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1、2022年比尔盖茨在哈佛毕业典礼上的致词比尔盖茨在哈佛毕业典礼上的致词Remarks of Bill GatesHarvard Commencement(Text as prepared for delivery)President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduat

2、es:(中国教化资源网欢迎您投稿)Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you Id come back and get my degree.”I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. Ill be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.I applaud the graduates today fo

3、r taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, Im just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvards most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class I did the best of everyone who failed.But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve

4、 Ballmer to drop out of business school. Im a bad influence. Thats why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes

5、I hadnt even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didnt worry about getting up in the morning. Thats how I came to be the leader of the anti-soci

6、al group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I lear

7、ned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesnt guarantee success.One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the worlds first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.I worried that

8、 they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: “Were not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadnt written the software yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end

9、 of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privileg

10、e and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on.But taking a serious look back I do have one big regret.I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, a

11、nd opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.But humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are ap

12、plied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this co

13、untry. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.It took me decades to find out.You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here,

14、I hope youve had a chance to think about how in this age of accelerating technology we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause and you wanted to spend that tim

15、e and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an

16、 article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year no

17、ne of them in the United States.We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save li

18、ves that just werent being delivered.If you believe that every life has equal value, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This cant be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”So we began our work in

19、the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: “How could the world let these children die?”The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no pow

20、er in the market and no voice in the system.But you and I have both.We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are su

21、ffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politici

22、ans, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: “Inequ

23、ity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end because people just dont care.” I completely disagree.I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we

24、 did nothing not because we didnt care, but because we didnt know what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have acted.The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But compl

25、exity blocks all three steps.Even with the advent of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference. They promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar

26、 crashes in the future.But if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: “Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them were on this plane. Were determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one

27、half of one percent.”The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths.We dont read much about these deaths. The media covers whats new and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where its easier to ignore. But even when we do see it o

28、r read about it, its difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. Its hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we dont know how to help. And so we look away.If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find

29、a solution.Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks “How can I help?,” then we can get action and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.12下一页