《The Courage to Be Unreasonable》歌词

[00:00:01] The Courage to Be Unreasonable - 英语演讲

[00:00:06] Commencement Address by Eric Schmidt

[00:00:10] at University of Pennsylvania

[00:00:13] Thank you for that.

[00:00:16] Let me begin by congratulating all the graduates.

[00:00:20] It’s exciting to be graduating

[00:00:23] and I especially want to congratulate the parents.

[00:00:26] And remember that they still need you

[00:00:29] and maybe they’ll now listen to you.

[00:00:32] And if you aren’t sure who I’m talking to,

[00:00:35] I’m actually talking to both the parents

[00:00:38] and the students, so congratulations to everybody.

[00:00:43] We owe a debt in my industry-to Penn-

[00:00:48] that is profound. It was in 1946

[00:00:53] that the ENIAC was invented,

[00:00:57] right here in a basement down the street.

[00:00:59] And literally everything that you see,

[00:01:03] every computer, every mobile phone,

[00:01:06] every device, descends from the principles

[00:01:09] that were invented right here.

[00:01:11] This really is the center of my world.

[00:01:14] And now 63 years later, 250 of your alumni work at Google.

[00:01:24] This is the most desirable place for us

[00:01:28] to hire interns anywhere in the world

[00:01:30] and I can tell you that we know the quality

[00:01:33] of the graduates that I see before me

[00:01:36] are the best in the world.

[00:01:38] It is exciting to be part of this.

[00:01:40] Now, when I think about Penn,

[00:01:45] I think about the metaphor of resilience,

[00:01:49] of a culture that works, of a hunger to change.

[00:01:54] If you think about 20 years ago,

[00:01:56] when Penn was struggling and the changes

[00:01:59] that the people around me made

[00:02:01] to turn it into the most desirable undergraduate major

[00:02:04] from a standpoint of high school applications

[00:02:07] in the country, from the kind of culture

[00:02:10] that has been built here, you see that the culture works,

[00:02:13] and that the combination that you see represented

[00:02:17] on the stage that the parents are so proud to

[00:02:20] have sent their students to really has delivered,

[00:02:23] the very best that we can do here in America.

[00:02:26] And of course, we also have the best cheese

[00:02:32] steaks in the world, which is not so bad.

[00:02:35] When I look at this group, I see the Google

[00:02:40] and Facebook generation. And when I was first

[00:02:44] in this stadium, my track buddies

[00:02:46] and I got in a station wagon-you remember them-

[00:02:49] and I drove up here to go to a track and field

[00:02:52] event with the great Marty Liquori.

[00:02:56] And I think this is almost 40 years ago.

[00:02:59] We had Tang, you have Red Bull.

[00:03:03] Now, we programmed computers in a language called BASIC.

[00:03:10] You, of course, use Java.

[00:03:12] We had VCRs that had an hour of video and cost $700.

[00:03:21] You use YouTube and you upload 15 hours

[00:03:25] of YouTube video every minute.

[00:03:28] And we got our news from newspapers.

[00:03:32] Remember them? You get news from blogs and tweets.

[00:03:36] And for those of you who don’t know

[00:03:39] what a tweet is, it’s not what you hear in a zoo.

[00:03:43] We stood in line to buy Pong,

[00:03:48] you stood in line to buy the Wii.

[00:03:52] We didn’t tell people about our most

[00:03:56] embarrassing moments in college,

[00:03:58] you record them and post them on YouTube

[00:04:01] and Facebook every day. And I am looking forward

[00:04:05] to watching these for the next 30 or 40 years.

[00:04:08] We used mainframe computers with 300 megabytes

[00:04:14] of storage to go to the moon 6 times.

[00:04:17] You use an iPod with 120 gigabytes,

[00:04:22] that’s about 500 times more,

[00:04:24] to get to your next class.

[00:04:26] Which is not that close,

[00:04:30] because it’s an urban campus.

[00:04:33] We thought that “friending” was a noun.

[00:04:37] You think of it as a verb.

[00:04:40] We had phone booths, remember them?

[00:04:44] You have cell phones.

[00:04:46] We wore watches; we took pictures with cameras.

[00:04:52] We navigated with maps;

[00:04:54] we listened to transistor radios.

[00:04:57] Again, you have a cell phone.

[00:04:59] We thought that the marvels of computers

[00:05:04] and technology would help us improve the world.

[00:05:07] You agree, and we’re both right.

[00:05:10] So despite all these marvels,

[00:05:12] this a great time to be graduating.

[00:05:15] Now, you went to college to develop

[00:05:20] the kind of analytical thinking skills

[00:05:22] to deal with enormous amounts of complex information

[00:05:25] that you’ll face for the rest of your life.

