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I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it's a story about finding a path to make those dreams real.
我給大家講個追夢的故事，確切地說是一個將夢想變為現實的故事。
You know what it's like,to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed it will be completely gone by the next morning.I had one of those dreams when I was 23.When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking:what if we could download the whole web,and just keep the links and… I grabbed a pen and started writing!Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming.I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.
想想看：午夜你從美夢中醒來，然后躺下接著睡回籠覺，第二天早上準會把昨晚的美夢忘個精光。我23歲時，就做過這樣的美夢。我猛然驚醒，想把所有的網絡內容下載下來，通過鏈接的方式保存。于是，我抓起筆就開始寫。還好我把握住機會，從夢里及時醒來，花了一整晚研究出實現方案，自信滿滿。
Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd,it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web -he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me.The optimism of youth is often underrated!Amazingly, at that time,I had no thought of building a search engine.The idea wasn't even on the radar.Much later we happened upon a better way of rankingand we made a really great search engine,and Google was born.When a really great dream shows up, grab it!When I was here at Michigan,I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!
我對導師Terry Winograd說：下載整個網絡需要幾周時間。他點點頭，其實心里清楚需要更久。但他很明智，沒打擊我。年輕人的激情不可小視！不過那時，創造一個搜索引擎，對我而言是天方夜譚。我從沒動過這個念頭。很久以后，我們偶然找到了更好的排序方式。做出了一級棒的搜索引擎，谷歌就這么誕生了。所以，當夢想閃現時，抓住它吧！我在這兒念書時，曾學過如何夢想成真。
I know it sounds funny,but that is what I learned in a summer camp converted into a training program called Leadershape.Yes, we've got a few out there.Their slogan is to have a "healthy disregard for the impossible".That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at the time.I wanted to build a personal rapid transit system on campus to replace the buses.Yeah, you're still working on that I hear.It was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.I still think a lot about transportation you never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.Many things that people labor hard to do now,like cooking, cleaning, and driving will require much less human time in the future.That is, if we "have a healthy disregardfor the impossible and actually build new solutions.
聽起來有點扯，但我確實從 "塑造領導力"夏令營中得到了啟發。看，真的有人參加過的吧。我們的口號是“世上無難事只怕有心人“！我們被要求去實現自己看似瘋狂的夢想。我想建立個人快速交通系統來替代公交，我知道你們還在研究。沒準是今后解決交通問題的好方法。我時不時還在考慮交通問題，夢想不會消失，會變成習慣！我們現在花費精力做的事情，比如做飯、打掃、開車，今后占用的時間會越來越少，這不是天方夜譚。世上無難事，只怕有心人！
