拉里·佩奇密歇根大學畢業(yè)典禮演講
導語：谷歌是一家偉大而且神奇的公司，下面推薦一篇谷歌創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇的演講，大家感受感受。
拉里·佩奇(LarryPage，1973.03.;布林和佩奇兩人合作得很好，并且吸引了一大批有能力;短短幾年Google就迅速發(fā)展成為目前規(guī)模最大的;Classof2009!Idon'tth;09屆的同學們!來點激情給我個回應;Nowwaitasecond.Iknow:tha;graduationspeakersaystha;kitchenwitha
拉里·佩奇(Larry Page，1973.03.26-)，全名勞倫斯·愛德華·佩奇(Lawrence Edward Page)，Google搜索引擎的創(chuàng)始人之一，2011年4月4日佩奇正式出任谷歌CEO。拉里·佩奇出生在美國密歇根州東蘭辛市的一個猶太家庭，為美國密歇根大學安娜堡分校的畢業(yè)生，擁有理工科學士學位;因其出色的領導才能獲得過多項榮譽，以獎勵他對工學院的貢獻。他曾擔任密西根大學Eta Kappa Nu 榮譽學會的會長。其指導教授是 Terry Winograd 博士。Google 就是由 Page 在斯坦福大學發(fā)起的研究項目轉變而來的。 在斯坦福大學中，佩奇遇到了謝爾蓋·布林。吃了無數(shù)個閉門羹之后佩奇和布林決定自己創(chuàng)業(yè)，但他們手中僅有的一點現(xiàn)金都因購買大量的數(shù)據(jù)盤和儲存器作研究而花光了。他們的一位教師，也是SUN微系統(tǒng)的創(chuàng)始人之一安迪·別赫托希姆在關鍵時刻給予他們很大幫助。別赫托希姆確是個很有遠見的人，在看完他們的演示后，立馬開了張10萬美元的支票幫助成立Google公司。之后兩人又從家人朋友那里到處借錢，籌得100萬美元作為最初投資。1998年9月7日，Google公司在加利福尼亞州的曼羅帕克成立。一個朋友租給佩奇和布林辦公的車庫在當時看來已經(jīng)不錯了，有一臺洗衣機，還有熱水器。他們雇用了第一位員工克雷格·希爾弗斯坦，現(xiàn)在希爾弗斯坦是Google公司的科技主管。 1999年2月他們搬了新的辦公室，雖然條件仍然簡陋，但比車庫好點，一張乒乓桌就作為正式的會議場所，8名員工在辦公室里都轉不過身，一個人要出門所有人都得起身挪開凳子才能騰出地方。
布林和佩奇兩人合作得很好，并且吸引了一大批有能力且忠實的員工。創(chuàng)業(yè)之初辦公室雖然簡陋，他們仍盡可能為員工創(chuàng)造寬松的工作環(huán)境，他們在屋外的草坪上種上蘑菇，養(yǎng)了條狗，專門請廚師為員工做飯，每星期舉行兩次曲棍球比賽。公司現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)擁有2000多名員工。布林說，他們必須讓辦公室成為員工們樂意呆的地方，因此現(xiàn)在每天為員工提供什么餐點甚至都成了兩人的重大決策之一。
短短幾年Google就迅速發(fā)展成為目前規(guī)模最大的搜索引擎，并向雅虎、美國在線等其他目錄索引和搜索引擎提供后臺網(wǎng)頁查詢服務。目前Google每天處理的搜索請求達2億次，這一數(shù)字還在不斷增長。通過對30多億網(wǎng)頁進行整理，Google可為世界各地的用戶提供適合需求的搜索結果，而且搜索時間通常不到半秒鐘。
Class of 2009!I don't think I heard you.Class of 2009!First I want you to stand up and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends!I am sure you can find them out there.Show your love!It is a great honor for me to be here today。
09屆的同學們!來點激情給我個回應。各位同學，我希望大家站起來向支持你們的親朋好友揮手致意。你們一定能在人群中找到他們，借此機會表達你們的愛吧!能站在這里我感到非常榮幸。
Now wait a second.I know:that's such a cliche.You're thinking: every
graduation speaker says that - It's a great honor.But, in my case, it really is so deeply true being here is more special and more personal for me than most of you know. I'd like to tell you why.A long time ago,in this cold September of 1962,there was a Steven's co-op at this very university.That co-op had a
kitchen with a ceiling that had been cleaned by student volunteers probably every decade or so。
等等，大家可能覺得有點矯情。“我很榮幸”這句話都說爛了。但真的是大實話，大家不知道：我對密歇根大學有特殊的感情。很久以前，1962年9月，天很冷，在密歇根大學里有一家餐廳，學生志愿者負責打掃廚房的天花板，大約十年才會打掃一次。
Picture a college girl named Gloria,climbing up high on a ladder,struggling to clean that filthy ceiling.Standing on the floor, a young boarder named Carl was admiring the view.And that's how they met.They were my parents,so I suppose you could say I'm a direct result of that kitchen chemistry experiment, right here at Michigan.My Mom is here with us today,and we should probably go find the spot and put a plaqueup on the ceiling that says: "Thanks Mom and Dad!"
