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大學(xué)英文畢業(yè)典禮演講稿1
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 20xx.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
斯坦福是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一，今天能參加各位的畢業(yè)典禮，我備感榮幸。(尖叫聲)我從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，說句實話，此時算是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。(笑聲)今天，我想告訴你們我生命中的三個故事，并非什么了不得的大事件，只是三個小故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一個故事關(guān)于串起生命中的點點滴滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
退學(xué)是我這一生所做出的最正確的決定之一。我在里德大學(xué)待了6個月就退學(xué)了，但之后仍作為旁聽生混了18個月后才最終離開。我為什么要退學(xué)呢?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
故事要從我出生之前開始說起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚媽媽，當(dāng)時她還是一所大學(xué)的在讀研究生，于是決定把我送給其他人收養(yǎng)。她堅持我應(yīng)該被一對念過大學(xué)的夫婦收養(yǎng)，所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)為我被一個律師和他的太太收養(yǎng)做好了所有的準(zhǔn)備。但在最后一刻，這對夫婦改了主意，決定收養(yǎng)一個女孩。候選名單上的另外一對夫婦，也就是我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天午夜接到了一通電話：“有一個不請自來的男嬰，你們想收養(yǎng)嗎?”他們回答：“當(dāng)然想。”事后，我的生母才發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母根本就沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父甚至連高中都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕簽署最后的收養(yǎng)文件，直到幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會把我送到大學(xué)，她的態(tài)度才有所轉(zhuǎn)變。
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
17年之后，我真上了大學(xué)。但因為年幼無知，我選擇了一所和斯坦福一樣昂貴的大學(xué)，(笑聲)我的父母都是工人階級，他們傾其所有資助我的學(xué)業(yè)。在6個月之后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己完全不知道這樣念下去究竟有什么用。當(dāng)時，我的人生漫無目標(biāo)，也不知道大學(xué)對我能起到什么幫助，為了念書，還花光了父母畢生的積蓄，所以我決定退學(xué)。我相信車到山前必有路。當(dāng)時作這個決定的時候非常害怕，但現(xiàn)在回頭去看，這是我這一生所做出的最正確的決定之一。(笑聲)從我退學(xué)那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫無興趣的必修課了，我開始旁聽那些看來比較有意思的科目。
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent; deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
這件事情做起來一點都不浪漫。因為沒有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上;可樂瓶的押金是5分錢，我把瓶子還回去好用押金買吃的;在每個周日的晚上，我都會步行7英里穿越市區(qū)，到HareKrishna教堂吃一頓大餐，我喜歡那兒的食物。我跟隨好奇心和直覺所做的事情，事后證明大多數(shù)都是極其珍貴的經(jīng)驗。我舉一個例子：那個時候，里德大學(xué)提供了全美國最好的書法教育。整個校園的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用再去上那些常規(guī)的課程，于是我選擇了一個書法班，想學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫出一手漂亮字。在這個班上，我學(xué)習(xí)了各種字體，如何改變不同字體組合之間的字間距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一種科學(xué)永遠無法捕捉的充滿美感、歷史感和藝術(shù)感的微妙，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了。
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
當(dāng)時，我壓根兒沒想到這些知識會在我的生命中有什么實際運用價值;但是10年之后，當(dāng)我們設(shè)計第一款Macintosh電腦的時候，這些東西全派上了用場。我把它們?nèi)吭O(shè)計進了Mac，這是第一臺可以排出好看版式的電腦。如果當(dāng)時我大學(xué)里沒有旁聽這門課程的話，Mac就不會提供各種字體和等間距字體。自從Windows系統(tǒng)抄襲了Mac以后，(鼓掌大笑)所有的個人電腦都有了這些東西。如果我沒有退學(xué)，我就不會去書法班旁聽，而今天的個人電腦大概也就不會有出色的版式功能。當(dāng)然我在念大學(xué)的那會兒，不可能有先見之明，把那些生命中的點點滴滴都串起來;但10年之后再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常清楚。
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
再強調(diào)一次，你不可能充滿預(yù)見地將生命的點滴串聯(lián)起來;只有在你回頭看的時候，你才會發(fā)現(xiàn)這些點點滴滴之間的聯(lián)系。所以，你要堅信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的將在你未來的生命中串聯(lián)起來。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺、命運、生活、因緣際會……正是這種信仰讓我不會失去希望，它讓我的人生變得與眾不同。
My second story is about love and loss.
