比尔盖茨哈佛演讲稿.docx

1、比尔盖茨哈佛演讲稿比尔盖茨哈佛演讲稿idnt care, but because we didnt know what to do. if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在这个院子里的所有人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分伤心。但是我们什么也没做，并非我们无动于衷，而是因为我们不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会采取行动。the barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much plexity.改变世界的阻碍，并非

2、人类的冷漠，而是世界实在太复杂。to turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. but plexity blocks all three steps.为了将关心转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发现解决办法的方法，评估后果。但是世界的复杂性使得所有这些步骤都难于做到。even with the advent of the internet and 24-hour news, it is still a plex enterprise to get people to

3、truly see the problems. when an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference. they promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future.即使有了互联网和24小时直播的新闻台，让人们真正发现问题所在，仍然十分困难。当一架飞机坠毁了，官员们会立刻召开新闻发布会，他们承诺进行调查、找到原因、防止将来再次发生类似事故。but if the officials we

4、re 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 half of one percent.但是如果那些官员敢说真话，他们就会说：“在今天这一天，

5、全世界所有可以避免的死亡之中，只有0.5%的死者来自于这次空难。我们决心尽一切努力，调查这个0.5%的死亡原因。”the bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths.显然，更重要的问题不是这次空难，而是其他几百万可以预防的死亡事件。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

6、 background, where its easier to ignore. but even when we do see it or read about it, its difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. its hard to look at suffering if the situation is so plex that we dont know how to help. and so we look away.我们并没有很多机会了解那些死亡事件。媒体总是报告新闻，几百万人将要死去并非新闻。如果没有人报道，那么这些事件就很容易

7、被忽视。另一方面，即使 我们确实目睹了事件本身或者看到了相关报道，我们也很难持续关注这些事件。看着他人受苦是令人痛苦的，何况问题又如此复杂，我们根本不知道如何去帮助他 人。所以我们会将脸转过去。if we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we e to the second step: cutting through the plexity to find a solution.就算我们真正发现了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着还有第二步：那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。finding solutions is ess

8、ential 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 plexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyon

9、e who cares and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.如果我们要让关心落到实处，我们就必须找到解决办法。如果我们有一个清晰的和可靠的答案，那么当任何组织和个人发出疑问“如何我能提供帮助”的时 候，我们就能采取行动。我们就能够保证不浪费一丁点全世界人类对他人的关心。但是，世界的复杂性使得很难找到对全世界每一个有爱心的人都有效的行动方法， 因此人类对他人的关心往往很难产生实际效果。cutting through plexity to find a solution runs through four predictable st

10、ages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have whether its something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.从这个复杂的世界中找到解决办

11、法，可以分为四个步骤：确定目标，找到最高效的方法，发现适用于这个方法的新技术，同时最聪明地利用现有的技术，不管它是复杂的药物，还是最简单的蚊帐。the aids epidemic offers an exle. the broad goal, of course, is to end the disease. the highest-leverage approach is prevention. the ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose. so governm

12、ents, drug panies, and foundations fund vaccine research. but their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.艾滋病就是一个例子。总的目标，毫无疑问是消灭这种疾病。最高效的方法是预防。最理想

13、的技术是发明一种疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以终生免疫。所以， 政府、制药公司、基金会应该资助疫苗研究。但是，这样研究工作很可能十年之内都无法完成。因此，与此同时，我们必须使用现有的技术，目前最有效的预防方法 就是设法让人们避免那些危险的行为。pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. this is the pattern. the crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working and never do what we did with malaria and tubercul

14、osis in the 20th century which is to surrender to plexity and quit.要实现这个新的目标，又可以采用新的四步循环。这是一种模式。关键的东西是永远不要停止思考和行动。我们千万不能再犯上个世纪在疟疾和肺结核上犯过的错误，那时我们因为它们太复杂，而放弃了采取行动。the final step after seeing the problem and finding an approach is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures

15、 so that others learn from your efforts.在发现问题和找到解决方法之后，就是最后一步评估工作结果，将你的成功经验或者失败经验传播出去，这样其他人就可以从你的努力中有所收获。you have to have the statistics, of course. you have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children. you have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying

16、 from these diseases. this is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment from business and government.当然，你必须有一些统计数字。你必须让他人知道，你的项目为几百万儿童新接种了疫苗。你也必须让他人知道，儿童死亡人数下降了多少。这些都是很关键的，不仅有利于改善项目效果，也有利于从商界和政府得到更多的帮助。but if you want to inspire people to participate, you have

