拉里·埃里森个人性格形成、对人生和成功的深度思考
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | by the name of Ted Codd, Dr. Ted Codd at IBM. | 由泰德·科德(Ted Codd),特德·科德博士(Dr. |
| 0:02 | It's based on relational algebra and relational calculus. | 它基于关系代数和关系微积分. |
| 0:07 | It is a very mathematically rigorous form of data | 这是数学上非常严格的数据形式 |
| 0:13 | management that we can prove, mathematically prove, | 管理,我们可以证明, 数学证明, |
| 0:16 | to be functionally complete. | 在功能上是完整的。 |
| 0:19 | And this work was done in the early 70s by an IBM fellow | 这项工作是70年代早期由IBM的一位同事完成的 |
| 0:25 | 由Ted Codd医生命名. | |
| 0:27 | He published his papers. | 他发表论文. |
| 0:28 | And really based on those publications, | 根据那些出版物, |
| 0:30 | Oracle decided to see if we couldn't beat, well, four guys, | Oracle决定看看我们能不能打败四个人 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | by the name of Ted Codd, Dr. Ted Codd at IBM. | 由泰德·科德(Ted Codd),特德·科德博士(Dr. |
| 2 | It's based on relational algebra and relational calculus. | 它基于关系代数和关系微积分. |
| 3 | It is a very mathematically rigorous form of data | 这是数学上非常严格的数据形式 |
| 4 | management that we can prove, mathematically prove, | 管理,我们可以证明, 数学证明, |
| 5 | to be functionally complete. | 在功能上是完整的。 |
| 6 | And this work was done in the early 70s by an IBM fellow | 这项工作是70年代早期由IBM的一位同事完成的 |
| 7 | 由Ted Codd医生命名. | |
| 8 | He published his papers. | 他发表论文. |
| 9 | And really based on those publications, | 根据那些出版物, |
| 10 | Oracle decided to see if we couldn't beat, well, four guys, | Oracle决定看看我们能不能打败四个人 |
| 11 | me and three other guys, see if we couldn't beat IBM to market | 我和另外三个人 看能不能打败IBM到市场去 |
| 12 | with this technology based on the published IBM research | 根据IBM的研究成果 |
| 13 | papers. | 报纸 |
| 14 | And in fact, we did. | 事实上,我们做到了。 |
| 15 | There are lots of times, especially in the early days, | 很多时候,特别是在早期, |
| 16 | that were very, very difficult. | 这非常,非常困难。 |
| 17 | I think the most difficult | 我觉得最难的 |
| 18 | experience I had was in 1990 when Oracle had its only | 我在1990年的经历,当时甲骨文只有 |
| 19 | lost quarter in history. | 失去历史的四分之一。 |
| 20 | And we've been in business for 20 years. | 我们做生意已经20年了 |
| 21 | We lost money one quarter. | 我们输了四分之一 |
| 22 | And we had a very difficult time because we had doubled | 我们经历了一个非常困难的时间 因为我们翻了一番 |
| 23 | our sales virtually every year for 10 years, 9 out of 10 | 10年来,我们几乎每年都有销量 10分之9 |
| 24 | years, 10 out of 11 years. | 年,十一年中十载. |
| 25 | It was really quite an amazing run. | 这真是一次惊人的跑步。 |
| 26 | We were the fastest growing company in history. | 我们是历史上发展最快的公司。 |
| 27 | We still are the fastest growing company in history | 我们仍然是历史上发展最快的公司 |
| 28 | over a long period of time. | 在很长一段时间。 |
| 29 | And suddenly, we'd hit a wall. | 突然间,我们撞上了墙 |
| 30 | We reached a billion dollars in revenue. | 我们的收入达到了10亿美元。 |
| 31 | And we were having serious management problems | 我们遇到了严重的管理问题 |
| 32 | all over the place. | 遍满一切处. |
| 33 | And the people who were running the company, the | 还有那些经营公司的人 |
| 34 | billion dollar company, were the same people that run the | 10亿美元的公司, 是同样的人 运营 |
| 35 | company when we were a $50 million company, | 公司,当我们是5000万美元的公司, |
| 36 | one 20th the size. | 20码 |
| 37 | And I had an incredible sense of loyalty to those people | 我对这些人的忠诚感令人难以置信 |
| 38 | who'd worked with me to build Oracle. | 他曾和我一起建造甲骨文 |
| 39 | And it was a very painful realization in 1990 that I was | 在1990年我痛苦地意识到 |
| 40 | going to have to change the management team, that the | 将不得不改变管理团队, |
| 41 | company had outgrown the management, that people who | 公司已经超越管理, 人谁 |
| 42 | were good at running a $50 million company are not | 本来很擅长经营五千万的公司 |
| 43 | necessarily, those aren't the same skills. | 肯定不是一样的技能 |
| 44 | They're just different, not one is better or worse. | 他们只是不同, 没有一个更好或更糟。 |
| 45 | They're just an entirely different skill set in running | 他们只是跑步技巧完全不同 |
| 46 | a $50 million company than a billion dollar company. | 5千万美元公司比10亿美元公司。 |
| 47 | And both skill sets are rare and precious. | 这两套技能都很珍贵 |
| 48 | But we needed a different group of managers. | 但我们需要不同的经理 |
| 49 | And virtually, the entire management team | 实际上,整个管理团队 |
| 50 | had to be replaced. | 不得不替换。 |
| 51 | And that means I had to ask people who I'd worked with for | 这意味着我不得不问人们 我曾经为谁工作 |
| 52 | a decade to leave. | 十年后离开。 |
| 53 | I had to fire people. | 我不得不解雇别人。 |
| 54 | And that was the most difficult, the most difficult | 这是最困难的,最困难的 |
| 55 | thing I had to do in business, asking a bunch of | 生意上我必须做的事, 问一堆 |
| 56 | people to leave Oracle. | 人们离开甲骨文。 |
| 57 | I had no choice. | 我别无选择 |
| 58 | I didn't have to either ask them to leave Oracle or | 我不必要求他们离开甲骨文或 |
| 59 | everyone would have to leave Oracle because there wouldn't | 每个人都必须离开甲骨文 因为没有 |
| 60 | be any Oracle left. | 成为任何甲骨文。 |
| 61 | So in that sense, it was a simple choice. | 所以从这个意义上讲,这是一个简单的选择。 |
| 62 | It was thousands of people worked at Oracle. | 是成千上万的人在甲骨文工作。 |
| 63 | They deserve the best leadership we could find. | 他们应该得到我们能找到的最佳领导。 |
| 64 | And my primary responsibility was to the company and all of | 我的主要责任是公司和所有 |
| 65 | the staff, all of our shareholders, and all of our | 员工,我们所有股东,以及我们所有 |
| 66 | customers. | 顾客 |
| 67 | And therefore, I had to choose. | 因此,我不得不选择。 |
| 68 | And if I couldn't make that decision, then I had to go. | 如果我不能做那个决定,那我得走了。 |
| 69 | I was absolutely shocked the way we treated the Iraqis. | 我非常震惊我们对待伊拉克人的方式。 |
| 70 | We were incredibly aggressive against them. | 我们对他们非常攻击 |
| 71 | And was that really right? | 是真的吗? |
| 72 | Couldn't we have done that at different? | 我们不能在不同的场合做吗? |
| 73 | I'm being sarcastic, by the way. | 顺便说一句,我在讽刺你 |
| 74 | Of course, we're aggressive against the Iraqis. | 当然,我们侵略伊拉克人。 |
| 75 | They invaded Kuwait. | 他们入侵科威特。 |
| 76 | They were threatening our oil supplies. | 他们威胁我们的石油供应。 |
| 77 | They were threatening the world order. | 他们威胁着世界秩序。 |
| 78 | And of course, it was the job of our armed forces to defeat | 当然,我们军队的任务就是打败他们 |
