实有着一大遗憾.I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world-

当我离开哈佛时,我并没真正有意识到这个世界存在着可怕的不平等现象.the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.人们在享受医疗保健、财富和机会等方面存在着严重不均,这让数百万人生活在绝望之中.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.我在哈佛学到了很多经济和政治方面的新思想,I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.了解到很多科学上的重大进步.But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries-but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.可是,人类的最大进步并不体现在发现和发明上,而是如何利用它们来消除不平等.Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity,不管通过何种方式--民主、强大的公共教育、优质的医疗保健,或者广泛的经济机会--

reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.减少不平等才是人类的最大成就.I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people

cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.当我离开校园时,并不知道美国有数百万的青少年享受不到受教育的机会,And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我也不知道在发展中国家有数百万人生活在极度的贫困之中,受疾病威胁.It took me decades to find out.我用了几十年的时间才明白了这些.You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.你们来哈佛的时代与我完全不同,You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.你们比之前的学生更了解这个世界上存在的不平等.In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how, in this age of accelerating technology,我希望你们过去几年都曾经认真想过,在科技飞速发展的时代,we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.应当如何应对这样的不平等,以及如何解决这些问题.Now, this task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge can change the world.这是一个没有尽头的任务,永远也不会做完,但只要我们自觉行动起来迎接这个挑战,就可以改变这个世界.Yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever.确实,不平等现象一直与我们相伴,但以前我们没有解决这个复杂问题的新工具.They are new.They can help us make the most of our caring-and that's

why the future can be different from the past.这是些新的工具,它们可以帮助我们尽可能地发挥我们的爱心.而正是因为如此,未来才会与过去有所不同.The defining and ongoing innovations of this age-biotechnology, the personal computer, and the Internet-

这个时代特有的,并不断发展的新发明--生物科学、个人电脑、互联网--

give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.这些都给予我们前所未有的机会消灭贫困,消灭可预防性疾病造成的死亡.In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue,秉承这个时代带给人类的希望,我想敦促在座的每一位毕业生,接受一个问题的挑战,a complex problem-a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it.Don't let complexity stop you.这是一个复杂的问题,那就是极度的不平等现象,并成为这方面的专家.不要让问题的复杂性成为你的障碍.Be activists.Take on big inequities.I feel sure it will be one of the great experiences of your lives.行动起来,向重大不平等现象发起挑战.我肯定这会成为你生命中最了不起的经历之一.You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time.你们这些正在成熟的毕业生处于一个了不起的时代.As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had.就在你们离开哈佛的时候,你们掌握了我们这届学生未曾掌握的技术手段.You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.你们了解全球的不平等现象,这也是我们当时做不到的.And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience

有了这种意识,你很可能就会有明事理的良心.that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with modest effort.如果无需花多大的努力你就可以改变某些人的生活,但你却对他们置之不理,那你会受到良心的谴责.You have more than we had;you must start sooner, and carry on longer.你们比我们有更多的优势,必须更早开始行动,并坚持更久.And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now

我希望你们在30年后再回到哈佛,and reflect on what you've done with your talent and your energy.回顾你们发挥自己的才能和精力所做的一切.I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional

accomplishments alone,我希望你们不仅仅是以自己职业上的成就来评价自己,but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities,还要以你们如何处理世界上最深重的不平等现象,on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.以你们如何对待那些与你们相距遥远,同为人类一员,但除了此以外并没有共同点的人来衡量自己的成功.Good luck.祝你们好运.

第二篇：比尔盖茨哈佛大学演讲稿

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming 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校长，Rudenstine前校长，即将上任的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.”

