異類:不一樣的成功啟示錄 第23期:最用功的學生

Joy came to the University of Michigan the year the Computer Center opened,

喬伊進入密歇根大學的時候，恰逢這座計算機中心正式開放。

he was sixteen, he was tall and very thin, with a mop of unruly hair.

他當時16歲，瘦長身材，頭發(fā)拖把似的凌亂。

He had been voted most studious student by his graduating class

在底特律城外的北弗萊明哈姆中學，

at North Farmington High School, outside Detroit,

他的同班同學公認他是“最用功的學生”，

which, as he puts it, meant that he was a "no-date" nerd.

說他是一個“沒日沒夜玩命的人”。

He had though he might end up as a biologist or a mathematician,

喬伊原來的理想是做一名工程師或者數(shù)學家，

but late in his freshman year, he stumbled across the Computing Center and he was hooked.

但正式開放的這座計算機中心讓這位新生變得猶豫起來，他被計算機中心迷住了。

From that point on, the Computer Center was his life, he programmed whenever he could.

從那時起，計箅機中心變成了他生活的全部。一有機會，他就編寫計算機程序。

Joy got a job with a computer science professor, so he could program over the summer.

他得到一份能夠和研究計算機科學的教授一起工作的機會，整個戛天，他都埋頭在計算機編程中。

In 1975, Joy enrolled in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley.

1975年，喬伊進入斯坦福大學伯克利分校讀研究生，

There he buried himself even deeper into the world of computer software,

從這時起，他更是深深沉迷在計箅機軟件開發(fā)的世界。

During the oral exams for his PhD, he mad up a particularly complicated algorithm on the fly

在博士論文答辯的時候，他開發(fā)出一項運算特別復雜的飛行程序

that, as one of his many admirers has written,

當時正如他的一位崇拜者所寫的那樣：

"so stunned his examiners that one of them later compared the experience to 'Jesus confounding his elders.'"

他的主考官們都為他的發(fā)明感到震驚，大家都認為這是一件即便讓上帝都會覺得不可思議的事。

Working in collaborations with a small group of programmers,

喬伊和一些軟件設(shè)計師合作，

Joy took on the task of rewriting UNIX, which was a software system developed by AT&T for mainframe computers.

重新編寫UNIX系統(tǒng)，UNIX 是美國電話電報公司(AT&T)開發(fā)出來的、在主機上運用的程序系統(tǒng)。

Joy's version was very good.

喬伊編譯的系統(tǒng)非常好用。

It was so good, in fact, that it became and remains the operating system on whichliterally millions of computers around the world run.

它之所以用起來方便，實際上是因為世界上數(shù)百萬計算機的操作系統(tǒng)都變得能夠兼容。

"If you put your Mac in that funny mode where you can see the code," Joy says,

你只要在你的Mac地址表上輸入相關(guān)命令，在任何地方你都能找到它的編碼。

"I see things that I remember typing in twenty-five years ago."

我還記得25年前在鍵盤輸入命令的情形。

And when you go on mind,

當你上網(wǎng)的時候，

do you know who owe much of the software that allows you to access the Internet?

你是否知道是誰編譯了這種程序，使得你能夠瀏覽互聯(lián)網(wǎng)?

Bill Joy.

是喬伊。

After graduating from Berkeley, Joy cofounded the Silicon Valley firm Sun Microsystems,

走出伯克利的喬伊參與了硅谷太陽微系統(tǒng)公司的創(chuàng)辦，

which of one of the most critical players in the computer revolution.

在計算機技術(shù)革命中，太陽微系統(tǒng)公司扮演了其中一個極其重要的角色。