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A long time ago, in this cold September of 1962,there was a Steven's co-op at this very university.
很久以前，1962年的寒冷9月，這座校園里有一家史蒂文消費合作社。
That co-op had a kitchen with a ceiling that had been cleaned by student volunteers probably every decade or so.
此合作社有一間廚房，那里的天花板由學生志愿者打掃，大概每十來年才一次吧。
Picture a college girl named Gloria,climbing up high on a ladder,struggling to clean that filthy ceiling.
想象一下，畫面上有位名叫格洛里亞的女大學生，爬上了高高的梯子，努力地打掃那臟兮兮的天花板。
Standing on the floor,a young boarder named Carl was admiring the view.
一位名叫卡爾的寄宿生站在地上，為該情景欽佩不已。
And that's how they met.
這就是他倆的初次邂逅。
They were my parents,so I suppose you could say I'm a direct result of that kitchen chemistry experiment,right here at Michigan.
他倆就是我的父母親。所以我想你們會說，我就是這里—密歇根大學那個“廚房化學實驗”的直接成果。
Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother,my Mom, my Dad-all of us.
我們家的所有成員都畢業于密歇根大學:我哥哥、我媽媽和爸爸—我們全家。
My father's father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan.
我的祖父在密歇根州弗林特的雪佛蘭汽車工廠工作，
He was an assembly line worker.
他是裝配線上的一名工人。
He drove his two children here to Ann Arbor,and told them: That is where you're going to college.
他曾開車把兩個孩子送到安娜堡這兒，并告訴他們:這是你們今后要上的大學。
I know it sounds funny now.
我知道現在聽起來很好笑。
Both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan.
他的兩個孩子也的確從密歇根大學畢業。
That was the American dream.
這就是“美國夢”。
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?
你們知道，午夜從一個逼真的夢境中醒來是什么感覺嗎?
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?
你們知道如果床邊沒有紙筆，而第二天一早就忘個精光又會怎樣嗎?
Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23.
喔，我23歲的時候，就做過一個那樣的夢。
When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking:
我猛然驚醒，想著:
What if we could download the whole web,and just keep the links?
如果我們能把整個網絡下載下來，但僅保存鏈接會怎樣?
And I grabbed a pen and started writing!
然后我抓起一支筆寫了起來。
Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming.
有時候別做夢，及時醒來是非常重要的。
I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.
我花了一個午夜描畫出細節，并確信那是可以做得到的。
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 not to tell me.
不久后，我告訴我的導師特里?溫諾格拉德，那要花幾周時間來下載整個網絡—他只是會意地點點頭，他完全知道要花的時間其實長得多，但他很睿智，并沒有告訴我。
The optimism of youth is often underrated!
年輕人的樂觀精神通常不可低估!
Amazingly, at that time,I have no thoughts building a search engine.
令人驚訝的是，我當時沒有想過要造一個搜索引擎。
The idea wasn't even on the radar.
這一概念甚至沒有進入我腦海。
But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking and we made a really great search engine,and Google was born.
但很久以后，我們突然找到更好排列網頁的方法，并造出一個非常好的搜索引擎—谷歌就這樣誕生了。
When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
當偉大的夢想閃現時，抓住它吧!
