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Thank you! 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:
謝謝大家！尊敬的博克校長，魯?shù)撬固骨靶ｉL，即將上任的浮士德校長，哈佛集團的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，各位同學(xué)：
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(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟您說，我會回來拿到我的學(xué)位的！”
I want to thank Harvard for this 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(xué)給我這個榮譽。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）……我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個大學(xué)學(xué)位，這真是太好了！
I applaud the graduates 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 guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class... I did the best of everyone who failed.
我為今天在座的各位同學(xué)感到高興，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我容易多了。哈佛的校報稱我是“哈佛大學(xué)歷史上最成功的輟學(xué)生”。我想這大概是因為我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言——在所有的輟學(xué)者里，我做得最好。
But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. 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，是我使史蒂夫·鮑爾默（注：微軟首席執(zhí)行官）也從哈佛商學(xué)院退學(xué)了。我是個有著惡劣影響的人。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么熊貓堅持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會少得多吧。