有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor.I'll be changing my job next year„and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）„„我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For 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 failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言„„在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.I'm a bad influence.That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer（注：微软总经理）也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating.I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for.And dorm life was terrific.I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.There 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 morning.That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group.We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。

Radcliffe was a great place to live.There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types.That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.This is Where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.Radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call From Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.I offered to sell them software.我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于

Albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。

I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.Instead they said: “We're not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.From 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 Microsoft.我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我学生生活的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。

What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even

discouraging, but always challenging.It 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 on.不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充沛的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永远充满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸引人的特殊待遇„„虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里发展起来的一些想法，永远地改变了我。

But taking a serious look back„I do have one big regret.但是，如果现在严肃地回忆起来，我确实有一个真正的遗憾。

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world--the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不平等。人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕，它们使得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望之中。

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我离开校园的时候，根本不知道在这个国家里，有几百万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的机会。我也不知道，发展中国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫穷和疾病之中。

It took me decades to find out.我花了几十年才明白了这些事情。

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.In 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 them.在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的学生，更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我希望你们已经思考过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速发展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不平等，以及我们怎样来解决这个问题。

Imagine, 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 lives.Where would you spend it?

为了讨论的方便，请想象一下，假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱——你希望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地方。你会选择什么地方？

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 have.对Melinda（注：盖茨的妻子）和我来说，这也是我们面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥出最大的作用。

第三篇：比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼的演讲稿

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President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming 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校长，Rudenstine前校长，即将上任的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.” 有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor.I'll be changing my job next year…and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For 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 failed.我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言……在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.I'm a bad influence.That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer（注：微软总经理）也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating.I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for.And dorm life was terrific.I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.There 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 morning.That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group.We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。

Radcliffe was a great place to live.There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types.That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.This is Where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.Radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call From Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.I offered to sell them software.我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于Albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。

I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.Instead they said: “We're not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.From 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 Microsoft.我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我学生生活的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。

What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.It 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 on.不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充沛的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永远充满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸引人的特殊待遇……虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里发展起来的一些想法，永远地改变了我。

But taking a serious look back…I do have one big regret.但是，如果现在严肃地回忆起来，我确实有一个真正的遗憾。

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world--the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不平等。人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕，它们使得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望之中。

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.我离开校园的时候，根本不知道在这个国家里，有几百万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的机会。我也不知道，发展中国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫穷和疾病之中。It took me decades to find out.我花了几十年才明白了这些事情。

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.In 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 them.在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的学生，更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我希望你们已经思考过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速发展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不平等，以及我们怎样来解决这个问题。

Imagine, 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 lives.Where would you spend it? 为了讨论的方便，请想象一下，假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱——你希望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地方。你会选择什么地方？

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 have.对Melinda（注：盖茨的妻子）和我来说，这也是我们面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥出最大的作用。

During 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 country.Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever.One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year ? none of them in the United States.在讨论过程中，Melinda和我读到了一篇文章，里面说在那些贫穷的国家，每年有数百万的儿童死于那些在美国早已不成问题的疾病。麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病、还有一种以前我从未听说过的轮状病毒，这些疾病每年导致50万儿童死亡，但是在美国一例死亡病例也没有。

We were shocked.We 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 them.But it did not.For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.我们被震惊了。我们想，如果几百万儿童正在死亡线上挣扎，而且他们是可以被挽救的，那么世界理应将用药物拯救他们作为头等大事。但是事实并非如此。那些价格还不到一美元的救命的药剂，并没有送到他们的手中。If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.We said to ourselves: “This can't be true.But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.” 如果你相信每个生命都是平等的，那么当你发现某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放弃了，你会感到无法接受。我们对自己说：“事情不可能如此。如果这是真的，那么它理应是我们努力的头等大事。”

So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.We asked: “How could the world let these children die?” 所以，我们用任何人都会想到的方式开始工作。我们问：“这个世界怎么可以眼睁睁看着这些孩子死去？”

The answer is simple, and harsh.The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很简单，也很令人难堪。在市场经济中，拯救儿童是一项没有利润的工作，政府也不会提供补助。这些儿童之所以会死亡，是因为他们的父母在经济上没有实力，在政治上没有能力发出声音。

But you and I have both.但是，你们和我在经济上有实力，在政治上能够发出声音。

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more 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 inequities.We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我们可以让市场更好地为穷人服务，如果我们能够设计出一种更有创新性的资本主义制度——如果我们可以改变市场，让更多的人可以获得利润，或者至少可以维持生活——那么，这就可以帮到那些正在极端不平等的状况中受苦的人们。我们还可以向全世界的政府施压，要求他们将纳税人的钱，花到更符合纳税人价值观的地方。

