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Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes 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，哈佛的求學經歷是一段非凡的經歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽許多我沒選修的課。在哈佛的宿舍生活也很不錯，我當時住在雷迪夫的科里爾公寓。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。因為每個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生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were math-science types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. That's 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，而且大多數男生都是理工科的。那種狀況為我創造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思。也正是在這里我學到了人生中令人悲傷的教訓：機會大，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 in New Mexico that had begun making the world's first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我在哈佛最深刻的回憶發生在1975年1月。那時，我從科里爾公寓給位于美國新墨西哥州阿爾伯克基的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經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 see us in a month," which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.
我很擔心他們會發覺我是一個住在宿舍的學生從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧。”那是個好消息，因為那時我們根本沒有寫出軟件。