| 79 | the enemy. | 敌人 |
| 80 | It is my job to go out in the marketplace and win. | 我的工作是去市场赢 |
| 81 | And we run ads that compare our products to the competitor's | 我们运行广告 比较我们的产品与竞争者 |
| 82 | products. | 产品。 |
| 83 | We don't lie about that. | 我们对此不说谎。 |
| 84 | We just say, we can do this. | 我们只是说,我们可以做到这一点。 |
| 85 | They can't. | 他们不能。 |
| 86 | We name the competition. | 我们给竞争者起名 |
| 87 | It's fact-based advertising. | 以事实为主的广告. |
| 88 | And we say very clearly that we're faster. | 我们非常明确地说,我们的速度更快。 |
| 89 | And these tests prove it. | 这些测试证明了这一点。 |
| 90 | We're more reliable. | 我们更可靠。 |
| 91 | And these tests prove it. | 这些测试证明了这一点。 |
| 92 | We're more economical. | 我们比较经济 |
| 93 | And so we'll name a competitor. | 故举一相者. |
| 94 | That's not terribly, even though the facts are true, | 虽然事实确实如此 |
| 95 | it's considered a little bit rude by some people. | 有些人认为这是有点粗鲁。 |
| 96 | I don't think it's immoral. | 我不认为这是不道德的。 |
| 97 | I think that we are giving true facts to customers, giving | 我认为我们是在向客户提供真实的事实 |
| 98 | valuable information to customers so they can make | 给顾客提供有价值的信息 |
| 99 | better decisions. | 更好的决定。 |
| 100 | It is Bill Gates' job to make Microsoft the biggest company | 比尔·盖茨的工作是让微软成为最大的公司 |
| 101 | on Earth. | 在地球上。 。 。 |
| 102 | That's what he's paid for. | 即他酬劳. |
| 103 | It's my job for Oracle to move from the number two software | 我的工作是甲骨文从二号软件搬走 |
| 104 | company in the world to become the number one software company | 成为世界第一的软件公司 |
| 105 | in the world. | 在这个世界。 |
| 106 | That's my job. | 这是我的工作。 |
| 107 | That's what I'm paid for. | 即受薪报. |
| 108 | If I'm not aggressive enough in the pursuit of that, if I'm | 如果我不够积极 追求这一点,如果我 |
| 109 | not successful in the pursuit of that, I should be gotten | 不成功追求, 我应该得到 |
| 110 | rid of. | 摆脱。 |
| 111 | If a general running Desert Storm is not aggressive enough | 如果一个将军跑的沙漠风暴不够猛烈 |
| 112 | and successful enough in the pursuit of that goal, he | 在追求这个目标的过程中,他取得了相当的成功, |
| 113 | should be fired. | 应该被开除。 |
| 114 | The corporation's primary goal is to defeat the competition | 公司的首要目标是打败竞争对手 |
| 115 | in the marketplace. | 在市场。 |
| 116 | I think that my primary function is to make Oracle | 我认为我的首要职能是使甲骨文 |
| 117 | successful, to make it a good and interesting place to work | 成功,让它成为一个好和有趣的工作场所 |
| 118 | because we don't want people to leave. | 因为我们不希望人们离开。 |
| 119 | This is America. | 这里是美国。 |
| 120 | People can change jobs. | 人们可以改变工作 |
| 121 | And people like to work with other intelligent and | 人们喜欢与其他聪明人合作 |
| 122 | interesting people. | 有趣的人。 。 。 |
| 123 | They like to do interesting things. | 他们喜欢做有趣的事情。 |
| 124 | We have fantastic salary scales. | 我们有很棒的薪级表 |
| 125 | I think we're the highest paying company in Silicon | 我想我们是硅公司最高的 |
| 126 | Valley where we have wonderful benefits, all of these things. | 谷,我们在那里有很好的好处, 所有这些东西。 |
| 127 | But again, don't mistake any of that for altruism. | 但再说一遍,不要把任何这些都误认为是利他主义. |
| 128 | That is in our interest to retain our employees. | 留住员工符合我们的利益。 |
| 129 | Their job, my job, is to build better products in the | 他们的工作,我的工作, 是建造更好的产品在 |
| 130 | competition, sell those products in the marketplace, | 在市场上销售这些产品, |
| 131 | and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being | 并最终取代微软,从现在 |
| 132 | number two to number one. | 2号呼叫1号 |
| 133 | That is our reason for being. | 这是我们存在的理由。 |
| 134 | Oracle is the number one software company in the world | 甲骨文是世界第一的软件公司 |
| 135 | for providing technology to manage information. | 提供管理信息的技术。 |
| 136 | But we're only the number two software company, number one | 但我们只是第二家软件公司,第一 |
| 137 | software company for information management, number | 信息管理软件公司,编号 |
| 138 | two software company overall. | 2个软件公司。 |
| 139 | Microsoft is the number one software company. | 微软是第一软件公司. |
| 140 | But right now, we're living at the dawn of the information | 但是现在,我们生活在信息黎明 |
| 141 | age, not the dawn of the PC age. | 年龄,而不是PC时代的黎明。 |
| 142 | So we're wonderfully positioned to pass Microsoft and | 所以我们非常适合通过微软 |
| 143 | become number one. | 成为第一。 |
| 144 | That's my job. | 这是我的工作。 |
| 145 | Personal computer was designed as a standalone device. | 个人电脑被设计为一个独立的设备. |
| 146 | There was no internet around 1981 when the PC was invented. | 1981年发明电脑时没有互联网。 |
| 147 | We're in a lot of local area networks and corporations and | 我们有很多局域网和公司 |
| 148 | schools and government agencies back in 1981. | 1981年的学校和政府机构。 |
| 149 | The world has changed. | 世界变了 |
| 150 | There are networks everywhere around the world, in offices, | 世界各地都有网络 在办公室里 |
| 151 | in schools, in major governments and institutions. | 在学校、主要政府和机构中。 |
| 152 | So why not have computer networks that are similar to | 因此,为什么不建立类似于 |
| 153 | television networks or telephone networks? | 电视网还是电话网? |
| 154 | A television network is enormously complicated. | 电视网非常复杂。 |
| 155 | It's got satellites and microwave relay stations and | 它有卫星和微波中继站 |
| 156 | cable head ends and recording studios. | 电缆头端和录音室. |
| 157 | And you have this huge professionally managed network | 你有一个巨大的专业管理网络 |
| 158 | accessed by a very low cost and simple | 费用非常低而且简单 |
| 159 | appliance, the television. | 电器 电视 |
| 160 | Anyone can learn how to use television. | 任何人都可以学习如何使用电视. |
| 161 | 97% of American households have televisions. | 97%的美国家庭有电视机. |
| 162 | 94% of American households have telephones. | 94%的美国家庭有电话. |
| 163 | Telephone, again, a very simple appliance attached to | 电话,再次,一个非常简单的电器 附加在 |
| 164 | enormously complex, professionally managed network. | 极其复杂,专业管理的网络。 |
| 165 | Why shouldn't the computer network be just the same? | 为什么电脑网络不应该一样? |
| 166 | I decided to go into the computer business in college. | 我决定去大学做电脑生意 |
| 167 | I started working part time programming. | 我开始兼职编程 |
| 168 | I found it in a very short period of time. | 我在很短的时间内找到的 |
| 169 | I could make more money writing programs than a tenured | 我可以赚更多的钱写节目 比一个任期 |
