SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Like my friend Warren Buffet, 就像我的朋友沃伦·布非一样， I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. 我为每天都能做自己热爱的事情而感到无比幸运。 He calls it "tap-dancing to work." 他称之为“踢踏舞工作”。 My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, 我在微软的工作永远充满挑战， but what makes me "tap-dance to work" is when we ...
So here’s my final story: 以下是我要说的最后一个故事： On a day like today, 就像今天的某一日， you might feel exhilarated—like you’ve just been shot out of a cannon at the circus—and even invincible. 你们可能感到欣喜若狂,就像你刚从马戏团的大炮口被射了出来——甚至更加所向无敌。 Don’t ever forget that incredible feeling. 绝不要忘了那种难以名状的美妙感觉。 But also: always rememb...
My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of ...
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. 今天与你们一起参加世界上最好的大学之一的毕业典礼，我感到很...
I've always been an optimist 我天生乐观， and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. 坚信人类凭创造力和聪明才智可以让世界日益美妙，这一设想一直根植于我的内心深处。 For as long as I can remember, I've loved learning new things and solving problems. 自从记事起，我就热衷于接触新事物、挑战难...
My Dad became a professor at uh… Michigan State, 我的父亲后来成了···密歇根州立大学的教授， and I was an incredibly lucky boy. 我是一个非常幸运的孩子。 A professor’s life is pretty flexible, 教授的生活安排是非常有弹性的， and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me. 父亲能有大量的时间来培养我。 Could there be a better upbringing than university brat? 还有比大学校...
In fact, there was a fellow. 实际上，有一个同僚。 He was in Omaha, who used to say, he looked with three things in hiring people: integrity, intelligence and energy. 奥哈马市有一位先生说，当他雇人时，他会看三个方面：诚信，智能，和精力。 And he said if the person did not have the first two, the later two would kill him, 雇一个只有高智力和精力，却没有诚信的人会毁了雇者。 becau...
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. 我认为,通常追寻雄心万丈的梦想更容易些。 I know that sounds completely nuts. 我知道这听起来完全是一派胡言。 But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. 不过,既然没有别的人疯狂到会做这件事情,你就没有竞争对手了。 In fact,there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I k...
I had one of those dreams when I was 23. 我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。 When I suddenly woke up, 我猛然惊醒, I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links? 想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎样? And I grabbed a pen andstarted writing! 然后我抓起一支笔写了起来。 Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. 有时候...
And then I would throw in a hooker. 然后，我这里再给你们下个跘儿。 I would say that be part of owning 10% of this person, 在你买进10％你的同学的余生时， you have to get rid of, to short 10% of somebody else in the class. 你还要卖出10％的另外一个同学的余生。 That is more fun, isn’t it? 这不是很有趣吗？ And you think that who do I want to go short of? 你会想我到底卖谁呢？ Agai...
My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二个故事是关于热爱和得失 I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollars company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation –...
Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dad—all of them. 我们家的所有成员都毕业于密歇根大学:我哥哥、我妈妈和爸爸——我们全家。 My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a half of his degrees here. 我的父亲在学位数量上可能要打个折：他从密歇根大学拿到了三个半学位。 His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they thought Compu...
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, 当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志， which was one of the bibles of my generation. 它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。 It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, 它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙在离这里不远的Menlo Park书写的, and he brought it t...
Well, that’s a short little sermon. 上面我简单地我说了一下我的看法。 So Let's get on with what you’re interested in. 下面就让我们开始谈谈你们所感兴趣的。 And like I say, in go all over. 就像我之前说的那样。 So, I don’t know exactly how we gotta have this, but let's start with a hand here someplace or other. 我不知道接下来怎样进行，那我们从举手示意的同学开始提问题吧。...
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was ...
My Dad was valedictorian of Flint Mandeville High School class of 1956 for about 90 kids. 我的父亲1956年从弗林特曼德维尔高中毕业，这届大约有90 个学生，他发表了毕业演讲。 I happened across his graduating speech recently, and it blew me away. 最近我有幸读到了这段演讲，并被其折服。 53 years ago my Dad said: “···we are entering a changing world, 父亲在他53年前的毕业典礼上这样说...
That to me is absolutely fascinating. 这于我而言，是绝对的百思不得其解。 I mean if I ever write a book it will be called: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. 如果我要写本书的话，书名就是《为什么 聪明人净干蠢事》。 My partner says it should be autobiographical. But this might be an interesting illustration. 我的合伙人说那本书就是他的自传。这真 的是一个有趣的演示。 They are perfe...
And 17 years later I did go to college. 在十七岁那年 ，我真的上了大学。 But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, 但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, and all of my working-class parent‘s savings were being spent on my college tuition. 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。 After six months, I couldn&...
But time is the friend of the wonderful business; it is the enemy of the lousy business. 时间是好生意的朋友，却是坏生意的敌人。 If you are in a lousy business for a long time, you are going to get a lousy result even if you buy it cheap. 如果你陷在糟糕的生意里太久的话，你的结果也一定会糟糕，即使你的买入价很便宜。 If you are in a wonderful business for a long time, even if yo...
Now I get to work in a job that I love, but I have always worked in a job that I loved. 我热爱我的工作，但是我从来如此， I loved it just as much when I thought it was a big deal or to make 1,000 bucks. 无论我在谈大生意，还是只赚1000美元的时候，我也爱我所做的亊情。 I urge you to work in jobs that you love. 我希望你们也做自己喜欢的工作。 I mean I think you are out of your mind...