If 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 world.This task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我们能够找到这样一种方法，既可以帮到穷人，又可以为商人带来利润，为政治家带来选票，那么我们就找到了一种减少世界性不平等的可持续的发展道路。这个任务是无限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自觉地解决这个问题的尝试，都将会改变这个世界。

I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope.They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end ? because people just…don't…care.” I completely disagree.在这个问题上，我是乐观的。但是，我也遇到过那些感到绝望的怀疑主义者。他们说：“不平等从人类诞生的第一天就存在，到人类灭亡的最后一天也将存在。——因为人类对这个问题根本不在乎。”我完全不能同意这种观点。

I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，问题不是我们不在乎，而是我们不知道怎么做。All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing--not because we didn't care, but because we didn't know what to do.If we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在这个院子里的所有人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分伤心。但是我们什么也没做，并非我们无动于衷，而是因为我们不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会采取行动。

The barrier to change is not too little caring;it is too much complexity.改变世界的阻碍，并非人类的冷漠，而是世界实在太复杂。

To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact.But complexity blocks all three steps.为了将关心转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发现解决办法的方法以及评估后果。但是世界的复杂性使得这三步都难于做到。

If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.就算我们真正发现了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着还有第二步：那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。

Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring.If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks “How can I help?,” then we can get action--and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted.But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares--and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.如果我们要让关心落到实处，我们就必须找到解决办法。如果我们有一个清晰的和可靠的答案，那么当任何组织和个人发出疑问“如何我能提供帮助”的时候，我们就能采取行动。我们就能够保证不浪费一丁点全世界人类对他人的关心。但是，世界的复杂性使得很难找到对全世界每一个有爱心的人都有效的行动方法，因此人类对他人的关心往往很难产生实际效果。

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have--whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.从这个复杂的世界中找到解决办法，可以分为四个步骤：确定目标，找到最高效的方法，发现适用于这个方法的新技术，同时最聪明地利用现有的技术，不管它是复杂的药物，还是最简单的蚊帐。

The AIDS epidemic offers an example.The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease.The highest-leverage approach is prevention.The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose.So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research.But their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand--and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.艾滋病就是一个例子。总的目标，毫无疑问是消灭这种疾病。最高效的方法是预防。最理想的技术是发明一种疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以终生免疫。所以，政府、制药公司、基金会应该资助疫苗研究。但是，这样研究工作很可能十年之内都无法完成。因此，与此同时，我们必须使用现有的技术，目前最有效的预防方法就是设法让人们避免那些危险的行为。Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again.This is the pattern.The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working--and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century--which is to surrender to complexity and quit.要实现这个新的目标，又可以采用新的四步循环。这是一种模式。关键的东西是永远不要停止思考和行动。我们千万不能再犯上个世纪在疟疾和肺结核上犯过的错误，那时我们因为它们太复杂，而放弃了采取行动。

The final step--after seeing the problem and finding an approach--is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn From your efforts.在发现问题和找到解决方法之后，就是最后一步——评估工作结果，将你的成功经验或者失败经验传播出去，这样其他人就可以从你的努力中有所收获。

You have to have the statistics, of course.You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children.You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying From these diseases.This is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment From business and government.当然，你必须有一些统计数字。你必须让他人知道，你的项目为几百万儿童新接种了疫苗。你也必须让他人知道，儿童死亡人数下降了多少。这些都是很关键的，不仅有利于改善项目效果，也有利于从商界和政府得到更多的帮助。

But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers;you have to convey the human impact of the work ? so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.但是，这些还不够，如果你想激励其他人参加你的项目，你就必须拿出更多的统计数字；你必须展示你的项目的人性因素，这样其他人就会感到拯救一个生命，对那些处在困境中的家庭到底意味着什么。

The defining and ongoing innovations of this age--biotechnology, the computer, the Internet--give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death From preventable disease.这个时代无时无刻不在涌现出新的革新——生物技术，计算机，互联网——它们给了我们一个从未有过的机会，去终结那些极端的贫穷和非恶性疾病的死亡。