| 170 | professor at the University of Chicago was making. | 芝加哥大学的教授正在制作 |
| 171 | And I was a teenager. | 我那时还是个青少年 |
| 172 | And I said, this is kind of cool. | 我说,这很酷 |
| 173 | And it was also fun. | 而且还很有趣。 |
| 174 | It was like a big game. | 这就像一个大游戏。 |
| 175 | It was like working on puzzles. | 这就像工作 谜题。 |
| 176 | So I enjoyed it. | 所以我喜欢它。 |
| 177 | It paid extremely well. | 薪水很高 |
| 178 | I could work at home. | 我可以在家里工作。 。 |
| 179 | I could work at my own hours. | 我可以在自己的时间工作。 |
| 180 | No one quite. | 没人知道 |
| 181 | And I closely associated with computers because they were | 我和电脑关系密切,因为它们 |
| 182 | absolutely a slave to reason. | 绝对是理性的奴隶 |
| 183 | They knew nothing about fashion. | 他们对时尚一无所知 |
| 184 | They were completely illogical. | 他们完全不合逻辑 |
| 185 | And I enjoyed spending time with them. | 我很喜欢和他们在一起 |
| 186 | So I liked what I was doing. | 所以我喜欢我在做什么。 |
| 187 | It was very profitable. | 利润很高 |
| 188 | It was very creative. | 很有创意 |
| 189 | And it also gave me immediate feedback. | 这也给了我即时的反馈。 |
| 190 | I could start writing a program. | 我可以开始写一个程序。 |
| 191 | And within several hours, I could have a result. | 几个小时内,我就能得到结果 |
| 192 | Freud defines maturity as the ability to defer | 弗洛伊德将成熟定义为推迟的能力 |
| 193 | gratification. | 欢喜. |
| 194 | And the great thing about programming is you don't have | 编程的伟大之处在于你没有 |
| 195 | to be mature at all. | 成熟一点 |
| 196 | Because you don't have to defer gratification for more | 因为你不必再推迟满足了 |
| 197 | than a few hours. | 超过几个小时。 |
| 198 | You get wonderful, tight feedback. | 你得到了美妙, 紧张的反馈。 |
| 199 | And it's a lot of fun. | 亦复多乐. |
| 200 | And that's characteristic of both games and sports. | 这也是游戏和运动的特征. |
| 201 | The reason why games and sports are so popular is | 游戏和运动如此流行的原因是 |
| 202 | because you win or lose very quickly. | 因为你赢或输的很快。 |
| 203 | You get immediate feedback. | 你马上得到反馈 |
| 204 | It's a very tight loop. | 这是一个非常紧的循环。 |
| 205 | You don't wait hours or days or years before you find out if | 你不等待数小时、数天或数年 才能发现 |
| 206 | you're winning or losing. | 你赢还是输? |
| 207 | You find out a second and a half after you release that | 你放出来后会发现的 |
| 208 | basketball, you know whether it's gone in or not. | 篮球,你知道它是不是不见了。 |
| 209 | It was in school. | 那是在学校里 |
| 210 | And they noticed when I was writing programs for school | 他们注意到当我为学校写课程时 |
| 211 | that I was getting done faster than everybody else. | 我做得比其他人都快 |
| 212 | So they offered me a job. | 他们给了我一份工作 |
| 213 | And I figured out very, very quickly that rather than being | 我发现非常,非常快 而不是成为 |
| 214 | paid by the hour, I was much better off being paid by the | 小时支付,我更好 由支付 |
| 215 | program. | 程序。 |
| 216 | So I was working for the university. | 所以我在大学工作 |
| 217 | And then I started doing consulting for local | 然后我开始为本地咨询 |
| 218 | businesses. | 企业。 |
| 219 | And that worked very well. | 这很有效 |
| 220 | I don't think my personality has changed much since I was | 我想我的个性没有多大变化 |
| 221 | five years old. | 5岁 |
| 222 | I think, as I explained to the kids just a little while ago, | 我想,正如我刚刚向孩子们解释的那样, |
| 223 | probably the single most important aspect of my | 可能是我最重要的一个方面 |
| 224 | personality as far as determining my success has | 就决定我的成功而言 |
| 225 | been my questioning of conventional wisdom, my | 我对传统智慧的质疑 |
| 226 | doubting of experts just because they're experts, and | 怀疑专家只是因为他们是专家, |
| 227 | questioning of authority. | 质疑权威。 |
| 228 | And while that can be very, very painful in terms of your | 虽然这对你来说是非常非常痛苦的 |
| 229 | relationship with your parents and your relationship with | 与父母的关系和与父母的关系 |
| 230 | your teachers, it's enormously useful in life. | 你的老师,这在生活中非常有用。 |
| 231 | I was adopted within my own family when I was nine months | 我9个月时在自己家里被收养 |
| 232 | old. | 岁. |
| 233 | I was born in New York City. | 我出生在纽约市。 |
| 234 | My mother was 19. | 我妈妈19岁 |
| 235 | She wasn't married and really was unable to care for me. | 她没有结婚 而且真的不能照顾我 |
| 236 | I tried until I was nine months old. | 我试了到9个月大 |
| 237 | And then I was adopted by my maternal aunt and uncle in | 后来我被姨妈和叔叔收养 |
| 238 | Chicago and moved to Chicago, the south side of Chicago. | 芝加哥后搬到芝加哥,芝加哥南侧. |
| 239 | I'll never again complain about a bad neighborhood, | 我不会再抱怨一个坏邻居了 |
| 240 | moving from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a still | 从曼哈顿下东区搬到静静 |
| 241 | worse neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. | 芝加哥南边更糟糕的街区 |
| 242 | So after my ninth month, I kept my mouth shut about the | 所以在我9个月之后 我闭口不提 |
| 243 | neighborhood. | 邻里 |
| 244 | I believed until I was 12 years old that I was not | 我12岁之前一直相信自己不是 |
| 245 | adopted. | 通过。 |
| 246 | I had no idea that I was adopted within my own family. | 我都不知道自己是被领养的 |
| 247 | So again, I don't attribute very much of my life, my | 再说一次,我一生中 不太喜欢我的 |
| 248 | personality to my adoption. | 性格对我的收养。 |
| 249 | I do attribute an awful lot to my relationship with my | 我把我和我的感情 归咎于很多 |
| 250 | father, who was a Russian immigrant, came here, was very, | 父亲是俄罗斯移民,来到这里,非常, |
| 251 | poor, dearly loved this country as only an immigrant | 贫穷,深爱这个国家,只爱移民 |
| 252 | can, loved our government as only an immigrant can. | 爱我们的政府,只有移民才能 |
| 253 | He was a pilot in World War II, a bomber pilot. | 他在二战中是飞行员,轰炸机飞行员. |
| 254 | He really had the philosophy of my country right or wrong. | 他确实有我国的哲学是非。 |
| 255 | He never questioned the government's policies, never | 他从来没有质疑过政府的政策,从来没有 |
| 256 | questioned authority, and didn't really want me to | 质疑权威, 并不想我 |
| 257 | question authority. | 问题权威。 |
| 258 | I had some teachers when I was very young that I thought | 小时候我有些老师 我想 |
| 259 | were telling me things that weren't true. | 刚才告诉我的不是事实 |
| 260 | And when I tried to ask questions, they basically | 当我试图问, 他们基本上 |
| 261 | wanted me to basically pare it back what they said. | 希望我按他们说的做 |
| 262 | They really weren't interested in the discourse | 他们真的对谈话不感兴趣 |
