Name: 拉里-佩奇的密歇根大學畢業典禮致辭 (Larry Page's University of Michigan commencement address)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:15:47.000Z
Duration: 16 min 29 s

我不認為我先聽到了你的聲音。

I want you to stand up and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends.

我希望你們站起來揮手，為支持你們的家人和朋友歡呼。

It's a great honor for me to be here today.

今天能來到這裡，我深感榮幸。

You're thinking every graduation speaker here says that it's a great honor.

你在想，這裡的每一位畢業演講者都說這是莫大的榮譽。

But in my case, it really is so deeply true.

但在我看來，這真的是千真萬確的。

Being here is more special and more personal for me than most of, you know, I'd like to tell you why.

對我來說，來到這裡比大多數人都更特別，更有個性，我想告訴你為什麼。

A long time ago in this Cold September of 1962 there is a Stevens co op at this very university that co op had a kitchen with a ceiling that had been cleaned by student volunteers.

很久以前，在這個寒冷的 1962 年 9 月，就在這所大學裡有一家史蒂文斯公司，該公司的廚房天花板是由學生志願者打掃過的。

Probably every decade or so picture a college girl named Gloria climbing up high on a ladder, struggling to clean that filthy ceiling.

大概每隔十幾年，人們就會想象一個名叫格洛麗亞的女大學生爬上高高的梯子，費力地打掃那骯髒的天花板。

A young boarder named Carl was admiring the view and that's how they met.

一位名叫卡爾的年輕寄宿生正在欣賞美景，他們就這樣相遇了。

So I suppose you could say I'm a direct result of that kitchen chemistry experiment right here in Michigan.

是以，我想你可以說我是密歇根州廚房化學實驗的直接成果。

My mom is here with us today and we should probably go find that spot and put up a plaque on the ceiling that says, thanks mom and dad.

我媽媽今天和我們在一起，我們也許應該找到那個地方，在天花板上掛一塊牌子，上面寫著 "謝謝爸爸媽媽"。

Everyone in my family went here to Michigan.

Uh My brother, my mom, my dad, all of us, my dad actually got the quantity discount.

我哥哥、我媽媽、我爸爸，我們所有人，我爸爸實際上都得到了數量折扣。

他在這裡獲得了全部 3.5 個學位。

His phd was in communication science because they thought computers were just a passing fad.

他的博士學位是通信科學專業的，因為他們認為計算機只是過眼雲煙。

And when he earned it 44 years ago, he and mom made a big sacrifice for that degree.

44 年前，當他獲得這個學位時，他和媽媽為之做出了巨大犧牲。

They argued at times over pennies while raising my newborn brother, mom typed my dad's dissertation by hand.

在撫養我剛出生的弟弟時，他們時常為幾分錢爭吵，媽媽手打我爸爸的論文。

Kind of ironic given it was a computer science dissertation.

這有點諷刺，因為這是一篇計算機科學論文。

My father's father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan.

我父親的父親曾在密歇根州弗林特的雪佛蘭工廠工作。

He drove his two Children here to Ann Arbor and told them this is where you're going to college.

他開車帶著兩個孩子來到安娜堡，告訴他們這就是你們上大學的地方。

Now, both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan.

事實上，他的兩個孩子都畢業於密歇根大學。

His daughter Beverly is also with us today.

他的女兒貝弗利今天也和我們在一起。

My grandpa used to carry an alley, oop, hammer, a heavy iron pipe with a big hunk of lead melted.

我爺爺過去常帶著一個小巷子，"嗚"，錘子，一個沉重的鐵管，裡面熔著一大塊鉛。

On the end, the workers made them during the sit down strikes to protect themselves.

最後，工人們為了保護自己，在靜坐罷工期間製作了這些設備。

When I was growing up, we would use that hammer whenever we needed to pound a steak or something into the yard.

在我成長的過程中，每當需要在院子裡敲打牛排或其他東西時，我們都會用到那把錘子。

It is wonderful that most people don't need to carry a heavy blunt object for protection anymore.

大多數人不再需要攜帶沉重的鈍器來保護自己，這真是太好了。

但為了以防萬一，我還是把它帶來了。

My dad became a professor at Michigan State.

我父親成為了密歇根州立大學的教授。

The professor's life is pretty flexible and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me.

教授的生活很有彈性，他可以花很多時間來撫養我。

Could there be any better upbringing than a University of Bratz?

還有比布拉茨大學更好的教育嗎？

What I'm trying to tell you this is way more than a homecoming for me.