第二個故事關(guān)于愛與失去。
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經(jīng)歷過的最棒的事情。
我是幸運的，在年輕的時候就知道了自己愛做什么。在我20歲的時候，就和沃茲在我父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果電腦公司。我們勤奮工作，只用了10年的時間，蘋果電腦就從車庫里的兩個小伙子擴展成擁有4000名員工，價值達到20億美元的企業(yè)。而在此之前的一年，我們剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品Macintosh電腦，當(dāng)時我剛過而立之年。然后，我就被炒了魷魚。一個人怎么可以被他所創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢?(笑聲)這么說吧，隨著蘋果的成長，我們請了一個原本以為很能干的家伙和我一起管理這家公司，在頭一年左右，他干得還不錯，但后來，我們對公司未來的前景出現(xiàn)了分歧，于是我們之間出現(xiàn)了矛盾。由于公司的董事會站在他那一邊，所以在我30歲的時候，就被踢出了局。我失去了一直貫穿在我整個成年生活的重心，打擊是毀滅性的。
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
在頭幾個月，我真不知道要做些什么。我覺得我讓企業(yè)界的前輩們失望了，我失去了傳到我手上的指揮棒。我遇到了戴維.帕卡德(普惠的創(chuàng)辦人之一)和鮑勃.諾伊斯(英特爾的創(chuàng)辦人之一)，我向他們道歉，因為我把事情搞砸了。我成了人人皆知的失敗者，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但曙光漸漸出現(xiàn)，我還是喜歡我做過的事情。在蘋果電腦發(fā)生的一切絲毫沒有改變我，一個比特都沒有。雖然被拋棄了，但我的熱忱不改。我決定重新開始。
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
我當(dāng)時沒有看出來，但事實證明，我被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經(jīng)歷過的最棒的事情。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕盈所代替，每件事情都不再那么確定，我以自由之軀進入了我整個生命當(dāng)中最有創(chuàng)意的時期。
在接下來的5年里，我開創(chuàng)了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接著是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并且結(jié)識了后來成為我妻子的曼妙女郎。Pixar制作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影《玩具總動員》，現(xiàn)在這家公司是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司之一。(掌聲)后來經(jīng)歷一系列的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，于是我又回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT研發(fā)出的技術(shù)成為推動蘋果復(fù)興的核心動力。我和勞倫斯也擁有了美滿的家庭。
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
我非常肯定，如果沒有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發(fā)生。
生活有時候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋，但不要喪失信心。熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進的惟一理由。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如此，對愛人亦是如此。工作將占據(jù)你生命中相當(dāng)大的一部分，從事你認為具有非凡意義的工作，方能給你帶來真正的滿足感。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法，就是去熱愛這份工作。如果你到現(xiàn)在還沒有找到這樣一份工作，那么就繼續(xù)找。不要安于現(xiàn)狀，當(dāng)萬事了于心的時候，你就會知道何時能找到。如同任何偉大的浪漫關(guān)系一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。所以，在你終有所獲之前，不要停下你尋覓的腳步。不要停下。
My third story is about death.
第三個故事關(guān)于死亡。
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
在17歲的時候，我讀過一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發(fā)現(xiàn)原來一切皆在掌握之中。” (笑聲)這句話從我讀到之日起，就對我產(chǎn)生了深遠的影響。在過去的'33年里，我每天早晨都對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我還愿意做我今天本來應(yīng)該做的事情嗎?”當(dāng)一連好多天答案都否定的時候，我就知道做出改變的時候到了。
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
提醒自己行將入土是我在面臨人生中的重大抉擇時，最為重要的工具。
因為所有的事情——外界的期望、所有的尊榮、對尷尬和失敗的懼怕——在面對死亡的時候，都將煙消云散，只留下真正重要的東西。在我所知道的各種方法中，提醒自己即將死去是避免掉入畏懼失去這個陷阱的最好辦法。人赤條條地來，赤條條地走，沒有理由不聽從你內(nèi)心的呼喚。
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大約一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。在早晨7：30我做了一個檢查，掃描結(jié)果清楚地顯示我的胰臟出現(xiàn)了一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時甚至不知道胰臟究竟是什么。醫(yī)生告訴我，幾乎可以確定這是一種不治之癥，頂多還能活3至6個月。大夫建議我回家，把諸事安排妥當(dāng)，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)用語。這意味著你得把你今后10年要對你的子女說的話用幾個月的時間說完;這意味著你得把一切都安排妥當(dāng)，盡可能減少你的家人在你身后的負擔(dān);這意味著向眾人告別的時間到了。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck anendoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
我整天都想著診斷結(jié)果。那天晚上做了一個切片檢查，醫(yī)生把一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉管伸進去，穿過我的胃進入腸道，將探針伸進胰臟，從腫瘤上取出了幾個細胞。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，但我的太太當(dāng)時在場，她后來告訴我說，當(dāng)大夫們從顯微鏡下觀察了細胞組織之后，都哭了起來，因為那是非常罕見的，可以通過手術(shù)治療的胰臟癌。我接受了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)康復(fù)了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
這是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在隨后的幾十年里，都不要有比這一次更接近死亡的經(jīng)歷。在經(jīng)歷了這次與死神擦肩而過的經(jīng)驗之后，死亡對我來說只是一項有效的判斷工具，并且只是一個純粹的理性概念，我能夠更肯定地告訴你們以下事實：沒人想死;即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活著進去。(笑聲)死亡是我們每個人的人生終點站，沒人能夠成為例外。生命就是如此，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走耄耋老者，給新生代讓路。現(xiàn)在你們還是新生代，但不久的將來你們也將逐漸老去，被送出人生的舞臺。很抱歉說得這么富有戲劇性，但生命就是如此。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