| 263 | with a child or a debate with a child. | 与子女或与子女辩论。 |
| 264 | They said, this was true, and you are smart if you can | 他们说,这是真的,你很聪明,如果你能 |
| 265 | repeat back to me exactly what I said to you. | 重复我对你说的 |
| 266 | And I had a real problem with that as well. | 我也有一个真正的问题。 |
| 267 | So I had very strong authoritarian figures, both in | 所以我有很强的专制人物,在 |
| 268 | school and at home, which served as wonderful examples | 在学校和家里,这成为了很好的例子 |
| 269 | of how not to be. | 如何不成为。 |
| 270 | My mom was supportive, and I had a mixture of teachers. | 我妈妈支持我,我还有老师 |
| 271 | Some of the teachers were wonderful, and some of the | 有些老师很棒,有些老师... |
| 272 | teachers were awful. | 老师真糟糕 |
| 273 | But the awful teachers served a good purpose in terms | 但是那些糟糕的老师 却有很好的目的 |
| 274 | of being a bad example. | 是一个不好的例子。 |
| 275 | All examples are good. | 所有的例子都是好的。 |
| 276 | Bad examples are useful. | 坏例子是有用的。 |
| 277 | Good examples are useful. | 良好的例子是有用的。 |
| 278 | And it taught me to question experts, to question | 它教会我质疑专家,质疑 |
| 279 | authority figures. | 权威人物。 |
| 280 | Don't assume just because they're an authority or even | 别以为他们只是权威 |
| 281 | just because they're an expert that they're right. | 只是因为他们是专家 他们是正确的。 |
| 282 | In other words, think things out for yourself. | 换句话说,你自己想想 |
| 283 | Come to your own judgments. | 由你自己来判断 |
| 284 | Don't simply conform to conventional ways of thinking, | 不要简单地遵守传统的思维方式, |
| 285 | conventional ways of dressing, conventional ways of acting. | 传统着装方式 传统行动方式 |
| 286 | That a lot of things are based on fashion. | 很多事情都基于时尚 |
| 287 | Even morality, at times, is based on fashion. | 甚至道德,有时也是基于时尚. |
| 288 | Slavery was once considered not to be immoral. | 奴隶制曾经被认为是不道德的。 |
| 289 | People are shocked that the ancient Greeks had slaves, | 人们感到震惊的是,古希腊人有奴隶, |
| 290 | that we had slavery in this country as recently as | 我们最近在这个国家有奴隶制 |
| 291 | 130, 140 years ago. | 130年,140年前开始. |
| 292 | So there are moral facts. | 所以有道德事实。 |
| 293 | You have to really go back to first principles and think | 你必须要重新思考第一原则 |
| 294 | things out for yourself, whether they're scientific | 为自己着想,不管它们是否科学 |
| 295 | principles, or moral principles, or business | 原则,或道德原则,或企业 |
| 296 | ideas, or product ideas. | 想法,或产品想法。 |
| 297 | You have to think things out for yourself. | 你得为自己想想办法 |
| 298 | I don't know if you watched the movie Independence Day, but | 我不知道你有没有看电影 独立日,但 |
| 299 | the discourse between the father and the son in | 父亲和儿子在 |
| 300 | Independence Day, where the father said, the government | 独立日,父亲说,政府 |
| 301 | knows everything. | 知一切处. |
| 302 | The government has experts for everything. | 政府什么都有专家 |
| 303 | If they want HBO, they'll call you on it again. | 如果他们想要HBO,他们会再打电话给你。 |
| 304 | I don't know if you saw this. | 我不知道你有没有看到这个 |
| 305 | But I think it's this notion that we really can't | 但我认为我们真的不能 |
| 306 | understand, but the government is always right. | 但政府总是对的 |
| 307 | We really can't understand, but our teachers are always | 我们真的无法理解 但我们的老师总是 |
| 308 | right. | 对 |
| 309 | We really can't understand, but our clergymen are always | 我们真的不明白 但我们的神职人员总是 |
| 310 | right. | 对 |
| 311 | And just use them as your sole beacons in life, and don't | 把它们当作生命中唯一的灯塔 不要 |
| 312 | try to figure these things out on your own, because you | 试着自己解决这些事情 因为你 |
| 313 | really can't. | 实在不能。 |
| 314 | You're not smart enough. | 你不够聪明 |
| 315 | And just find the appropriate experts, and | 只要找到合适的专家, |
| 316 | follow their light. | 跟着他们的光 |
| 317 | I think we're born slaves to reason. | 我想我们是天生的奴隶来解释 |
| 318 | And it's really reason that's beaten out of us through a | 这才是我们被打败的真正原因 |
| 319 | process of trying to please our teachers. | 试图取悦我们的老师 |
| 320 | I think we have two fundamental drives in our | 我想我们有两个基本动力 |
| 321 | life. | 活着 |
| 322 | We want to be loved, and we want to please people. | 我们想要被爱,我们想要取悦人们. |
| 323 | And we know how to think. | 我们知道如何思考。 |
| 324 | We know how to reason. | 我们知道如何解释。 |
| 325 | And these are often quite at odds, because we're asked to | 这些常常是相当的矛盾,因为我们被要求 |
| 326 | believe in certain things, and believe certain things are | 相信某些东西,相信某些东西 |
| 327 | correct, that we have to wear our hair a certain length and | 是的,我们必须穿 我们的头发一定长度, |
| 328 | dress a certain way. | 换个衣服 |
| 329 | And if you want to be loved, you want to be accepted by | 如果你想被爱,你想被接受 |
| 330 | your peers, you want to be accepted by your family. | 你们的同伴,你们想被家人接受 |
| 331 | There's a tension there. | 那边很紧张 |
| 332 | And sometimes we're pleasing our parents. | 有时我们喜欢我们的父母。 |
| 333 | Sometimes we're pleasing our peers. | 有时候我们喜欢我们的同伴。 |
| 334 | But we're often just conforming to some fashion, | 但是我们常常只适应时尚 |
| 335 | figuring out what the group wants from us, and then | 找出团体想要我们做什么 然后 |
| 336 | conforming to that, because we want to be | 符合这一点,因为我们想 |
| 337 | accepted and loved. | 接受和爱。 |
| 338 | There's this other fundamental drive inside of us, where | 我们内心还有另一个基本动力 |
| 339 | there's often tension between the two. | 两者经常有矛盾. |
| 340 | And that is the ability to think, the ability to reason, | 这就是思考的能力 理性的能力 |
| 341 | the ability to come to conclusions as to what works | * 能够就什么行之有效得出结论 |
| 342 | and what doesn't, what's fair and what's not fair, what's | 及何所不见,何等为公,何等为公. |
| 343 | right and what's wrong. | 正确和什么是错的。 |
| 344 | And when fashion and the pursuit of love is in conflict | 当时尚与追求爱情相冲突时 |
| 345 | with reason, too often fashion and the pursuit of love wins. | 以理性,太常时尚 追求爱情获胜。 |
| 346 | In my case, it didn't. | 就我而言,它没有。 |
| 347 | I did not give fashionable answers to questions. | 我没有给问题提供时髦的答案。 |
| 348 | And that's what shocks people. | 这就是震撼人们的原因。 |
| 349 | Because when you ask a question, you expect everyone | 因为当你问一个问题, 你期望每个人 |
| 350 | to answer it exactly the same way. | 用同样的方式回答 |
| 351 | In fact, you really don't need to ask the question, because | 事实上 你真的不需要问这个问题 因为... |
| 352 | this is the fashionable answer. | 这是时髦的答案。 |
