President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:
尊敬的Bok校長，Rudenstine前校長，即將上任的Faust校長，哈佛集團的各位成員，監管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，各位同學：
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."
有一句話我等了三十年，現在終於可以說了："老爸，我總是跟你說，我會回來拿到我的學位的!"
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I'll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
我要感謝哈佛大學在這個時候給我這個榮譽。明年，我就要換工作了(注：指從微軟公司退休)......我終於可以在簡歷上寫我有一個大學學位，這真是不錯埃
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guethat makes me valedictorian of my own special cla... I did the best of everyone who failed.
我為今天在座的各位同學感到高興，你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了。哈佛的校報稱我是"哈佛大學歷史上最成功的輟學生"。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學生髮言......在所有的失敗者裡，我做得最好。
But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of busineschool. I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.
但是，我還要提醒大家，我使得Steve Ballmer(注：微軟總經理)也從哈佛商學院退學了。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什麼我被邀請來在你們的畢業典禮上演講。如果我在你們入學歡迎儀式上演講，那麼能夠堅持到今天在這裡畢業的人也許會少得多吧。
Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
對我來說，哈佛的求學經歷是一段非凡的經歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室裡總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園裡那些不安分學生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.
Radcliffe是個過日子的好地方。那裡的'女生比男生多，而且大多數男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在這裡學到了人生中悲傷的一課：機會大，並不等於你就會成功。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun ma-ki-ng the world's first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發生在1975年1月。那時，我從宿舍樓裡給位於Albuquerque的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經在著手製造世界上第一臺個人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟體。