[00:05:28] But I would argue you have in many ways

[00:05:32] the best opportunity before you

[00:05:34] because you’re graduating into a tough time.

[00:05:38] I used my favorite search engine of course

[00:05:43] to find out “What did the Great Depression spur?”

[00:05:47] Well, it spurred Rice Krispies, Twinkies

[00:05:51] and the beer can. You would have never gotten

[00:05:55] through college without these things, right?

[00:05:57] So it seems to me that with all the technology

[00:06:02] and connectedness that we see,

[00:06:05] you have an opportunity that’s even better,

[00:06:08] even stronger than anything that I ever faced

[00:06:12] when I was sitting in the same seats.

[00:06:14] You are seeing a situation where due to the enormous goodwill

[00:06:19] of people-here on the stage and others-

[00:06:22] we have an opportunity to have everyone

[00:06:25] in the world have access to all the world’s information.

[00:06:29] This has never been possible.

[00:06:33] And why is this so important?

[00:06:36] Why is ubiquitous information so profound?

[00:06:40] It’s a tremendous equalizer.

[00:06:44] Information is power, people have fought over it,

[00:06:48] people care a lot about it,

[00:06:50] it serves as a check and balance on politicians.

[00:06:54] If you were a dictator, which of course you’re

[00:06:58] not going to be, because you’re a fine graduate from Penn,

[00:07:01] first thing you would do is shut off all the communication

[00:07:05] so that people couldn’t actually talk each other

[00:07:09] and figure out how to make the world a better place.

[00:07:12] Information is very, very important.

[00:07:17] And, in fact, the way you should invade

[00:07:21] these oppressive regimes is through information.

[00:07:24] Then the citizens will take that information

[00:07:28] and turn their societies into better societies.

[00:07:31] This is going to continue and to continue and to continue.

[00:07:37] And what are we going to do with this vastly

[00:07:42] more popular web? Well we’re building a contemporaneous

[00:07:48] and historical record that is unparalleled in human history.

[00:07:52] There are all sorts of interesting possibilities.

[00:07:55] You’ll have megabits of bandwidth to

[00:08:01] essentially every human pair of hands in the world.

[00:08:04] For knowledge, for entertainment,

[00:08:06] for all of the things that people care about.

[00:08:10] You could have a face-to-face meeting across the world.

[00:08:14] And with automatic translation,

[00:08:17] you can talk to them even though

[00:08:19] they don’t speak your language.

[00:08:21] When you’re traveling in Mongolia,

[00:08:25] those of you who are graduating

[00:08:27] and want to take a week off,

[00:08:29] go to Mongolia and you fall off your motorcycle,

[00:08:33] you can get medical care from a doctor

[00:08:35] that doesn’t speak your language

[00:08:37] because your medical records can be right there.

[00:08:41] This is life changing, life saving, life fundamental.

[00:08:48] Imagine a situation, happening very soon,

[00:08:53] where all of the world’s information

[00:08:55] will be translated into all the other languages,

[00:08:58] so we can find out what everybody really thinks.

[00:09:02] And we can develop a new insight into

[00:09:05] what they care about and they can with us.

[00:09:09] In the next ten years, it will be possible

[00:09:12] to have the equivalent of iPods in your purse

[00:09:15] or on your belt with 85 years of video.

[00:09:20] Which means that if it’s given to you at birth,

[00:09:24] you’re going to be frustrated the whole time,

[00:09:28] you’ll never be done watching all the videos.

[00:09:32] That’s how profound this technological revolution is.

[00:09:35] You could ask Google the most important questions,

[00:09:42] like, where are my car keys after all?

[00:09:45] Because all of a sudden we’ll know

[00:09:49] where everything is and we can make that available.

[00:09:52] Computers are good at some things,

[00:09:55] and they are particularly good at these sorts of things.

[00:09:59] We can detect flu outbreaks,

[00:10:02] because we can watch what people are doing quicker.

[00:10:05] We can do things; here’s another example.

[00:10:09] What I really want is while I’m typing a paper

[00:10:13] I want the computer to tell me

[00:10:15] what I should have been writing instead.

[00:10:17] Wouldn’t that have been useful?

[00:10:20] Another product that we’ve suggested

[00:10:25] but has not been built yet is the paper lengthening project.

[00:10:29] It adds ten percent to every paper and its recursive.

[00:10:34] It would have been very useful.

[00:10:36] The point is that computers really can help you,

[00:10:40] even though you don’t need this anymore

[00:10:43] now that you are out of college.