| 353 | And whenever you give an answer that you think about it, your | 当你给出一个答案,你思考它,你的 |
| 354 | own answer, what you really believe to be true rather than | 自己的答案,你真正相信的 是真实的而不是 |
| 355 | the fashion answer, people are sometimes shocked, amused, or | 时尚的答案,人们有时会震惊,欢乐,或者 |
| 356 | even horrified, depending on the question. | 甚至惊骇,取决于问题。 |
| 357 | I don't think it's paradoxical at all. | 我不觉得这有什么矛盾 |
| 358 | I think they're similar. | 我觉得他们很相似 |
| 359 | We as human beings are endlessly curious about | 我们人类无穷无尽的好奇 |
| 360 | ourselves, and we love to test ourselves constantly. | 我们喜欢不断考验自己 |
| 361 | And we find all sorts of arenas to test ourselves in. | 我们找到各种竞技场来测试自己 |
| 362 | And right now, I have the fastest racing sailboat in the | 现在,我拥有最快的赛车帆船 |
| 363 | world, maybe the fastest racing sailboat in history. | 世界,也许是历史上最快的赛车帆船 |
| 364 | Sayonara已经比赛了26次。 | |
| 365 | We have 24 firsts and two seconds. | 我们有24个第一和2秒。 |
| 366 | And I'm discovering all sorts of things about me as I race | 我赛跑时发现了我身上的各种东西 |
| 367 | that boat. | 那个船 |
| 368 | I discover all sorts of things about me every day as Oracle | 我每天都以甲骨文的身份发现我的一切 |
| 369 | competes with Microsoft for supremacy in the software | 与微软竞争软件中的至高无上地位 |
| 370 | world. | 这个世界 |
| 371 | So there's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong that says, | 所以有一句美妙的谚语说, |
| 372 | why did you climb the mountain? | 你为什么爬山? |
| 373 | I climbed the mountain because it was there. | 我爬山是因为那里 |
| 374 | That is utter nonsense. | 这完全是胡说八道。 |
| 375 | It's ludicrous and absurd. | 既可笑又荒谬. |
| 376 | You climbed the mountain because you were there, and | 你爬山是因为你在那里, |
| 377 | you were curious if you could do it. | 你很好奇你能不能做到这一点。 |
| 378 | You wondered what it would be like. | 你想知道那会是什么样子 |
| 379 | You wondered what the view was from the top. | 你想知道从上面看什么? |
| 380 | And that's how we explore. | 这就是我们如何探索。 |
| 381 | The thing that we're most interested in is exploring our | 我们最感兴趣的是探索 |
| 382 | own limits and exploring our relationship with others. | 探索我们与他人的关系 |
| 383 | We're much more interested in each other and ourself than we | 我们彼此和我们自己比我们更感兴趣 |
| 384 | are everything else. | 还有其他的 |
| 385 | I think there are two things important in life, and that's | 我觉得有两件事很重要 在生活中,这就是 |
| 386 | self-discovery, learning about yourself and your | 自我发现 了解自己和你的 |
| 387 | relationship with others. | 与他人的关系。 |
| 388 | And I spend my entire life in those two areas. | 我一生都在这两个领域度过。 |
| 389 | So balance is interesting. | 因此,平衡是有趣的。 |
| 390 | Play versus work. | 玩对工作。 |
| 391 | What is play? | 什么是游戏? |
| 392 | What is work? | 什么是工作吗? |
| 393 | Divide it to me. | 分给我 |
| 394 | Is work something you get paid for and play | 是工作,你得到报酬,玩 |
| 395 | something you don't? | 一些你没有的东西? |
| 396 | I put a lot of work into my flying. | 我为飞行做了很多工作 |
| 397 | I put a lot of work into my sailing. | 我把我的很多工作 在我的航行。 |
| 398 | I used to play tournament chess. | 我曾经参加过比赛 |
| 399 | I put a lot of work into that. | 我为此做了很多工作。 |
| 400 | And they were all forms of exploration. | 它们都是探索的形式。 |
| 401 | I put a lot of work into my job where I get paid. | 我为我的工作投入了大量工作 在那里我得到了报酬。 |
| 402 | But they're all kind of in pursuit of the same thing, in | 但他们都在追求同样的事情,在 |
| 403 | pursuit of self-discovery and discovery of my own limits. | 追求自我发现,发现自己的极限. |
| 404 | And an accumulation of world experiences that | 和积累的世界经验 |
| 405 | give me a world view. | 给我一个世界观。 |
| 406 | The best thing about my life is the people I get to meet | 我一生中最美好的事就是能见到的人 |
| 407 | these days. | 这些天。 |
| 408 | If there's any advantage in celebrity, it is you get to | 如果名人有什么优势,那就是你 |
| 409 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}见个面 {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}见个面 | |
| 410 | Walter Cronkite and I went out sailing on Sayonara. | 沃尔特·克伦基特和我去了萨约纳拉岛 |
| 411 | And I've known Walter for a while. | 我认识沃尔特很久了 |
| 412 | And we went from being casual acquaintances through business | 我们从临时熟人到生意 |
| 413 | to being friends. | 成为朋友。 |
| 414 | And he's just an extraordinary man who's lived an | 他只是一个非凡的人 他活了 |
| 415 | extraordinary life. | 不寻常的生活。 |
| 416 | And I could sit for hours listening to he and his wife | 我可以坐上几个小时 听他和他的妻子 |
| 417 | tell stories. | 讲故事。 |
| 418 | I can give you lots of examples of wonderful people | 我可以给你很多好人的例子 |
| 419 | I've met, one of whom is here, Michael Milken, a man who was | 我见过,其中一人在这里,迈克尔・米尔根, 一个男人谁曾经是 |
| 420 | singled out as the symbol of evil and greed of the 1980s. | 1980年代的邪恶和贪婪的象征 |
| 421 | This is one of the most humane and gifted men I've ever met | 这是我见过最人道最有天赋的人之一 |
| 422 | in my life. | 在我的生命中,我曾经是 |
| 423 | Michael has raised more money for cancer research than any | 迈克尔为癌症研究筹集的钱 比任何钱都多 |
| 424 | other human being on Earth. | 地球上的其他人类 |
| 425 | Michael has been dedicated to education for 20 years. | 迈克尔20年来一直致力于教育. |
| 426 | And because of someone's political advantage, they | 因为某人的政治优势,他们 |
| 427 | decided to put him in jail for crimes that no one before | 决定把他关进监狱 因为以前没有人犯过罪 |
| 428 | since has done. | 从此结束了 |
| 429 | And it's not terribly fashionable to be a huge | 做个大人物并不时髦 |
| 430 | supporter of Michael Milken. | 迈克尔·米尔肯的支持者. |
| 431 | I'm honored to have him as my friend. | 我很荣幸他能成为我的朋友 |
| 432 | And I think he has made incredible contributions to | 我认为他为 |
| 433 | humankind already with a lot more coming up. | 人类已经有很多了 |
| 434 | So it's a long list of wonderful people that I've | 因此,这是一个长列表 优秀的人,我已经 |
| 435 | met and wonderful relationships that I work at | 相遇和美好的关系 我工作在 |
| 436 | that has enriched my life. | 这丰富了我的生活。 |
| 437 | And I suppose therein, and I think therein, is the balance | 我猜想,其中将有平衡, |
| 438 | between self-exploration and building | 自我探索和建筑之间 |
| 439 | relationships with others. | 与他人的关系。 |
| 440 | And that are the important things in life. | 这是生活中最重要的事情。 |
| 441 | I think Winston Churchill has a wonderful quote, which is, | 我认为温斯顿·丘吉尔有一句美妙的引言,那就是, |