The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.低成本的个人电脑的出现，使得一个强大的互联网有机会诞生，它为学习和交流提供了巨大的机会。

The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.It 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 degree.网络的神奇之处，不仅仅是它缩短了物理距离，使得天涯若比邻。它还极大地增加了怀有共同想法的人们聚集在一起的机会，我们可以为了解决同一个问题，一起共同工作。这就大大加快了革新的进程，发展速度简直快得让人震惊。

At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don't.That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion--smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.与此同时，世界上有条件上网的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。这意味着，还有许多具有创造性的人们，没有加入到我们的讨论中来。那些有着实际的操作经验和相关经历的聪明人，却没有技术来帮助他们，将他们的天赋或者想法与全世界分享。

We 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 another.They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.我们需要尽可能地让更多的人有机会使用新技术，因为这些新技术正在引发一场革命，人类将因此可以互相帮助。新技术正在创造一种可能，不仅是政府，还包括大学、公司、小机构、甚至个人，能够发现问题所在、能够找到解决办法、能够评估他们努力的效果，去改变那些马歇尔六十年前就说到过的问题——饥饿、贫穷和绝望。

Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.哈佛是一个大家庭。这个院子里在场的人们，是全世界最有智力的人类群体之一。

What for? 我们可以做些什么？ There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world.But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name? 毫无疑问，哈佛的老师、校友、学生和资助者，已经用他们的能力改善了全世界各地人们的生活。但是，我们还能够再做什么呢？有没有可能，哈佛的人们可以将他们的智慧，用来帮助那些甚至从来没有听到过“哈佛”这个名字的人？

Let me make a request of the deans and the professors--the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves: 请允许我向各位院长和教授，提出一个请求——你们是哈佛的智力领袖，当你们雇用新的老师、授予终身教职、评估课程、决定学位颁发标准的时候，请问你们自己如下的问题：

Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems? 我们最优秀的人才Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty…the prevalence of world hunger…the scarcity of clean water…the girls kept out of school…the children who die From diseases we can cure? 哈佛是否鼓励她的老师去研究解决世界上最严重的不平等？哈佛的学生是否从全球那些极端的贫穷中学到了什么……世界性的饥荒……清洁的水资源的缺乏……无法上学的女童……死于非恶性疾病的儿童……哈佛的学生有没有从中学到东西？

Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged? 那些世界上过着最优越生活的人们，有没有从那些最困难的人们身上学到东西？

These are not rhetorical questions--you will answer with your policies.这些问题并非语言上的修辞。你必须用自己的行动来回答它们。

When 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 us.想一想吧，我们在这个院子里的这些人，被给予过什么——天赋、特权、机遇——那么可以这样说，全世界的人们几乎有无限的权力，期待我们做出贡献。

In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue--a complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it.If you make it the focus of your career, that would be phenomenal.But you don't have to do that to make an impact.For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.同这个时代的期望一样，我也要向今天各位毕业的同学提出一个忠告：你们要选择一个问题，一个复杂的问题，一个有关于人类深刻的不平等的问题，然后你们要变成这个问题的专家。如果你们能够使得这个问题成为你们职业的核心，那么你们就会非常杰出。但是，你们不必一定要去做那些大事。每个星期只用几个小时，你就可以通过互联网得到信息，找到志同道合的朋友，发现困难所在，找到解决它们的途径。

Don't let complexity stop you.Be activists.Take on the big inequities.It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.不要让这个世界的复杂性阻碍你前进。要成为一个行动主义者。将解决人类的不平等视为己任。它将成为你生命中最重要的经历之一。

You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time.As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had.You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.You have more than we had;you must start sooner, and carry on longer.在座的各位毕业的同学，你们所处的时代是一个神奇的时代。当你们离开哈佛的时候，你们拥有的技术，是我们那一届学生所没有的。你们已经了解到了世界上的不平等，我们那时还不知道这些。有了这样的了解之后，要是你再弃那些你可以帮助的人们于不顾，就将受到良心的谴责，只需一点小小的努力，你就可以改变那些人们的生活。你们比我们拥有更大的能力；你们必须尽早开始，尽可能长时期坚持下去。

