評論
打印
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！尊敬的伯克校長，魯登斯坦前校長，即將上任的福斯特校長，哈佛集團的各位成員，監管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，尤其是畢業生們：
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多年，現在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會回來拿到我的學位的！”
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.
我要感謝哈佛大學給我這個榮譽。明年，我就要換工作了……我終于可以在簡歷上填上大學學位，這真是不錯。
I applaud the graduates today 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.
我為今天在座的畢業生喝彩，你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了。哈佛的校報稱我是“哈佛大學歷史上最成功的輟學生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學生發表畢業演講……在所有的輟學者中，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，我使得史蒂夫·鮑爾默也從哈佛商學院退學了。因此，我是個有著不良影響的人。那就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業典禮上演講的原因。如果我在你們入學歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅持到今天在這里畢業的人也許會少得多吧。