| 442 | make a living by what you get. | 以所得为生. |
| 443 | You make a life by what you give. | 以所施为生. |
| 444 | I think if we live intelligently, we devise a | 我想如果我们有智慧的生活, 我们设计一个 |
| 445 | strategy to intelligently pursue happiness. | 明智地追求幸福的策略 |
| 446 | And there should be a book saying the intelligent | 应该有一本书说聪明人 |
| 447 | pursuit of happiness, Hitchhiker's Guide. | 追求幸福,希契克指南. |
| 448 | But there isn't such a book. | 但是没有这样的书。 |
| 449 | But there should be. | 但应该有 |
| 450 | And I think more than anything else, that's what all of us | 我比什么都想,这就是我们所有人 |
| 451 | need is this guide to how to intelligently pursue | 需要这个指南 如何明智地追求 |
| 452 | happiness. | 快乐 |
| 453 | I mean, Jefferson guaranteed our right to do it. | 我的意思是,杰斐逊保证 我们这样做的权利。 |
| 454 | But no, he didn't give us a map. | 但他没给我们地图 |
| 455 | And I think we should think of altruism, giving, as a | 我认为我们应该考虑利他主义, 给予,作为一个 |
| 456 | strategy for happiness. | 快乐的策略 |
| 457 | Forget the morality of it all. | 忘却一切道德. |
| 458 | That's the right thing to do. | 即是正觉. |
| 459 | Instead, think of it as something totally in your | 反之,把它当做完全的东西 在你的 |
| 460 | self-interest. | 自私自利。 |
| 461 | If you can help others, you will feel great. | 如果你能帮助别人,你会感觉很好。 |
| 462 | The more you can help, the more intelligently you can | 帮助越多,你就越聪明 |
| 463 | help, the bigger lever you can get on the world to make it | 帮助,你可以得到更大的杠杆 在世界上让它 |
| 464 | better, the better you will feel about yourself, the more | 越好,你会感觉越好 |
| 465 | joy you will experience. | 你会经历的快乐 |
| 466 | That is the road to bliss. | 这就是幸福之路。 |
| 467 | That is the intelligent pursuit of happiness. | 这就是对幸福的智慧追求。 |
| 468 | And that is what we should do. | 这就是我们应该做的。 |
| 469 | That is my argument for giving, not simply that it's | 这是我给的论据 不仅仅是 |
| 470 | the right and moral thing to do. | 做正确和道德的事情。 |
| 471 | It happens to also be that. | 恰巧也是这样 |
| 472 | But I don't find that as persuasive as persuasive as | 但我不觉得有说服力 |
| 473 | that is the road to happiness. | 这是通往幸福之路。 |
| 474 | The most deeply afraid I can remember being was once my | 最深的恐惧,我可以记得 曾经是我的 |
| 475 | mother came. | 妈妈来了 |
| 476 | I guess I was five. | 我想我五岁了 |
| 477 | And my mother worked. | 我妈妈也工作过 |
| 478 | I think I was a little older, because I might have been six. | 我想我年纪有点大 因为我可能已经六岁了 |
| 479 | And I went to school, went to preschool, went to school. | 我上过学 上过学前班 |
| 480 | And my mother came home very late from work. | 我母亲下班回家很晚 |
| 481 | So it was 6 o'clock. | 所以是六点钟 |
| 482 | So no one was home. | 所以没有人在家 |
| 483 | And I was very worried that my mother wouldn't come home. | 我很担心我母亲不会回家 |
| 484 | And I was deeply afraid. | 我深感恐惧。 |
| 485 | That's the only time I can remember being deeply afraid. | 那是我唯一能记得的恐惧 |
| 486 | I was making all sorts of deals with God if He would | 我和上帝做了各种各样的交易 如果他愿意 |
| 487 | return her to me. | 把她还给我 |
| 488 | There's a mild degree of fear. | 有轻度怖畏. |
| 489 | There certainly is fear. | 肯定有恐惧。 |
| 490 | I mean, sociobiologists will tell you that fear is the | 我的意思是,社会生物学家会告诉你,恐惧是 |
| 491 | prevalent human emotion. | 普遍的人类情感。 |
| 492 | Fear is the dominant emotion in all of this. | 恐惧是这一切中最主要的情感. |
| 493 | But your question was deeply afraid. | 但你的问题很恐惧 |
| 494 | I certainly feel a little stressed if I'm in a brand new, | 我肯定觉得有点压力 如果我在全新的, |
| 495 | I just bought a jet fighter and I'm flying it for the | 我刚刚买了一架喷气式战斗机 我飞它去 |
| 496 | first time. | 第一次见 |
| 497 | And if we're flying very low to the ground and doing | 如果我们低空飞到地上 |
| 498 | aerobatics very low to the ground, I wouldn't call it | 气囊非常低到地上,我不会叫它 |
| 499 | fear, but it's a little bit of a rush. | 害怕 但有点急 |
| 500 | And it's kind of mild fear that goes on, that gets | 这是一种温和的恐惧 继续,得到 |
| 501 | the adrenaline going. | 肾上腺素的去。 |
| 502 | And I thrive on that. | 我以此为荣 |
| 503 | So that's a pleasant, I don't know if you want to call it | 所以,这是一个愉快的,我不知道 是否你想称之为 |
| 504 | fear, but that's a somewhat pleasant experience for me. | 恐惧,但对我来说,这是一个有点愉快的经历。 |
| 505 | That may be a little bit odd. | 这也许有点奇怪。 |
| 506 | But extreme fear, and that was awful, but out on the edge a | 但极度恐惧,这是可怕的, 但是在边缘 |
| 507 | little bit where you have a mild sensation of | 一点点,你有一个温和的感觉 |
| 508 | apprehension and concern is something I actually enjoy. | 担心和担心是我真正喜欢的 |
| 509 | We're constantly testing ourselves. | 我们一直在测试自己 |
| 510 | We're trying to understand our own level of competency, our | 我们正在努力理解我们自身的能力水平,我们 |
| 511 | ability to control our own world, the ability to put | 有能力控制我们自己的世界, 有能力把 |
| 512 | ourselves at risk and then save our own lives. | 我们身处险境 然后拯救自己的生命 |
| 513 | So I think, again, this is a form of test. | 所以,我再次认为,这是一种测试。 |
| 514 | There is always an element of risk when you're risking your | 当你冒险的时候 总有危险因素 |
| 515 | ego when you play in a chess match. | 当你在棋局比赛中玩的时候 自我 |
| 516 | You're risking your ego and sometimes your life, depending | 你冒着自负,有时还冒着生命危险 |
| 517 | on when you're doing certain kinds of flying. | 当你做某种飞行。 |
| 518 | But in fact, I'm over-emphasizing. | 但事实上,我过分强调。 |
| 519 | I really don't think I do things that are in danger in my | 我真的不认为我做的事情 在危险在我的 |
| 520 | life when I fly or in danger in my life. | 生命,当我飞行 或在我的生命危险。 |
| 521 | We were in a very nasty boat race from Sydney to Hobart. | 我们参加了一场从悉尼到霍巴特的船赛 |
| 522 | We were in this storm for 14 hours. | 我们在这暴风雨里待了14小时 |
| 523 | But I really never felt like I was going to die. | 但我从不觉得自己会死 |
| 524 | Sometimes I felt like I wanted to die because literally | 有时候我觉得我想死是因为 |
| 525 | everyone on board got pretty sick, including them. | 船上的每个人都病得很重 包括他们 |
| 526 | And they're all professional sailors. | 他们都是职业水手. |
| 527 | It was a horrible storm and a lot of professional sailors | 一场可怕的风暴和许多职业水手 |
| 528 | were puking. | 在呕吐。 |
| 529 | But I never really felt the same kind of deep fear. | 但我从来没有真正感受到 同样的深层恐惧。 |
| 530 | I felt as a child. | 我小时候的感觉 |
| 531 | I think most overachievers are driven not so much by the | 我觉得大多数成就过大的人 并不是因为 |