[00:10:45] So if you think of mobile phones as a metaphor,

[00:10:51] as an extension of you, with image recognition,

[00:10:54] avatars and all the technologies that are coming,

[00:10:58] you can see that the ability for us to

[00:11:01] make our lives even more powerful is all right before us.

[00:11:05] So what should you do, right now then?

[00:11:11] Well you should start by listening to

[00:11:14] George Bernard Shaw who said that,

[00:11:16] “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

[00:11:20] Graduation gives you the courage to be unreasonable.

[00:11:27] Don’t bother to have a plan.

[00:11:29] Instead let’s have some luck.

[00:11:31] Success is really about being ready

[00:11:35] for the good opportunities that come before you.

[00:11:37] It’s not to have a detailed plan

[00:11:40] about everything you’re going to do,

[00:11:43] you can’t plan innovation or inspiration,

[00:11:46] but you can be ready for it.

[00:11:50] And when you see it, you can jump on it

[00:11:52] and you can make a difference,

[00:11:54] as many of the people here today have already done.

[00:11:57] The important point here is,

[00:12:02] if you forgo your plan you also

[00:12:05] then have to forgo fear.

[00:12:07] In many ways in the last four years

[00:12:10] and maybe in high school as well,

[00:12:13] you’ve been penalized for making mistakes.

[00:12:16] From now on, the rewards will gravitate

[00:12:19] to those who make mistakes and learn from them,

[00:12:22] as the president said.

[00:12:24] So stop right now. Take a minute

[00:12:29] and think of something completely new

[00:12:32] and go work on that. Take that as your challenge;

[00:12:36] take that as your opportunity.

[00:12:39] Whatever you care the most about.

[00:12:42] So how should you do it, how should you behave?

[00:12:48] Well, do it in a group, it’s much more fun anyway.

[00:12:51] None of us is as smart as all of us.

[00:12:56] Universities now are good at

[00:12:58] teaching you how to work with other people.

[00:13:00] It’s no longer the lone night sitting

[00:13:04] in the lab, it’s a team.

[00:13:06] And you can see Twitter as an example of

[00:13:12] a form of social intelligence; use it.

[00:13:14] Find a network of people that care about you

[00:13:18] and so forth and so on.

[00:13:20] You can imagine watching Watson and Crick,

[00:13:23] who discovered the structure of DNA,

[00:13:26] did it at a university.

[00:13:28] You can imagine today, there are two people

[00:13:33] who probably met on Facebook at a university.

[00:13:36] And then are going to say to each other,

[00:13:39] “What are you up to right now?”

[00:13:41] “Oh, I’m finding the secret of life,

[00:13:45] then I’m off to a pub. LOL.”

[00:13:49] It’s okay. Do it together.

[00:13:52] But amidst all of this, some truths emerge.

[00:13:58] Leadership and personality matter a lot.

[00:14:01] Intelligence, education, and analytical reasoning matter.

[00:14:06] Trust matters. In the network world,

[00:14:10] trust is the most important currency.

[00:14:13] Which brings me to my final question.

[00:14:18] What is, in fact, the meaning of life?

[00:14:22] And in a world where everything is remembered

[00:14:26] and everything is kept forever-the world

[00:14:29] you are in-you need to live for the future

[00:14:32] and the things that you really, really care about.

[00:14:35] And what are those things?

[00:14:38] Well in order to know that, I hate to say it,

[00:14:42] but you’re going to have to turn off your computer.

[00:14:46] You’re actually going to have to

[00:14:48] turn off your phone and discover all

[00:14:51] that is human around us.

[00:14:53] You’ll find that people really are

[00:14:57] the same all around the world.

[00:14:59] They really do care about the same things.

[00:15:02] You’ll find that curiosity and enthusiasm

[00:15:08] and passion are contagious.

[00:15:11] I see it with the students,

[00:15:13] I see it with the faculty,

[00:15:15] I see it with the trustees

[00:15:17] and the president here-it’s contagious.

[00:15:21] Make it happen, take it with you.

[00:15:24] You’ll find that nothing beats holding

[00:15:30] the hand of your grandchild as he walks

[00:15:33] his first steps. You’ll find

[00:15:35] that a mind set in its ways

[00:15:37] is a life wasted-don’t do it.

[00:15:40] You’ll find that the resilience

[00:15:45] of a human being and the human spirit is amazing.

[00:15:49] You’ll find today that the best chance

[00:15:52] you will ever have is right now,

[00:15:55] to start being unreasonable.

[00:15:58] But when you do, listen to me,

[00:16:00] be nice to your parents and true to your school.

[00:16:05] Good luck, and thank you very much. Thank you.