你們的時間有限，所以不要把時間浪費在別人的生活里。不要被條條框框束縛，否則你就生活在他人思考的結(jié)果里。不要讓他人的觀點所發(fā)出的噪音淹沒你內(nèi)心的聲音。最為重要的是，要有遵從你的內(nèi)心和直覺的勇氣，它們可能已知道你其實想成為一個什么樣的人。其他事物都是次要的。
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
在我年輕的時候，有一本非常棒的雜志叫《全球目錄》(The Whole Earth Catalog)，它被我們那一代人奉為圭臬。這本雜志的創(chuàng)辦人是一個叫斯圖爾特.布蘭德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，距離這兒不遠。他把這本雜志辦得充滿詩意。那是在60年代末期，個人電腦、桌面發(fā)排系統(tǒng)還沒有出現(xiàn)，所以出版工具只有打字機、剪刀和寶麗來相機。這本雜志有點像印在紙上的Google，但那是在Google出現(xiàn)的35年前;它充滿了理想色彩，內(nèi)容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的見解。
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
圖爾特和他的團隊做了幾期《全球目錄》，快無疾而終的時候，他們出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我當(dāng)時處在你們現(xiàn)在的年齡。在最后一期的封底有一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間公路的照片，如果你喜歡搭車冒險旅行的話，經(jīng)常會碰到的那種小路。在照片下面有一排字：物有所不足，智有所不明(Stay Hungry，Stay Foolish.求知若饑，虛心若愚)這是他們停刊的告別留言。物有所不足，智有所不明——我總是以此自省。現(xiàn)在，在你們畢業(yè)開始新生活的時候，我把這句話送給你們。
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much
求知若饑，虛心若愚。
非常感謝!
大學(xué)英文畢業(yè)典禮演講稿2
Honorable teachers, principles, dear parents and students:
Good morning to you all. On this sunny and unforgettable day, we gladly welcome you to our grade 12’s graduation ceremony.
Two years ago, when we first came to this program and began our three years of high school education. It was your enthusiasm that influenced us, giving us the heart to keep moving forward; it was your encouragement that motivated us, encouraging us to persevere. It was your high spirits that encouraged us, and pointed us in the right way. It was your harmony that united us, urging us to stand our ground and charge fearlessly forward.
Three years, 36 months(thirty-six), 1095 days(one thousand and ninety-five), 26280 hours(twenty-six thousand two hundred and eighty), 1576800 minutes(1 million five hundred and seventy-six thousand eight hundred), 94608000 seconds(ninety-four million six hundred and eight thousand). Your confidence, patience and determination have grown. Under the guidance of Mrs. Lv, you have achieved success which we celebrate today.
We look up to you as role models and you are our heroes. We built a relationship not unlike that of a great, big, family. Working together has made us familiar to each other and know each other from the bottom of our hearts. Seeing you mature every day from morning to night, motivating us, makes us more mature.
Yesterday, you were proud of this program, today, this program is proud because of you. With 51 university acceptance letters coming from all directions, people were impressed by your accomplishments. We, the Grade 11’s will shortly turn into grade 12’s already feel the pressure that is soon to be placed upon us, and we thank you for your example, which will give us the perseverance to succeed. In the up-coming year, we will follow your footsteps, and will never give up creating what will be our very own miracle. At the same time, we would like to inform our dear future successors, we hope that you will not be afraid of the future hardships; we also hope that you put your best efforts into your work; to become the pride and future of Sino – Canadian Program here in Jilin City No.1 High School and ChangchunExperimental High School.
Today, you will turn over a new chapter of your lives, although there will be numerous obstacles blocking your paths, your determined hearts will be forever strong. You will walk towards the light of the glory of tomorrow, with our best wishes from the bottom of our hearts! Go for it!!!
Best of Luck,
TheGrade11’s
大學(xué)英文畢業(yè)典禮演講稿3
graduates of yale university, i apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but i want you to do something for me. please, take a ood look around you. look at the classmate on your left. look at the classmate on your right. now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. the person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. and you, in the middle? what can you expect? loser. loserhood. loser cum laude.