| 532 | pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure. | 追求成功,但因为害怕失败. |
| 533 | But again, unless failure gets very close and very nearby, | 再说一遍,除非失败的接近和接近 |
| 534 | that fear doesn't reach profound levels. | 恐惧不会蔓延到深渊 |
| 535 | But it drives me. | 但它让我兴奋。 |
| 536 | It drives me to work very hard. | 这让我很努力工作 |
| 537 | It drives me to make sure that my life is orderly, that I'm | 它驱使我确保 我的生活是有序的, 我 |
| 538 | in control of my company or in control of the airplane or | 控制我的公司或控制飞机 |
| 539 | boat or what have you, so that I'm not at risk of failure. | 船或者你有什么, 这样我就不会面临失败的风险。 |
| 540 | And whenever I feel even remotely close to being at | 每当我感到甚至 距离在远处 |
| 541 | risk of failure, I can't stop working. | 失败的风险,我不能停止工作。 |
| 542 | There are an enormous number of people in the world who | 世界上有很多人 |
| 543 | really want standard answers. | 真正想要标准答案。 |
| 544 | They want everyone to wear their hair the same way, | 他们希望每个人都以同样的方式穿自己的头发, |
| 545 | everyone to conduct business the same way, everyone to | 每个人以同样的方式行事,每个人都要 |
| 546 | dress the same way, everyone to go to the same church. | 穿的一样,每个人都去同一个教堂。 |
| 547 | And if you wander outside of these norms, people are highly | 如果你在规范之外徘徊,人们会高度 |
| 548 | critical because it's threatening to them, because | 因为它威胁到他们,因为 |
| 549 | they're living their life one way, and they believe that's | 他们过着一种生活 他们相信 |
| 550 | the proper way to live their life. | 是他们生活的适当方式 |
| 551 | And if you live your life a different way and you answer | 如果你过着另一种生活 你就会回答 |
| 552 | questions differently, that makes them feel very | 问题不同,让他们觉得非常 |
| 553 | uncomfortable. | 感觉很不舒服 |
| 554 | And they say, well, this person's different from I am. | 他们说 这个人和我不一样 |
| 555 | And then they have to say, then they have to go a little | 然后他们必须说, 然后他们必须去一点点 |
| 556 | further, and they say this person's different and wrong, | 而且,他们说这个人是不同的和错的, |
| 557 | and I'm different and right. | 我与众不同 |
| 558 | And so people have been very, very critical, and people will | 所以人们一直非常,非常批评, 人们会 |
| 559 | be critical of you if you do things a little bit | 做点事就批评你 |
| 560 | differently. | 不一样 |
| 561 | It takes a certain amount of strength not to | 这需要一定的强度 不 |
| 562 | succumb to fashion. | 屈服于时尚。 |
| 563 | I try to think things through, and I try to always ask two | 我试着想清楚,我总是问两个 |
| 564 | questions about my personal policies in life. | 关于我个人政策的问题 |
| 565 | Are they fair? | 公平吗? |
| 566 | Are they morally correct? | 它们在道德上是正确的吗? |
| 567 | And do they work? | 他们工作吗? |
| 568 | So I try to reason things back from first principles. | 所以我试图从第一原理来解释事情。 |
| 569 | I try to think about things and come to conclusions and | 我试着思考一些事情,然后得出结论 |
| 570 | make my own decisions. | 做我自己的决定。 |
| 571 | And if other people are critical, and if I've thought | 如果其他人是批评, 如果我已经想过 |
| 572 | things through, if someone has a logical criticism and can | 如果有人有逻辑上的批评 并且能够 |
| 573 | explain to me why what I'm doing is wrong and they can | 告诉我为什么我做错了 他们可以 |
| 574 | convince me, I'll change. | 说服我 我会换衣服的 |
| 575 | If they have good reasons, I'll just alter my behavior. | 如果他们有好的理由 我就改变我的行为 |
| 576 | I love it when people point out I'm wrong, explain to me why | 我喜欢别人说错的时候 解释为什么 |
| 577 | I'm wrong, and I've been changed. | 我错了,我被改变了。 |
| 578 | That's great. | 赞曰. |
| 579 | I don't want to be wrong. | 亦不求错. |
| 580 | I would love to be right. | 我很想说对了 |
| 581 | And if I am wrong, I love it when people stop me. | 如果我错了 我喜欢别人阻止我 |
| 582 | But if people just throw labels at you and throw | 但是,如果人们只是扔标签 对你和扔 |
| 583 | criticisms around that are not rational, and they basically | 这些批评不合理,基本上 |
| 584 | call you names, you can't change your behavior that you | 叫你名字,你不能改变你的行为 |
| 585 | think is right just because someone's calling your names. | 就因为有人在叫你的名字 |
| 586 | And it's not the conventional way of behaving. | 而且这不是传统的行为方式。 |
| 587 | Most of the time, I let it go. | 大多数时候,我让它走了。 |
| 588 | Sometimes people have a way of saying things that are so | 有时候人们会说出这样的话 |
| 589 | hurtful and so offensive, or say things that are just | 伤害和如此冒犯, 或者说一些事情只是 |
| 590 | I'll defend myself. | 我会为自己辩护 |
| 591 | So if someone says something that's factually an error, | 所以,如果有人说的东西 这事实上是一个错误, |
| 592 | they just said, Larry did this, and I didn't do that, | 他们只是说,拉里这样做, 我没有这样做, |
| 593 | then I'll defend myself. | 然后,我会为自己辩护。 |
| 594 | But if they say, if it's just calling me a random name, then | 但如果他们说,如果它只是 叫我随机的名字,然后 |
| 595 | forget it. | 别管了 |
| 596 | I think academic success is an advantage. | 我认为学术成功是一个优势. |
| 597 | But it by no means assures success in business. | 但是,这绝不保证企业的成功。 |
| 598 | I think if you're an outstanding student, you're | 我认为如果你是一个杰出的学生,你是 |
| 599 | probably reasonably successful in business. | 可能在生意上相当成功 |
| 600 | You might not be amongst the most successful people in | 你也许不是其中最成功的 |
| 601 | business, or even in science. | 商业 甚至科学 |
| 602 | The straight A students sometimes are, well, there's no | 直A学生有时是,嗯,没有 |
| 603 | doubt that they have talent. | 怀疑他们有天赋 |
| 604 | Maybe it would have been better if they had gotten | 也许他们得到的更好 |
| 605 | straight A's in math and physics, but flunked a | 直A在数学和物理学上,但不及格 |
| 606 | sociology course where the professor was just awful, or | 社会学课程 教授只是可怕的,或 |
| 607 | got a C in a sociology course where there wasn't a need to | 在社会学课程中得到了一个C 不需要 |
| 608 | always please, always do well, even if it didn't make sense | 总是请,总是做好, 即使它没有道理 |
| 609 | to do well and put in the effort. | 做得很好,并投入努力。 |
| 610 | So it's very interesting. | 所以这很有趣。 |
| 611 | So what you look for, at least what we look for when we're | 所以,你寻找什么, 至少我们寻找什么 当我们是 |
| 612 | hiring people, are people that certainly have a strong | 雇人,就是那些强壮的人 |
| 613 | aptitude in mathematics and in physics and music, which is | 数学、物理和音乐能力,即 |
| 614 | very highly correlated to mathematics, but also people | 与数学高度相关, 但也与人 |
