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Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes that 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(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽許多我沒選修的課。哈佛的宿舍生活也很棒，我當(dāng)時(shí)住在雷迪夫的柯里爾公寓。每天我的寢室里總有很多人一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因?yàn)槊總€人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起，這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學(xué)生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學(xué)生的姿態(tài)。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combinaton offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. That is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.
雷迪夫是個生活的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機(jī)會，如果你們明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的教訓(xùn)：機(jī)會大，并不等于你就會成功。
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 making the world's first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，是發(fā)生在1975年1月的一件事。那時(shí)，我從宿舍樓里給位于阿爾伯克基的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。
I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said:"We're not quite ready, come to see us in a month," which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet. From that month, I worked day and night on that extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.
我很擔(dān)心，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在大學(xué)宿舍里的學(xué)生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。”這是個好消息，因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個時(shí)候起，我夜以繼日地在這個小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這標(biāo)志著我大學(xué)教育的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟的不平凡的旅程的開始。
