《The Courage to Be Unreasonable》歌词

歌曲： The Courage to Be Unreasonable

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歌手： 英语演讲

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

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

at University of Pennsylvania[00:00:10]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in the lab, it’s a team. [00:13:04]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s okay. Do it together. [00:13:49]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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