As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially &quotDays of our Lives.&quot My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owne

I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected.我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills.我本期待着小聪明和算术技巧能赢得掌声。&quotJeff, you&#39re so smart.You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year a

My Dad was valedictorian of Flint Mandeville High School class of 1956 about 90 kids. I happened across his graduating speech recently, and it blew me away. 53 years ago my Dad said: &quotWe are entering a changing world, one of automation and employment change where education is an economic necessi

So here&#39s my final story: On a day like today, you might feel exhilarated —like you&#39ve just been shot out of a cannon at the circus and even invincible.Don&#39t ever forget that incredible feeling.But also always remember that the moments we have with friends and family,the chances we have to

My father&#39s father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan. He was an assemblyline worker.He drove his two children here to Anna Arbor,and told them: That is where you&#39re going to go to college.I know it sounds funny now.Both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan.That was the Am

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams.I know that sounds completely nuts.But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.They all travel as if they a

But it is clear that the vast majority of enterprise customers will continue to have mixed environments. They will use PCs and mainframes Windows NT and UNIX and they will look to their IT partners to help them integrate these diverse computing environments.很显然绝大多数企业客户将继续使用混合的环境。他们将既使用个人电脑，也使用大型机、既运

Class of 2009!I don&#39t think I heard you.Class of 2009!First I want you to stand up and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends!I am sure you can find them out there.Show your love!It is a great honor for me to be here today。09届的同学们！来点激情给我个回应。各位同学，我希望大家站起来向支持你们的亲朋好友挥手致意。你们一定能在人群中找到他们，借此机

How will you use these gifts?你们要如何运用这些天赋呢?And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?你们会为自己的天赋感到骄傲，还是会为自己的选择感到骄傲?I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago.16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year.彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，

We will also strengthen our customer partnerships through:同时康柏还将通过以下途径来加强我们与客户的关系：Focused, global account management, Industry-leading service and support, and, A commitment to sell the way you want to buy, whether it is through our extensive network of resellers by phone or over the Internet.有侧重的全球

I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it&#39s a story about finding a path to make those dreams real.我给大家讲个追梦的故事，确切地说是一个将梦想变为现实的故事。You know what it&#39s like,to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?And you know how, if you don&#39t have a pencil and pad by

Thank you, and good morning. everyone.谢谢大家，早上好!It is always an honor and a pleasure to speak here at PC Expo.能够在PCExpo展览期间在这里演讲，我感到十分荣幸，而且非常高兴。An honor because this is the premier PC show in the industry ...我之所以感到荣幸是因为PC-Expo是业界最重要的电脑展览。And a pleasure because it gives me an opportunity to thank all

After two years of endless negotiations, I purchased the Los Angeles Lakers. What a dream come true. And then my path to my presence here began. It is difficult to explain the excitement and the reverence the first day, when Jerry West and Bill Sharman came into my office. I couldn&#39t believe I wa

In this environment, Compaq determined that we needed to do more for our customers.在这种市场环境里，康柏决心要为我们的客户做更多的事情。We wanted to take the attributes that had made us successful - industry standard platforms, strong partnerships, useful innovation and customer responsiveness - and apply them to the full ra

They are important to us because they are important to our customers, who depend on them for the most demanding, business-critical computing.这些产品对我们非常重要，因为它们对我们的客户很重要，我们的客户正依赖它们完成高需求关键业务计算。But we also plan to exploit the technologies behind these operating systems to provide greater reliability and

After two years of endless negotiations, I purchased the Los Angeles Lakers. What a dream come true. And then my path to my presence here began. It is difficult to explain the excitement and the reverence the first day, when Jerry West and Bill Sharman came into my office. I couldn&#39t believe I wa

I took one psychology class in college, and I learned about this guy, Abraham Maslow, as many of us are familiar with his hierarchy of needs. But as I sat there for four hours, the full afternoon, reading Maslow, I recognized something that is true of most leaders. One of the simplest facts in busin

So tonight, while I will talk about the power and potential of Information Technology, I hope the temper of my remarks with the perspective I had when I came to IBM five years ago, the perspective of a customer.因此，虽然今晚我要谈谈信息技术的力量和潜力，但是我希望我能够象五年前刚到 IBM 时一样，站在消费者的立场上表达我的观点。Now it is certainly easy to

Politicians have recently begun Twittering. In fact, there&#39s 47 members of Congress who currently have Twitter accounts. And they&#39re Tweeting, in some cases, from behind closed-door sessions with the President. In this case, this guy&#39s not liking what he&#39s hearing. The President himself

Four years ago ,on the TED’s stage,I annouced a company as working with at the time called Odeo.And because of that announcement we got a big article in the New York Times which led to more press ,which led to more attention , and me deciding to become the CEO of that company ,whereas I was just an

That exhilarating first conversation provided themes Peter and I returned to for the next six years. How to unleash the creativity and productivity of knowledge workers? How to create free markets for ideas and innovation inside and outside a company? How to build the organizational agility and flex

The second type of deep computing is what we call data mining -- some people call it business intelligence, the ability to extract inside from mountains of information, and see relationships and trends that previously were not available or invisible.第二种深入计算我们称之为数据分析处理 -- 有些人称之为商业情报处理，即从大量信息中提炼出有用情报，

Our desktop businesses are very compatible. Both companies lead the industry in reducing cost of ownership by providing the best managed PCs. We lead the Windows NT market for desktops. And Compaq is Microsoft&#39s only lead partner for the early deployment of Windows NT 5.0 in corporate environment

Today, we are also announcing a new service for small and medium businesses called Compaq Online Services.今天，我们还将宣布一种面向中小型企业的新的服务－－康柏在线服务。This global initiative is designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses for quicker access to online sales opportunities and more efficient ways of do

In higher education, there is a university in Canada, Atherbasca University, that delivers 100 percent of its courses by what is called distant learning. No students on campus, no campus. All instruction is delivered online. And they have captured nearly 30 percent of all MBA students in Canada. Gov

One of the most important ways that we are delivering these benefits is by working closely with partners to deliver comprehensive enterprise solutions.要使客户享受到以上益处，我们的主要作法之一就是与合作伙伴紧密合作，从而为客户提供更全面的企业解决方案。With the acquisition of Digital, we have enhanced our ability to provide customized solutions for

Alpha gives Compaq a leadership, 64-bit architecture at least two-years ahead of Merced - which, I should add, will also be an integral part of our product portfolio.Alpha使康柏拥有了一种领先的64位体系结构，该结构比Merced至少提前两年实现。在此我希望多说一句，Alpha将成为康柏产品系列中不可或缺的一部分。We see Alpha as an extension of Compaq&#39s current produ

A quick example, think about driving down the autobahn.Your intelligent car develops an engine problem. But instead of flashing you a warning light, it sends a message directly to the manufacturer over a wireless connection to the Net. The manufacturer systems diagnose the problem, and they transmit

So we believe that deep computing is a trend that will have a profound effect on commerce and on society. Of course a concept throwing big problems at computers is not a new idea. Its rules can be traced at the very origins of the industry. The difference today is that the systems are so much more p

We&#39ve been fooled by our tool. Excuse that expression. We&#39ve been fooled by our tool. GDP has been our hammer. And our nail has been a 19th- and 20th-century industrial-era model of success. And yet, 64 percent of the world&#39s GDP today is in that intangible industry we call service, the ser