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1、MadamPresidentFaust,membersoftheHarvardCorporationandtheBoardofOverseers（監(jiān)管理事會(huì)）,faculty,family,friends,and,mostimportantly,today’sgraduates,Thankyouforlettingmesharethiswonderfuldaywithyou.IamnotsureIcanliveuptothehighstandardsofHarvardCommencementspeakers.L
2、astyear,J.K.Rowling,thebillionairenovelist,whostartedasaclassicsstudent,gracedthispodium（演講臺(tái)）.Theyearbefore,BillGates,themega-billionairephilanthropist（慈善家）andcomputernerd（電腦迷）stoodhere.Today,sadly,youhaveme.Iamnotwealthy,butatleastIamanerd.Iamgratefultorece
3、iveanhonorarydegreefromHarvard,anhonorthatmeansmoretomethanyoumightcaretoimagine.Yousee,Iwastheacademicblacksheepofmyfamily.MyolderbrotherhasanM.D./Ph.D.（醫(yī)學(xué)博士）fromMIT（MassachusettesinstituteofTechnology麻省理工學(xué)院）andHarvardwhilemyyoungerbrotherhasalawdegreefromH
4、arvard.WhenIwasawardedaNobelPrize,Ithoughtmymotherwouldbepleased.Notso.WhenIcalledheronthemorningoftheannouncement,shereplied,“That’snice,butwhenareyougoingtovisitmenext.”Now,asthelastbrotherwithadegreefromHarvard,maybe,atlast,shewillbesatisfied.Anotherdiffi
5、cultywithgivingaHarvardcommencement(畢業(yè)典禮)addressisthatsomeofyoumaydisapproveofthefactthatIhaveborrowedmaterialfrompreviousspeeches.Iaskthatyouforgivemefortworeasons.First,inordertohaveimpact,itisimportanttodeliverthesamemessagemorethanonce.Inscience,itisimpo
6、rtanttobethefirstpersontomakeadiscovery,butitisevenmoreimportanttobethelastpersontomakethatdiscovery.Second,authorswhoborrowfromothersarefollowinginthefootstepsofthebest.RalphWaldoEmerson,whograduatedfromHarvardattheageof18,noted“Allmybestthoughtswerestolenb
7、ytheancients.”Picassodeclared“Goodartistsborrow.Greatartistssteal.”Whyshouldcommencementspeakersbeheldtoahigherstandard?Ialsowanttopointouttheirony（嘲弄）ofspeakingtograduatesofaninstitutionthatwouldhaverejectedme,hadIthechutzpah（放肆）toapply.Iammarriedto“DeanJea
8、n,”theformerdeanofadmissionsatStanford.Sheassuresmethatshewouldhaverejectedme,ifgiventhechance.WhenIshowedheradraftofthisspeech,sheobjectedstronglytomyuseoftheword“rejected.”Sheneverrejectedappl
