比尔盖茨夫妇在2014年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲

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描述斯坦福大学This is where genius lives.

这里是天才的家园。

There is a flexibility of mind here – an openness to change, aneagerness for what's new. This is where people come to discover the future and have fun doing it.

这里汇聚了自由的思想、开放的心态和对新事物的渴望。这里是人们在趣味中发现未来的地方。

Some people call you nerds – and you claim the label with pride.

有人说你们是“理工宅男”--而你们却以此为荣。

描述斯坦福的乐观精神There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus. But if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford, it's the optimism. There's an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every problem.

在斯坦福的校园里有着太多伟大的东西。但如果要说我和米兰达喜欢斯坦福的地方，那就是它的乐观精神。在这里，到处都能让你感受到，创新可以解决一切问题。

谈到自己和妻子改变的理想By the 1990s, we saw how profoundly personal computers could empower people. But that success created a new dilemma: If rich kids got computers and poor kids didn't, then technology would make inequality worse.That ran counter to our core belief: Technology should benefit everybody.So we worked to close the digital divide. I made it a priority at Microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our foundation – donating personal computers to public libraries to make sure everyone had access.

到了1990年代，我们看到了计算机能够深入地“武装”人类。不过我们的成功催生了一个新的矛盾：如果富家子弟拥有电脑，而穷人的孩子们没有，那么科技只能让更加不公平。这和我们要让科技造福每一个人的核心信念相违背。所以我们要消除“数字鸿沟”。我在微软的时候就把这个定成了首要任务，米兰达和我也都把这点定成了我们的基金会的首要任务 - 向公共图书馆捐赠电脑，并每个人都能够使用。

谈到乐观的真谛Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction and a belief that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.

乐观不是一个认为“会更好”的被动期待；乐观是一种决心、一种信念，坚信我们能够把事情做好，无论我们看到了多少痛苦，无论情况有多糟糕。只要我们不灰心、不放纵，我们就能够帮助他人。

谈到缺乏同情心的科技创新给人类带来的恶果The pessimists are wrong in my view, but they're not crazy. If technology is purely market-driven and we don't focus innovation on the big inequities, then we could have amazing inventions that leave the world even more divided.

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If we have optimism, but we don't have empathy – then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science, we're not really solving problems;we're just working on puzzles.

在我的眼里，悲观主义者们错了，但他们并不是无理取闹。如果科技是完全市场导向的，如果我们不让科技创新专注于让更平等，那么我们只能发明让更加分裂的高新科技。

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如果我们充满乐观，但我们却没有同情心 -- 那么不论我们多么精于科技，我们都不是在解决问题，我们只是在玩自己的游戏。

对斯坦福毕业生们的人生感召Bill and I talk about this with our kids at the dinner table. Bill worked incredibly hard and took risks and made sacrifices for success. But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck.

盖茨和我在饭桌上跟我们的孩子们也这么说。盖茨为了成功非常努力地工作、承担风险、做出牺牲。但成功还有另一个关键秘诀，那就是运气 - 的运气。

When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us.

你出生的时代、你父母的背景、你成长的环境。这些都不是我们争取来的。这些是我们与生俱来的。

When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be without them,it becomes easier to see someone who's poor and sick and say "that could be me." This is empathy; it tears down barriers and opens up new frontiers for optimism.

如果我们抛开我们的运气成分，设想如果我们没有这么好的运气，会怎么样？也许这样，我们就更能理解哪些贫穷和病苦的人们，然后对自己说：我也可能会这样。这就是同情心。同情心推倒了柏林墙，同情心为乐观开辟了新天地。

So here is our appeal to you: As you leave Stanford, take your genius and your optimism and your empathy and go change the world in ways that will make millions of others optimistic as well.

所以，我们呼吁：斯坦福的毕业生们，发挥你们的聪明才智、乐观精神和同情心，一起去改变吧！让成千上万的人们也乐观起来！