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描述斯坦福大學(xué)This is where genius lives.

這里是天才的家園。

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.

這里匯聚了自由的思想、開放的心態(tài)和對(duì)新事物的渴望。這里是人們?cè)谌の吨邪l(fā)現(xiàn)未來的地方。

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

有人說你們是“理工宅男”--而你們卻以此為榮。

描述斯坦福的樂觀精神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.

在斯坦福的校園里有著太多偉大的東西。但如果要說我和米蘭達(dá)喜歡斯坦福的地方，那就是它的樂觀精神。在這里，到處都能讓你感受到，創(chuàng)新可以解決一切問題。

談到自己和妻子改變的理想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，我們看到了計(jì)算機(jī)能夠深入地“武裝”人類。不過我們的成功催生了一個(gè)新的矛盾：如果富家子弟擁有電腦，而窮人的孩子們沒有，那么科技只能讓更加不公平。這和我們要讓科技造福每一個(gè)人的核心信念相違背。所以我們要消除“數(shù)字鴻溝”。我在微軟的時(shí)候就把這個(gè)定成了首要任務(wù)，米蘭達(dá)和我也都把這點(diǎn)定成了我們的基金會(huì)的首要任務(wù) - 向公共圖書館捐贈(zèng)電腦，并每個(gè)人都能夠使用。

談到樂觀的真諦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.

樂觀不是一個(gè)認(rèn)為“會(huì)更好”的被動(dòng)期待；樂觀是一種決心、一種信念，堅(jiān)信我們能夠把事情做好，無論我們看到了多少痛苦，無論情況有多糟糕。只要我們不灰心、不放縱，我們就能夠幫助他人。

談到缺乏同情心的科技創(chuàng)新給人類帶來的惡果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，悲觀主義者們錯(cuò)了，但他們并不是無理取鬧。如果科技是完全市場(chǎng)導(dǎo)向的，如果我們不讓科技創(chuàng)新專注于讓更平等，那么我們只能發(fā)明讓更加分裂的高新科技。

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如果我們充滿樂觀，但我們卻沒有同情心 -- 那么不論我們多么精于科技，我們都不是在解決問題，我們只是在玩自己的游戲。

對(duì)斯坦福畢業(yè)生們的人生感召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.

蓋茨和我在飯桌上跟我們的孩子們也這么說。蓋茨為了成功非常努力地工作、承擔(dān)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)、做出犧牲。但成功還有另一個(gè)關(guān)鍵秘訣，那就是運(yùn)氣 - 的運(yùn)氣。

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

你出生的時(shí)代、你父母的背景、你成長(zhǎng)的環(huán)境。這些都不是我們爭(zhēng)取來的。這些是我們與生俱來的。

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.

如果我們拋開我們的運(yùn)氣成分，設(shè)想如果我們沒有這么好的運(yùn)氣，會(huì)怎么樣？也許這樣，我們就更能理解哪些貧窮和病苦的人們，然后對(duì)自己說：我也可能會(huì)這樣。這就是同情心。同情心推倒了柏林墻，同情心為樂觀開辟了新天地。

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，我們呼吁：斯坦福的畢業(yè)生們，發(fā)揮你們的聰明才智、樂觀精神和同情心，一起去改變吧！讓成千上萬的人們也樂觀起來！