Name: ビル・ゲイツ ハーバード大学卒業式スピーチ2007 (Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Address 2007)
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Our next speaker, first known as the entrepreneur of the personal computer revolution, was named by Time magazine as one of the hundred people who most influenced the 20th century.

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As well as one of the hundred most influential people of 2004, 2005, 2006 and again in 2007.

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Just think what you could have achieved...

...if you had stayed here another 2 years.

He enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1973.

Keenly interested in computer science but without a definite study plan.

In between intense poker games at Radcliffe, he met his future business partner, Steve Balmer.

And he developed a version of the programming language Basic for the first microcomputer.

And co-authored and published a paper on algorithms, with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.

A close friend in college amusingly recalls seeing him doze of during a prestigious Putnam math exam.

Despite this napping he scored remarkably well.

In his junior year he took a leave of absence from Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft.

A company he had begun in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen.

Since 2000 he has begun to concentrate on a number of philanthropic endeavors.

Making extraordinary donations to various charitable organisations and scientific research programs around the world, through the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

After a 33 year leave of absence from his alma matter.

I am pleased to present to you Doctor William Gates.

President Bach, 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.

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this.

Dad I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.

I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.

From our- my part I'm just happy that the Crimson called me Harvard's most successful drop out.

I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class.

But I also want to be recognised as the guy who got Steve Balmer to drop out of business school.

That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.

If I'd spoken at your orientation fewer of you might be here today.

Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me.

I used to sit in on lots of classes that I hadn't even signed up for.

I lived up at Radcliffe, in Courier House.

There were always a lot of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew that I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.

That's how I came to be the leader of the antisocial group.

We clunged each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.

There were more women up there and most of the guys were math-science types.

The 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 you success.

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975.

When I made a call from Courier House to a company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that had begun making the worlds first personal computer.

I worried 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.

From that moment I worked day and night on the extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.

What I remember above all about Harvard, was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.

It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging but always challenging.

It was an amazing privilege and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made and the ideas I worked on.

But taking a serious look back, I do have one big regret.

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world, the appalling disparities of health and wealth, and opportunity, that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.

I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics and politics.

I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.

But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care or broad economic opportunity; reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.

And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.

You know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before.

In your years here I've hope you've had a chance to think about how in this age of accelerating technology we can finally take on these inequities and we can solve them.

Imagine just for the sake of discussion that you have a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause.

And you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.

For Melinda and I the challenge is the same.

How can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have?

During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who are dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we have long ago made harmless in this country.

Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis-b, yellow fever.

One disease that I had never heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million children each year.

We had assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.

For under a dollar there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.

We said to ourselves this can't be true, but if it is true it deserves to be the priority of our giving.

So we begin ou- began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.

We asked, how could the world let these children die?

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ビル・ゲイツ ハーバード大学卒業式スピーチ2007 (Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Address 2007)

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class

ビル・ゲイツハーバード大学卒業式スピーチ2007 (Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Address 2007)