偶像勵志英語演講 92:如何解決這個世界最嚴重的不平等(2)

[00:00.12]Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me. 對我來說，哈佛的求學經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。 [00:03.48]Academic life was fascinating. 校園生活很有趣， [00:06.27]I used to sit in on lots of classes that I hadn't even signed up for. 我常去旁聽許多我沒選修的課。 [00:11.50]And dorm life was terrific. 哈佛的宿舍生活也很棒， [00:14.03]I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. 我當時住在雷迪夫的柯里爾公寓。 [00:19.49]There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, 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。 [00:24.42]because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. 因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起， [00:30.49]That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. 這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學生的頭頭， [00:34.32]We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people. 我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態(tài)。 [00:41.07]Radcliffe was a great place to live. 雷迪夫是個生活的好地方。 [00:43.54]There were more women up there, 那里的女生比男生多， [00:45.47]and most of the guys were science-math types. 而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。 [00:49.11]That combinaton offered me the best odds, 這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會， [00:52.03]if you know what I mean. 如果你們明白我的意思。 [00:52.58]That is where I learned the sad lesson that 可惜的是，我正是在這里學到了人生中悲傷的教訓： [00:59.41]improving your odds doesn't guarantee success. 機會大，并不等于你就會成功。 [01:02.44]One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, 我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，是發(fā)生在1975年1月的一件事。 [01:10.52]when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque 那時，我從宿舍樓里給位于阿爾伯克基的一家公司打了一個電話， [01:16.28]that had begun making the world's first personal computers. 那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。 [01:22.00]I offered to sell them software. 我提出想向他們出售軟件。 [01:24.58]I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. 我很擔心，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在大學宿舍里的學生，從而掛斷電話。 [01:31.00]Instead they said:"We're not quite ready, come to see us in a month," 但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。” [01:35.35]which was a good thing, 這是個好消息， [01:37.14]because we hadn't written the software yet. 因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。 [01:41.25]From that month, I worked day and night on that extra credit project 就是從那個時候起，我夜以繼日地在這個小小的課外項目上工作， [01:46.44]that marked the end of my college education 這標志著我大學教育的結束， [01:50.03]and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft. 以及通往微軟的不平凡的旅程的開始。

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