"Success is 90% inspiration, 10% perspiration," it's much more balanced than that.
"成功是90%的靈感和10%的毅力",其實比例比那個均衡多了。
It's great idea with a lot of hard work and then you work at it for year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, seven years, eight, nine, 10.
勤奮的工作,一年,兩年,三年有或者更多,甚至10年是很好的想法。
Some things that actually wind up being really important take more than 10 years to get popular.
某些事需要10年,甚至更長時間才會真正顯現出重要性來。
You wouldn't believe it reading the Popular Press but it's really true, it's really true.
讀了大眾報紙上講的,你們可能不相信我所說,但那是事實。
It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.
"視窗"系統就是這樣,甲骨文公司的關系數據庫也是這樣,谷歌公司的創立者花了很多年才讓一切走上正軌。
There's a few exceptions, but most things you can really grind on and certainly that was kind of the history of Microsoft in the early days.
有一些例外,但是大多數都是耗時長久,早期微軟也是如此。
We had some products, we were a tiny company.
我們有一些產品,是小型公司。
My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.
我父母認為我從斯坦福商學院輟學去一家軟件公司工作根本是瘋了。
I said, "Software for personal computers mom, dad that's why I'm leaving the hallowed halls of Stanford."
我說"軟件是用于個人電腦的這就是我離開斯坦福的原因。"
And then my dad said, "What the heck is software?"
然后我父親說 "軟件又是什么玩意兒?"
And my mother said, "Why the heck would a person need a computer?"
我母親說"人要電腦干什么?"
Well, ok we're talking about 1980 and life was a little different in 1980. But it's those kinds of questions that, there's a little bit of spark, there's a little bit of a powerful force and there's just a lot of hard work to get from here to there.
好吧,這是在1980年,生活是截然不同的一番光景。但是問題是那時候已經產生了一些火花,一些外在動力,只不過達成目標還需要大量的艱苦工作。