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1、Bill Gates Speech at Harvard on June 7, 2019President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incomingPresident Faust, members of the Harvard Corporationand the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty,parents, and especially, the graduates:Ive been waiting more than 30 years to say this:Dad, I always t

2、old you Id come back and get mydegree. I want to thank Harvard for this timelyhonor. Ill be changing my job next year and itwill be nice to finally have a college degree on myresume.I applaud the graduates today for taking a much moredirect route to your degrees. For my part, Im justhappy that the C

3、rimson has called me Harvards mostsuccessful dropout. I guess that makes mevaledictorian of my own special class I did thebest of everyone who failed. But I also want to be recognized as the guy who gotSteve Ballmer to drop out of business school. Im abad influence. Thats why I was invited to speak

4、atyour graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation,fewer of you might be here today.Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in onlots of classes I hadnt even signed up for. And dormlife was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in CurrierHouse. T

5、here were always lots of people in my dormroom late at night discussing things, because everyoneknew I didnt worry about getting up in the morning.Thats how I came to be the leader of the anti-socialgroup. We clung to each other as a way of validatingour rejection of all those social people.Radcliff

6、e was a great place to live. There were morewomen up there, and most of the guys were science-mathtypes. That combination offered me the best odds, ifyou know what I mean. This is where I learned the sadlesson that improving your odds doesnt guaranteesuccess.One of my biggest memories of Harvard cam

7、e in January1975, when I made a call from Currier House to acompany in Albuquerque that had begun making theworlds first personal computers. I offered to sellthem software.I worried that they would realize I was just a studentin a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: Werenot quite ready, come

8、see us in a month, which was agood thing, because we hadnt written the softwareyet. From that moment, I worked day and night on thislittle extra credit project that marked the end of mycollege education and the beginning of a remarkablejourney with Microsoft. What I remember above all about Harvard

9、was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege - and though I left early, I wastransformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on. B

10、ut taking a serious look back ,I do have one big regret. I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world - the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas i

11、neconomics and politics. I got great exposure to theadvances being made in the sciences.But humanitys greatest advances are not in itsdiscoveries - but in how those discoveries are appliedto reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strongpublic education, quality health care, or broadeconomic opp

12、ortunity - reducing inequity is thehighest human achievement. I left campus knowing little about the millions ofyoung people cheated out of educational opportunitieshere in this country. And I knew nothing about themillions of people living in unspeakable poverty anddisease in developing countries.I

13、t took me decades to find out. You graduates came toHarvard at a different time. You know more about theworlds inequities than the classes that came before.In your years here, I hope youve had a chance tothink about how - in this age of acceleratingtechnology - we can finally take on these inequitie

14、s,and we can solve them. Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you hada few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donateto a cause - and you wanted to spend that time andmoney where it would have the greatest impact insaving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?For Melinda and

15、for me, the challenge is the same: howcan we do the most good for the greatest number withthe resources we have. During our discussions on thisquestion, Melinda and I read an article about themillions of children who were dying every year in poorcountries from diseases that we had long ago madeharml

16、ess in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia,hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had nevereven heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a millionkids each year - none of them in the United States. We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millionsof children were dying and they could be sav

17、ed, theworld would make it a priority to discover and deliverthe medicines to save them. But it did not. For undera dollar, there were interventions that could savelives that just werent being delivered.If you believe that every life has equal value, itsrevolting to learn that some lives are seen as

18、 worthsaving and others are not. We said to ourselves: Thiscant be true. But if it is true, it deserves to bethe priority of our giving.So we began our work in the same way anyone here wouldbegin it. We asked: How could the world let thesechildren die?The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did

19、notreward saving the lives of these children, andgovernments did not subsidize it. So the children diedbecause their mothers and their fathers had no powerin the market and no voice in the system.But you and I have both. We can make market forceswork better for the poor if we can develop a morecreat

20、ive capitalism - if we can stretch the reach ofmarket forces so that more people can make a profit,or at least make a living, serving people who aresuffering from the worst inequities. We also can pressgovernments around the world to spend taxpayer moneyin ways that better reflect the values of the peoplewho pay the taxes. You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. Asyou leave Harvard, you have technology that members ofmy class never had. You have awareness of globali