"in fact, as i look out before me today, i don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. i don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. i see a thousand losers.
"you're upset. that's understandable. after all, how can i, lawrence 'larry' ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy to the graduating class of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions? i'll tell you why. because i, lawrence "larry" ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not.
"because bill gates, richest man on the planet -- for now, anyway -- is a college dropout, and you are not.
"because paul allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not.
"and for good measure, because michael dell, no. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.
"hmm . . . you're very upset. that's understandable. so let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. most of you, i imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you've learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. you've established good work habits. you've established a network of people that will help you down the road. and you've established what will be lifelong relationships with the word 'therapy.' all that of is good. for in truth, you will need that network. you will need those strong work habits. you will need that therapy.
"you will need them because you didn't drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to no. 10 or no. 11, like steve ballmer. but then, i don't have to tell you who he really works for, do i? and for the record, he dropped out of grad school. bit of a late bloomer.
"finally, i realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, are wondering, 'is there anything i can do? is there any hope for me at all?' actually, no. it's too late. you've absorbed too much, think you know too much. you're not 19 anymore. you have a built-in cap, and i'm not referring to the mortar boards on your heads.
"hmm... you're really very upset. that's understandable. so perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. not for you, class of '00. you are a write-off, so i'll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000-a-year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.
"instead, i want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. i say to you, and i can't stress this enough: leave. pack your things and your ideas and don't come back. drop out. start up.
"for i can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me down . . ."
(at this point the oracle ceo was ushered off stage.)
【中文譯文】：
耶魯?shù)漠厴I(yè)生們，我很抱歉——如果你們不喜歡這樣的開場。我想請你們?yōu)槲易鲆患隆Ｕ埬?--好好看一看周圍，看一看站在你左邊的同學(xué)，看一看站在你右邊的同學(xué)。
請你設(shè)想這樣的情況：從現(xiàn)在起5年之后，20xx年之后，或30年之后，今天站在你左邊的這個人會是一個失敗者;右邊的這個人，同樣，也是個失敗者。而你，站在中間的家伙，你以為會怎樣?一樣是失敗者。失敗的經(jīng)歷。失敗的優(yōu)等生。
說實話，今天我站在這里，并沒有看到一千個畢業(yè)生的燦爛未來。我沒有看到一千個行業(yè)的一千名卓越領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，我只看到了一千個失敗者。你們感到沮喪，這是可以理解的。為什么，我，埃里森，一個退學(xué)生，竟然在美國最具聲望的學(xué)府里這樣厚顏地散布異端?我來告訴你原因。因為，我，埃里森，這個行星上第二富有的人，是個退學(xué)生，而你不是。因為比爾-蓋茨，這個行星上最富有的人——就目前而言---是個退學(xué)生，而你不是。因為艾倫，這個行星上第三富有的人，也退了學(xué)，而你沒有。再來一點證據(jù)吧，因為戴爾，這個行星上第九富有的人——他的排位還在不斷上升，也是個退學(xué)生。而你，不是。
你們非常沮喪，這是可以理解的。
你們將來需要這些有用的工作習(xí)慣。你將來需要這種'治療'。你需要它們，因為你沒輟學(xué)，所以你永遠不會成為世界上最富有的人。哦，當(dāng)然，你可以，也許，以你的方式進步到第10位，第11位，就像steve。但，我沒有告訴你他在為誰工作，是吧?
根據(jù)記載，他是研究生時輟的學(xué)，開化得稍晚了些。
現(xiàn)在，我猜想你們中間很多人，也許是絕大多數(shù)人，正在琢磨，'我能做什么? 我究竟有沒有前途?'當(dāng)然沒有。太晚了，你們已經(jīng)吸收了太多東西，以為自己懂得太多。你們再也不是19歲了。你們有了'內(nèi)置'的帽子，哦，我指的可不是你們腦袋上的學(xué)位帽。
嗯......你們已經(jīng)非常沮喪啦。這是可以理解的。所以，現(xiàn)在可能是討論實質(zhì)的時候啦——
絕不是為了你們，20xx年畢業(yè)生。你們已經(jīng)被報銷，不予考慮了。我想，你們就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20萬的可憐工作吧，在那里，工資單是由你兩年前輟學(xué)的同班同學(xué)簽字開出來的。事實上，我是寄希望于眼下還沒有畢業(yè)的同學(xué)。我要對他們說，離開這里。收拾好你的東西，帶著你的點子，別再回來。退學(xué)吧，開始行動。
我要告訴你，一頂帽子一套學(xué)位服必然要讓你淪落，就像這些保安馬上要把我從這個講臺上攆走一樣必然。(此時，larry被帶離了講臺)
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