Knowing what you know, how could you not? 知道了你们所知道的一切，你们怎么可能不采取行动呢？

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years From now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy.I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.我希望，30年后你们还会再回到哈佛，想起你们用自己的天赋和能力所做出的一切。我希望，在那个时候，你们用来评价自己的标准，不仅仅是你们的专业成就，而包括你们为改变这个世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力，以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水、与你们毫不涉及的人们，你们与他们唯一的共同点就是同为人类。

Good luck.祝各位好运。

是否在致力于解决我们最大的问题？

第四篇：看2007年比尔盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲有感

看<2007年比尔盖茨于哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲>有感

在本学期开设的管理沟通课上，我系统地学习了有关管理沟通的一些理论和技能，并在课堂学习中接触到了有关名人演讲的内容，覃老师曾在课堂上播放过比尔盖茨07年在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲视频，这使我对名人演讲产生了兴趣并且感觉受益匪浅，以下是我对比尔盖茨那次演讲的一些个人感受。

外国名人的演讲总喜欢以幽默为开场白，盖茨也不例外。盖茨首先调侃自己曾经的辍学经历并笑称自己是“哈佛大学最成功的辍学生”，风趣的话语逗乐了全体师生，调节了毕业典礼严肃的氛围，为后面的演讲做了良好的铺垫。紧接着他开始谈及他在哈佛大学的生活、他那一通改变命运的电话以及哈佛对于他人生的影响。接下来开始讲述他进入社会后发现的问题和经历，他开始提出问题，“世界是不平等的，如何能减少社会不公”，然后是引用一些现实的数据和例子带领大家一起看待和分析这个问题。最后是解决问题，他告诉学生们他们可做的和能做的，打破复杂性的四个步骤等等，鼓励学生们要采取行动。他再次列举了两个自身的例子来引出他的观点，“如果不能证明行动的影响力，人们就不会动心”，再次强调了行动的重要性。在演讲的末尾，他引出了他妈妈生前对他说过的有一句话，“受益越多，责任越大”，勉励大学生要有社会责任感，要学会回馈，整个演讲在最后得到了升华。

盖茨的演讲时可圈可点的。首先，在演讲的主题上，是有意义的、建设性的。盖茨作为世界首富，他没有过多地吹嘘或炫耀自己的个人经历和往事，而是迎合了毕业生的需要，与学生一起探讨社会问题并鼓励他们采取行动，引导学生们树立正确、远大的世界观、人生观、价值观；在演讲的取材上，针对毕业生的受众群体，他分享了自己的大学生活，加上幽默的话语风格拉近了与毕业生们间的距离，他在提出世界不平等这个问题时，既提出自己的观点，又寻找事实、数据和例子来论证观点，做到有理有据，内容充实有力。然后，在演讲的结构设计上，我认为盖茨的演讲是按照“问题—解决方法”的顺序。他首先提出了社会不公的问题，再用事实数据带领大家对其问题进行分析，最后鼓励大家要解决问题，要转化为行动，为此他还传授了一些例如如何打破复杂性的四个步骤等解决方案，使得其主题更加明确，也更让人接受。最后，在演讲的口语表达和非语言方面，盖茨的语言始终是条理清晰的、明白准确的、严谨却不死板、平易近人且富有感染力的。在调侃自己的经历时，语言是诙谐幽默的；在进入正题时，他多次用“我们”带领大家一起看待问题，拉近了与听众的距离，而不是命令式的号召；在语句的使用上，丰富多变而不单调，虽是严肃的主题却因表达方式的出采而让人回味无穷。他的节奏是复合型的，在演讲开场的时候提及辍学经历时的语气是放松的，节奏是明快的，紧接着开始慢慢引入他想要表达的主题，情感慢慢上升，内容由轻松转为严肃，这时候的节奏是持重的。在演讲开始时他的表情是放松亲切的，转入正题讲到社会不平等时，他的表情是表示担忧的。在整个演讲过程中，盖茨都很好地做到了以理服人、以情动人。在演讲的尾声，他表达了自己对于哈佛大学毕业生们的希冀，“获益越多，责任越大”，无不让人对其心生敬意，他用自己的思想和高尚的情怀征服了全场观众，也征服了全世界人民！