我想告訴你們的是，這對我來說不僅僅是一次返鄉之旅。

It's not easy for me to express how proud I am to be here with my mom, my brother and my wife Lucy and with all of you at this amazing institution that is responsible for my very existence.

能和我的母親、哥哥、妻子露西以及你們大家一起在這個對我的存在負有責任的神奇機構工作，我感到非常自豪。

I'm thrilled for all of you and I'm thrilled for all of your families and friends as all of us join this great big Michigan family.

我為你們感到激動，也為你們的家人和朋友感到激動，因為我們大家都加入了密歇根這個大家庭。

I feel I've been a part of all of my life.

我覺得我的一生都是其中的一部分。

What I'm trying to tell you is I know exactly what it feels like to be sitting in your seat listening to some old gas bag.

我想告訴你的是，我很清楚坐在座位上聽一些老油條說話是什麼感覺。

I have a story about following dreams or maybe more accurately.

我有一個關於追夢的故事，或許更準確地說，是一個關於夢想的故事。

It's a story about finding a path to make those dreams real.

這是一個關於尋找實現夢想之路的故事。

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream.

你知道半夜被一個生動的夢驚醒是什麼感覺。

And you know how if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone.

你也知道，如果床邊沒有鉛筆和墊子，書就會完全不見了。

By the next morning, I had one of those dreams when I was 23.

第二天早上，我又做了一個 23 歲時的夢。

When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking what if we could download the whole web and just keep the links.

當我突然醒來時，我在想，如果我們能下載整個網絡，只保留鏈接，那該多好。

Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming.

有時候，醒來並停止做夢是很重要的。

I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work soon after I told my adviser, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web.

那天半夜，我潦草地寫下了細節，並在告訴我的指導老師特里-維諾格拉德我需要幾周時間才能下載網絡後，很快就說服了自己，相信它一定能成功。

He downloaded, he nodded knowingly fully aware.

他下載了，他很清楚地點點頭。

It would take much longer but wise enough not to tell me the optimism of youth is often underrated.

這需要更長的時間，但聰明的人不會告訴我，年輕人的樂觀往往被低估了。

Amazingly at that time, I have no thoughts of building a search engine.

令人驚訝的是，當時我還沒有建立搜索引擎的想法。

The idea wasn't even on the radar much later.

這個想法甚至在很久之後才出現。

We happened upon a better way of ranking and we made a really great search engine and Google was born when a really great dream shows up.

我們偶然發現了一種更好的排名方式，我們製作了一個非常棒的搜索引擎，當一個真正偉大的夢想出現時，谷歌就誕生了。

I'd actually been taught how to make dreams real.

實際上，我已經學會了如何讓夢想成真。

I know it sounds funny, but that is what I learned in a summer camp, converted into a training program called Leader Shape.

我知道這聽起來很滑稽，但這是我在夏令營中學到的，夏令營被轉換成了一個名為 "領袖塑造 "的培訓項目。

Their slogan is to have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

他們的口號是健康地漠視不可能。

That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea.

這個項目鼓勵我去追求一個瘋狂的想法。

At the time, I wanted to build a rapid personal rapid transit system on campus to replace the buses.

當時，我想在校園裡建造一個快速的個人捷運系統，以取代公共汽車。

I hear it was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.

我聽說這是一種解決交通問題的未來主義方式。

I still think a lot about transportation.

Many things people labor hard to do now, like cooking, cleaning and driving will require much less human time in the future.

人們現在費力做的許多事情，比如做飯、清潔和開車，在未來所需的人力時間將大大減少。

That is if we have a healthy disregard for the impossible and actually build the solutions.

但前提是，我們必須對不可能的事情抱有健康的漠視態度，並真正建立起解決方案。

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega ambitious dreams.

我認為，要實現宏大的夢想，往往更容易取得進展。

But since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

但是，由於沒有人瘋狂到去做這件事，所以你幾乎沒有競爭對手。

In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name, they travel as if they are pack dogs and they stick to each other like glue the best people want to work on the big challenges.

事實上，如此瘋狂的人少之又少，以至於我覺得我都能叫出他們的名字，他們旅行時就像群狗一樣，彼此如膠似漆。

Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

我們的使命是組織全世界的資訊，使其普遍可用和有用。

We almost didn't start Google actually because my co founder, Sergey and I were too worried about dropping out of the phd program.

實際上，我們差點沒有創辦谷歌，因為我和我的共同創始人謝爾蓋太擔心會從博士項目中退學。

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