想象一下：有個叫格洛麗亞的女學生，爬上了高高的梯子，努力地打掃臟兮兮的天花板。而一個叫卡爾的寄宿生在下面偷窺，這是他倆的初次邂逅，他們就是我父母。所以說，我是地地道道從密歇根大學廚房里造出來的，我母親今天也來了。我想找到當年那個廚房，在天花板掛個匾上刻"感謝父母"!
Everyone in my family went here to Michigan:my brother, my Mom ,my Dad -- all of us.My Dad actually got the quantity discount:He got all three and a half of his degrees here.His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they thought Computers were just a passing fad when he earned it 44 years ago.He and Mom made a big sacrifice for that degree.They argued at times over pennies, while raising my newborn brother.Mom typed my Dad's dissertation by hand,kind of ironic of those computer science dissertation。
我的家人都畢業(yè)于密歇根大學：我哥、我父母、還有我。我爸在文憑數(shù)量上更勝一籌：他在這獲得了三個半學位，其中一個是通信工程的博士。44年前，他們認為計算機火不了多久。為取得這個學位，爸媽做出了很大的犧牲。為了撫養(yǎng)剛出生的哥哥，省吃儉用。堂堂計算機博士，論文是我媽逐字敲出來的，諷刺吧?
This velvet hood I'm wearing, this was my Dad's.This diploma, yeah,this diploma I have here that just like the one you are about to get this is my
Dad's.And my underwear, oh never mind, sorry.My father's father worked in the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan. He was an assemblyline worker.He drove his two children here to Anna Arbor,and told them: That is where you're going to go to college.I know it sounds funny now.Both of his kids actually did graduate from Michigan.That was the American dream。
我身上這套博士服是我爸的，還有這張畢業(yè)證，跟你們即將拿到手的一樣，也是我爸的。還有我的內褲，呃……算了。我的祖父曾在雪佛蘭汽車廠工作，他曾開車帶兩個孩子來到安
娜堡。告訴他們：你們以后要上這所大學!聽起來挺扯。不過兩個孩子確實都進了密歇根大學，這就是我們家的“美國夢”。
His daughter, Beverly, is also with us today.My Grandpa used to carry an "Alley Oop" hammer,a heavy iron pipe with a big hunk of lead melted on the end.The workers made them during the sit-down strikes to protect
themselves.When I was growing up, we used that hammer whenever we
needed to pound a stake or something into the yard.It is wonderful that most people don't need to carry a heavy blunt object for protection anymore.But just in case, I brought it with me.My Dad became a professor at uh…Michigan
State,and I was an incredibly lucky boy.A professor's life is pretty flexible,and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me.Could there be a better upbringing than university brat?
我姑姑貝弗利今天也來了。爺爺以前經(jīng)�？钢粋�大鐵錘，鐵管上鑄著大鉛坨的那種。那是用來在靜坐罷工時，保護自己的武器。小時候，我們常用它在后院打樁子�，F(xiàn)在世道好了，大家不需要鐵錘保護自己了。但以防萬一，我還是把它帶來了。后來我的父親成為了一名教授，密歇根州立大學的教授，我很走運，因為教授的工作比較靈活，有大量的時間陪我。還有比這更棒的嗎?
What I'm trying to tell you is that this is way more than just a homecoming for me.It's not easy for me to express how proud I am to be here,with my Mom, my brother and my wife Lucy, and with all of you,at this amazing institution that is responsible for my very existence.I am thrilled for all of you,and I'm thrilled for your families and friends,as all of us join this great, big Michigan family I feel I've been a part of all of all my life.What I'm also trying to tell you is that I know exactly what it feels like to be sitting in your seat,listening to some old gasbag give a long-winded commencementspeech.Don't worry. I'll be brief.I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it's a story about finding a path to make those dreams real。
我想要告訴大家的是：這次回來，意義非凡!我不知道該如何表達我的喜悅之情。今天和家人還有你們相聚在此，我無比激動!因為這里造就了我，我為你們感到驕傲，也為你們的家人和朋友感到驕傲，因為我們都是密歇根大家庭的一員，它是我生命中不可或缺的一部分。同時，我也知道你們現(xiàn)在坐在臺下的感受：聽我們這些老家伙絮叨，老生常談。別擔心，我不是話癆。我給大家講個追夢的故事，確切地說是一個將夢想變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實的故事。
You know what it's like,to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed it will be completely gone by the next morning.I had one of those dreams when I was
23.When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking:what if we could download the whole web,and just keep the links and… I grabbed a pen and started
writing!Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming.I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work。
想想看：午夜你從美夢中醒來，然后躺下接著睡回籠覺，第二天早上準會把昨晚的美夢忘個精光。我23歲時，就做過這樣的美夢。我猛然驚醒，想把所有的網(wǎng)絡內容下載下來，通過鏈接的.方式保存。于是，我抓起筆就開始寫。還好我把握住機會，從夢里及時醒來，花了一整晚研究出實現(xiàn)方案，自信滿滿。
Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd,it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web -he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me.The optimism of youth is often underrated!Amazingly, at that time,I had no thought of building a search engine.The idea wasn't even on the radar.Much later we happened upon a
better way of rankingand we made a really great search engine,and Google was born.When a really great dream shows up, grab it!When I was here at Michigan,I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!