从盖茨、罗琳等名人的演讲中，我领悟到，在世界上具有较大影响力的人，他们都具有类似的共同点，例如敢于追求并且坚持梦想、心怀众生、志存高远、独立思考、保持想象力和创造力、坚强的意志、懂得感恩、善良等等。透过这些视频资料，我们可以学到很多，不仅是学习他们演讲与口才的魅力和成功的秘籍，更多的是他们身上那种高尚的人文情怀和人格品质。我觉得这是我们当今很多人已经丧失了的美好的东西……

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第五篇：比尔盖茨在清华大学演讲全文

尊敬的顾校长，清华大学的老师、同学们：

获得清华大学这所世界一流大学的荣誉博士学位，让我感到非常荣幸。清华是所有着百年历史的名校，这里诞生了很多杰出的科学家、商业和政治领袖。

我上一次造访贵校是在1997年。当时，贵校学生的才华、热情和创造性给我留下了很深的印象。之后，我决定在中国设立微软研究院。在沈向洋博士的领导下，清华等大学的优秀毕业生帮助微软研究院取得了成功，为公司作出了巨大贡献。在各种国际会议上都可以见到他们的身影。他们也为微软的新产品如Vista的诞生，付出了辛勤的努力。在计算机科学迅速发展的今天，身为贵校的学生是件激动人心的事。

我们才刚刚开始接触到软件可以做的神奇事情。全世界有十亿的计算机用户，他们才刚刚开始分享信息。随着半导体、光纤技术的发展，软件可以做更多的事情：

今天的电视还是被动的，在未来，你可以从因特网下载节目，电视将能和人交流、互动;

昨天我参观了中国农科院稻米研究所，看到那里的技术人员开始用软件来区分不同的稻米，为其排序，以后还可以用较少的农药就培育出高产量的优良品种;

医学界已经开始用软件来管理数据库;

今天的手机已经成为我们的“数字钱包”，可以显示地图，上网查找信息，未来还可以和人交流;

平板电脑的出现，使得在教室可以无线上网，用电脑录音、识别手写的文字。这样，学生无需课本就能实现更有效的学习，老师也可以看到世界各地的优秀教案。

当然，软件的未来还面临很多挑战：如何使得用户更容易掌握?如何实现人工智能?但不管怎样，就计算机科学而言，我们所处的都是最激动人心的时代。

中国正在快速发展，对世界经济、科技创新作出越来越大的贡献。微软公司愿意帮助中国的新兴公司成长，帮助所有的中国公民享受到计算机科学进步所带来的成果：

微软已经开展项目，帮助中国的移民、进城务工人员、残疾人尤其是盲人享受科技成果;

微软已经捐资设立了五所希望小学和五所网上希望小学;

微软也和中国政府和大学合作，设立了很多学术交流项目，鼓励优秀外国专家来华讲学;

有来自39所亚太地区大学的超过2000名学生曾在微软亚洲研究院实习，并有120人获得研究资助，其中最多的来自于贵校;

本学年，微软亚洲研究院的研究人员将在清华开设一门课程：“计算机研究的热门领域”。

我还想借此机会宣布，微软公司将在贵校设立“杰出访问学者”项目。在该项目下，微软亚洲研究院每年将邀请一位世界知名的计算机专家到贵校姚期智教授领导的理论计算机科学研究所讲学。第一位获邀来访的是美国麻省理工大学的弗朗斯·凯斯霍德教授。

总之，我今天非常高兴来到贵校，并在接受我的母校哈佛大学颁给我荣誉博士学位之前就成为清华的荣誉博士。

刚才，我和大家分享了软件领域在未来可能出现的一些突破，以及它们会给企业带来的机会、残疾人和学生提供的帮助。我希望大家都能像我一样乐观：只要可以上网，就能获得平等的受教育机会。

微软公司对于中国市场的专注是长期的。我们对于以学术严谨闻名的贵校有着很高的期望。让我们携手努力，共创信息技术未来的辉煌!

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