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      前一段时间，我们研究生中因一件不太大的事有点小情绪。我怕情绪扩大影响学习和工作，于是我就与他们开了一个座谈会。

      会上我宣布，今天不谈具体技术，也不谈具体问题，而是与大家一起讨论一下《比尔·盖茨给青少年的11条准则》。学生们都很崇拜比尔·盖茨，虽然他们都没有赶上2001年10月比尔·盖茨在学校进行的“二十一世纪的计算——拥抱智能计算”演讲，但他们早就听说穿着普通T恤衫的世界首富与穿着世界名牌的年轻崇拜者之间有趣的会面。因此他们对此议题还是很感兴趣的。

      我列举了其中几条，讲了一些自己的看法。

1、 Life is not fair, get used to it. 生活是不公平的，要去适应它。

      比尔·盖茨把它放在11条之首，看来他对世界社会的本质体会很深。在世界社会里，公平是相对的，不公平是绝对的。年轻人应该善于在不公平的环境中生活、学习和工作，不能为一点不公平而耿耿于怀。

2、 The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.　这世界并不会在意你的自尊。这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

      现在的年轻人自尊心都很强，一不小心就说伤了他自尊心。我们说自负是愚蠢的，但盲目的自尊并不是聪明。自尊要建筑在你自己的努力和成功的基础上。

3、   If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure. 如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任期限制的。

      老师毕竟是在校园里，时间也只是3-5年；老板是在激烈竞争的市场经济的社会里，而且可能他要管你半辈子。等到你们真正认识了社会上“凶残”的老板后，你们会再重新认识老师的。

4、 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 电视并不是真实的生活。在现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作。

      年轻人总喜欢大谈自由和浪漫的生活。一说就是美国怎么的自由，法国怎么的浪漫，但是作为世界首富，一个地道的美国人，他劝你返回现实生活。

      我只是针对性的简单讲了其中以上4条，看来这已引起了学生们认真的思考。

      比尔·盖茨给青少年的11条准则看起来都是碎杂小事，没有豪言壮语，也不系统，但对年轻人来说却是一堂生动的、意味深长的教育。

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                             Bill Gates' 11 Rules of Life

        Rule 1: Life is not fair — get used to it!

　　Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

　　Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

　　Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

　　Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.

　　Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

　　Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites1 of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

　　Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

　　Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

　　Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

　　Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

 

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