我給大家講個(gè)追夢的故事,確切地說是一個(gè)將夢想變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)的故事。
You know what it's like,to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?And you knowhow, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed it will be completely gone by the nextmorning.I had one of those dreams when I was 23.When I suddenly woke up, I wasthinking:what if we could download the whole web,and just keep the links and… I grabbed a penand started writing!Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming.I spent the middleof 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(zhǔn)會(huì)把昨晚的美夢忘個(gè)精光。我23歲時(shí),就做過這樣的美夢。我猛然驚醒,想把所有的網(wǎng)絡(luò)內(nèi)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(jī)會(huì),從夢里及時(shí)醒來,花了一整晚研究出實(shí)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 todownload the web -he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wiseenough to not tell me.The optimism of youth is often underrated!Amazingly, at that time,I hadno thought of building a search engine.The idea wasn't even on the radar.Much later wehappened upon a better way of rankingand we made a really great search engine,and Googlewas born.When a really great dream shows up, grab it!When I was here at Michigan,I hadactually been taught how to make dreams real!
我對導(dǎo)師Terry Winograd說:下載整個(gè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)需要幾周時(shí)間。他點(diǎn)點(diǎn)頭,其實(shí)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(shí),創(chuàng)造一個(gè)搜索引擎,對我而言是天方夜譚。我從沒動(dòng)過這個(gè)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(dāng)夢想閃現(xiàn)時(shí),抓住它吧!我在這兒念書時(shí),曾學(xué)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 trainingprogram called Leadershape.Yes, we've got a few out there.Their slogan is to have a "healthydisregard for the impossible".That program encouraged me to pursue a crazy idea at thetime.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 transportationproblem.I still think a lot about transportation you never lose a dream, it just incubates as ahobby.Many things that people labor hard to do now,like cooking, cleaning, and driving willrequire much less human time in the future.That is, if we "have a healthy disregardfor theimpossible and actually build new solutions.
聽起來有點(diǎn)扯,但我確實(shí)從 "塑造領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力"夏令營中得到了啟發(fā)??矗娴挠腥藚⒓舆^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(shí)現(xiàn)自己看似瘋狂的夢想。我想建立個(gè)人快速交通系統(tǒng)來替代公交,我知道你們還在研究。沒準(zhǔn)是今后解決交通問題的好方法。我時(shí)不時(shí)還在考慮交通問題,夢想不會(huì)消失,會(huì)變成習(xí)慣!我們現(xiàn)在花費(fèi)精力做的事情,比如做飯、打掃、開車,今后占用的時(shí)間會(huì)越來越少,這不是天方夜譚。世上無難事,只怕有心人!