When we want to learn more about the immune system当我们想更深入理解免疫系统to help cure the worst diseases,帮助治疗最严重的疾病时we work with Stanford.我们找到斯坦福一同合作When we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States,当我们想了解美国高等教育现状的改变趋势so that more low-income students get college degree

It&#39s been 40 years since then,从那时到现在 已经过了40年and 20 years since Melinda and I were married.我和梅琳达结婚也已经20年了We are both more optimistic now than ever.我们现在仍然坚持着这份乐观 甚至更甚于当年But on our journey, our optimism evolved.随着人生旅途的展开 这份乐观也随之深化We would like to tell you what we learned今天 我们愿与大家分享自己的经历and talk to y

So here is our appeal to you all.我们呼吁你们所有人As you leave Stanford,在离开斯坦福之后take all your genius and your optimism and your empathy,使用你们所有的天分 乐观和同情心and go change the world in ways that will make millions of people optimistic.以一种能让无数人感到乐观的方式去改变世界You don&#39t have to rush.你们不用立刻做到You have careers to launc

But the next day I went to Soweto,第二天 我去了索韦托the poor town just southwest of Johannesburg,约翰内斯堡西南面一个很贫穷的城镇that had been the center of the antiapartheid movement.曾经反种族隔离运动的中心It was a short distance from the city into the township,这座城镇离约翰内斯堡主城区并不远but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh.但进入索韦托后 我立刻感

So let your heart break.让自己沉浸于心碎It will change what you do with your optimism.这会改变你们对乐观的理解On a trip to South Asia,有一次去南亚I met a desperately poor Indian woman who had two children我碰到了一位赤贫的印度女性 她有两个孩子and she begged me to take them home with me.她请求我把这两个孩子带回去领养And when I begged her for her forgiveness s

Let me take this second to introduce our commencement speaker请允许我介绍我们的毕业典礼演讲嘉宾It truly is a privilege to have Elon Musk join us today我们很荣幸地请到了伊隆马斯克It doesn&#39t need much of an introduction我应该不需要太多地介绍这位客人but let me tell you a little bit about them我只简单介绍一下He grew up in South Africa他在南非长大got his degre

So for example at Tesla我想说 在特斯拉we&#39ve never spent any money on advertising我们从来不花钱做广告We put all of the money into R&ampD and manufacturing and design我们把所有的钱都用于研发 制造和设计to try to make the car as good as possible尽力让汽车变得更好And I think that&#39s the way to go我认为 公司就该这样For any given company, just keep thi

My normal glasses really aren&#39t all that different.我平时用的眼镜其实也没有多大不同There are so many remarkable things going on here at this campus,这所学校里发生了很多了不起的事情but if Melinda and I had to put into one word what we love most about Stanford,如果要我和梅琳达用一个词来总结对斯坦福的热爱it&#39s the optimism.我们会说是&quot乐观&quotThere&#39s

Or the people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity还是那些认为不平等会加重 机会会减少and don&#39t think innovation will change that?不认为创新能够改变这些趋势的人The pessimists are wrong, in my view.在我看来 悲观主义者是错误的But they are not crazy.但他们的想法并不疯狂If innovation is purely market driven,如果创新纯粹是市场驱使的and we don

That ran counter to our core belief.这将同我们的核心信念背道而驰Technology should benefit everyone.技术应当让每个人受益So we worked to close the digital divide.于是我们开始行动 试图缩小这一数字鸿沟I made a priority at Microsoft,我原来在微软and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our Foundation.以及我和梅琳达在盖茨基金会早期都确立了Donating personal computers

And that brings me to what I see is a paradox.这在我看来是一个巨大的悖论The modern world is an incredible source of innovation现代世界是一个无可比拟的创新之源and Stanford stands at the center of that,斯坦福则位于这一切的中心creating new companies,创立起新公司new schools of thought,和新的思想学派prize-winning professors,充满获奖教授inspired art and literature

All right. Thank you. I&#39ve got about apparently 5 or 6 minutes谢谢大家 我有大概五六分钟时间to say the most useful things I can think. I&#39m going to do my best讲我认为最有用的东西 我会尽我所能And it was suggested that I distill things down to 3 items有人建议我将内容提炼为三点I think I&#39ll go with 4我想 我会讲四点and I&#39ll try to, I think th

Over the next generation,在下一代you, Sanford graduates, will lead a new wave of innovation.你们这些斯坦福毕业生将会引领新一波创新Which problems will you decide to solve?你们决定处理哪些问题If your world is wide,如果你们的世界观足够宽广you can create the future we all want.你们将能创建出我们所有人都想要的未来If your world is narrow,如果你们的世界观太过狭窄you may create th

So they rigged up an extension cord that ran 200 feet人们只能临时拉了一根200英尺长的延长线from the center to the diesel generator outside.让社区中心能够接上外面的柴油发电机Looking at this setup, I knew the minute the reporters left,看到这种情形 我知道一旦记者离开the generator would get to a more urgent task.发电机就会被用到更紧急的任务And the people at the comm

Congratulations, class of 2014!祝贺2014届毕业生Melinda and I are excited to be here.我和梅琳达很高兴能来到这里It would be a thrill for anyone能受邀到斯坦福做毕业演讲to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencement,对任何人来说都是一件令人激动的事情but it&#39s especially gratifying for us.我们尤是如此Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university

Bill and I talk about this with our own kids around the dinner table.我和比尔在餐桌上同我们自己的孩子们讨论过这个问题Bill worked incredibly hard比尔工作无比努力and he took risks and he made sacrifices for success.他冒过很多风险 做过很多牺牲 才取得了今天的成功But there&#39s another essential ingredient of success,但成功还有另外一个很重要的成分and that is luck.那就是运气Abs

I was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself,亲眼所见的情形让我非常惊讶 我不得不问自己did I still believe that innovation could solve the world&#39s toughest problems?我还相信创新能够解决世界上最困难的问题吗I promised myself that before I came back to Africa,我许下承诺 要在下次回到非洲之前I would find out more about what keeps people poor

Bill Gates: Congratulations, Class of 2014! Melinda and I are excited to be here. It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to speak at a Stanford Commencement – but it’s especially gratifying for us.Stanford is rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family. And it’s long be

Thank you. Thank you very much, Mike, thank you for the introduction, but – more than that – for your service to our country, and our partnership during the four years I served as Secretary of State. What happens in Vladivostok stays in Vladivostok.I am delighted to be back here at Stanford. And I w

President Hennessy, members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty and staff, proud and relieved parents, calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly pleased siblings, ladies and gentlemen, graduating students of the Class of 2016, good morning.I am deeply honored and privileged t

Ni hao. It is such a pleasant and an honor to be here with all of you at this great university&hellipThank you so much for having me.And before I get started today, on behalf of myself and my husband, I just want to say a few very brief words above Malaysian(sic) Airline Flight 370.As my husband has