喬布斯哈佛演講稿喬布斯哈佛演講稿 President Bok former President Rudenstine ining President Faust members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers members of the faculty parents and especially the graduates 尊敬的Bok校長 Rudenstine前校長 即將上任的Faust校長 哈佛 集團的各位成員 監管理事會的各位理事 各位老師 各位家長 各位同學 I ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this Dad I always told you I d e back and get my degree 有一句話我等了三十年 現在終于可以說了 老爸 我總是跟你說 我會回來拿到我的學位的 I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor I ll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume 我要感謝哈佛大學在這個時候給我這個榮譽 明年 我就要換工作 了 注 指從微軟公司退休 我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個 大學學位 這真是不錯埃 I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees For my part I m just happy that the Crimson has called me Harvard s most suessful dropout I guethat makes me valedictorian of my own special cla I did the best of everyone who failed 我為今天在座的各位同學感到高興 你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了 哈佛的校報稱我是 哈佛大學歷史上最成功的輟學生 我想這大 概使我有資格代表我這一類學生發言 在所有的失敗者里 我 做得最好 But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of busineschool I m a bad influence That s why I was invited to speak at your graduation If I had spoken at your orientation fewer of you might be here today 但是 我還要提醒大家 我使得Steve Ballmer 注 微軟總經理 也從哈佛商學院退學了 因此 我是個有 著惡劣影響力的人 這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業典禮上 演講 如果我在你們入學歡迎儀式上演講 那么能夠堅持到今天在 這里畢業的人也許會少得多吧 Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me Academic life was fascinating I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn t 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 didn t worry about getting up in the morning That s how I came to be the leader of the anti social group We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people 對我來說 哈佛的求學經歷是一段非凡的經歷 校園生活很有趣 我常去旁聽我沒選修的課 哈佛的課外生活也很棒 我在Radcliffe 過著逍遙自在的日子 每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜 討論著各種事情 因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起 這使 得我變成了校園里那些不安分學生的頭頭 我們互相粘在一起 做 出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態 Radcliffe was a great place to live There were more women up there and most of the guys were science math types That bination offered me the best odds if you know what I mean This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn t guarantee suess Radcliffe是個過日子的好地方 那里的女生比男生多 而且大多數 男生都是理工科的 這種狀況為我創造了最好的機會 如果你們明 白我的意思 可惜的是 我正是在這里學到了人生中悲傷的一課 機會大 并不等于你就會成功 One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975 when I made a call from Currier House to a pany in Albuquerque that had begun ma ki ng the world s first persona