17、to show more than numbers; you have to convey the human impact of the work so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.但是，这些还不够，如果你想激励其他人参加你的项目，你就必须拿出更多的统计数字；你必须展示你的项目的人性因素，这样其他人就会感到拯救一个生命，对那些处在困境中的家庭到底意味着什么。i remember going to davos some years back and sitting on a global h

18、ealth panel that was discussing ways to save millions of lives. millions! think of the thrill of saving just one persons life then multiply that by millions. yet this was the most boring panel ive ever been on ever. so boring even i couldnt bear it.几年前，我去瑞士达沃斯旁听一个全球健康问题论坛，会议的内容有关于如何拯救几百万条生命。天哪，是几百万！

19、想一想吧，拯救一个人的生命已经让人何等激动，现在你要把这种激动再乘上几百万倍但是，不幸的是，这是我参加过的最最乏味的论坛，乏味到我无法强迫自己听下去。what made that experience especially striking was that i had just e from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement. i love getting people e

20、xcited about software but why cant we generate even more excitement for saving lives?那次经历之所以让我难忘，是因为之前我们刚刚发布了一个软件的第13个版本，我们让观众激动得跳了起来，喊出了声。我喜欢人们因为软件而感到激动，那么我们为什么不能够让人们因为能够拯救生命而感到更加激动呢？you cant get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact. and how you do that is a plex question

21、.除非你能够让人们看到或者感受到行动的影响力，否则你无法让人们激动。如何做到这一点，并不是一件简单的事。still, im optimistic. yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through plexity have not been with us forever. they are new they can help us make the most of our caring and thats why the future can be different from t

22、he past.同前面一样，在这个问题上，我依然是乐观的。不错，人类的不平等有史以来一直存在，但是那些能够化繁为简的新工具，却是最近才出现的。这些新工具可以帮助我们，将人类的同情心发挥最大的作用，这就是为什么将来同过去是不一样的。the defining and ongoing innovations of this age biotechnology, the puter, the internet give us a chance weve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable dise

23、ase.这个时代无时无刻不在涌现出新的革新生物技术，计算机，互联网它们给了我们一个从未有过的机会，去终结那些极端的贫穷和非恶性疾病的死亡。sixty years ago, george marshall came to this mencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of post-war europe. he said: i think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous plexity that the very mass of facts

24、presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. it is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.六十年前，乔治马歇尔也是在这个地方的毕业典礼上，宣布了一个计划，帮助那些欧洲国家的战后建设。他说：“我认为，

25、困难的一点是这个问题太复杂， 报纸和电台向公众源源不断地提供各种事实，使得大街上的普通人极端难于清晰地判断形势。事实上，经过层层传播，想要真正地把握形势，是根本不可能的。”thirty years after marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me, technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more visible, less distant.马歇尔发表这个演讲之后的三十年，我那一届学生毕业，当然我不在其中。那时，新

26、技术刚刚开始萌芽，它们将使得这个世界变得更小、更开放、更容易看到、距离更近。the emergence of low-cost personal puters gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and municating.低成本的个人电脑的出现，使得一个强大的互联网有机会诞生，它为学习和交流提供了巨大的机会。the magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and m

27、akes everyone your neighbor. it also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.网络的神奇之处，不仅仅是它缩短了物理距离，使得天涯若比邻。它还极大地增加了怀有共同想法的人们聚集在一起的机会，我们可以为了解决同一个问题，一起共同工作。这就大大加快了革新的进程，发展速度简直快

28、得让人震惊。at the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people dont. that means many creative minds are left out of this discussion - smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who dont have the technology to hone their talents or contribut

29、e their ideas to the world.与此同时，世界上有条件上网的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。这意味着，还有许多具有创造性的人们，没有加入到我们的讨论中来。那些有着实际的操作经验和相关经历的聪明人，却没有技术来帮助他们，将他们的天赋或者想法与全世界分享。we need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another.

30、 they are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation george marshall spoke of 60 years a

31、go.我们需要尽可能地让更多的人有机会使用新技术，因为这些新技术正在引发一场革命，人类将因此可以互相帮助。新技术正在创造一种可能，不仅是政府，还 包括大学、公司、小机构、甚至个人，能够发现问题所在、能够找到解决办法、能够评估他们努力的效果，去改变那些马歇尔六十年前就说到过的问题饥饿、贫 穷和绝望。members of the harvard family: here in the yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.第二篇：比尔盖茨哈佛演讲稿中文翻译尊敬的bok校长，rudenstin

32、e前校长，即将上任的faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）?我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言?在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微软总经理）也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每