| 615 | who make judgments as to where they're going to | 他们决定他们要去哪儿 |
| 616 | invest their time. | 投入时间 |
| 617 | Wonderful story about a young man who was near the top of | 关于一位年轻人的精彩故事,他当时就在 |
| 618 | his class at Carnegie Mellon and quit the week before the | 他在卡内基梅隆的班级 提前一周辞职 |
| 619 | week before he was going to graduate. | 在他毕业前一周 |
| 620 | And without going into all of the details, it was that | 不谈所有的细节,它就是 |
| 621 | interesting judgment that he made, that he was just going to | 他所做的有趣的判断, 他只是要去 |
| 622 | bail out, that set him apart, strangely enough, from a lot | 保释,这让他分开, 奇怪的足够,从很多 |
| 623 | of the other very top grads that we have hired. | 我们雇佣的其他顶级学生 |
| 624 | He makes his own decisions, and that's a very useful thing. | 他自己做决定,这是很有用的事情. |
| 625 | And I think corporations need a combination of people who, | 我认为公司需要一群人 |
| 626 | hopefully all the people are talented. | 希望所有人都有才华 |
| 627 | Some are people that really want to please and are easy to | 有些是真正想要取悦的人 很容易 |
| 628 | manage, others really are driven to a drummer only they | 管理,其他人真的 驱动到鼓手 只有他们 |
| 629 | can hear, and they will constantly question my wisdom | 能听到,他们会不断质疑我的智慧 |
| 630 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}不会因为挑战我而害羞 | |
| 631 | hopefully keep me from making mistakes. | 希望不要让我犯错 |
| 632 | I think learning how to program is a | 我觉得学会编程是 |
| 633 | wonderful discipline. | 良好的纪律。 |
| 634 | Computers are unforgivingly logical, and they'll do exactly | 电脑是无可原谅的逻辑, 他们会做准确的 |
| 635 | what you tell them. | 你告诉他们的 |
| 636 | And again, it's a wonderful training to learn how to | 再说一遍,学习如何 |
| 637 | program a computer. | 程序计算机。 |
| 638 | So I would encourage people to take this up. | 所以我鼓励人们接受这个事实。 |
| 639 | It's much more important than handwriting. | 这比笔迹更重要 |
| 640 | I just finished Vincent Cronin's book on Napoleon, a | 我刚刚完成了文森特·克罗宁关于拿破仑的书, |
| 641 | man who definitely needed better PR. | 他绝对需要更好的公关 |
| 642 | They just spun Napoleon very badly with proper PR people. | 他们只是把拿破仑 和普通的公关人员打得很惨 |
| 643 | Napoleon codified the laws for the first time in Europe. | 拿破仑在欧洲首次编纂法律. |
| 644 | He was constantly eliminating kings and other tyrants. | 他不断地消灭国王和其他暴君. |
| 645 | He opened the ghettos and stopped religious | 他打开了犹太区 并停止了宗教 |
| 646 | discrimination. | 歧视。 |
| 647 | He was an extraordinary, extraordinary man. | 他是一个非凡,非凡的人。 |
| 648 | He wrote a lot of laws himself. | 他亲自写了很多法律. |
| 649 | He was incredibly polite, generous almost to a fault, a | 他非常礼貌,慷慨 几乎一个错误,一个 |
| 650 | remarkable person who was vilified. | 被诽谤的杰出人物 |
| 651 | He really was vilified by who? | 他真的被谁诬蔑了? |
| 652 | The kings that he deposed. | 他废黜的国王 |
| 653 | The kings were not thrilled. | 国王不高兴。 |
| 654 | The kings of England and the old King of France and the | 英国国王和法国旧国王 |
| 655 | kings of Prussia and the Tsar of Russia were all threatened | 普鲁士国王和俄国沙皇都受到威胁 |
| 656 | by this man who was bringing democracy. | 他带来了民主。 |
| 657 | And I think it's interesting to read this book and look at | 我想读这本书,看看 |
| 658 | Napoleon and see how history has treated this man. | 拿破仑 看看历史如何对待这个人 |
| 659 | Even the expression Napoleon complex or Napoleon. | 甚至拿破仑复合体或拿破仑的表述. |
| 660 | Napoleon was of average height for a French person. | 拿破仑是法国人的平均身高 |
| 661 | It's just preposterous. | 虚妄而已. |
| 662 | The treating maybe the most gifted man of the 19th century | 治疗也许是19世纪最有天赋的人 |
| 663 | as some kind of despot. | 作为某种专制。 |
| 664 | He was a liberator, a lawgiver, and a man of just | 他是一名解放者,一名立法者, 一个正义的人 |
| 665 | incredible gifts. | 难以置信的礼物。 |
| 666 | He never considered himself a soldier. | 他从来不认为自己是士兵。 |
| 667 | He considered himself a politician, though he's | 虽然他自认为是政治家 |
| 668 | probably the greatest soldier, the greatest general perhaps | 也许是最伟大的士兵,最伟大的将军 |
| 669 | in all history. | 在所有的历史上。 |
| 670 | And I think it's interesting to read about him for a couple | 我觉得读一对夫妇关于他的书很有趣 |
| 671 | reasons, to see what one man of modest birth can do with | 原因,看看一个小出生的男人能做什么 |
| 672 | his life, and to see how history can distort the truth | 他的生活, 和看看历史如何扭曲真相 |
| 673 | entirely. | 完全没有。 |
| 674 | And the job of historians is often just that, to distort | 历史学家的工作往往就是歪曲 |
| 675 | history, because history is based on fashion. | 历史,因为历史是基于时尚. |
| 676 | So we're changing American history all the time. | 所以我们一直在改变美国的历史。 |
| 677 | Whatever is politically fashionable, the school | 无论什么政治时尚,学校 |
| 678 | districts decide that they want to emphasize this person | 地区决定要强调这个人 |
| 679 | in history and de-emphasize that person in history. | 在历史中不再强调这个人。 |
| 680 | So we're constantly rewriting history all the time. | 所以我们一直在改写历史。 |
| 681 | And it's interesting and illuminating to come to | 并且它很有趣和 明亮的来到 |
| 682 | understand that even history is based on fashion. | 连历史都以时尚为基础 |
| 683 | Even morality, popular morality, is based on fashion. | 甚至道德,大众道德,都是以时尚为本的. |
| 684 | Real morality is based on reason, and never make the | 真正的道德是建立在理性之上的 永远不要 |
| 685 | mistake between the two. | 两者之间有错 |
| 686 | The opportunity in this country is astounding. | 这个国家的机会是惊人的。 |
| 687 | Everyone who works hard, and maybe a little cleverly, has | 每一个努力工作,也许有点聪明的人 |
| 688 | the opportunity to make almost anything possible. | 有机会让一切成为可能 |
| 689 | And that's the American dream, that anything here is possible. | 这就是美国梦,这里的一切都是可能的。 |
| 690 | We are not held back, that immigrants come here and in a | 我们没有被阻拦, 移民来到这里和在一个 |
| 691 | single generation do extraordinary things, that this | 单一代人做不同寻常的事情, 这件事 |
| 692 | country is not perfect, but compared with every other | 国家不是完美的,而是比其他的 |
| 693 | country in the world, it's absolutely fabulous. | 世界上的国家,这是绝对美妙的。 |
| 694 | And there is unlimited opportunity. | 还有无限的机会。 |
| 695 | It requires hard work. | 这需要辛勤工作。 |
| 696 | It requires a little bit of luck. | 需要一点运气 |
| 697 | But still in America, but still in America, but still in | 但在美国,但在美国, 但仍然在 |
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