我對導師Terry Winograd說：下載整個網(wǎng)絡需要幾周時間。他點點頭，其實心里清楚需要更久。但他很明智，沒打擊我。年輕人的激情不可小視!不過那時，創(chuàng)造一個搜索引擎，對我而言是天方夜譚。我從沒動過這個念頭。很久以后，我們偶然找到了更好的排序方式。做出了一級棒的搜索引擎，谷歌就這么誕生了。所以，當夢想閃現(xiàn)時，抓住它吧!我在這兒念書時，曾學過如何夢想成真。
I know it sounds funny,but that is what I learned in a summer camp
converted into a training program called Leadershape.Yes, we've got a few out there.Their slogan is to have a "healthy disregard for the impossible".That
program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at the time.I wanted to build a personal rapid transit system on campus to replace the buses.Yeah, you're still working on that I hear.It was a futuristic way of solving our transportation problem.I still think a lot about transportation you never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.Many things that people labor hard to do now,like cooking, cleaning, and driving will require much less human time in the future.That is, if we "have a healthy disregardfor the impossible and actually build new solutions。
聽起來有點扯，但我確實從 "塑造領導力"夏令營中得到了啟發(fā)�？�，真的有人參加過的吧。我們的口號是“世上無難事只怕有心人“!我們被要求去實現(xiàn)自己看似瘋狂的夢想。我想建立個人快速交通系統(tǒng)來替代公交，我知道你們還在研究。沒準是今后解決交通問題的好方法。我時不時還在考慮交通問題，夢想不會消失，會變成習慣!我們現(xiàn)在花費精力做的事情，比如做飯、打掃、開車，今后占用的時間會越來越少，這不是天方夜譚。世上無難事，只怕有心人!
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams.I know that sounds completely nuts.But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue。
The best people want to work on the big challenges.That is what happened with Google.Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.How can that not get you excited?But we almost didn't start Google actually because my co-founder Sergey and I were too worried about dropping out of our Ph.D. program.None of you have that issue it seems.You are probably on the right track, if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm!That is about how we felt after we maxed out three credit cards buying hard disks off the back of a truck.That was actually the first hardware for Google。
我認為，自古精英出狂人。這話聽起來挺沒溜，但正因為別人沒你瘋狂。你的對手就很少事實上，狂人屈指可數(shù)。碰巧我都認識，他們比狗仔隊還忙，比親戚還走得近，樂于接受一個又一個挑戰(zhàn)。谷歌就有這樣一幫人，我們的任務是整合全世界的信息，使其隨手可得，隨時可用。碉堡吧?但谷歌差一點夭折，因為我和我的搭檔Sergey擔心丟了博士學位。好在你們已經(jīng)畢業(yè)。當時我們堅信自己是一只暴風雨里的小小鳥，總有一天會飛得很高。即使刷爆了三張信用卡，買來谷歌的第一批硬盤，也不曾后悔。
Parents and friends:more credit cards always help.What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world?Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!As a Ph.D. student, I actually had three projects I
wanted to work on.Thank goodness my advisor said,"why don't you work on the web for a while".He gave me some seriously good advicebecause the web was growing with people and activity, even in 1995!Technology and especially the Internet can really help you be lazy.Lazy? What I mean is a group of three people can write software that millions can use and enjoy。
Can three people answer the phone a million times?Find the leverage in the world,so you can be truly lazy!Overall, I know it seems like the world is
crumblingout there,but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it.Don't give up on your dreams. The world needs you all!
家長們，同學們。事實證明：多幾張信用卡總是有用的，如果用一句話總結：如何改變世界。為了迷狂般的夢想而奮斗終生!其實在讀博期間，我想?yún)⒓尤齻�項目。還好導師建議道："為什么不先研究網(wǎng)絡呢?"這個建議實在太好了，因為1995年網(wǎng)絡就開始了迅猛發(fā)展�？萍迹绕涫蔷W(wǎng)絡確實能讓人順利變"懶"。你看三個人做的軟件，能解決上百萬人的需求問題
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